"..."
Noah was stunned for a moment, then shrugged speechlessly. "It's no big deal. Why go into so much detail?"
"How is it no big deal? It concerns you."
Stussy blinked. "Come to think of it, Big Mom used to want to kill you outright to avenge that wedding incident. But after you defeated her three years ago, she seemed to develop another idea—she wanted to conquer you and take you into her..."
"Nonsense. Stop."
Noah's face darkened as he shot her a glare. Stussy was not offended in the least. With a grin, she raised her wineglass toward Noah and drained it in one gulp.
Noah perfunctorily lifted his own glass slightly and was about to put it down when he noticed that the underworld emperors at the neighboring table were all studying him with great interest.
"You're that samurai from Wano Country, Fujiwara?"
The loan shark king, Du Feld, chuckled and raised his glass. "Your reputation is quite something. I never expected Stussy to finally be willing to bring you out at this tea party. How about it? Care to make an acquaintance and be friends?"
The others raised their glasses as well, their attitudes quite friendly.
However.
"Not interested."
To everyone's surprise, "Fujiwara" merely swept his gaze over them one by one before lazily withdrawing it and continuing to drink by himself.
He looked completely indifferent, as though he did not consider them worth his attention at all.
How dare this guy?
At first, Du Feld and the others were simply taken aback by Noah's coldness. Then anger surged through them, and their faces darkened.
How many years had it been? How many years had it been since anyone dared treat them this way?
Even Big Mom, one of the Four Emperors, was extremely courteous toward them