"Donquixote Doflamingo, one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, his pirates, and Jack the Drought, an All-Star of the Beasts Pirates, have all been captured!"
"Admiral Jovian, this is another huge achievement!"
A Marine soldier stood in front of Jovian and spoke with an excited expression. They had only just set sail, yet they had already taken down a Warlord and one of an Emperor of the Sea's top officers. It filled them with confidence in their idol, Jovian. From the look of things, the man who had shown overwhelming power during the Paramount War had not changed at all. He was still the ruthless scourge of pirates who hated evil with a passion.
"Yeah…"
"Isn't that obvious?"
"Who do you think I am?"
Jovian sat on the throne Doflamingo had once kept inside the palace and spoke calmly. To be honest, taking down Doflamingo or Jack had not stirred even the slightest ripple in his heart. They were just two small fries, not worth getting excited over. Once he finished purging the rebels from the seas, he would build a massive harem palace and celebrate then.
Yes, Jovian had already thought it through. He was going to kick all the Celestial Dragons out of the Holy Land, build himself a huge harem there, and live a shameless life every single day.
"Um…"
Just as Jovian was answering his subordinates, a sturdy old man walked toward him, accompanied by several attendants.
"You are…"
Jovian raised an eyebrow as he looked at the people approaching. He recognized them.
The elderly man before him was the man whose kingdom had been stolen by Doflamingo, King Riku.
"Please slow down, King Riku…"
"You are our king!"
"That's right!"
"If someone needs to thank him, let us do it…"
King Riku's attendants kept trying to persuade him.
"Be quiet. How could I neglect the man who saved us?"
King Riku glared at his attendants. He seemed to value Jovian greatly, as though he had truly come here to thank Jovian from the bottom of his heart for helping his country.
"Thank you, truly…"
"Without you, who knows what terrible future this country would have faced?"
"Mr. Jovian, you are the hero of Dressrosa and of the Riku family!"
Ignoring his attendants' attempts to stop him, King Riku strode up to Jovian and bowed deeply in gratitude.
"I simply came to the right place and did the right thing."
"King Riku, you don't need to thank me for it. I don't care for empty words. If you really want to thank me, build me a giant statue and send me a hundred or so beautiful women. Ahahahaha!"
Jovian sat on the throne and laughed.
"Uh…"
After hearing Jovian's words, King Riku found himself in a difficult position. Originally, he had only intended to thank Jovian verbally, but now it seemed words alone would not be enough. He would have to do something concrete to express his gratitude.
"The statue will not be a problem at all, but beautiful women…"
"Mr. Jovian, we cannot violate the will of our own citizens in matters like that!"
"Though I would also like to offer you beauties, I truly am powerless there!"
King Riku was, after all, a capable politician. Faced with Jovian's aggressive demand, he still answered with a kind attitude, afraid of offending this Marine Admiral who possessed immense authority and strength on the seas.
"Oh. So, to put it simply, you can't do it?"
Jovian nodded lightly, then asked.
"This…"
"That is not what I mean, but your request truly puts me in a very difficult position…"
Countless beads of sweat seeped from King Riku's forehead, and he put on an extremely troubled expression.
"Then there's nothing I can do."
"After all, I'm not some great philanthropist. I don't work for free."
"Since you can't fulfill my conditions, I'll just have to release Doflamingo from prison."
"What a shame. I originally thought you would agree…"
Jovian sighed helplessly, threatening King Riku.
"This…"
"Release Doflamingo from prison?"
"That does not comply with procedure, does it?"
King Riku's face changed sharply. He had not expected Jovian to play things this way.
"Ahahahaha…"
"What part of that doesn't comply with procedure?"
"To be honest, if we're talking about breaking procedure, I broke it from the very beginning."
"You need to understand, I am a Marine Admiral. As a Marine Admiral, taking action against a Warlord already broke the rules."
After hearing King Riku's words, Jovian laughed, as though rules were things that existed only to be broken in his eyes.
"Admiral Jovian, how could you do this?"
King Riku seemed somewhat furious. He clenched his fists and stared at Jovian, raging powerlessly.
"What?"
"Are you planning to offend a Marine Admiral?"
"You, your Riku family, your entire country, are you truly prepared to offend a Marine Admiral?"
Jovian looked at the angry King Riku, and his gaze gradually sharpened.
"I…"
After hearing Jovian's words, King Riku's expression flashed with a trace of despair.
Indeed, just as Jovian had said, he was completely unprepared to offend a Marine Admiral. Faced with the immensely powerful Jovian, he and his entire country were the weaker side.
"Father, leave this to me!"
Just as King Riku had no idea what to do, a beautiful figure walked past him.
"Viola…"
King Riku trembled as he looked at the beautiful woman in a pale violet dress, with long black hair.
"As long as I go with you, that will be enough, right?"
The beautiful woman stood before Jovian and asked.
"Huh?"
Jovian looked at the woman before him with an indifferent expression. To be honest, he was not very fond of older women.
"Hm?"
Viola seemed to notice something. Her expression changed sharply, and disbelief flashed across her face. To be honest, she had always been quite confident in her beauty. That was clear enough from the way her subordinates usually looked at her with lust in their eyes. Besides, had even Doflamingo not also fallen before her charm? Yet this man before her actually…
"Child, where are you going?"
"Child…"
Just as Viola's chest rose and fell, her body trembling slightly, an anxious cry rang out behind her.
A one-legged soldier toy kept walking after a pink-haired girl, following her toward Jovian.
"Oh, so you came…"
Jovian looked at the girl, and his eyes slowly lit up.
"You are…"
King Riku also heard the movement. He turned and looked at the girl walking toward Jovian, disbelief in his eyes. Tears suddenly moistened his gaze. Looking at the girl's face, he thought of someone.
"Scarlett, is that you?"
King Riku looked at the girl and asked softly.
"…"
When the girl heard that, her body paused. She stopped briefly in front of King Riku, then walked straight to Jovian.
"May I ask, if I leave with you, can I gain the power to protect everyone I want to protect?"
The young girl looked at Jovian and asked.
"If that's what you want, of course you can."
Jovian nodded. He seemed very happy about the girl joining him.
"Whew…"
After hearing that, the girl let out a long breath.
"Then please let me leave with you."
The girl looked at Jovian, bent slightly at the waist, and pleaded.
"If that is what you want, then leave this place."
Although the girl before him was still very young and Jovian had no intention of doing anything improper, training someone from the ground up was also pretty interesting.
"Scarlett, are you leaving me too?"
King Riku looked at the girl striding forward and shouted.
"My name is not Scarlett. My name is Rebecca!"
However, after hearing King Riku's words, the girl turned around and gave him an incredibly stubborn look.
"Rebecca…"
"Right. Scarlett is already dead…"
King Riku's expression became somewhat panicked.
In the end, the warship still set sail. In that country, some people were lost, some were excited, and some did not sleep all night.
"I thought you looked down on me."
Inside the cabin, Viola looked at Jovian, who was sitting in his seat, and asked.
"Hm?"
"Ahahahaha…"
"At the end of the day, you're still a beauty. Why would I look down on you? It's just that, compared to you, that little girl caught my interest more."
Jovian laughed loudly as he answered Viola.
"What a fickle man."
Viola's expression showed a trace of displeasure.
"Fickle? All men are fickle. I'm just doing what any man would do."
Jovian leaned back in his seat and spoke with a smile.
"Admiral Jovian…"
"I brought the person you wanted!"
Just as Jovian and Viola were talking, the cabin door was gently pushed open. A Marine walked in with a little girl.
"Hm?"
Jovian looked at the little girl in a cloak, holding a bowl of grapes, and smiled faintly.
"You're here."
"I've been waiting for you for a long time."
Jovian looked at the little girl and beckoned to her.
"…"
The little girl remained silent. She slowly walked up to Jovian, revealing an angry, puffed-up face.
"Give Master back!"
The little girl looked at Jovian and said coldly.
"Your Master is going to be sent somewhere safe."
"There will be people there to take care of his daily life, so you can rest easy."
After hearing the little girl's words, Jovian smiled faintly.
"Hmph! I don't believe you!"
As the little girl spoke, she reached out toward Jovian.
"Since you won't give Master back, I'll use my power and release him myself!"
The little girl seemed extremely confident in her own strength. She reached toward Jovian's body.
"Sugar?"
"Oh no…"
"Jovian, that girl is dangerous!"
Viola's expression changed sharply when she saw the cute little girl, and she immediately warned Jovian to watch out for her hand.
"Too late!"
Sugar smiled viciously at Viola.
"I'll deal with this Admiral first, then I'll go deal with you, traitor…"
After Sugar finished speaking, her small hand touched Jovian's body, and she activated her ability.
However, the scene that followed shocked everyone. Jovian sat where he was, and his body did not move at all.
"S-Strange…"
Sugar looked at Jovian's unchanged body, and her expression shifted. She could not understand what had gone wrong with her power, or why it had failed to produce the result she wanted on Jovian.
"Sugar, don't you know your ability can't be used on someone whose Haki far surpasses yours? Or did you think your strength was enough to threaten me, a Marine Admiral? We're not exactly on the same level, you know."
Jovian rubbed Sugar's head and teased her in a low voice.
"…"
After hearing Jovian's words, Sugar's little face went through several shades of blue and green.
"All right. Undo your power on everyone in Dressrosa."
"It's time to make that idiot Doflamingo lose every last shred of his reputation."
Jovian rubbed Sugar's little head again with more force and spoke with a smile.
"I…"
"Hmph, you think I'll listen to you?"
Sugar snorted coldly, acting incredibly stubborn.
"Starting today, you can eat as many grapes as you want."
Jovian stated the condition he would use to buy Sugar off.
"Hm…"
Sugar's eyes lit up. She seemed somewhat moved by Jovian's words.
"Hmph. I will never betray Master!"
After thinking for a short while, Sugar still shook her head firmly.
"What a pain…"
Jovian sighed, then snatched the grapes from Sugar's arms.
"In that case, these grapes have nothing to do with you anymore."
"Wait…"
"Don't do that…"
"I…"
"I'll help you, okay? Hurry and give me my grapes back…"
After hearing Jovian's words, Sugar looked at her missing grapes. Painful tears flowed from her eyes, and she spoke as if her heart were breaking.
"See? That's more like it."
Jovian rubbed Sugar's little head and placed the grapes back in her arms.
At the same time, countless moving toys all across Dressrosa transformed. There were Dressrosa soldiers, World Government officials, and Marines who had come to Dressrosa to investigate.
Countless people all returned to their original forms, including that one-legged soldier.
Everything returned to how it had once been.
"Doflamingo, die!"
"Damn Doffy!"
"That bastard made me spend so many years as a toy!"
All of Dressrosa erupted with curses against Doflamingo. In an instant, his reputation was completely ruined.
"Doflamingo…"
"You're finished now…"
"But you don't need to worry. I'll take care of Viola, Monet, Baby 5, and Sugar for you. Rest easy on your way out! Hahahahaha…"
After receiving news that the toys of Dressrosa had turned human again, Jovian mocked Doflamingo through a Transponder Snail. At that very moment, Doflamingo was locked in the brig at the bottom of the warship.
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