At that moment, Whitebeard sipped his medicinal wine and said, "Thanks for this time! I'll complete the payment you want as soon as possible!"
Ren shook his head. "There's no rush for payment. Take it slowly! Besides, the more you recover, the greater the reward I'll receive! And these past few days, your romantic history has given me quite a few laughs!"
"You..." Whitebeard looked thoroughly embarrassed, his face even wearing a constipated expression. Looking at the faint smile on Ren's lips, he sighed. "I had originally forgotten those things! But after remembering them, I realized I owed them far too much! I wanted to make it up to them, but I know I'm a man about to die. I can't bring them anything at all! Sometimes I think it would've been better not to know, so they could keep hating me!"
At that point, Whitebeard fell silent for a moment. Then he took another gulp of medicinal wine and continued, "Ren... during this period of treatment, I've seen the strength of Emperor Island and seen through your ambitions! Your ambition isn't to become the Pirate King. Or rather, the title of Pirate King simply can't satisfy your ambition! Perhaps only this entire world can satisfy you! King of the World, Emperor of the World—those are your ultimate goals, aren't they?"
The True Goal
"Hehe... King of the World? You may have guessed right!"
Ren chuckled and did not deny it! Whitebeard had seen things rather clearly. Many of Ren's current actions were meant to seize control of this world! But Whitebeard would never know what Ren's true goal was!
Ren's true goal was to grow stronger, stronger, stronger...
Ren's sights would never remain fixed in one place, nor would they remain confined to one world! Ren knew how