After leaving the tavern, Roy strolled leisurely through the town that had been transformed from a small village, like a traveler untouched by anything that had happened.
The streets teemed with people.
Thanks to Goa Kingdom's sweeping reforms, Windmill Port, now the kingdom's largest port, had drawn crowds from all across the East Blue.
Different dialects and different customs had been forcibly blended together in a short time, giving rise to new culture and new prosperity.
As Roy ate Pearl Chain Island's famous ice cream, he carefully observed details he had missed during this journey.
After all, official arrangements could always show the higher-ups the good side, while anything unfavorable would be hidden as much as possible.
Roy hoped this tour of the East Blue would reveal the real problems within the territories under his command, so whenever he arrived somewhere, he would set aside time for an incognito inspection like this.
It was just that this time, he had run into Garp, an unexpected interruption that had altered his itinerary.
But ever since Roy left the tavern,
he had stopped dwelling on Garp's sudden appearance.
Roy considered himself familiar with Garp. In his view, the old man was not much different from Zephyr.
Their differing experiences had created a vast gap in their personalities, but overall, their justice was upright.
Therefore, Roy believed that once certain truths within the World Government were exposed, once Garp realized that the justice he bore was no longer the same justice he had believed in when he first joined the Marines,
Garp would make the right choice.
On one hand, Roy trusted Garp's character. On the other, he believed that Garp, the man known as the Hero of the Marines, would not stand by and watch the whole world sink.
Letting Garp witness