Mihawk was an old, lonely man who lived a sad life hunting small time pirates such as don krieg while his generation's peers were kicking it on the grandline against yonkos.
Going through his pathetic excuse of a life, living on an isolated island, surrounded by animais, far away from any civilization, he heard a noise and went there to check it.
Upon arrival, he laid his eyes on THIS:
As he laid his eyes on her, he did his best to contain his joy, keeping a stoic expression despite feeling the highest amount of happiness ever since he drew a fight with YC4 lvl shanks 25 years ago.
Having such a pretty and charismatic girl in his house, he couldn't help, but grow attached to her, not even leaving his castle for 2 years straight.
Unfortunately, due to mihawk's absence, the number of crimes severely spiked since he was the responsible for hunting those small time offenders on grand line's first half.
Life was good and mihawk was the happiest he had been in ages
Until..., perona read a newspaper talking about the survival of her thought to be deceased father figure which made her run away after him, in the hopes of reuniting again.
Mihawk, with a heavy heart and tears flowing down his eyes, unleashed all his rage on don krieg's new fleet and joined cross guild after realizing he was about to serve life on impel down.
Now, we wait until the noble fraud receives the News of his precious perona and go toward her arms to once again experience the thrilling emotion that only a young, pretty woman is capable of igniting inside the heart of an old, frustrated man with a meaningless title and the entire WG after his head.