"..."
"..."
"What's wrong? Is there something else?"
Xie Wen looked in confusion at Dragon, who was staring back at him.
After finishing his explanation of his suspicions about Uranus, Dragon had fallen silent. Yet he hadn't left, either, and instead wore a conflicted expression, looking as though he wanted to say something but couldn't.
"I... um..."
Dragon opened his mouth, hemming and hawing without saying what the matter was. It was nothing like his usual decisive manner.
Xie Wen: ???
"This is probably what Mr. Dragon wants to talk about, meow."
(=ΦωΦ=)つ
Just then, Hua Mei Meow walked over and handed Xie Wen a newspaper newly published by the World Government.
["Marine traitor" Monkey D. Garp to be publicly executed at Marineford in ten days]
"...Huh?!"
Xie Wen looked at the front-page headline, utterly floored.
What was this? The world line converging again? The grandpa edition of the Paramount War?
After carefully reading the article, Xie Wen roughly understood what was going on.
Although the newspaper said that Garp had deliberately let his son, Revolutionary Army leader Dragon, escape on Egghead Island, an offense of that level alone was unlikely to get Garp executed. He would most likely just be dismissed from his post, or, at the very worst, locked up in Impel Down.
But right after he went easy on Dragon on Egghead Island, Uranus had been damaged. Then Saint Mary Geoise had come under a joint attack by the Palico Research Commission and the Revolutionary Army, followed immediately by Dragon cutting off the Celestial Dragons' food supplies...
With Dragon provoking them again and again, and Imu's existence exposed, it would have been stranger if the World Government hadn't exploded.
And as Dragon's father, Garp had already been caught red-handed showing his son mercy. Now it made perfect