New World, Elbaf.
Sun World, West Village Market.
"Eighty Owl Marshal!" Gaban, dressed like a butcher, swung his two battle-axes and cut the giant boar hanging before him into neat chunks of meat in one go.
Not far away, Lipri applauded enthusiastically. "That was amazing! I knew I picked the right man!"
Gaban slowly wiped the grease from his axe blades with a towel and said helplessly, "I never imagined I'd end up using my skills for something like this..."
"What? You don't like our life together?" Lipri asked with a frown.
Gaban hurriedly waved his hands. "How could I not? I love our life. I was just thinking about how things have changed."
Gaban had plenty of money. As one of the Roger Pirates' three leading figures, he had received no small share of their treasure. But ever since arriving in Elbaf, he had still gone to the village with Lipri every day to sell meat.
While Lipri arranged the meat he had just cut on their stall, Gaban bought a newspaper from a News Coo.
"Oh? A new release? This time it's... Scandalous Girlfriend: Whitebeard II?" Gaban opened the paper with a chuckle and began reading. Before long, his face was flushed, and he clicked his tongue. "Viking's getting bolder and bolder, writing stuff like this..."
That was right. The pen name might have been Lord Roger, but Gaban had recognized the man behind it back when Young Karp first came out!
Who else but that ridiculous bastard Vikengam would do something like this?
As the World's Strongest Man, Gaban was naturally the hot-blooded type.
The more he read, the more he felt ready to take off. His attention gradually shifted to Lipri at the stall. He swallowed and said, "Hey, Lipri, business looks slow today. Why don't