Chapter 328

"Then I can rest assured. Didn't I tell you about Ace last time? There's already news."

"Oh? What does the Intelligence Department say?"

"Ace is indeed not simple. He is actually Luo Jie's posthumous child! His name should be Gol D. Ace. Portgas is his mother's name!"

"I should have thought of it earlier. How could Garp, that guy, coincidentally adopt a grandson at that time! This guy is really... sigh~"

Karl scratched his head, indicating that he didn't quite understand. After all, he really didn't know much about these old past events. Even if he had seen them before, the parts with less description had long been forgotten.

"Uh, Fleet Admiral Sengoku, I understand you saying Ace is Luo Jie's posthumous child, but..."

"Sigh~ after Luo Jie's execution..."

Sengoku began to tell Karl about that unknown past.

Marine Calendar 1501, Navy Headquarters.

"Sengoku, I don't agree with this matter. Luo Jie is already dead. Can't this offset his sins? Why must we kill them all?"

Looking at Garp roaring loudly at him, Sengoku's gaze was serious, and he also roared loudly: "Garp, don't forget you are a Navy soldier. Are you going to oppose the government's decision? I have already sent people to surround Baterilla Island. We must not let the bloodline of evil continue on the sea!"

"Sengoku, making things difficult for a pregnant woman, is this your justice?"

Garp's saliva flew, angrily pointing at the plaque behind Sengoku—Justice that rules the world.

Sengoku looked in the direction Garp was pointing, and his gaze became even firmer.

"That's right, this is my justice. There is absolutely no room for negotiation on this matter! Have you forgotten what happened to Zephyr? We let go of the relatives of pirates, but will pirates let go of the relatives of Navy soldiers?"

Garp's tone stalled, and he stood there stunned, not arguing with Sengoku anymore, and left directly.

Bang~

Sengoku looked at the crumbling door and shook his head helplessly. Sengoku, who had just become Fleet Admiral, finally understood that above the Fleet Admiral, there was the World Government, and above the World Government, there were the Five Elders.

The Navy's justice was never true justice, but... justice after compromise.

In many things, he was helpless.

At the same time, countless warships had already surrounded Baterilla Island, and Navy soldiers landed on the island together, checking every household for pregnant women. Their goal was only one.

That was to find the bloodline of the Pirate King and strangle it in the cradle.

It's a pity that they searched for a long time but didn't find it. But even so, they still sent people to garrison here for nearly a year, and still had no harvest.

No matter how they thought about it, they couldn't imagine that a mother, in order to protect her son, Luo Jie's bloodline, would use various methods, not hesitating to pay the price with her life, to greatly delay the birth date, thereby avoiding the Navy's search.

One year and three months after the Pirate King Luo Jie died, Ace was born on Baterilla Island and named...

Portgas D. Ace.