Besides, the resemblance between Luffy and Roger was uncanny! Just look at their faces and personalities—they were practically cut from the same mold!
Garp continued, "As I trained, I grew stronger and stronger! Then I happened to defeat a band of pirates trying to invade Foosha Village, and the Marines who arrived right after took notice of me! Somehow, I ended up joining the Marines, with my base in Loguetown!
"In Loguetown, I met Roger! From the moment we met, it felt as though we'd known each other for years! That bond in our blood made it easy for us to recognize each other! Only then did I learn that Roger's mother's surname was Gol! Roger had taken his mother's surname, while I'd taken our father's!
"But Roger was an orphan too. The World Government had hunted his mother to her death! The World Government was an enemy to us both! Back then, Roger wanted me to join him as a pirate, to sail free and raise hell across the world! I refused at first. After all, I was a Marine! But one day, I saw the darkest side of this world!"
At that point, Garp's eyes filled with both longing and fury!
Ren and the other two listened. Few people knew anything about Garp's past!
Chapter 825: An Unlikely Pair
"Sigh..." Garp let out a soft sigh, anger threaded through it. "Then one day, the Celestial Dragons came to the East Blue, accompanied by World Government officials! We Marines from Loguetown were ordered to protect them and board their warship! Traveling with the Celestial Dragons was a journey into darkness! During the voyage, one of them sneezed, and an entire village was destroyed over it! Worse, the ones who destroyed that village were the Marines assigned to protect