The Path of the Great Sovereign 196 Siblings

As always Tatsuo's arrival was swift, startling, and unexpected as he was surrounded by guards immediately upon being noticed.

*Boom*

A force struck the minds of all the guards rendering them unconscious.

"Oi! What would you do if one of them died?"

A voice rang out from the distance that sounded slightly nonchalant at the fact that his guards were rendered useless before the intruder.

"Since you so rarely come to talk I was surprised when I felt that familiar presence, still a monster in human skin I see."

"Is that any way to talk about your cute little brother?"

Tatsuo smiled but the smile didn't reach his eyes as he looked at Dragon. Ace standing on the side was made extremely nervous by the entire ordeal.

'Uncle Lion's Haoshoku Haki is indeed strong enough to kill yet this man is using his own haki to counter it while remaining calm and composed enough to joke and have a conversation with The Strongest Man in the world. These two are both Monsters.'

"Shall we talk somewhere more private?"

Tatsuo gestured towards the building behind Dragon who nodded in agreement. Arriving in a small yet cozy room in one of the more secluded parts of the Headquarters the three took a seat.

Tatsuo pulled out a pot of tea from seemingly thin air and poured a cup for Dragon, Ace, and himself. The two brothers picked up the cup at the same time and drank the tea with experienced and identical movements.

From the outside, this looks like an amicable meeting between siblings yet Ace saw otherwise.

'The Table is bending under the force of these two.'

While not extremely powerful there was a battle of haki going on between the two at the moment.

'Im looking at two very stubborn and very powerful men that are refusing to talk to each other.'

Ace's body started to moisten with sweat as the Haki in the air got more and more intense by the second causing sparks in the air and the building to cry out as the wooden support beams bent.

Sabo who was arriving in the area felt the increasing pressure of Haki and decided to take a look. Peeking through the door he saw the familiar figure of Tatsuo and Ace which triggered something long forgotten.

'Uncle Lion? Ace?'

As the memories of his time together with the two of them plus Luffy rushed back through his head Sabo got excited and rushed into the room.

Stepping across the threshold of the door the Haki in the air assaulted him.

Sabo's knees buckled and gave way to the force sending his body crashing into the floor, yes not onto but buried partially into the floorboards.

Noticing the New arrival Tatsuo and Dragon stopped their little battle, placed their tea cups down and then stared at each other. The movements were so in sync it was creepy.

"Tatsuo."

"Dragon."

As if their words were the most precious treasures on the planet the two used them sparingly when facing each other.

"What is Father's favorite doing here?"

"The only reason I was Father's favorite is that unlike you I just went with the flow of things instead of challenging him every step of the way! Even if you dislike the way the World Government functions there was no need to act like a child and throw a tantrum creating the Revolutionary Army!"

"OH! So I am the child now, Your Excellency Admiral Soyokaze?!"

"Ho Ho, 'Your Excellency' So what do I call you? General Dragon? Or a traitor?"

The two went back and forth as their voices were so loud everyone on the island was able to hear them. Ace tried to make himself smaller and smaller as he sat at the same table as the two brothers yet the longer this went on the more he noticed the two weren't actually being hostile to each other.

'So this is their brotherly way huh?'

Insult after insult was slung back and forth yet there were no signs of a fight nor true anger, in fact as more time passed the two started laughing and seemingly enjoying themselves.

"So why have you come here? Knowing you, it has to be important."

Dragon said this as he drank Tatsuo's sake which he also pulled from seemingly thin air.

"I have a way to bring down the World Government. Myself along with three Yonko have already laid the groundwork and have most of the things in order to make it happen."

This time Dragon was truly stunned.

"It always seemed that you were going to follow in father's footsteps and be the face of Justice but it seems I was mistaken."

"Sometimes in order to successfully stage a Coup you must act like and join the enemy to take suspicion off of yourself. Plus Father has known the flaws of the World Government for many years, why else do you think he turned down the position of Admiral? In Fact, when I was named Admiral Soyokaze by Sengoku, Father and Sengoku had a huge argument that led to father taking a step back from his duties as he felt his friend betrayed him.

Father even stopped talking to me until I earned my special Privilege, it's been a rough few years for us, even more so after your son became a pirate!"

Dragon sighed.

"Well, when you put it all like that Father would probably scold me more if he found out I didn't help you."

"So are you in?"

"Of Course."

Chapter end