Miskina Ashiye

Soon, in front of Yaen, Kong, and Ying, Olga and the middle-aged man acted out a touching, sorrowful scene of a father and daughter recognizing each other.

Through the exchange between Olga and the man named "Miskina Ashiye," Yaen more or less understood what had happened between them and what their relationship was.

Nearly two hundred years ago, the scientist who recreated the lost "Pure Gold" technology was none other than the Miskina Ashiye before him. Yet not long after he finished developing the Pure Gold, the Pure Gold Lanternfish hidden in the distant deep sea was mysteriously drawn over and swallowed the island where Ashiye and Olga were staying.

Although Ashiye and Olga had both been inside the Pure Gold Lanternfish's first stomach, the two of them had lived on that island for nearly two hundred years without ever meeting. Each had assumed that the other was already dead...

The father and daughter's minds were strangely in sync in certain aspects. They had both so easily concluded that the other was dead.

Seeing this, Yaen's... eyebrows twitched beneath his mask.

However, if this man really was Miskina Ashiye, the scientist who had recreated "Pure Gold," then he was undoubtedly a genius-level scientist.

And when it came to talents like scientists, who represented limitless possibilities, the Revolutionary Army had always been desperately eager to recruit them.

However, before Yaen could formally approach Ashiye and bring this talent into the Revolutionary Army, Whitebeard's striding figure had already appeared not far behind him.

"Hyōrinmaru, are you done with things over there?" Whitebeard's voice carried over, faintly tinged with satisfaction.

Yaen turned his head and was astonished to find Whitebeard casually holding Ace and Sabo up in the air with one hand each.

Ace had been beaten into what looked like a pig's