Just as Hades had expected, Garp found no trace of Roger's wife on Baterilla Island in the South Blue.
The Navy was now conducting a world military draft with great fanfare.
There were no external wars, and no need to fight the great pirates of the New World.
Garp had found himself an easy assignment: catching pirates in the Four Seas while treating it as a vacation.
His first destination was the South Blue, rather than his homeland, the East Blue.
His real targets were, of course, the wife and child Roger had entrusted to him before his execution.
Garp and Roger had been both enemies and friends. He knew that if the World Government learned of this child's existence, it would never spare the child.
But he also knew the child was innocent.
Garp had not refused the request Roger made before his death.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, he came to this ordinary island.
The island was somewhat dilapidated. In the three months since the bloody war ended, it had likely suffered more than one pirate attack.
Still, these newly emerged pirates were not particularly strong. On many islands, the residents could take up arms and drive them back, though losses were inevitable.
"Could something have happened?"
Once they reached the island, the Marines went ashore under the pretext of gathering information about pirates. As for Garp, he quietly slipped into the woods at the island's edge.
His actions had to look reasonable, or the World Government's lurking jackals might pick up on something.
Garp was certainly being careful.
Deep in the woods stood a rather cozy-looking cottage.
Yet Garp frowned. It looked as though no one had lived here for quite some time, though some household items remained.
But where had its owner gone?
"Could she be