Everyone present except the Red Hair Pirates erupted in shock. Even Shiryu and the others were stunned, all turning their eyes toward Red-Hair.
The entire island soon fell much quieter. No one said a word. They simply stared at Red-Hair, dumbfounded, disbelief written across their faces.
"Is... is that true?" murmured a pirate who had narrowly survived the destruction of his ship.
"Marshall Rogge said it himself, so it should be true. Who would have thought Red-Hair, one of the Four Emperors, had that identity too?" someone beside him said blankly.
"So it was him..." Kaido murmured.
He remembered. During the God Valley Incident thirty-eight years ago, Kaido had been an apprentice with the Rocks Pirates. Though young, he had already been a monster of a rookie, and he had taken part in that battle.
Although he was unwilling to bring it up, as someone who had experienced it firsthand, he knew exactly how that battle had unfolded, and how Roger and Garp had joined forces to defeat Rocks.
He also knew everything that had happened during the God Valley Incident. But he had never imagined that one of the two kids Roger had taken away back then was a Celestial Dragon. He knew Red-Hair was a survivor, but he had never expected him to be a Celestial Dragon.
"Red-Hair, one of the Four Emperors, is actually a Celestial Dragon..." Everyone on the Marines' side except Sengoku stared in shock.
They all fixed their eyes on Red-Hair. This revelation would undoubtedly shake the entire world, just as the revelation that Ace was Pirate King Roger's son had.
Celestial Dragons were no ordinary people. They were the rulers of the world, descendants of its creators, the present-day World Nobles. The entire world could be said to belong to them. Yet Red-Hair,