While Valthior and the others were making things up on the deck, the Den Den Mushi in Valthior's pocket suddenly rang.
"It should be about Ohara, right? Answer it," Spencer said, raising his brow.
Valthior also thought it was probably about Ohara. He quickly stopped what he was doing and took out the Den Den Mushi from his pocket.
Then he froze.
He looked at Spencer with hesitation. "What do I do?"
The one calling was their beloved Captain Roger, whom they had not contacted in a very long time.
"It cannot be that we were exposed, right?" Spencer swallowed nervously.
"Is it the Pirate King? Is it the Pirate King?" Sphinx said excitedly. "Answer it already! I have never heard Roger's voice before!"
What was coming could not be avoided.
After thinking for a moment, Valthior gritted his teeth and answered the Den Den Mushi, pretending to be calm.
"Hello? Captain Roger? What is it?"
"Valthior, something huge happened!" Roger's voice sounded sneaky. But the moment they heard it, Valthior and the others still felt a little nostalgic.
At the same time, they also relaxed.
It seemed they had not been exposed.
"What huge thing? Were you exposed? Did the Marines come to arrest you?" Valthior asked, pretending to care.
"Exposed… Well, I suppose I was exposed to Garp's son. But it does not matter. I gave him two hundred tons of grain as a gift. Now I am his sponsor, so he has to call me Lord," Roger said with a smack of his lips.
"What do you mean?" Valthior asked in confusion.
"I never told you all this, right? After I left the New World, I originally wanted to go to the East Blue. After all, that is my hometown. But then I thought about it. The Marines all know my old home is in Loguetown, and that bastard Garp goes to the East Blue to cause trouble whenever he has nothing to do. I felt that if I went back to the East Blue, there was a good chance I would run into that bastard Garp. So I simply came straight to the South Blue…" Roger said carelessly.
In truth, since the Roger Pirates disbanded, everyone had tacitly avoided contacting each other.
But aside from Roger, the others had mentioned where they wanted to settle down. For example, everyone knew that Gaban was living as the strongest man in Elbaf, and Rayleigh was working as a coating mechanic on the Sabaody Archipelago.
Roger, however, had been a complete mystery.
Valthior had only guessed that he might have gone to the South Blue. After all, the path of the Roger Pirates had already been messed up beyond recognition by him.
Now that Roger said he was in the South Blue, Valthior could only sigh at the power of fate.
"Oh, right. I also have good news to share with you all. I got married in the South Blue and even bought an island to become a landlord. My wife has been pregnant for a while now. It will not be long before I become a father. Valthior, if my child is a son, would you consider becoming in-laws with me? Hahahaha…" Roger said. As he spoke, he seemed to forget his own problem and started showing off instead.
"Forget it. Your son might not even dare say whose child he is when he goes out to sea in the future, and you still want to pair him with my daughter? Dream on!" Valthior refused without hesitation.
He had no intention of arranging a marriage. Whoever Robin liked in the future would simply be that person's good fortune.
"Huh? Why would he not dare say whose child he is? Is the title of Pirate King not famous enough?" Roger argued unhappily.
Valthior and Spencer exchanged a glance, then smiled wickedly.
"Famous, of course. Your title as Pirate King is known across the four seas. Who on the sea would not give you some respect?"
Go ahead and say it.
At this rate, Roger would soon become a major figure on both sides of the law. Pirate King would not be his limit at all.
In the future, if Ace announced Roger's name on the sea, people might beat him half to death.
And once Valthior published Whitebeard's story, that would also cut off Ace's path of recognizing another father.
From then on, Ace would have no foster father. He could focus on being properly "filial" to Roger, his real father.
After chatting nonsense for a while, Roger suddenly came back to himself and quickly said, "Enough joking. I called because there is something I need your help with!"
"What is it?" Valthior's expression turned serious.
Although he often made things up about Roger with Spencer when he had nothing to do, if Roger truly had trouble, they would naturally help without hesitation.
After all, brotherhood was something held in the heart.
Valthior had relied on three things while making his way through the world: being ruthless, valuing loyalty, and having many brothers.
Of course, in truth, he had betrayed his own side, meaning the World Government, and sold out his brother, meaning Roger.
At least he had not seduced his brother's wife.
"Have you been reading the newspapers lately? Damn it, some bastard came out of nowhere and started writing garbage in my name. This is completely setting me up! He is writing about Marine higher-ups, people like Sengoku, Zephyr, and Garp. I bet the Marines hate me to death right now. But I am in the countryside of the South Blue, so my information is not good. You are different. You meet all kinds of people in the New World, and Spencer is an intelligence expert. So I want to ask you to help me find out who is behind this and messing with me!" Roger said through gritted teeth.
To be honest, Valthior believed that if Rayleigh had been paying attention to the newspapers lately, he would probably have already realized that the person writing these things under Roger's name was definitely Valthior.
And just now, when Roger's Den Den Mushi rang, Valthior had thought he might have been exposed. Mainly because they all knew each other too well.
How could Roger not recognize that style?
But after hearing Roger's words, Valthior instantly relaxed.
He really cannot tell?
"What? That was not written by you?" Valthior asked in shock.
"How could I possibly have written that? Do I look like I have that kind of skill?" Roger cursed.
"I thought you had finally awakened to it. After all, you left the great whirlpool of piracy, settled down for two years, and began refining your tastes. That would be reasonable," Valthior said with a smile.
"Stop teasing me. My head hurts just looking at books. I even had you write the ship's log for me. How could I write something like that?" Roger complained.
"Good, good, good. Do not worry. I will activate my deep network of connections, from Mary Geoise to Marine Headquarters, then to the underworld, then to CP. I will definitely find this person for you!" Valthior patted his chest and said.
Roger was delighted when he heard that.
How could he not know how deep Valthior's network was?
Back then, once Valthior boarded the ship, everything went smoothly wherever they went. Who dared not give him face?
"With those words from you, I can relax. Then I will wait for your good news!" Roger said with satisfaction.
See?
Although he was no longer captain, he still had face.
When making your way on the sea, you had to value loyalty, be ruthless enough, and have many brothers!
"Then just wait!" Valthior said with great confidence.
Roger did not ask how the Valthior Pirates were developing. That was not something he should ask.
After that, the two chatted a little more about Roger's amusing life as a landlord in the countryside, and soon they hung up the Den Den Mushi.
"If it were Mr. Rayleigh, he would probably have come knocking long ago. Only our Captain Roger would fail to recognize who did this…" Spencer shook his head speechlessly.
"That is why I never wrote about Mr. Rayleigh or Gaban-senpai. Hahahaha," Valthior laughed loudly.
Actually, at first, he had wanted to write a Roger, Rayleigh, and Gaban trilogy.
But he was afraid Rayleigh and Gaban would beat him half to death in the future, so in the end, he gritted his teeth and decided to only trick Roger, then write the Marine trilogy instead.
Now it seemed this choice had been very wise.
"Then what do you plan to tell Roger?" Spencer asked curiously, raising his brow.
"We wait for a while, then say Shiki did it!" Valthior said confidently.
Shiki had a terrible reputation in the New World. If something bad happened and no one knew who to blame, just throw it onto Shiki.
Maybe not everything was related to him.
But out of ten bad things, seven or eight might really have been done by him.
Especially since he had heard that the Marines recently changed Shiki's wanted poster and insisted his name was Davy D. Shiki.
When Valthior saw that news in the newspaper, even he was stunned.
He had not expected Shiki to hide so deeply.
He was also a D?
And from the Davy family?
It could only be said that people truly could not be judged by appearance.
But how had the World Government found out about such secret information? In Valthior's understanding, in the original story, Shiki had never revealed this identity even until the end.
All that could be said was that his mouth was truly tight.
At the same time, if that was the situation, then Teach, who originally cried and begged to join the Whitebeard Pirates, was probably now asking around the world about how to get to Merveille, right?
After all, compared to becoming Whitebeard's son, it was surely more reliable to find Shiki, an uncle from his own family line.
Especially since Shiki, like Whitebeard, had once followed his father Rocks in conquering the seas.
Maybe Teach would even feel that Shiki and his father had some secret connection or inherited will.
Anyway, if Valthior were in Teach's place under the current situation, he would definitely choose to seek shelter with Shiki.
That was family.
Reliable.
"Shiki, huh…" Spencer held back a laugh. "You have a point. Half the evil deeds on this sea can be blamed on Shiki."
"Warships! So many warships!" Sphinx suddenly looked toward the distant sea and shouted.
That was the direction of Ohara.
At this moment, more than thirty standard Marine battleships were patrolling that stretch of sea.
Good grief, it was a scene far more grand and imposing than a standard Buster Call!
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