Just then, Whitebeard glanced at Shanks and suddenly said:
"No bitter grudges? Are you serious, Red Hair brat?"
Shanks froze at his words.
Wait, were there grudges or not?
Whitebeard looked at Kaido and said slowly:
"Kaido, you drove my crewmate, Kozuki Oden, to his death, didn't you!"
Then he looked at Shanks again and said in an unfriendly tone:
"If I remember correctly, he was once your comrade too."
Marco and the others immediately glared at Kaido.
The Second Division Commander, Kozuki Oden!
If Kaido had killed Kozuki Oden in a fair fight, they could have let it go.
After all, Kozuki Oden had left the Whitebeard Pirates by then.
The problem was that Kaido's methods had been downright dishonorable.
Of course, there was also the possibility that Kozuki Oden himself had simply been an idiot.
Under Whitebeard's gaze, Shanks felt a little awkward.
Fuck, it did seem like our captain was the one who'd played dirty.
He had practically tricked Kozuki Oden into leaving.
Shanks remembered the two pirate crews fighting several times over it.
But that wasn't really our fault, was it?
Kozuki Oden had made his own choice.
They had never forced him.
Their captain had invited Marco too, hadn't he? Marco hadn't joined them, right?
Still, Shanks had indeed heard that Kozuki Oden had died because of Kaido.
But he had never been particularly close to Kozuki Oden.
To be precise, the captain had been about the only person aboard who was close to him.
Everyone else had been on fairly ordinary terms with Kozuki Oden.
After all, whatever his reasons, if he could leave the Whitebeard Pirates today, he could leave their crew for some other reason tomorrow.
But now, to make himself seem like part of the group, Shanks joined Whitebeard in glaring