"You'd better stop me right here, or I can't promise I won't storm up there and twist the heads off those five old bastards!"
Garp slowly came back to his senses.
He knew that if he charged into Mary Geoise, he would drag the entire Navy into this before its time.
"I know how you feel, but now isn't the time. First, we need to get these three kids to the infirmary."
Sengoku breathed a sigh of relief, though he looked no better than Garp.
The deaths of Zephyr's family had been suspicious from the start. Kong, who was Fleet Admiral at the time, had even turned a wary eye toward the World Government.
But Sengoku had trusted the World Government deeply back then and hadn't looked into it further.
Strangest of all, the Navy had still never caught the Pirates who attacked Zephyr's family.
It was as though they had vanished from the sea.
Or perhaps... they had never existed at all!
The New World.
Moore Island.
Moore Island seemed to have grown a little larger, and Pirates were now all but impossible to spot there.
For the past few days, though, a story had been spreading among the island's residents.
Moore Island was an island that ate people!
Someone had seen a pirate suddenly fall into a fissure that opened beneath him.
At first, the story sparked a wave of panic.
But as time passed, the islanders realized something.
Not one of them had gone missing. Instead, the Pirates who had been loitering near the town had vanished.
Perhaps, years from now, Moore Island would become the Cannibal Island people spoke of across the seas.
But Atlas had no time to concern herself with that.
The warship Akainu had sent to pick her up had already anchored