Uchiha Kazama had never quite understood this world's power rankings or the way its people acted.
Take Whitebeard, for instance. He could have taken action himself, yet he insisted on sending Ace alone to capture Blackbeard.
Even if Whitebeard stayed out of it, what about Ace's crew?!
He was the captain of the Whitebeard Pirates' Second Division!
In other words, Ace should have had a whole crowd of men under his command.
Yet in the story, those men seemed to have vanished entirely.
Could someone so conceited, without the strength to back it up, really be called the Flame Emperor?!
And even gain recognition from Marine Headquarters?!
The only explanation was that that old bastard Oda had intended to kill Ace off from the start, so he hadn't bothered with any of these details.
Ace had been nothing more than a tool to move the plot forward.
Now that Uchiha Kazama had met him in person, he was somewhat speechless.
This time, if not for the advantage the battlefield had offered, Ace probably would have been killed by Blackbeard again.
Of course, Blackbeard's target this time hadn't been Ace.
"All right, take this man back with you."
"Consider my old debt repaid."
"From now on, I, Buggy, am no longer the apprentice I once was aboard the Roger Pirates' ship."
"I'm Captain Buggy!"
Buggy placed his hand on Blackbeard's head, picked it up, and handed it to Ace.
He spoke calmly.
Naturally, Buggy knew what Uchiha Kazama intended to do.
After spending all this time together, how could someone like Buggy fail to understand the personality Uchiha Kazama displayed so openly?
If not for Ace's identity, Uchiha Kazama would never have gotten involved in something like this.
"A debt?!"
"That's between you and him. It has nothing to do with