Bright fell silent as he looked at the photograph in the newspaper.
The lighting in the photo was dim, seemingly deep beneath the sea, but his face was still clearly visible.
His eyes glanced sideways, his lips pressed together, carrying a cold sort of charm.
But that made no sense.
Bright could tell at a glance that this photo had been taken when he dealt with those pirates yesterday. The corpses floating in the seawater behind him were still visible.
So what exactly was going on?
Who had taken a photo of him?
Bright could not figure it out no matter how hard he thought.
All the pirates should have been dead by then. Where exactly had Morgans's informant been hiding?
But then he remembered that, in the original story, Morgans had even gotten a photograph of Nika Luffy, a form only a handful of people had witnessed firsthand.
Perhaps Morgans's intelligence network really had become unimaginably powerful.
But now was not the time to dwell on that.
A more troublesome situation had emerged.
After hurriedly saying goodbye to Shyarly, Bright returned to Fish-Man District, and Jinbe soon found him.
"Did you see today's newspaper, Bright?!"
Jinbe looked rushed.
Bright nodded. "Talk while we walk."
"Although I always knew this day would come, it came a little too soon."
Jinbe's tone was grave. "You really should have tried to hide your identity."
"Everyone on Fish-Man Island knows my name."
Bright spoke calmly. "Even if I wore a mask all day, the Navy would only need to send someone to Fish-Man Island to investigate and they would figure it out."
After all, the original plan had been to live in seclusion on Fish-Man Island, so the Navy would never learn anything.
But now that things had come this far, it was