Shanks showed none of the embarrassment of having been exposed. He stood where he was, still wearing that friendly smile, his expression unchanged. "Is it really okay to discuss something this confidential here?"
"The Revolutionary Army has nothing to hide." Leo smiled as he answered him. "Who we are, where we came from, where we are going—we will tell the whole world everything clearly."
He smiled with narrowed eyes, like a fox.
Yet judging from the expressions of those around him, even they were hearing this intelligence for the first time. It was also the first time they had learned that he came from the Celestial Dragons.
"Shall we go inside and talk?" Shanks narrowed his eyes at Leo. "Or do you want to start a war here?"
Starting a war here would undoubtedly put Shanks at an overwhelming disadvantage, but as one of the Four Emperors, he was not afraid to fight an enemy anywhere.
Besides, the enemy had already let him into their core territory. Either they were prepared to pay a tremendous price, like the Marines had when Marineford was destroyed, to resist an enemy—or they had no intention of fighting at all.
Sure enough, Leo raised both hands and burst into laughter. "Don't get so worked up. See? That reaction means you still care about it. If you didn't, you should have walked over and hugged me."
He stepped out of the Revolutionary Army alone and extended a hand of friendship to Shanks. "Hello. Nice to meet you for the first time, Red-Haired Shanks." His hand remained outstretched, and as Shanks squinted at him, he realized for the first time that there truly was another hero in this world besides Captain Roger.
To be honest, aside from Whitebeard, he had never thought much of Kaido or