"Hey, you still haven't answered my question." Ace paid no attention to Shanks muttering to himself and spoke directly.
"Huh? Hahaha! You must've misheard me, right?" Shanks' eyes darted around as he thought of how to brush the matter aside. After all, Garp was still in the East Blue.
What if his whereabouts were exposed and that violent old man came knocking...
Shanks trembled slightly, as though he had recalled the days when he was chased all over the place by Garp while aboard the Roger Pirates, along with those increasingly seasoned and heavy iron fists of the old man.
"Don't brush me off!" Ace said rather angrily. "I clearly heard you mention Clown Buggy, didn't I? That bastard who turned Uncertainty Terminal upside down!"
"Hm!?" Shanks finally sensed that something was off. "You've met Buggy? Huh? Wait, aren't you the little king of Goa Kingdom?"
Shanks took a careful look at the three brothers before recognizing Sabo in the middle. When he had gone to Goa Kingdom back then, he had read some intelligence reports, so naturally he would not have missed Sabo's face from the newspapers.
Sabo scratched his head slightly. "Ah, honestly, are you Joker's accomplices? We can't just pretend we didn't see that."
In the past, even if pirates showed up, that was Goa Kingdom's own problem and had little to do with the three brothers.
But now that Sabo himself had become the king of Goa Kingdom, he naturally could not turn a blind eye.
Well, although this king himself still dreamed of becoming a pirate... it was pretty absurd.
An awkward smile appeared on Shanks' face. Looking at the wary three brothers, he did not know how to explain himself.
"Don't worry, we're not with that lunatic," Kiku said at that moment.
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