Chapter 40

Watching this,

Lu En's thin, small frame — barely a few years old — instantly turned the gathered group of Marines to stone.

"Vice Admiral Kapu, you really know how to crack a joke."

As the atmosphere fell into a brief silence, Luo Site gave a dry cough, glanced at Lu En, then looked back at Kapu and forced out an awkward smile.

Obviously.

He simply could not bring himself to believe the words Kapu had just spoken.

A four-year-old child…

Had single-handedly wiped out an entire pirate crew?

And a crew whose total bounty amounted to a whopping twenty million Berries, no less?

And on top of that, had personally slain the captain of the White Ostrich Pirates — White Ostrich Kukali, a Zoan Devil Fruit user with a bounty of eleven million Berries?

Could this possibly be true?

Luo Site let out a bitter laugh.

It simply wasn't realistic!

Even if Vice Admiral Kapu wanted to promote his own junior, he shouldn't have made it this exaggerated!

If this were reported upward following Vice Admiral Kapu's version of events…

Tell me,

who would believe it?!

Clearly,

Luo Site instinctively assumed.

Kapu had only spoken those exaggerated words in order to promote his junior.

"You think this old man is joking?"

Kapu's expression turned strange. He gave Luo Site's shoulder a heavy pat, then pointed at the several hundred Marines standing at the harbor, as well as the group of pirates being escorted in handcuffs to the prison.

He smiled: "If you don't believe it, feel free to go ask these people. They personally witnessed every detail of what this old man just described."

"That batch of pirates…"

"They are all participants and victims in this incident!"

Hearing this,

Luo Site's pupils contracted slightly, his face a mask of doubt and astonishment.

He could not help but draw in a deep breath. With a wary look, he stared at the Kapu before him — the man seemed utterly unjoking, his expression instead dead serious.

Turning his head,

he looked toward the other side.

He saw the several hundred Marines at the harbor, all without exception, casting reverent gazes toward Lu En standing beside Kapu.

At this moment.

Luo Site began, faintly, to realize.

The matter was somewhat out of the ordinary!

It wasn't as simple as he had imagined!

"Could it be that…"

"Everything Vice Admiral Kapu just said is completely true?!"

"That… can't be."

"A mere four-year-old brat, by his own strength alone, wiped out a pirate crew with a bounty in the tens of millions?!"

"How could that possibly be?!"

At the very thought of it, Luo Site could not help but be deeply moved and lose his composure.