After meeting the members of the Second Division, Ace started pulling Xie Wen along to meet the commanders of the other divisions.
Since he had nothing else to do anyway, Xie Wen went along with his host's arrangements. The commanders all showed him goodwill, too. None of them seemed to mind what had happened with Crocodile...
That only made Xie Wen even more curious about what exactly had happened between Crocodile and Whitebeard.
But Crocodile was already dead, and Whitebeard certainly wasn't going to clear things up for him. If Xie Wen really wanted to know, he would have to find a way to travel back to Earth and read One Piece after it was finished.
He had to admit, Whitebeard really did have a lot of sons. There were more than a dozen commanders alone...
Xie Wen still had some impression of "Phoenix" Marco, "Diamond" Jozu, and "Flower Sword" Vista, who had all had quite a few standout moments during the Summit War. As for the rest, he was completely in the dark...
Well, saying he was completely in the dark wasn't entirely accurate. As commanders of the Whitebeard Pirates, they were fairly famous in the One Piece world itself, so Xie Wen had seen their names in the newspapers here and there.
But that was about it.
Until he was brought before a man wearing a pink kimono and lipstick, dressed in a very effeminate style, with rather "pop idol-like" looks... Yes, he didn't look like someone already in his forties at all.
"This is Izo, commander of the Sixteenth Division. He comes from a place called Wano Country."
Ace introduced him enthusiastically.
"Why is it Wano Country again, meow?" Ai Haibara Meow, perched on Xie Wen's shoulder, couldn't help grumbling. "Oh, right, Xie Wen, you said that