Some called Chinese drinking-table culture a bad habit that ought to be rejected. Others called it a tradition worth preserving. Loa's opinion? What the hell do their arguments have to do with me?
Talk all you want. If I don't like it, I'll do things my way! Changing how he lived over a disputed opinion—even judging someone he knew nothing about because of what others said—was the sort of thing only a hopeless fool would do.
Life was meant to be lived to the fullest!
And if he could do that without worrying about mundane affairs, while enjoying a happy family whose members were all healthy, so much the better.
Loa had once been an ordinary man with exactly that dream.
Being transported to another world had brought changes beyond his control. He had seen sights he never could have imagined and learned far more than he once knew. If he lost all his power and returned to Earth now, his present abilities would let him fulfill that old dream with ease.
Even without considering anything else, merely standing there gave him a commanding presence that made people afraid to look him in the eye.
It was a depth born of influence, strength, and cunning combined.
Neither arrogant nor servile, neither conceited nor yielding.
But his life before crossing over was long behind him, and Loa's memories of those days were gradually fading. Becoming the new guardian of Between Dreams and looking after both Earth and the One Piece World was now his greatest wish.
Yet however much he changed, one skill remained ingrained in him. It had helped him win countless battles in the cutthroat world of work, and it had served him well in the One Piece World too.
Drinking-table culture!
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