"I'll defeat you!"
Bullet turned to look, defiance written all over his face.
In an instant, his eyes went from arrogance to incomprehension, then to bewilderment.
The King of the World everyone knew!
The monster rumored to be invincible in the New World!
Recently, rumors had spread that Shane had packed up and fled. He might be the strongest in the New World, but Marine Headquarters stood guard over the Grand Line.
He did not dare come at all, so he had already run away with his tail between his legs.
Some even claimed that Shane had fled in disgrace back at the Sabaody Archipelago and Fish-Man Island.
In other words, they had concluded that the pirates defeated in the New World were weaker than Shane, while the King of the World was no match for a Marine Headquarters Admiral!
The rumors multiplied. Shane's continued absence only seemed to confirm them.
In the end, people were even more eager to see all of Shane's territory vanish on the day Red the Aloof was executed.
They all believed that allowing someone as far beyond the bounds of normal humanity as Shane to exist was extremely dangerous.
So they could hardly wait to see him disappear from the face of the earth.
Now.
Bullet had seen Shane with his own eyes.
He looked a little like his pictures in the papers. Though his body was as tall and large as a giant's, he was not a complete monster. At least his overall appearance was human.
"You're just big! What makes you strong?"
Deep down, Bullet believed he would surpass everything.
So even though seeing Shane made him wary, he still had the fearlessness of a newborn calf facing a tiger.
After all, he had just traded a few blows with Crocodile, a