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"Nok's posthumous child. His mother couldn't stand the comments attacking them, so she left this world when Washto was four years old. He wandered the streets for about a year until I sent him to the Navy Orphanage in the South China Sea, where he stayed for about five years."

"Last time something happened, I brought him back. It's that simple."

Zhan Guo put the unnecessary documents he had processed into the goat's mouth.

"It's not that simple, is it? Let me think about it. You ask for leave to go to the South China Sea almost every two years. Aren't you secretly training Vashto?"

Karp simply connected the information he knew and came to a rough conclusion.

"No, on the contrary, I was cultivating his emotions. At one point, I almost wanted to use him as a tool."

Sengoku closed the windows and the door, and in this private little space, he revealed the truth to Garp.

"Using his identity as the son of a traitor to go undercover among the pirates?"

Garp was not confused either. With a little guidance from Sengoku, he guessed the truth of the matter, but he still asked with doubts.

"The members of the Rocks Pirates are all old enough, and the young ones are still growing up. Why do you want to send a young child who has only an uncertain relationship with them to go undercover? It won't be very useful. Why don't you just tell me their location and I can lead the troops to sweep them?"

Sengoku shook his head and rejected Garp's plan.

"I let him grow up in an environment without much warmth. Under my instruction, the director of the Navy Orphanage would allow the children or adults around him to bully him. And my ship, which docks once every two years, would become his only hope, just like now."

Garp had a complicated expression on his face, and even his favorite senbei (rice crackers) were difficult to swallow.

"You tactical strategists have dirty hearts"

Cap swore.

"I always thought he was a tool of mine. My only interest in him was his identity. He was perfect material for an undercover agent. But when I heard that something happened in the Kingdom of Vidoc, I realized that this child actually occupied a place in my heart. My heart actually beat for him."

"When he told me about his tragic experience with tears in his eyes, my brain went into a state of shutdown at that moment. Heisenberg kept him as a guinea pig for research. He kept him for about half a year, and that child collapsed like this."

"I treated him as a waste recycling and raised him for five years. Am I not more of a beast than him?"

Zhan Guo blurted out everything that he had been holding back in his heart. Perhaps he could only feel so relaxed when he was with this close friend. After all, the other member of their trio was He, and he would still try to dress up a little in front of girls.

"Alas, you are just too smart. You think too much. Mainly because you are young. If you were older, you wouldn't doubt yourself so much."

Garp understood what Sengoku wanted and grabbed the senbei and put it into his mouth.

"Don't think too much. It has already happened. No matter how much he regrets, he can't change the past. Think about what Marshal Kong would do."

"That old guy will definitely do something more cruel than you. Maybe Vashto's mother will be killed by him. Compared to him, what you did is just sprinkling water and loosening the soil."

Garp picked his nose and disparaged his old chief with disdain.

"Garp! What are you talking about?"

Marshal Kong, who was standing outside the door eavesdropping on the secret conversation between Sengoku and Garp, chose to break through the wall and stare at Garp with a pair of angry eyes.

"The weather is nice today. I have a feeling Roger will cause trouble in the New World. I will go and fight them right away."

Feeling guilty, Garp saw the angry Marshal Kong and decisively chose to flee far away. He broke through the wall behind him and ran towards his dog-head ship parked in the port.

"...You just ran away like that. What happened to the promise that we would be together forever?"

Zhan Guo felt mixed emotions. The brother who had just spoken to him like a heart-to-heart friend sold himself out so quickly and took the office wall with him.

"It doesn't matter if it's necessary to sacrifice for justice. Your plan is very good. Vashto is worth training. When the time comes, just arrange some things and let him rebel."

"You don't have to have too many burdens. Using his own suffering to exchange for a hundred or even a thousand times more civilian lives is definitely a very profitable business."

"You are now an admiral. I can allow you to have such moments of weakness, but in a few years, you will have to be in my position. By then, every decision you make will affect countless marines and their families, as well as the civilians they protect behind them."

"Don't even think about hiding that kid and raising him. I've reported this to the higher-ups. As long as he's in the navy, justice will always shine on him."

Marshal Kong's face turned livid, and he looked at Zhan Guo with hatred.

"You should get married and have children as soon as possible. With real family experience, you won't mistake this child for your own."

"A general can charge into battle, be trapped by love, or just sit around and do nothing, but a commander cannot be merciful."

"I am not denying kindness. Kindness has its benefits. It allows you to see a wider world than those with hard hearts, but don't be too soft-hearted."

Marshal Kong kicked the door against the opposite wall and strode away.

"Blank"

If Zhan Guo's heart was filled with guilt towards Washto just now, now he only felt anger towards the two thugs who forcibly renovated his office.

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"Good acting, here's some wine for you"

Marshal Kong, who had just kicked the door in anger, handed a bottle of liquor to Garp with a friendly face.

Karp, grinning from ear to ear, happily took the liquor and took two sips.

"No, no, no, the script written by the old leader is still the best. I just cooperate a little bit."

That’s right, the two of them’s performance just now was a double act, just to pull Zhan Guo out of his guilt.

"There are too many miserable people like that child. There are many people who have lost their families due to persecution by pirates in this sea. All we can do is to try our best to protect those weak civilians within this damn framework."

"You don't have to think too much. I was the one who spread the name of Nok as a traitor. The navy needs the guidance of heroes' glory, and also needs to use the blood of traitors to deter the enemy."

Marshal Kong "gently" patted Garp's shoulder, causing the latter to become shorter than usual.

"You stingy guy, you clearly told me to say that, but you actually said it and you got really angry. You old man have such a bad temper."

Seeing Marshal Kong's leaving back, Garp muttered to himself as he pulled himself out of the mud he was stuck in.

"After all this commotion, I kind of miss that brat Long. I heard that he wants to set up some kind of self-defense army. He's not a worry at all. What's wrong with just following me to fight pirates and chase Roger?"