"By the way, you must have never seen anyone with wings, right? There are people like that up there."
"Have you ever seen an island on an elephant? Let me tell you, the animals there can talk. It's exactly like the animal kingdom in the stories!"
Roger put his hands on his hips and puffed out his chest. "I've been there! Hahaha..."
After laughing, Roger stopped.
"I don't know what happened to the cat and dog that Oden brought with him. By the way, there's also a closed country of samurai. Their daimyo was a crew member of mine before. I snatched him from Whitebeard's boat. Wasn't that awesome?"
After being depressed for just a moment, he laughed boldly again.
Kano sat down, supporting his head with one hand. He then started to speak.
"The island above the White Sea, at a height of ten thousand meters, has the golden city of Shandora. The island located on Zunesha is Zou, right? At this point in time, the cat and dog should still be in Wano Country. There's a high probability they're not getting enough to eat every day, and they'll go back to Zou to become kings in a few years."
"In addition... Kozuki Oden, who can understand the ancient writing on those Poneglyphs, you must have been begged on your knees to take him from Whitebeard. How could you have snatched him?"
For a moment, Roger's soul body stiffened, and even his face went rigid with embarrassment.
The worst thing about bragging, a pirate hobby, was being exposed on the spot, and it turned out the boss knew everything in such detail.
'What should I do if I feel like dying again?'
"Ha... what a scary boss! But how do you know these things at your age?"
Roger wanted to change the subject, but was stunned for a moment.
"No. How do you know about the ancient writing? It's impossible for my old friends to have told you. And how would you know that the cat and dog will become kings of Zou..."
Kano looked at Roger.
"Do you want to ask if I can see the past? Or if I can see your memories?"
In an instant, Roger cleared all thoughts of Laugh Tale that had almost appeared in his mind.
It wasn't difficult for someone like him.
"Don't overthink it. Besides, I'm not interested in the One Piece you mentioned at the moment."
Kano continued, "Relatively speaking, I want to know what other hidden methods the group of guys above Mary Geoise have, besides the weapon that can destroy an island like God Valley with one blow."
"God Valley?"
Roger looked at Kano.
"At this age, you were probably still a baby during the God Valley incident, right? But… they can't use that kind of power without limit."
Kano thought for a while and asked, "Isn't the energy enough? But even so, I'm afraid that might not have been enough to defeat that huge kingdom eight hundred years ago. As far as I know, that kingdom's technology was far ahead of what exists now."
After those words fell, a trace of surprise flashed in Roger's eyes.
After thinking for a long time, he exhaled.
"I didn't expect I'd still be thinking about these things after I died, but the person I'm waiting for on the stone tablet isn't you, so I can't say a lot of things. The burden of that period of history is really too heavy. Even people like me aren't willing to change it at will."
For a moment, the high platform in the center of the prison became quiet.
After a long time, Kano looked at Roger again.
"Then let's not talk about that. But there are a few pieces of news you should be interested in. The first is that your death has caused a surge in pirate activity throughout the world."
"It's said that all the treasures left by the Pirate King are out there somewhere. Such remarks have made people in this sea go crazy. In just a few days, countless people have gone to sea in all four Blues and the Grand Line."
Roger folded his arms and laughed, very proud of himself.
Kano continued, "Your wife will give birth to a son for you in one year and three months. However, by that time, she'll be exhausted and die."
One year and three months.
This time made Roger's soul tremble slightly.
No one knew the World Government's fear of him better than he did.
Laugh Tale held all the taboos of the World Government.
As the Pirate King, in the eyes of those people, he must be the enemy of the gods who inherited that historical will.
It was precisely because of this that his own bloodline wouldn't be allowed to exist in this world.
So Portgas D. Rouge had been exposed after all?
Roger put a hand over his eyes.
"Hah..."
'So that bastard Garp is unreliable…'
'I should have asked Rayleigh and Gaban instead, but that would be too obvious and put them in danger.'
'Garp…'
After a while, Kano asked, "So, aren't you going to ask me to think of a solution?"
Roger shook his head slightly.
"Young boss, everything you do has its own purpose, right? Although that bastard Garp is unreliable, at the very least, I think he will let my son grow freely."
Free?
Indeed, in the end, Ace would go to sea and become a pirate as he wished.
Kano stood up.
"That's why sometimes I really don't like your character. I can't see the slightest sense of responsibility in you."
He waved his hand and ignored Roger's lengthy speech behind him.
Roger felt noble, but in the end, he was just a bastard who'd left his wife and child to go to sea.
Responsibility? Did pirates have such a thing?
West Blue, offshore from Ridgemouth Town.
Not long after he came out of the prison space, Kano heard the sound of artillery shells whistling through the air.
Kano, who was still just a private, immediately received the order to go to the deck to fight.
But unlike ordinary soldiers, after killing a group of pirates in Loguetown, his rank promotion had already reached the Headquarters, and he only had to wait for his formal appointment in Ridgemouth Town a few days later.
So Kano didn't need to load cannonballs, but went directly to the deck.
"Roger, you bastard! It's only been a few days, and even the West Blue has started to riot!"
"Sink them all!"
"Fire!"
On the bustling deck, Kano looked toward the sea and saw a total of five pirate ships flying the skull and crossbones flag, heading in the direction of the warship.
Their destination was the Reverse Mountain, but before that, they didn't mind starting with a warship to begin a plundering journey along the Grand Line.
"Whoosh..."
Five rounds of artillery shells came flying toward them.
This was already the third round of artillery fire, the kind that had been corrected and aimed properly.
As soon as exclamations started to rise on the deck of the warship, a figure was seen rising into the sky.
"Hah!"
"Bang bang bang!"
The sound of stepping on air exploded, and under the coating of Armament Haki, all the shells exploded in midair.
However, Kano didn't stop, but walked toward the opponent's pirate ship using [Moonwalk].
When physical fitness reached the standard, the improvement of mental will made the skills too easy to use.
As for the principle of [Moonwalk], Kano knew it all too well.