Rock looked at Dadan and asked, "What exactly happened?"
As if she had finally found someone she could communicate with normally, Dadan immediately turned to Rock.
"You do something about them!"
"Especially that brat Sabo!"
"He looks the most normal, but he's the one with the worst ideas!"
She took a deep breath, as if pouring out all the anger she had been holding in these past days.
"Some time ago, a group of pirates hired by nobles from the Goa Kingdom entered the mountains, saying they were going to take Sabo away."
"Those three little brats heard about it from who knew where and ambushed them outright!"
Garp's eyes lit up again when he heard that.
"Oh?"
"They ambushed pirates?"
Dadan whipped around. "Don't interrupt!"
Garp: "..."
Rock narrowed his eyes slightly.
"Take Sabo away?"
Rouge also sensed that something was wrong.
"Why were they taking Sabo?"
Dadan's expression suddenly darkened. She scratched her messy hair, and her voice dropped.
"Because that brat..."
"Was originally the child of a noble family in the Goa Kingdom."
Foosha Village's harbor suddenly fell silent.
Makino's eyes widened, and Rouge was slightly stunned as well.
Garp stroked his chin in realization. "So that's how it was."
"No wonder that brat sometimes talked so proper."
Dadan snapped, "Is that what matters right now?!"
Gritting her teeth, she continued.
"That day, Sabo's biological father brought a group called the Sapphire Pirates into the mountains."
"They hadn't come to negotiate. They had come to take him by force."
Pirate King-style flashback--
Several days earlier.
Mount Colubo.
Deep within the dense forest, the damp mountain wind rustled through the leaves, carrying the smell of earth and blood.
Sabo stood in front of Ace and Luffy with a metal pipe in hand. All three were covered in mud