Garen spread his wings of light behind him and stood upon the air. At a glance, he clearly possessed the realm of a Battle Grandmaster.
The moment he appeared, the clamorous battlefield abruptly fell silent.
Even Whitebeard's raised naginata came to a halt.
"Garen!"
"Garen is here too?!"
Teach's eyes reddened once more.
Just like Akainu, the name Garen had been deeply branded into Teach's hollow heart.
The scene stirred up old feelings, and Teach could not help recalling what had happened to him at the Sabaody Archipelago. One by one, he counted the names of the enemies recorded in his little notebook:
Garen, who had framed him for killing a Celestial Dragon; Golden Lion, who had thrown him into Marine Headquarters; Blue Pheasant, who had colluded with Garen, an officer and a pirate; and Akainu, who had destroyed two of his hearts.
The moment he thought of those names, Teach
immediately recognized reality.
His enemies were simply too powerful. Even if someone stuffed both the Dark-Dark Fruit and the Tremor-Tremor Fruit into his mouth right now, he probably still would not be able to take revenge on them.
So what revenge was there to seek?
It would already be good enough if Garen did not screw him over a few more times.
With that thought, and noticing the confused looks from his brothers beside him, the anger-driven excitement on Teach's face instantly became emotion-driven excitement:
"It has been so long since I last saw Brother Garen. I truly missed him!"
Teach smiled with tears in his fierce eyes.
"Yeah!"
Moved by Teach's sincere emotions, Ace also echoed with some feeling:
"At Impel Down last time, we only escaped alive thanks to Brother Garen's help."
"We still have not thanked him!"
"Hahaha..."
"Yeah, I really should thank him properly."
Teach