Kuzan truly was a little lost.
Although he was Garp's foremost disciple, he had never been able to learn that carefree spirit.
This man who had spent half his life in the Marines had once wavered over the word justice.
In his youth, he followed Garp on missions to pursue the Roger Pirates and encountered the greatest enemy of his life,
Dotol Austin.
This troublesome and dangerous figure had once given him the feeling that it was Garp meeting Roger all over again, a matter of fate.
Back then, Mr. Garp had laughed heartily while eating senbei and said,
"Kuzan, I'll leave the task of capturing that Black Spear brat to you!"
The term Black Spear had actually first been something Garp said offhandedly. Somehow, it eventually became Austin's most representative title throughout his life.
But later, he discovered that as a Marine, he simply could not pose any threat to Austin, because somehow, that guy had become one of the Celestial Dragons.
And after entering the New Era, Kuzan simply left the Marines. It was not only because of the limits of the justice the Marines carried out, but also because of Austin.
But he gradually became lost.
Because he could not chase Austin everywhere like old man Garp had chased the Roger Pirates.
Compared to twenty or thirty years ago, the gap in their strength was still steadily widening.
Sometimes, he wondered,
Maybe there would be no chance in this lifetime to arrest that bastard who had thrown the seas into utter chaos just for fun.
He was lost. Under such circumstances, how should justice be upheld?
Dying at Austin's hands...
That could still count as... a way of upholding his own justice, right?
Kuzan believed that he was unafraid of death, that he could even face death