After hearing Red-Hair's words, Bright could not help but turn and shoot Tesoro a sidelong glance.
You sure do talk a lot.
Tesoro answered Bright with a smug grin.
This is a good opportunity, Bright!
This guy is a far more reliable pirate than Charlotte Linlin. Since you already have this connection, hurry up and build a good relationship with him.
Bright could read that much in Tesoro's eyes.
That was indeed true.
It seemed that Red-Hair, Tesoro, and Bright truly did share a strange sort of fate.
There was no need to mention Tesoro. Red-Hair's daughter would soon be making a living under him. As for Bright, their connection might have been even closer.
After all, Teacher Rayleigh had once been this man's first mate.
So Bright smiled. "Rayleigh gave me a great deal of guidance in Haki."
"That explains it."
The Red Hair Pirates' first mate, Ben Beckman, said calmly, "Before this, everyone had been wondering."
Bright smiled faintly. They had been wondering where he had suddenly come from, hadn't they?
The powerful figures of this world usually grew through brutal battles, like insects raised in a jar to devour one another.
But some special people were already incredibly powerful the moment they appeared.
In most such cases, someone had been teaching them behind the scenes.
"So that was it?"
Red-Hair looked rather nostalgic. "Back when I was on the captain's ship, Mr. Rayleigh taught me many things too." He laughed heartily. "By that measure, we came from the same school, Bright!"
That was probably fair enough.
"Hahaha, then we're practically family!"
A plump man who looked utterly unremarkable but was actually one of the Red Hair Pirates' top officers, their cook Lucky Roo, laughed and shouted, "Let's hold a banquet together!"
"Oh! A banquet, a banquet!"
Red-Hair