"Ran away from home?!"
"Dragon?"
Tsugikuni Yoriichi truly had not expected to hear something so absurd from Bogard. Dragon was not some rebellious teenager going through puberty. He was already in his thirties—what did he mean, ran away from home?!
However, Yoriichi had also caught the word "rebel" that Bogard had hesitated over earlier.
It seemed that Dragon's "running away from home" was, in essence, defection! It was only out of consideration for Garp's reputation that they could not call it defection. The impact would have been far too awful.
It was easy to imagine what a tremendous blow Dragon's defection had been to the Marines.
The son of the Marine hero Garp, a promising young man holding the high rank of Marine Vice Admiral. If the world learned that someone like him had betrayed the Marines, it would be an unprecedented blow to the Marines' prestige.
The sheer explosiveness of this news was no less than Trump defecting to the communists.
"What happened?"
Tsugikuni Yoriichi frowned slightly and asked curiously.
Yoriichi was still somewhat grateful to Dragon. Back then, thanks to his "help," Yoriichi had been able to personally experience the power of Conqueror's Coating while fully conscious. It was also because of Dragon's help that Yoriichi had been able to truly "feel" Conqueror's Haki.
After that, Yoriichi's strength had improved dramatically.
Although Dragon's method had been somewhat "rough" at the time, Yoriichi still owed him for it.
Yoriichi knew that Dragon would leave the Marines sooner or later. After all, the wheels of history kept rolling forward, and he was merely a butterfly capable of flapping its wings on a lonely island. Most likely, he could not alter Dragon's life trajectory.
Therefore, when Yoriichi heard that Dragon had left the Marines, he was not surprised. More than anything,