"Tsk tsk, this is truly incredible."
Imu blinked her crimson eyes, circling Kozuki Toki as if searching for any resemblance beyond appearance to the Toki of eight hundred years ago.
"Imu... could you stop spinning around right now?" Kozuki Toki coughed awkwardly. "Sending you and Father away back then was completely unavoidable... If only my control over my ability had been stronger, I could've prevented the backlash..."
"No need to dwell on the past." Imu smiled cheerfully. "As if you could've sent back anyway... The Ti Fruit only allows travel forward, not backward, right?"
"Well, yes, that's true." Kozuki Toki sighed. "Though I knew I'd see both you and Father again eventually... Father is one thing, but from my perspective, the last ti I saw you was decades ago."
"Decades..."
Imu reached out, gently brushing Kozuki Toki's cheek.
The Toki who had grown from a bratty child into a young woman under her watch had not only changed her surna and married but now had two daughters in their twenties.
"Ti really does fly by."
"Save the lantations about ti's cruelty for later days," Michael interrupted Imu's impending lancholy, earning himself a reproachful look that bordered on tearful.
"Imu... stop fooling around. The most important thing now is to figure out who this so-called 'Lady Imu' in the World Governnt is—this self-proclaid King of the World."
"Lady Imu in the World Governnt? King of the World?" Imu frowned. "A descendant of the Neronas? Or so impersonator of mine? And wasn't the original plan for the Twenty Kings to create a new regi of mutual oversight and checks? How could a 'King of the World' erge?"
Kozuki Toki watched the two of them before finally letting out a long sigh.
"Father... I actually t that person seven years ago..."
"I knew from the start that while she used the na Imu, she couldn't possibly be the real Imu."
"But after eting her, I discovered sothing even more incomprehensible."
Toki glanced at Imu, then at Michael, before shaking her head and revealing the true identity of this "Lady Imu."
"Father... that Lady Imu in the World Governnt, the one who attacked you with Uranus, the one who has cast the entire world under her reign of terror..."
"It's Lily."
"It's Nefertari Lily!"
"My sister... Lily."
Michael felt a daze in his heart upon hearing the na "Lily."
'Is it... that Lily?'
The Imu-sama who has been manipulating the world for over eight hundred years through the Celestial Dragons and the World Governnt...
Is Lily!?
Even though Michael had prepared himself for the truth, this answer still left him utterly shocked.
He had never imagined it would be Lily.
Even with Lily's alternate identity as Imu II, Michael still hadn't considered this possibility.
In his eyes, Kozuki Toki and Lily were two daughters with distinct personalities...
Toki was open-minded, while Lily was extre.
Yet, even so, Michael never expected Lily's radicalism would drive her to beco Imu-sama, ruling the world for eight centuries.
"...Wait, that so-called Imu-sama is... Lily?" Imu swallowed hard but imdiately noticed sothing amiss.
"But how has Lily lived from eight hundred years ago until now?! She was just an ordinary human, wasn't she? Even giants only live around four hundred years—eight hundred is far too long!"
"The Perennial Youth Operation?"
"The Perennial Youth Operation."
Michael and Kozuki Toki spoke simultaneously—though Michael's tone was questioning, while Toki's was certain.
"How are you so sure?" Michael frowned. "Did you observe it, or..."
"Seven years ago, Lily told herself."
After hearing the final answer from Toki, Michael felt he needed... to calm down.
...
"What!? Michael... has returned!? When!? Where!?"
When Garp learned this fact from his grandsons, he grabbed Luffy's shoulders in disbelief.
"Grandpa, aren't you overreacting!?" Luffy protested loudly. "I told you ages ago that Uncle Michael would be back soon!"
"Shut up, you idiot!" Garp's "Fist of Love" imdiately hamred down on Luffy's head.
"If Michael didn't announce his return directly and instead had you inform the Angel Alliance's higher-ups, it ans he must have so sneaky plan to use against the World Governnt..."
"Wow, Uncle Michael did say that... but how did you know, Grandpa?"
"Of course I knew! How many years have I worked with that brat Michael?! I found out back when he secretly tead up with your dad behind the Marine's back! Not only that, I even know his ultimate goal!" Garp proudly thumped his chest.
"My lips are famously sealed!"
"Pah! You shaless old man!"
Garp's boasting earned him a scornful remark from another person in the office.
It was Sengoku, who had already stepped down as Fleet Admiral.
After cursing Garp, Sengoku stood up, ready to leave.
"Hey! Sengoku! No need to rush like that, is there?"
"Nonsense! It wasn't your son who inexplicably disappeared through ti for seven years!!"
"Then at least wait for !?"
Garp imdiately chased after him out of the office.
Similar scenes played out among all the Angel Alliance's higher-ups in Marineford.
Reiju's team accurately delivered the news of Michael's return to the ears of the higher-ups.
Thus, similar scenes could be witnessed in every corner of Marineford.
"Captain Ginny, where are you headed?"
"Nothing much... just taking a stroll."
"Admirals Garp and Sengoku said the sa thing earlier."
"Uh... anyway, just mind your own business!"
"Grandma Tsuru just said that exact phrase too."
"Enough! You're more nosy than , the head of the intelligence division!"
Ginny kicked open the gate to the residential area and stord inside.
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