"Interesting. That child has disappeared."
Looking at a report from the South Blue, Hades smiled in mild surprise, finding the development intriguing.
"Looks like Garp will be coming up empty-handed."
Tossing the report aside, Hades once again felt how the times had changed.
The wheels of fate had already veered off course.
Before turning himself in, Roger had spent nearly half a year in the South Blue.
On an island in the South Blue, Roger had a wife and had left behind a child.
This was no secret to Hades.
In fact, he had already been keeping an eye on the matter in secret.
With someone that powerful, knowing his approximate location was enough. There was no need to deliberately keep him under close surveillance.
He would notice.
After Roger left, Hades sent people to investigate, and they soon uncovered everything.
The World Government had weakened, and the Bloody War had drawn most of its attention.
Fortunately, the World Government had yet to learn that Roger had spent time in the South Blue.
Without the pressure of the World Government and the Marines bearing down on her, things were different.
Roger's wife, Portgas D. Rouge, had no need to take medicine to keep her child in her womb for twenty months.
And so Ace was born safely, making him a year older than he otherwise would have been.
What she did not know was that the pregnant women in the surrounding waters of the South Blue had been spared a disaster as a result.
Of course, if the World Government really did trace Roger to them, even the children already born might face a bloody massacre.
Roger was, after all, the man responsible for ushering in the Great Pirate Era, and countless people knew his face.
Word that Roger had