Shanks took the papers, and one look at the patterns and writing told him what they were.
He had seen the stone Road Poneglyphs with his own eyes aboard Roger's ship, so the writing on the papers was familiar.
Chapter 570: The world you hope for will surely come
"Three..."
"Is the last one with Teach?"
"I don't know." Kuta shook his head and leaned back, resting against the empty air behind him. Watching Uta at the center of the stage, he smiled. "It's just a guess. I don't know whether Teach really has it."
"You followed Roger and saw every Road Poneglyph, so you should know where they all were. I know you've been waiting for someone all these years. I won't say who, and don't ask me. All you need to know is that I know everything about you."
"Since you've been waiting for someone, you never went to collect them. The three sheets you're holding are rubbings of the Road Poneglyphs belonging to Charlotte Linlin, Zou, and Wano Country."
"The one from Fish-Man Island is missing." Shanks looked at the papers on the ground, pondering for a moment. "That one disappeared many years ago."
"If I remember correctly, the last time I saw it was when Captain Roger had just become the Pirate King and was returning to the Sabaody Archipelago from the New World."
Shanks raised his bottle and took a drink before continuing, "After the captain was executed, I formed my own pirate crew. By the time I passed through Fish-Man Island again, the one there was already gone."
"Actually, I haven't spent all these years just waiting for someone. Traveling around the world is our crew's dream, but I've also been searching for that last one."
Without hesitation, Shanks revealed the other reason he