Luo Han, who was expected to become an "overlord of the era," had driven his ship at excessive speed and returned two days early from what should have been a three-day journey.
On Ark Island, Luo Han lay on a tree branch. A newspaper and a Bounty Poster floated before him, carrying yesterday's reports on the attack on Mary Geoise.
Luo Han saw the string of zeroes after the one on the Bounty Poster as well!
"The same old trick—building someone up just to destroy them!"
A mocking smile tugged at Luo Han's lips, though he found it rather dull. The World Government seemed to use the same tactic against anyone difficult to handle: raise their bounty, then relentlessly publicize their brutal methods among civilians and smear their name...!
"Though it isn't entirely smearing! This time, it seems we went a little too far!"
One of the newspaper photographs caused Luo Han's mocking smile to fade.
It showed a little girl standing helplessly beside her dead parents. Ruins surrounded her, and dark red blood had stained her white lotus dress.
The little girl was adorable, but her lifeless eyes and the two deep black streaks of tears made her look like a puppet.
"I won't do this kind of revenge that feels good in the moment ever again!"
Luo Han had always believed that Mary Geoise contained only Celestial Dragons and intelligence agencies such as CP0, with no one else living there.
But now that he thought about it, he realized how ignorant he had been. He had been misled by the plot of his previous life and assumed that most people heading to the New World or the first half of the Grand Line traveled through Fish-Man Island.
In reality, only wanted pirates and others with no choice were