The Red Line Continent.
The Holy Land, Mary Geoise.
In the same spacious room, the Five Elders wore grave expressions.
"According to the latest intelligence, [Pluton] Silvers Rayleigh appeared in the Sabaody Archipelago, stopped Aleus, and rescued [Fire Fist] Portgas D. Ace. That confirms [Fire Fist]'s identity. He's the child who went missing all those years ago."
"The blood of the Pirate King?"
"What a nuisance! Gol D. Roger... Even dead, he won't let us rest!"
"Didn't we execute every child born around Baterilla Island in the South Blue within the possible time frame back then? How did Fire Fist escape?"
"According to the report from Navy Headquarters, Fire Fist is apparently Garp's grandson. Sengoku had a huge argument with Garp over it." The speaker was an old man wearing a flat cap and sporting an exceptionally bushy white beard.
At this news, the other four Five Elders' faces turned ashen.
It was Garp.
Damn it!
"So Garp took the child away... No wonder! What should we do now? Get rid of... Garp?" The bald old man with glasses, dressed in a white robe and carrying a sword, struggled to put forward this extremely risky suggestion.
"Not worth it."
An objection came immediately.
Another bald old man, sporting an upturned handlebar mustache, shook his head in opposition.
"Garp is the [Navy Hero]. We can't touch him without sufficient cause, and Sengoku doesn't even know Fire Fist's true identity... Forcing Garp's execution would only provoke a backlash from the Navy. And then there's Garp's own strength. One wrong move, and the Navy... would be crippled."
That last point was the most important.
Garp's overwhelming strength inspired fear not only in pirates, but even in the Holy Land's nobles.
"So we just let this go? He committed such an atrocious act, and