"Snake Princess, what do you think of that man?" As Alistair left, Gloriosa entered from outside and asked.
"Where did the 'Your Majesty' go?" The Empress covered her face with one hand, leaning back, and asked coldly.
"Enough of that." Gloriosa's golden snake staff tapped on the floor, making a clinking sound. "That kid is already gone, and there's no one else in this bedroom. Do we still need to be so polite with each other?"
The Empress lowered her hand. At some point, her eyes had already filled with tears, and she had to try her best to keep them from spilling out from between her fingers.
"Dare to be disrespectful to me, watch out or I'll throw you out!" She couldn't even maintain her usual self-address of "this concubine" or "Your Majesty," but instead, she snarled like a little cat protecting itself, claws bared.
"Enough!" Gloriosa wouldn't tolerate her nonsense. As the one who brought them back to Amazon Lily, she knew the sister's weakness best. They were just three poor girls who had escaped from the Celestial Dragons, weak and pathetic. They had to use a tough exterior to protect themselves, otherwise, they wouldn't be able to survive in this cruel world.
Now, someone had hit her soft spot, how could she not surrender?
"Call Sandersonia and Marigold back. We have important things to discuss." She couldn't handle this anymore. Gloriosa made a precise judgment. This guy had completely lost his usual composure and arrogance. She couldn't even think straight. She had only been maintaining her usual composure with her dignity. If she didn't call her two sisters back, her current state might last for who knows how long.
"Also, what is that kid doing now?" Gloriosa, the former, former, former Empress of Amazon Lily, was indeed an old hand. Not only did she have people take Alistair away so he wouldn't see the Empress's current state, thus smoothly pushing the Empress towards him, but she also had people watching him, ready to report back to her at any time.
Don't think that Gloriosa was actually isolated from people. Because of her age and her former status as the Empress of Amazon Lily, many people in the village were obedient to her.
Someone immediately stepped forward to report, "That guy, he seems to be giving a speech."
"What?" Gloriosa was startled. That kid wasn't simple. His skills at stirring people up were top-notch. He had easily played both the Celestial Dragons and the Empress in the palm of his hand. The entire Amazon Lily was full of girls who had never seen the world. They were too well-protected, they hadn't even seen ordinary men. That guy was smooth-talking, he might be able to sway the entire Kuja Island.
"Not good..." She hesitated, but didn't leave immediately. The Empress was currently too vulnerable to be left alone. If she had any impulsive thoughts and led the Kuja Pirates to sail with him, the entire Kuja Island would be affected.
No matter how much the Amazonian warriors were incited, the Empress couldn't be allowed to take any rash actions.
The entire Kuja Island, the Empress was the true core.
However, Gloriosa never imagined that some people's ability to incite was even stronger than she thought...
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"She probably just wants us to come out. Can I take a look around?" As soon as they left the Empress's bedroom, Alistair immediately showed his true colors, chatting with the round-faced Amazonian warrior.
"This..." She hesitated, she wasn't stupid. The fact that this man had entered the Empress's bedroom and hadn't been turned to stone or fed to Cobra was proof enough that he had gained the Empress's trust. So his request was hard to fulfill.
But Amazon Lily was a closed country, it was locked down, preventing ordinary people from knowing about the outside world. They were kept safe and secure within the country. Only the warriors who sailed with the Queen could see the outside world. They were the ones who knew how vast the world was, and they were the ones Alistair could win over.
Their acceptance of his ideas and their loyalty to the Empress were not mutually exclusive.
He had long since abandoned his binary thinking: "If you don't come with me, you're my enemy." "If you accept my ideas but don't come with me, you're a traitor." "If you come with me but still think about the Empress, you're a traitor." And so on.
People are not black and white. People's thoughts are diverse. He was so insightful into people's hearts that he naturally understood that in this era, it was impossible to find a pure and innocent warrior in this world.
Even he had countless thoughts and selfish desires in his heart, let alone those pirates who hadn't been subjected to red education and only had their own selfish desires.
She hesitated for a moment, but finally agreed to Alistair's proposal. They took their time, strolling along the path of Kuja Island like tourists. He observed Kuja Island while chatting with her casually. "Hello, my name is Alistair. What's your name?"
"My name is Ran. I'm a fighter in the Kuja Pirates. You..." She hesitated before asking, "How do you know the Empress? We've never seen you before."
Alistair understood. On a ship, besides the captain and first mate, there were also navigators, doctors, helmsmen, cooks, and of course, the most important part, the fighting force. Smaller pirate crews had mostly fighters, while larger pirate crews, like the Whitebeard Pirates, had different fighting teams, like the first team, the second team, and so on.
The Kuja Pirates were a pirate crew that was organized as a country. Every warrior was a hand-picked elite. So the fighters of the Kuja Pirates were probably also elite fighters who mastered Armament Haki or Observation Haki.
"I can't tell you that, sorry. But where is Amazon Lily located in the Calm Belt? Which sea is it on the other side of the Grand Line, east, south, west, or north?" He was curious about this, but he forgot that this wasn't the time for the Marines to be free in the Calm Belt. The location of Amazon Lily in the Calm Belt was a top secret.
Ran's face changed, and she closed her mouth, refusing to speak.
Seeing Ran's expression, he felt a little annoyed and tapped his head. Clearly, he had slipped up.
There was no way around it. Just like the male protagonist of Re:Zero, sometimes the arrogance of modern people was impossible to hide. Modern people's carelessness was a taboo in other worlds. He carried countless secrets from the world of One Piece, so he naturally looked down on their secrets.
But no matter how much he looked down on them, this was the foundation of their existence, a secret that would be eliminated if anyone knew about it. No wonder Luffy caused such a stir when he arrived on Kuja Island. After all, this was the first step for Kuja Island to be discovered, a secret that had to be protected!
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