"You should be able to handle it, right, Shanks~"
This time, the commotion had been no small matter.
The giant prince Loki had rebelled, killed the King, and driven a longsword through Elder Yaruru's head. The resulting unrest had been enormous.
Austin sat atop a pile of giant corpses, watching Shanks put on a grave, serious expression. The corners of his mouth curled upward slightly.
After just a few years apart, that Shanks had started to become quite imposing...
"If it's just taking down Loki, I'm more than enough!!!"
The three scars across his eye made the current Red-Haired Shanks look no longer young, but instead more manly.
Yet Austin chose that moment to tear him down.
"Only a few years apart, and you've already got scars over your eye? Was Teach really that strong?"
Austin could not understand it. Teach, without a Devil Fruit ability, was not truly terrifying in strength, yet he had managed to leave scars over Shanks's eye during the period when Shanks's power had been rapidly rising.
It really made no sense.
"Hey!!! You two!!! What the hell are you whispering about?!!"
Loki was clearly emotionally unstable right now. After seeing two powerful figures suddenly appear before him, he had initially wanted to have a proper talk with them after his surprise faded.
But to his surprise, they had casually started chatting among themselves, showing absolutely no regard for Loki, the giant prince.
He gripped a massive hammer, his expression terrifyingly dark.
Normally, if anyone dared to yell at Austin like that, he would have sent a Warp Kick flying at them. Whether they lived or died would depend on their own ability.
But this time was different.
Austin knew that Loki seemed to have some sort of mission. Although he was not Joy Boy,