Was

"It was Jabba's voice."

"What?!" Richard's eyes widened to their limits. Even though he had never had a proper meeting with Jabba —neither in the past nor in the present— he had heard countless stories about him.

His father's first disciple, the valiant general who single-handedly stood up to a warlord, the genius planner who came up with the idea of ​​points to reward soldiers, the brilliant engineer behind the idea of ​​using the Imperial Capital buildings to draw the arrays and even gave Robin the idea of ​​the arrays themselves, the researcher who managed to acquire the Eye of Truth and the person who delivered the superior energy control technique that human emperors used to use the fourth stage of laws, and much more!

Jabba was the undisputed second man of the Empire, he was even higher in status than Caesar during his time, but unfortunately the secret word here is: was.