"Father! Brothers!"
Seeing her family trapped in the iron chains, Shirahoshi's eyes immediately welled up with tears.
Shirahoshi had roughly guessed that Ryugu Palace was facing some kind of crisis, but she had never imagined that her father and two brothers were already at death's door.
"Shi... Shirahoshi."
"Don't worry about us! Run!"
Sharks and Ryuboshi were still unconscious. Only the gravely injured Neptune could barely respond to his daughter's call.
A minute ago, Fix would have surely enjoyed the miserable sight of this father and daughter.
But after recognizing Garen's face, Fix was no longer in the mood for it.
As a heinous criminal who had escaped from Impel Down, Fix naturally knew Garen.
Back then, he and dozens of fellow inmates from Level Six had nearly escaped Impel Down directly, only to be ruthlessly forced back by Blue Pheasant and Garen just as they took the final step.
And in that fierce melee...
Although Blue Pheasant had borne greater pressure and displayed stronger suppression, none of the prisoners attacking him had died or been injured.
But the prisoners who fought Garen had mostly died horribly.
Fix had personally witnessed Garen's ruthlessness. Later, he had seen the golden giant Buddha and the Poison Giant Soldier that had nearly dominated the entire battlefield.
Having witnessed such earth-shaking scenes, even an unruly old pirate like Fix had no choice but to rein in his arrogance before this young man, Garen.
"Garen."
Fix's eyes were filled with wariness as he looked at Garen.
"How are you here?"
Upon hearing the name "Garen," Neptune, who was shackled in the iron chains and unable to move, immediately brightened.
As the king of Fish-Man Island, he naturally was not as ignorant as his children.
Neptune struggled to raise his head and turned his gaze toward