# Chapter 750: The Sunglasses Are the Real Body
Ian could be certain that during the time since they had arrived at this open wilderness, no one had intruded into the vicinity at all.
In other words, this person who had suddenly gotten up from the ground must have been here all along. But the strange thing was this: both Ian's Psychic Field and Uncle Fujitora's Observation Haki had been covering the surrounding area this entire time, yet none of them had detected this person's presence!
This was precisely why Ian and the others were so shocked. There was actually someone in this world that Observation Haki couldn't "hear"!?
Under everyone's stunned gazes, this figure stood up from the ground. He was a fairly tall man, wearing a grayish, dusty-looking kimono-style robe. The color of this robe was very similar to the ground's color, which explained why Queen had tripped over this man lying on the ground when she was fleeing earlier—her eyesight had simply been poor.
This man looked quite old, because by the moonlight, Ian could see some wrinkles on his face and a head of graying long hair. This graying long hair was tied into a very fluffy bun at the back of his head, with the hair almost reaching down to his back.
He was also holding a bamboo hat commonly used by people from Wano Country in his hand. After getting up, this old man still seemed confused about the situation, somewhat surprised as he asked: "Hey, why is it so dark!? What happened? Why can't I see anything?"
Ian looked speechlessly at the round sunglasses on the old man's face. Was this old man crazy? Wearing such dark sunglasses in the middle of the night—he'd be lucky to see anything at all!
However, this old man quickly realized the problem too. He scratched his messy hair and laughed heartily: "Haha! I forgot I was wearing sunglasses, haha, how embarrassing..."
Though he said this, he didn't seem embarrassed at all. Under everyone's astonished gazes, he casually stretched his body, then while rubbing his arm, grumbled: "Who was it that kicked me in my old bones just now? Really, don't they know to respect their elders?"
Ian couldn't help but look toward Queen the Plague. Needless to say, the one who had kicked this old man could only be her. However, when Ian looked at Queen, he found that Queen the Plague, still in her Moon Lion form, was actually on high alert like she was facing a great enemy. She was on all fours, warily staring at this old man, letting out low growls like a cat with its fur standing on end, and there was even a hint of fear in her crimson pupils.
This made Ian pause in surprise. Queen the Plague seemed to recognize this old man? And she looked extremely wary of him?
"Oh oh, so it's you, little fox!" As if hearing the growls from Queen the Plague, this sunglasses-wearing old man turned around and said: "Finally caught you. It wasn't in vain that I chased you all the way from Kuri to the capital..."
There was a lot of information in those words, but... although this old man was clearly speaking to Queen the Plague, the direction he turned to face was toward Marco's side...
"...Wrong direction, she's on your left!" Ian finally couldn't help but comment: "Can't you just take off those sunglasses?"
He had been thinking all along that with this old man's appearance, if he were holding a walking stick, he'd be the spitting image of a blind man—no different from Uncle Fujitora!
But this sharp-chinned, hawk-nosed old man said matter-of-factly: "No! My eyesight is bad!"
Pfft! Ian almost spat blood. What kind of twisted logic was this!? Your eyesight is bad, so you need to wear sunglasses!?
Just then, Queen the Plague finally couldn't take it anymore. She turned around and tried to flee again, and with a feeling of desperation like a cornered dog jumping over a wall, she charged straight toward Ian's direction. She leaped, trying to jump over Ian's head and break out of the encirclement.
Ian was about to move to stop her, but before he could act, he saw Queen the Plague in midair go "thud" as she fell flat on her face to the ground.
It was all the tail's fault... Just as Queen had leaped up, her flowing fox tail was grabbed lightning-fast by the sunglasses-wearing old man. With that pull, Queen crashed face-first into the dirt...
"L-Let me go!!" Queen the Plague screamed in terror, twisting her head to look at the old man holding her tail.
At the same time, a crackling sound came from her body as blue-white electric sparks surged up, traveling along her tail to the old man, shocking him directly.
All Mink Tribe members could use this electrical attack, and after transforming into Moon Lion, the electricity was greatly enhanced. But when this powerful current surged onto the old man, it only made him shiver slightly. His hand still held Queen's tail without any sign of letting go, and the old man himself didn't seem affected at all.
To Ian and the other onlookers, this scene was extremely bizarre. Because Queen wasn't in her beast form right now—she had only transformed into Moon Lion in her normal form. So at this moment, Queen the Plague was essentially a fox beauty full of mature womanly charm. Though her vital parts were covered by fur, she was still basically naked. And yet here was this moonlight fox beauty, her tail held in the hand of a lecherous-looking old man wearing sunglasses...
If one didn't know the context, just this image alone could inspire hundreds of thousands of words of plot that would never pass censorship...
"Hehe!" The old man chuckled and said to Queen: "Little fox, this bit of electricity of yours is still lacking for me!"
With that, he used his strength, pulling Queen's tail back. Queen's tail hurt from the pull, and she was yanked back toward the old man.
A pitch-black, gleaming arm rose up, and with precise force, struck Queen on the neck. The next moment, Queen the Plague was knocked unconscious.
Ian's expression turned serious. This old man actually possessed a very high level of Armament Haki!
Who exactly was he?
Just as Ian was silently speculating, Marco, who was not far from him, suddenly seemed to recall something and exclaimed: "Mr... Mr. Jabba!?"
"Hmm!? You know me?" The gray-haired old man was startled and looked toward Ian's direction: "Young man, who are you?"
He had gotten the direction wrong again... Ian had to speak up again: "Your right side..."
But before the old man could adjust his direction, Marco said somewhat excitedly: "It's me! I'm Marco! Phoenix Marco! Over twenty years ago, I followed Old Man Whitebeard and met you once!"
Looking at Marco's excited expression and connecting it with the name he had just called out, Ian immediately realized who this old man in front of him was!
Scopper Gaban! The Left Hand of the Pirate King!
He couldn't help but slap his forehead. Right! Hadn't Big Mom said before that the Left Hand of the Pirate King was also in Wano Country!? How had he forgotten about that!?
So he began to carefully observe Scopper Gaban.
In truth, Scopper Gaban also looked like an ordinary old man. If it weren't for the skill he had just shown when grabbing Queen, no one would have known that this old man was actually a master of Haki.
But thinking about the appearance of Uncle Rayleigh back in Sabaody Archipelago, Ian didn't find it strange anymore. Even the famous Dark King Rayleigh was like that now, so Scopper Gaban looking this way wasn't unusual.
After all, Roger had been dead for over twenty years. Like Uncle Rayleigh, he was already old...
Hearing Marco's self-introduction, Scopper Gaban tilted his head and thought for a long time before finally remembering. He said with sudden realization: "Oh, you're that yellow-haired kid who was always by Newgate's side? How did you end up looking like a pineapple? Your hair wasn't this thin back then—you didn't go bald young, did you!?"
"Uh..." Marco was choked by these words and didn't know how to respond.
Fujitora, Izo, and Bonney had also realized by now who this "Jabba" was, and they all looked astonished.
"Never thought I'd meet a legendary figure here..." Fujitora said with a low laugh.
"The Left Hand of the Pirate King? Even I've never seen him..." Izo stared at Scopper Gaban with sparkling eyes, examining him closely. He was the last Division Commander of the Whitebeard Pirates, having joined the crew relatively late, so unlike Marco, he hadn't met the members of the Roger Pirates.
"He's not just some ordinary old man..." Bonney bit her fingernail, not knowing how to describe her feelings.
After a while, Marco scratched his head and spoke again: "Mr. Jabba, what are you doing here?"
"I came for this little fox!" Scopper Gaban pointed at Queen the Plague on the ground. Unfortunately, he pointed in the wrong direction again. It seemed the color of those sunglasses was even darker than Ian had imagined. Ian even suspected that the Left Hand of the Pirate King was completely blind right now, but he just refused to admit it...
"I followed her trail all the way from Kuri in Wano Country to the capital. But earlier, I suddenly felt sleepy, so I lay down here for a nap!" Scopper Gaban scratched his hair and said: "I just didn't expect that when I woke up, it was already dark..."
"..." For you, as long as you don't take off those sunglasses, it's always dark, isn't it?
Ian really hadn't expected that this Left Hand of the Pirate King, who was as famous as Uncle Rayleigh, would be such a goofy old man. This was far too different from what he had imagined.
"Why were you chasing her?" Ian asked him curiously.
"Well, actually, I had just returned from visiting friends overseas not long ago..." Scopper Gaban explained: "But what I didn't expect was that when I got back, I found that the Kozuki family in Kuri had been wiped out by Kaido and the shogun of Wano Country. I wanted to avenge them, but that bastard Kaido had already left Wano Country. The only Beast Pirates executive left here was Queen the Plague. After I finished off the Beast Pirates pirates who had occupied Kuri, I found out she wasn't in Kuri but had come to the capital, so I've been tracking her all the way here..."
Hmm!? Hearing this, everyone was stunned: Scopper Gaban had single-handedly wiped out the Beast Pirates in Kuri!?