Bridge of Mortal Combat

While the bombardment grinds onward, the battleships relay that all Marine and World Government staff have boarded safely, that fifty pirates linger at the main gate, and that not a single soul remains alive on the central island, with only the Bridge of Hesitation surviving. The crew reacts with horror. Asked by Nami how lives can be lost so casually, Robin answers that people never show up on a map, and that the Buster Call wipes an island off it without a flicker of doubt. Franky roars at Luffy to get on with it.

Underground, with Gear 2 active, Luffy hammers Lucci back using Gomu Gomu no Jet Pistol. Lucci's Shigan misses, the two trade punches that each block, then Luffy lands a Jet Bullet to the gut and chases it with another Jet Pistol. Vowing to demonstrate the mightiest of the Six Powers, Lucci presses both fists to Luffy's torso and fires Rokuogan, a vast shockwave torn through his body, which Luffy likens to Skypiea's Impact Dial taken to a far greater strength. As Luffy lies sprawled, a Rankyaku Gaicho bursts into an explosion, and Chopper muses that Luffy always seems to sense who his fight belongs to from the start. Told that Luffy has been spotted, a vice admiral commands the entire fleet to take up a battle formation encircling the surviving bridge.

The battleships confirm that every member of personnel is safely aboard and that Enies Lobby's central island has been razed with all who stayed behind killed, after which the fleet shifts its aim onto the lone surviving bridge. Luffy measures Lucci's Rokuogan against a Skypiea Impact Dial. The Where They Are Now cover, subtitled around the Shandia as forest pioneers, shows Wyper and his fellow warriors raising a fresh village among the Upper Yard trees, pausing only for lunch.