Dressrosa Kingdom, royal capital.
Top floor of the Red Rose Hotel.
"Eh!? ...Sephiroth, you're back!
That's wonderful!"
Perona floated swiftly over to Sephiroth with a delighted expression, circling around him once.
Isca gently took his right hand, asking with concern:
"You weren't hurt, were you?"
"No."
Sephiroth smiled and shook his head, choosing not to tell the truth.
He had suffered quite a few injuries during his battle with Kaido, but the Vampire Fruit's power had healed them rapidly!
"Sephiroth is so strong. You must've already defeated that guy called Kaido, right?" Kuina asked with a smile.
"No! ...He's very strong. We only fought to a draw..." Sephiroth shook his head.
"It's already amazing that you could fight Kaido to a draw..." Uta said with a grin.
Violet first looked at the girls surrounding Sephiroth, chattering away without pause.
Then, she turned to look at her sister Scarlett, who stood beside her with a smile on her face but had not stepped forward.
After thinking for a moment, Violet finally took a few steps forward and spread the newspaper in her hands before the young man.
She pouted, saying with slight dissatisfaction:
"Sephiroth, when my sister and I suddenly saw you on the front page of the World Economy News Paper, we were both so worried!
Please don't do something so dangerous again next time..."
"This...!?"
Looking at the photograph of himself in the newspaper, his forehead bleeding after Kaido had struck him, Sephiroth's mouth twitched slightly.
Damn it! Which bastard took such an embarrassing photo of me? Couldn't they have picked a better one?
"Last night, Emperor of the Sea Kaido attacked the Marine G-5 Base, causing heavy casualties...
Marine Commodore Sephiroth faced Kaido alone...
Pollock Island, which belongs to the Prodence Kingdom, suffered severe devastation, while thousands of