I need to be more careful about this! Ronglin silently marked this newly discovered possible weakness with a warning sign.
He turned and flew toward the Starry. By then, the Starry had already set out alongside Law's little yellow submarine. Ronglin was determined to make the trip to Zou.
Originally, he had planned to ignore Trafalgar Law. But after seeing Law's subordinate Bepo, Ronglin suddenly felt that having a Mink Tribe member act as a mediator might make the trip to Zou go much more smoothly.
He had already had the Star Alliance release Pekoms and send him back to Zou, making the first move. But Pekoms was clearly hostile toward the Star Alliance, so there was no telling whether he could get anything done. If Bepo could willingly side with them, the trip to Zou might not require so much effort.
If Law knew that Ronglin had spent so much time and breath trying to recruit him into the Star Alliance when his real goal was simply to use Bepo to appeal to Zou's emotions, Law might very well turn on him and attack on the spot.
Before long, Ronglin had returned to the Starry. The crew was utterly stunned. They had seen the commotion on the island perfectly clearly, and they had not even gotten very far from it.
"That was quite a disturbance!" Though everyone was worried, Shiryu was the only one bold enough to speak to Ronglin. Ronglin's prestige as the Alliance Leader was simply too great now; his name alone was intimidating enough that no one else dared approach him or talk to him.
"It took a bit of effort. My opponent really went all out—they actually used Dynamite Rock!" Ronglin let out a breath and lay back in his recliner. "But it wasn't much