In that year, Sengoku wasn't yet the Fleet Admiral.
In that year, Kuzan, Sakazuki, and Borsalino were young and ambitious.
In that year, the hero Vice Admiral Garp was chasing Roger around the world.
And in that year, Xia Le, who had been shot in the head, blown up by cannons, slashed in the neck, drowned, burned, yet remained immortal, became an unknown trainee soldier under Garp.
After seeing this hero Vice Admiral punch a town to smithereens,
Xia Le silently lowered his head, quietly maxing out his newly awakened Conqueror's Haki.
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