"From the top down..."
After a long silence, Dragon finally took a deep breath and said in a low voice:
"Though I have to admit that what you said makes some sense, since I chose this path, I will never change course. Besides, your path is actually even more difficult."
He hesitated, looked into Noah's deep, clear eyes, then reached into his clothes and took out a thin dossier.
Koushirou suddenly rose from his seat and left the inner room. Before drawing the screen closed, he casually pulled Zoro, who had been squatting outside the door eavesdropping, away as well.
"This is intelligence we only recently confirmed. Though there are only a few scattered clues, we can basically confirm that above the Five Elders of the Holy Land, there is an extremely terrifying pow—"
"You mean Imu?"
Noah calmly interrupted him.
Dragon froze. He looked up in astonishment. "How did you know?"
Imu's name was an unknowable taboo throughout the world. Even most high-ranking officials of the World Government and the Navy knew nothing of it.
Even the Revolutionary Army had only barely gathered some relevant information recently, relying on its intelligence network spread across the world and years of investigation from every angle.
"Could it be..."
Dragon immediately understood. He asked in disbelief, "You met her? Or have you already fought her?"
"She."
Noah corrected him, shrugging slightly. "More or less. I just couldn't beat her, so I resigned."
What did he mean, more or less?
And battles between top-tier powerhouses had to be earth-shattering once they began, impossible to conceal. Yet Dragon had never heard any news about one...
Dragon was full of doubts, but then something occurred to him. He asked tentatively, "Then now, you..."
His Observation Haki was also among the best in the world. Sitting