"Who? Who could cure Captain Roger?"
Croccus's words seemed to give Roger's crew new hope. After all, even Roger himself had said he was terminally ill. Roger would not joke about something like that.
"The recipient of the Ibel Medicine Prize, the current King of a kingdom called Piltover—the genius doctor Xidilier Oran.
He is a medical genius. Many patients have regained their health because of him.
His achievements in medicine are beyond even that genius Vegapunk.
If anyone on these seas can cure this disease, it can only be him."
Croccus wiped his glasses and gave Shanks and Buggy an answer.
This was also the effect of reputation. As Prosthetic Body technology gradually spread across the seas and many patients were treated on Firefly Island, Oran's fame was spreading as well.
Theory and practice were two different things. Professors who published theoretical papers every day were rarely known to the outside world; aside from people in the same field, outsiders generally did not care about such things.
Things were different when there were results. Croccus was a doctor himself, so he knew quite a bit about Oran.
"You know Garp, don't you?"
"Oh, that guy? Of course we do. He's been chasing us for years."
"A few years ago, he fought Chinjao, the pillar of the Eight Treasure Navy from the Flower Country. They say he beat Chinjao so badly that he nearly retired, and the doctors in the Flower Country could not treat Chinjao's injuries.
In the end, he only recovered after being treated by Xidilier Oran."
Among the many examples, Chinjao was undoubtedly a typical case, so Croccus used him as an example.
"Mr. Croccus, where is Piltover?"
"The first half of the Grand Line, on Firefly Island. It isn't too far from here."
If Ohara was