The next day.
9:23 p.m.
Inside the reception hall on the sixth floor of the Medical Academy.
Garp, Zephyr, Kaido, and Charlotte Linlin, their bodies wrapped in bandages, sat on the sofas chatting with one another.
Ace sat in Garp's lap, while Yamato sat in Kaido's.
The two children had gotten bored and fallen asleep with their heads tilted to the side, large bubbles swelling from their noses.
"Phew... Divine Harmony's blood is really damn hot!"
Kaido complained as he drained the last mouthful of blood from the thermos.
Charlotte Linlin smiled. "So we should thank that Empress Esdeath. Otherwise, even finding a container to bring it over in would've been troublesome."
"Yeah, I'll remember that!" Kaido nodded.
Though he did not think Esdeath, as an Empress, would need his help.
Charlotte Linlin suddenly recalled something.
"Oh, right. Empress Esdeath took Yamato as her disciple. She said she'd teach her how to better control ice and cold air."
"Is that so? How strong is she?" Kaido raised a brow.
Garp and Zephyr also looked at Charlotte Linlin.
After thinking back, she said, "She's decent. Judging by the power of her Flying Slash and the intensity of her Conqueror's Haki, she isn't too far behind where we used to be."
Garp said in surprise, "Another person from the Otherworld has awakened Conqueror's Haki?"
Zephyr could only feel helpless.
Why did it feel like everyone around him had Conqueror's Haki now?
Still, if he had possessed Conqueror's Haki, he would never have created Current Driving.
Kaido said, "So she isn't that strong right now, but she's an Empress after all. She'll rise sooner or later. She's qualified enough to be Yamato's teacher."
"Mamamama~"
Charlotte Linlin let out an unusually innocent laugh as she looked at Yamato in Kaido's arms.
"That's what I