Back Then, I Took the Initiative and Went for It

"Oh? So you were flipping through that battle report just to look for this, young man?"

Looking at Noah's earnest expression, Momousagi pursed her lips and chuckled. "What, do you want to avenge me?"

"Of course."

Noah looked as though it were only natural. "Just thinking of my beloved Rear Admiral Gion being severely injured and falling unconscious from a sneak attack makes my heart ache. I wish I could send all three of those bastards straight to Impel Down."

"Rather merciful of you."

"Then, once my friend becomes the warden, I won't do anything else. I'll hang around in there every day and whip them. For every second you were unconscious, I'll whip them once."

"..."

Momousagi irritably pinched his cheek. "Nothing but nonsense comes out of your mouth. Do you even know who those three are? You're a rookie who hasn't even graduated yet. Where did you get such a big mouth?"

"Whether I've got a big mouth or not, wouldn't you know best, Rear Admiral?"

Noah shrugged.

Of course he knew who those three names belonged to.

Dugalileo, just over thirty years old, wielder of the Ox-Ox Fruit, Rhino Model, with a bounty of 350 million Beli.

Less than a year after joining Kaido, he had already become one of the Three All-Stars, the current "Drought" of the Beasts Pirates.

As for Jack...

That guy with a billion-Beli bounty, eight hundred million of it on his tusks, was still just a seven-year-old brat playing in the mud somewhere.

Amande and Smoothie were Big Mom's third and fourteenth daughters, respectively.

The former was a renowned swordmaster, ruthless by nature and brutal in action. Countless civilians had died at her hands for failing to scrape together Big Mom's tribute;

The latter was only a fifteen-year-old girl at the moment,