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It happened so suddenly, Figarland Shamrock was to marry Monkey D. Luffy.
Marriages with those from the lower classes were not uncommon in Mary Geoise, and political alliances through matrimony among the Celestial Dragons were even more commonplace. As a member of the Figarland family, Shamrock had never held excessive expectations or fantasies about his future love and marriage since childhood. Yet, even so, he could not prevent a subtle lapse in composure when Garling announced the betrothal.
Monkey was not an unfamiliar name to Shamrock. Even the most ignorant Celestial Dragons in the Holy Land had heard of the Naval Hero to some extent. At glittering banquets, they occasionally spoke of him—more often than not, as one would speak of a sharp blade: dangerous, unruly, yet undeniably useful.
But regardless of how much of a rebel Garp might be, or how dutifully he adhered to his role, the name Monkey and the D. embedded within his hidden name had always remained distant from the Holy Land. Now, however, someone who bore both the name Monkey and the initial D. was about to enter Mary Geoise—not as a slave, but as the new bride of the Figarland family.
For once, Shamrock felt a wave of dizziness.