Shichibukai Candidates

"So it's Sengoku-san! But I'm on a mission right now!" Kizaru's face scrunched up into a ball.

He had actually refused when he first received the assignment, because how could someone like Ryan possibly not stir up trouble? This was a man who had set the world ablaze the moment he debuted.

Slaughtering a Marine Branch, seizing Ancient Weapons—then things escalated even further. He had stormed Mary Geoise, killed Celestial Dragons, freed slaves, and fought Sengoku, who had still been an admiral at the time, along with Marine hero Garp.

All these incidents had led Sengoku and Kizaru to believe Ryan would cause trouble, but after observing him for so long, Kizaru had yet to see any sign of it.

Other than his somewhat bizarre route!

As a result, when they were in Spring Queen City, Kizaru had stopped getting close enough to observe them directly. Instead, he used Observation Haki to monitor the skies.

First, getting too close made it easy to be discovered. Second, for the past two days, Ryan and the others had been wandering around tea plantations every day. As an admiral of Marine Headquarters, how could Kizaru go to a place like that? Borsalino was not that kind of man!

So, whenever the Soaring Dragon took off, he followed it. The rest of the time, Kizaru drank tea.

And by drinking tea, he meant actually drinking tea—not the kind of "drinking tea" all you dear readers were thinking of!

So Kizaru was rather satisfied with the job of keeping an eye on Ryan.

"I see! My opinion isn't really important. You can decide among yourselves. I'll just continue watching the Blood Sword Pirates!" Kizaru said huffily.

Clearly, he had already tasted the benefits of this job. If every day could be like this, it really