Time shifted back slightly.
After accepting old man Sengoku's secret mission, he quietly left Navy Headquarters, concealed his identity, and infiltrated the islands of the Land of Grass.
However.
Everything should have gone smoothly. He should have remained undercover like this, waiting for an opportunity, yet he never expected... the accident to come so suddenly.
It happened this morning...
"Teacher Takakura, I'm counting on you!"
"Oh~, it's no trouble~" Teacher Takakura... no, he should more accurately be called Marine Admiral Kizaru—Borsalino. He lazily looked at the woman before him and said slowly, "What another energetic day!"
As he spoke, he suddenly lowered his head and put on what seemed to be a very vicious expression at the little brats clinging to his legs below.
"Hey, you little brats, don't get so carried away. Do you believe Teacher will get angry?"
However.
That expression would have startled even adults. It made him look anything but respectable, yet the children at his feet did not care at all. They continued to giggle as they clung to Teacher Takakura's long legs.
"Teacher Takakura looks scary, but he's actually a good person!"
"Stop trying to scare us! We're very brave!"
"Teacher Takakura, your legs are so long!"
They laughed and frolicked around Teacher Takakura's feet.
But then.
Suddenly.
"Teacher, Teacher! Yesterday, Dad and I saw you glowing in the grass!"
Some child shouted this out.
At once.
All the children started shouting.
"You must have seen wrong!"
"That's right, you probably saw a streetlamp!"
"How could Teacher glow?"
"Teacher, can you glow?"
"That's right, that's right! How could Teacher Takakura possibly glow?"
"Teacher may look bad and not very handsome, but he's actually a good person!"
"..."
Those words gave Borsalino quite a fright. He hurriedly bent down and continued in a fierce