At this point, Big News Morgans paused, deliberately leaving Adrian in suspense.
"Lord White Ghost, can you guess who stopped Kaido of the Beasts?"
Adrian chuckled and played along. "It couldn't have been the Fleet Admiral, could it?"
Big News Morgans froze for a moment, then caught on and launched straight into flattery.
"As expected of Lord White Ghost! You got it in one!
"The man who stopped Kaido of the Beasts was none other than Fleet Admiral Kong of Marine Headquarters!
"..."
Now it was Adrian's turn to be speechless.
The Fleet Admiral had stepped in of his own accord to break up a fight between Pirates?
Had that giant gorilla Kong been drinking bootleg liquor before the battle?
Big News Morgans hurried to explain, answering Adrian's unspoken question.
"But from what I know, Fleet Admiral Kong didn't actually want to stop Kaido of the Beasts from attacking the Red Hair Pirates. He received an order at the last minute!
"Caw, caw! To intervene in the battle at such a critical moment and give orders to the Fleet Admiral himself! That Den Den Mushi call could only have come from...
"Those few at the top of the World Government!"
The Five Elders!
Adrian supplied the identity of the ones who had given the order in his mind.
But that only raised more questions.
Why would the Five Elders go out of their way to protect the Red Hair Pirates?
They had even been willing to trample the Fleet Admiral's reputation all over again.
Could Shanks really be what the rumors claimed? On the surface, just an ordinary wielder of the Face-Granting Fruit, but secretly a Celestial Dragon above the rules of the sea?!
When the conversation touched on the World Government's highest authorities, even an Underworld king as powerful