"Him?" Sengoku sighed. "He was a man so powerful he inspired despair—the lord of the Eternal City."
"What?!" The moment Sengoku finished speaking, Akainu jerked upright, then lay back down in a cold sweat.
He had obviously pulled at his wound, and it hurt.
"How could it be that man?" Akainu, now lying back down, found it hard to believe.
"That was what he looked like before!" Garp explained. "By now, only old men like us probably remember that youthful face!"
"But..." Akainu frowned. "The man who appeared on Amazon Lily was very young, definitely not over thirty!"
"You... said he looked very young?!" Garp abruptly stood up, staring gravely at Akainu.
"Yes!" Akainu nodded.
"What?" Sengoku did not understand. "Is there a problem?"
"Sengoku!"
"Come to think of it," Garp recalled, "we haven't seen that bastard Luo Han in more than ten years, have we?"
"That does seem to be true." Sengoku thought for a moment. "During the last war with the Eternal City, we never saw him either. Only the people from the Eternal City saw him, and the intelligence they sent back also described him as very young."
"But!" Sengoku looked at Garp in confusion. "Hadn't we already determined that Luo Han used an ability that deceived people's senses to create the effect of eternal youth?"
"Could it be..." Sengoku's expression changed as he asked solemnly, "you suspect Luo Han wasn't deceiving anyone, but had remained young all this time?"
If that were true!
Akainu, who had been listening nearby, felt his scalp go numb at the thought that Luo Han might be able to remain young forever.
"That isn't even the most troublesome part!" Garp reminded them. "Think about those two women, Aixi and Sola, from the last war with the Eternal City!"
"They..." After thinking