Come at Me If You Don't Like It?

Rayleigh's words made Oak curl his lips.

I was already a damn pirate. Why would I care about my reputation or whether it sounded good when people talked about it?

And bullying the young?

Back when Garp was in his thirties or forties, beating the hell out of fifteen-year-old me, I never saw him show any mercy. Every blow had been aimed to kill.

Now that it was my turn, you were going on about bullying the young? Did you think I was easy to push around?

Oak looked down at Luffy beneath his feet. Straw Hat Luffy was seventeen now, two years older than Oak had been when Garp beat him up!

So he gave Rayleigh a casual glance.

"What I do is my business. What's it got to do with you? Do you have nothing better to do than stick your nose where it doesn't belong?"

"What? Roger lucked into becoming Pirate King, and because they call you the Pirate King's right-hand man, you really think you're somebody?"

"Anyone who didn't know better would think you were damn Rocks, meddling in everything like this?!"

Oak mercilessly mocked Rayleigh, and the faint smile on Rayleigh's face immediately froze. He had not expected Oak to show him so little respect, directly leaving him no way to save face.

It would have been one thing if Oak had merely insulted him, but he had dragged his captain into it as well. Rayleigh's expression darkened, and Oak only sneered when he saw it.

"What, you don't like that?"

He crooked a finger at Rayleigh.

"If you don't like it, get your ass up here and have a go at me. Let me see what you've got!"

"I heard that while I was gone, you Roger Pirates were pretty cocky, beating up my