Seeing Doflamingo turn his gaze toward him, Neptune perked up. "May I ask..."
Before he could finish, a sheet of letter paper suddenly flew down from the sky and landed right on Shirahoshi's forehead.
Shirahoshi looked around in confusion, surprise appearing on her face. She picked up the letter.
Neptune immediately fell silent. Otohime, who was sitting beside Shirahoshi, craned her neck, but Shirahoshi was simply too large, and she could not see a thing.
Shirahoshi unfolded the letter, tilted her head as she looked at it for a while, her face full of bewilderment.
"Shirahoshi, what does it say?" Otohime stretched her neck several times, but she still could not reach it. Finally, she asked dejectedly.
"Um..." Shirahoshi fell silent for a moment before saying, "I don't know. I can't read yet!"
You can't read, yet you looked at it so seriously? Doflamingo silently grumbled.
Well, Shirahoshi was only six years old now. Not being able to read was perfectly normal.
Yet her parents and three brothers were all standing there with serious expressions, waiting for her to read it. Shirahoshi could not read—didn't they know that?
"Oh, right. I only just started teaching Shirahoshi how to read." Otohime tilted her head and said in an adorably dazed manner.
Then she finally realized it, and her face reddened slightly. "Shirahoshi, let me see that letter!"
Unfortunately, she was too late. Neptune, concerned for his daughter, had already rushed over and taken the letter.
"My beloved Shirahoshi, ever since I saw you for the first time, I have been unable to forget your figure..."
Before he even reached the end, Neptune was already furious enough for smoke to come out of his ears.
Of course, that was obvious. If it had been ten years later, Neptune would at most have