Tsugikuni Yoriichi spent nearly half a month in the Kingdom of Goa. For Yoriichi, it had been the most carefree stretch of time since arriving in this world.
Thunder God Island had not contacted Yoriichi during those days either. With Issho, Mihawk, and the others there, even if some emergency arose in the first half of the New World, they had the ability to handle it.
In this world, there were only a handful of forces capable of threatening the New Marines—probably only major powers such as the Marines, the World Government, and the Whitebeard Pirates.
But the Marines had now set their sights on the Big Mom Pirates. Powerful Marine forces stationed throughout the Four Blues had gathered at Marine Headquarters, while the World Government had also dispatched its Cipher Pol agents to cooperate with the Marines and begin preliminary investigations.
The great pirates of the New World had also noticed the Marines' movements. Unaware of the Marines' target, the pirates all felt threatened and began drawing in their forces. The New World, once rife with undercurrents, fell into the calm before the storm.
It was precisely because of this window of opportunity that Yoriichi had time to do some things for himself.
During his time in the Kingdom of Goa, although he ate and lived with Garp, the two tacitly avoided discussing anything related to the Marines.
Garp was a man with clear loyalties. Though he seemed to blur the line between public and private matters when dealing with Yoriichi, he would never be careless when something truly important was involved.
Yoriichi had no intention of using his relationship with Garp to pry information from him, either. He had his own intelligence sources!
In the evening, red clouds filled the sky.
A cool evening breeze swept through the