Although Xie Wen's allocation of intelligence points was a little lopsided, he had at least watched several hundred episodes of Conan. Making a few basic deductions from the available clues was hardly difficult.
And Garp's suddenly stunned expression proved his guess was right. That old bastard War Dog Sengoku really was planning to do just that!
Xie Wen did not care much about the other Shichibukai, but if Hawk-Eye got involved too, things would be harder to call.
Fortunately, given Mihawk's aversion to trouble, he probably would not come to join the fun. Even if he really did get bored enough to come to Marineford and make trouble for Xie Wen, getting to exchange some swordsmanship with him did not seem like too bad a deal.
So after silently weighing things up, Xie Wen found that it really was just as Garp had said... not much of a problem.
"You figured that out yourself! It had nothing to do with me!" Once he recovered from his stupor, Garp promptly shifted the blame. Then he asked Xie Wen curiously, "How did you work it out, brat?"
Xie Wen turned to Shakky beside him. Rather than answering Garp directly, he asked with a touch of exasperation, "So that troublesome woman Boa Hancock will be going to Marineford too, right?"
Shakky paused, then nodded. "That's right. That girl has been looking for a chance to teach you a lesson. How exactly did you end up clashing with her?"
She looked Xie Wen up and down with a smile, teasing him. "At your age, you actually weren't bewitched by that girl... do you have some embarrassing problem you can't talk about?"
"Like hell I have an embarrassing problem!" Xie Wen's face instantly darkened, and he said indignantly, "I actually was bewitched at first, but