I don’t know how well that could have worked. If he is like the books described, then he could have just made up something convincing, about how much of a liability I was or something else.

[ oda grimaces. it’s not like he’s unaware of how unstable he is, but having it used against him is... scary.

well, everything about that man is terrifying to oda. ]

That man...reminds me of those in the Port Mafia. Willing to do anything to reach the results they want—if you had known and he had found out, you’d just have been caught in the crossfire.