"Beep beep~"
Shanks looked at the Den Den Mushi in his hand after it had been hung up on, then blinked in confusion.
Hadn't it been said that it was extremely important?
Why had they just hung up on his Den Den Mushi?
He hadn't been lying, you know!
At that moment.
Just as his companions behind him were loudly laughing at their captain for being hung up on by the Grand Inspector of the Navy, and an annoyed Shanks was about to reason things out with them.
"Alright, stop arguing, all of you!" The sturdy bald old man before him, with a saffron-flower-like hairstyle, purple-and-yellow "petals," white eyebrows, and a white beard, looked at Shanks.
With a helpless expression, he said, "Honestly! I never expected us to meet like this. Don't you know what the East Blue is like right now? Can't you be a little more obedient, brat?"
"Hahaha, I didn't expect things to turn out this way either~" Shanks was scolded to his face by the old man, but he did not get angry. Raising his one arm, he scratched his head with a laugh. "I was planning to sneak in quietly, but I didn't expect..." His tone became slightly melancholy. "So much would happen."
To be honest, after all his years of adventuring at sea, he had never encountered anything as strange as today.
He had originally intended to sneak into the East Blue.
Then.
Sneak into the Kingdom of Goa to see Luffy and ask how he was doing.
Although Shanks had great faith in Luffy and believed that kid would not give up on his dream so easily, honestly... after seeing Luffy receive the Best Hardworking Employee Award and the Excellent Employee Award in succession, as well as being praised by that old fellow