The brief interlude ended, and the banquet continued.
Big Mom once again spared no effort in promoting her daughters to Garen.
And unlike her usual forceful methods of taking in sons-in-law, this time Big Mom genuinely wanted to marry her daughters off.
After all, Garen had already grown powerful beyond her control. Even if he truly were willing to marry into her family, Big Mom would never dare accept him.
So, Big Mom merely wanted to use one of her daughters to bring herself closer to Garen, without attaching too many additional conditions.
Those terms were already generous enough, practically equivalent to giving away a princess of Totto Land for free, yet Garen still flatly rejected Big Mom's proposal:
He had no interest in gaining forty-four fathers-in-law at once, especially when one of them was Doflamingo.
And Garen himself knew perfectly well that he would always stand on the side of justice. Sooner or later, he would openly stand against the Big Mom Pirates.
Garen's repeated refusals inevitably angered Big Mom somewhat.
After being a mother-in-law so many times, this was the first time she had encountered a situation where she could not even give away a daughter for free.
Big Mom did her utmost to restrain her temper and keep from flipping the table on the spot, but the atmosphere of the banquet still dropped to freezing point beneath her gloomy, enormous face.
In the end, the banquet came to an unhappy conclusion, and everyone dispersed in ill spirits.
Most of the guests could not be described with the relaxed word "disperse." "Fleeing in panic" would have been far more appropriate.
The reason was simple:
Big Mom was still furious.
Big Mom might not have wanted to fall out with Garen for the moment, but that did not mean