Garp and Dragon’s true relationship has finally been clarified in One Piece Chapter 1166 — and the truth completely rewrites decades of fan assumptions.
For more than a thousand chapters, fans believed that the bond between Garp and Dragon was broken beyond repair: a Marine hero ashamed of his son, the most wanted revolutionary in the world. It turns out the story was never that simple.

Instead of rejecting Dragon’s rebellion, Garp secretly supported him — and even freed him from prison after the God Valley Incident. Rather than abandoning each other, the two chose different battlefields to pursue the same idea of justice.