Chapter 104

And at this very moment,

what did he just hear?!

The pirate clown Buggy, whom even he had been utterly helpless against.

Had actually been taken down single-handedly by a four-year-old child?!

And sent to their Marine branch office for imprisonment?!

Could this… really be possible?

The more he thought about it, the more Gerson's heart pounded with dread.

"That's a great pirate with a bounty of over ten million berries!"

"Just a measly four-year-old little brat…"

"And he actually took down a pirate with a bounty over ten million?"

"Are you sure you're not talking in your sleep?"

Gerson's throat went dry, and he could not help but retort.

A mere four years old, and he took down a great pirate with a bounty of over ten million berries?

What on earth kind of monster is this?!

"This matter is absolutely true!"

"Colonel Gerson…"

"I suggest you go see for yourself with your own eyes."

"I dare to guarantee that the captured pirate is none other than Clown Buggy! No mistake about it! He looks exactly like the one on the bounty poster."

Lilith answered in a tone full of shock, giving an affirmative reply.

"This!"

Gerson was completely dumbfounded.

Judging from Lilith's utterly serious expression, he could not detect the slightest trace of her lying.

Moreover,

she had no need to lie!

On such an important matter, she simply did not have the courage or the nerve to lie!

However…

Everything Lilith had just said was truly too shocking to the soul.

It left Gerson completely unable to accept it.

"Let's go!"

"Take me to see this four-year-old little brat…"

"What on earth kind of monster is he!"

"And does he really have three heads and six arms?!"

Gerson hurriedly rose from his seat, unable to sit still any longer.

Marine branch office.

The hall.

A young Marine stared at the half-dead Buggy, then turned his head to look at Lu En standing beside him.

At this moment,

his whole body grew especially tense, his eyes filled with cautious scrutiny as he sized up Lu En.

Even now,

he still could not bring himself to believe it.

A child of merely four years old had actually taken down a great pirate with a bounty of over ten million berries!

If the facts weren't right before his eyes, he might never have been able to imagine such an utterly preposterous sight in his entire life.

Shortly after,

a flurry of hurried footsteps came from the stairway.

Then,

a burly middle-aged man, draped in a Marine cloak with the word "Justice" carved on its back, strode briskly down the stairs with thunderous efficiency.

Behind him,

followed the beautiful female Marine Lilith from earlier.

Arriving at the hall,

before Gerson even had a chance to size up Lu En, he was startled by Buggy's wretched, half-dead appearance.

"Th-this is…"

"Clown Buggy?!"

Seeing Buggy's pitiful state of bearing heavy wounds, Gerson was dumbfounded.

After all,

this was still a great pirate with a bounty of over ten million berries!

Beaten until he was half dead?

Beaten until he was covered in wounds all over?

For real?

Could this ten-million-berry pirate be some kind of counterfeit?

As for how troublesome Clown Buggy was as a person, Gerson of course knew it all too well.

He had led the Navy in multiple operations to capture Clown Buggy.

Yet not a single one had ever succeeded.

That alone was enough to demonstrate Clown Buggy's own capabilities.

What Gerson never expected was...

One day,

He actually saw it.

Clown Buggy, that incredibly troublesome Great Pirate, beaten into the likeness of a dead dog, lying on his last breath in the hall of the Navy branch.

This scene truly delivered no small visual shock to Gerson.

His mood trembled wildly without cease.

"It really is that guy Clown Buggy!"

"I've had quite a few dealings with him..."

"I can confirm, this is Clown Buggy!"

"A genuine Great Pirate with a bounty of over ten million Berries!"

Coming to Buggy's side, Gerson observed him carefully, and finally reached an incomparably accurate conclusion.

This conclusion made his spirit tremble violently.

Hoo!

He exhaled heavily,

Gerson forcibly restrained the shock in his heart.

His gaze gradually shifted away from Buggy, and only then did he truly notice the boy of merely four years old standing in the hall.

"This..."

"Is the very person?!"

"The monster who took down Clown Buggy single-handedly?"

"A monster of merely four years old?!"

Gerson could not help but sharply inhale a breath of cold air.

Although he had already heard the whole story from his subordinates,

When he truly witnessed it with his own eyes...

He still could not help being startled.