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Morgans said somewhat tactfully, "My subordinates are all journalists."

"Isn't that just right?"

Ian said casually, "It's related to my major. Isn't that what paparazzi do?"

"The first target is Windmill Village in the Goa Kingdom, and a boy named Luffy, who is the grandson of the Marine hero Garp."

"what?"

Morgans' voice suddenly turned shrill, "Lord Ian, are you going to lay a hand on the grandson of that naval hero?"

"Just keep an eye on him, that's enough, you don't need to do anything else."

Ian said, "Unless he gets a Devil Fruit, a purple, spherical one, called the Gum-Gum Fruit."

"Rubber fruit?"

Morgans was somewhat puzzled.

Is there anything special about this fruit?

Compared to those natural-type creatures, or even all of Ian's own mythical beast species, they are utterly inferior.

"Then, the second guy was CP9 agent Furtz Furtz."

Ian said, "Keep an eye on him. If he goes to the East China Sea on a mission, report to me immediately."

"what?"

Morgans reacted even more violently this time, exclaiming incredulously, "Lord Ian! Are you kidding me? That's CP9! Although its level of secrecy isn't as high as CP0, it's still a truly high-level government intelligence agency!"

"How did my informant infiltrate?"

Ian frowned slightly.

Morgans's point is not entirely unfounded.

Is it too much to ask a newspaper to infiltrate the second-highest level intelligence agency in the government to monitor high-ranking officials?

Then this road can be said to be cut off.

Trouble.

However, Ian thought about it a little more carefully.

It doesn't really matter, right?

If the Gum-Gum Fruit doesn't fall into Luffy's hands, is there anyone else in the world who can awaken it?

"That's settled then. Just keep an eye on Luffy."

Ian said.

"learn."

Morgans nodded repeatedly, "However,"

He added, "May I compile your battle with the Golden Lion into a news report and publish it first?"

Ian's lips twitched slightly.

You really haven't forgotten your original intentions.

"up to you."

hang up the phone.

Ian breathed a sigh of relief.

The matter in the East China Sea has been mostly resolved; let's go back.

However, the Beasts Pirates' situation is not going to be good from now on.

Without the Golden Lion to help divert attention, and with his own strength having become too great, it's easy to imagine what the World Government will do next.

I'm afraid we'll have to make the act with Teacher Kai even more convincing.

It will be better in a few years. Once the kids have all grown up, things will be different again.

At almost the same moment, on the sea in another direction from the Kingdom of Goa, an ordinary ship was slowly moving forward.

"what!!"

The blond-haired boy suddenly woke up and sat up abruptly in bed.

His face was deathly pale; his memory remained stuck on the towering waves that surged toward him.

He subconsciously groped his body, but strangely, he didn't feel any pain.

That's not right. It was clearly hit directly by the giant wave and slammed into the ship's gunwale before being thrown into the sea.

Why doesn't it hurt?

"Are you awake?"

A very gentle voice came from the side.

The boy turned his head, then his pupils suddenly contracted. "Wow, so big!"

A very large man was sitting on the floor next to him, quietly flipping through a book.

Where am I?

He asked quickly.

"It's on a ship."

The enormous man closed the book in his hands. "Child, the entire Goa Kingdom has been destroyed. Few of the nobles who fled to the sea survived. Is there anywhere else you wish to go?"

"..."

The boy's pupils trembled.

died?

Are they all dead?

"I want to go back!"

He quickly jumped out of bed and exclaimed excitedly, "I'm going to find Ace!"

His family members must have perished at sea along with that ship that was smashed to pieces by the North Sea waves.

But Ace was different!

"Ace?"

The door to the room was pushed open, and a man wrapped in a dark green cloak walked in. "Is he a child with black hair, freckles on his face, and about your age?"

An excited smile instantly lit up the boy's face. "You...you've seen him before?"

"The person who came," Dragon nodded slightly. "If you want to find him, you won't find him if you go back to the Kingdom of Goa now."

The boy was taken aback.

"He has already left with Ian of Burning Sky and is now a member of the Beasts Pirates."

"Eh?"

The boy blinked blankly.

perhaps.

Dorag looked at the boy,

You should really try to get in touch with the Beasts Pirates.

As Koushirou said, they were already a huge country, and Ian had governed it quite well.

More importantly, everyone in the underworld knows that the Beasts Pirates are the world's largest weapons supplier.

Revolutionary armies also need weapons.

The Kingdom of Goa.

Hero Garp carefully lifted a huge rock.

He looked down with great anticipation, but the next moment his eyes dimmed.

Beneath this stone lie only ruins and twisted human bodies.

Too little.

Even though Dragon did everything he could to stop it, too few people survived the disaster.

This country has been utterly destroyed.

Although it has not sunk directly into the deep sea like other countries attacked by the Golden Lion.

However, the island was also smashed to pieces, and almost all of its inhabitants were gone.

Karp knew very well that even if they were lucky enough to survive, the residents would have to leave their homes and migrate elsewhere.

Or, how about we take Luffy to Marine Headquarters?

Chapter 173 Red Dragon Ace! One of the Four Emperors! Stussy

2024-07-09

Almost simultaneously with the end of the battle in the Goa Kingdom, in Mary Geoise, the central hub of the World Government.

Deep within the power structure of Pangu City, in the office of the Five Elders, the five old men who held the highest power in the world looked at each other in silence.

After a long silence, the golden-haired Five Elders spoke in a strange tone, "In the past few hundred years, has there ever been a person who mastered Conqueror's Haki's Entanglement at the age of fifteen and stepped into the ranks of top-tier powerhouses?"

Maz, with his long beard, shook his head. "Even Joy Boy from eight hundred years ago wasn't this terrifying."

"Could Ian be the next Joy Boy?"

Suddenly, the bald-headed Vochuli spoke.

"That guy and Joey Boy are completely different types of people."

Nashlong, dressed in a white robe, shook his head. "Joey Boy is a pathetic idealist, but Ian is ambitious."

The other five elders nodded in agreement.