Brring, brring.
The call was answered quickly.
"Hello, this is Sengoku." The Den Den Mushi vividly projected even Sengoku's frog-shaped glasses.
"This is Longinus, Admiral Sengoku. I have something very important to report to you privately."
"A private report? Fine..." The voice on the other end suddenly grew distant, and Longinus could vaguely hear Sengoku roaring, "You bastard, get the hell out of here!"
"I didn't want this to happen either, hahaha!" Garp's highly recognizable booming voice came through the Den Den Mushi. "Anyway, I need to make a trip back to East Blue. Remember to cover for me with the government!"
"Get out! Why don't you go to Fleet Admiral Kong for this sort of thing?"
"Because you're much more reliable than Fleet Admiral Kong! So just try to understand the troubles of a man who's just become a grandfather. Though a guy like you, who doesn't even have a wife, definitely can't understand this kind of pain! Ahahaha!"
Bang!
The sound of a door slamming shut.
After a while, silence finally returned to the other end of the call.
"Damn it, neither of those two lets me have any peace!" Sengoku muttered before picking up the call again. "Ahem, go ahead. What do you need to report to me privately?"
"Just now, I killed another king."
"Oh, you killed another ki... Pfft!" Sengoku, who had been drinking tea to calm himself down, sprayed a stream of water into the air like a whale blowhole. He coughed repeatedly. "Don't tell me you've gotten addicted to killing kings? Even if it was a situation like last time, you should at least have filed a report with Marine Headquarters and the government!"
Sengoku was even beginning to wonder whether this promising young man he had favored had truly been led astray