Garp's Choice

Ryan looked at Garp's smug face and thought, Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river—never mock a poor youth!

What Garp had not expected was that his words would not make the two children admire the Marines and achieve the effect he wanted. Instead, they stirred up their rebellious streak.

"Old man, you actually hit my Brother Ryan!" Seeing this, Ace ran straight up to Garp to argue with him.

"Yeah, yeah!" Luffy also took Ace's side.

As expected, the Fist of Love arrived right on schedule.

Thud! Thud!

Two huge bumps rose on their heads. This was the Hero of the Marines, Monkey D. Garp's, method of education. What should you do when children acted up? Beat them up and be done with it.

"What nonsense are you talking about? What are you doing right now? Having a party with pirates!" Garp was still thinking of straightening out the two kids Ryan had led astray.

"Garp, I think you've got it wrong. We're celebrating Ace's birthday," Crocus said leisurely.

"Ah! Nani?"

Hold on. Garp was a little muddled right now and needed to sort out his thoughts.

"You weren't holding some kind of banquet? You were celebrating your birthday?" After a long while, Garp asked Ace.

"Mhm!"

"Yeah, we're celebrating Brother Ace's birthday!"

So the old man had gotten it wrong.

"Hahaha, so that's how it is. Then I'll join in too!"

Everyone was stunned by how quickly Garp changed his expression, but Ryan was not surprised. Other than Dragon, everyone in the Monkey D. family was like this.

Maybe Dragon was like this deep down too, except he was a reserved flirt? For some reason, that thought popped into Ryan's head.

But when Ryan imagined Dragon acting like Luffy and Garp, the image