"Were you really here to see me?" Hearing that Gern had come looking for her, Lipo was momentarily baffled.
She tilted her head, confusion flickering in her pink eyes as she silently wondered,
If this person really came looking for me, doesn't that mean I misunderstood him?
The pure-hearted members of the Mink Tribe were frighteningly innocent...
At that thought, she circled Gern once. Her petite, 168-centimeter frame looked especially tiny beside his 221-centimeter height.
Her long, floppy rabbit ears swayed gently with her movements.
When Lipo's gaze fell on the justice cape on Gern's back, she frowned slightly.
"I recognize those two characters on your cape. That little brat Pedro mentioned them..."
Lipo pointed at the white cape, sounding a little uncertain. "I think they mean... justice?"
At this time, aside from a handful of people who knew about the outside world, most of the Mink Tribe in the Mokomo Dukedom knew nothing about it.
That was also why Cat Viper and Inuarashi had ventured out on an adventure, eventually drifting to Wano Country, where they had nearly been captured and roasted.
"Want to know who I am?" Gern's lips curled upward at her reaction.
"Uh-huh! Uh-huh!" Lipo nodded furiously.
"Watch closely!" Gern gave a low shout, then suddenly lowered his body and struck an outrageously theatrical pose.
He swung his clenched right fist around as if performing a Kamen Rider transformation, his justice cape fluttering in the wind as he shouted,
"That's right! I am the hero of justice-Gern!!"
Meanwhile, far away at the Naval Academy in Marine Headquarters on Marineford.
Zephyr, who had no mission and was teaching the recruits, suddenly sneezed. His brows knitted, and he muttered darkly,
"That bastard Gern. Just because he caught two big-name pirates with bounties over a billion doesn't mean I'll