Above Pirate King - Chapter 113
The Royal Bathing Hall
This was a grand hall specifically used for bathing.
In the center of the hall was a massive pool, measuring twenty meters long, fifteen meters wide, and three meters deep. The pool was currently filled with specially transported seawater, and Arthur was lying listlessly in it, practicing swimming.
Yes, swimming!
As a person with abilities, Arthur would become paralyzed when in contact with seawater.
However, through experimentation, Arthur discovered that he wasn’t completely paralyzed when in contact with seawater. At least his wings were still under his control, and he could use them to swim and attack!
He pondered carefully and realized that it might be because his wings were Teigu, not a part of his body. That’s why he could do such things!
With this discovery, his weakness to seawater was reduced by half!
If he encountered someone with similar abilities on the sea and couldn’t defeat them or reach a stalemate, he could even use a mutually destructive method, dragging them into the sea and defeating them with his wings!
However, his body remained powerless despite the mobility of his wings.
So when swimming, he had to lie face down in the water, with only his wings flapping. In this situation, he couldn’t exchange air and had to rely on holding his breath.
To prevent any accidents, he had a few maidservants standing by.
“Your Majesty, Lord Shion and Lord Milo are here to see you!” one of the maidservants said.
“Ah…” Arthur flapped his wings rapidly and slowly rose from the water, leaving the pool.
Seeing this, a servant handed him a clean towel.
Arthur casually took the towel and said while drying himself, “Tell them to wait for me in the study.”
“Yes!” The maid obediently nodded, then turned and left.
After drying himself and getting dressed, Arthur headed to the study.
“Your Majesty!”
Seeing Arthur’s arrival, Shion and Milo, who were waiting in the study, spoke in unison, respectfully.
“Hmm!” Arthur waved his hand, walked past them, and sat on the chair. He spoke earnestly, “Is everything prepared?”
“Your Majesty, everything is ready!” Shion replied.
“That’s good!” Arthur nodded, then took out a box containing eleven Enlargement Potions from the side and handed it to Shion. He instructed, “The Marine already knows about this. Be careful when you set off this time. Use Stealth Mode with the Submarine and don’t let the Marine discover you!”
Shion nodded, took the box, and left with Milo!
Since yesterday’s probing at Gion, Arthur understood that the Marine had obtained information about the upcoming marriage alliance from some source. However, the information might not be very clear, which was why Gion had tested the waters with that statement!
If he hadn’t reacted quickly and pretended to be confused, he might have exposed a flaw, leading to unnecessary troubles!
Arthur disliked troubles, especially unnecessary ones!
Until the transaction in Mock Town was completed, he would try to minimize troubles. After that, even if the Marine discovered that it was the Kingdom of St. Martin forming an alliance with Big Mom, it wouldn’t matter.
Just like the Flower Country, which had numerous pirate forces and even bounties on their heads, they still became an allied country, and the Marine couldn’t do anything about it.
Arthur had merely married a former pirate and didn’t have a bounty. What could the Marine say?
Even the World Government had no reason to interfere in the marriage of a king from an allied country, right?
As for the intelligence that the Marine had received, Arthur hesitated for a moment and ultimately decided not to inform the Charlotte family of his plan.
After all, the Charlotte family had a powerful intelligence network. If the Marine could know about this information, there were only two possibilities: either someone from the Charlotte family knew and was planning a trap to deceive the Marine, or the Charlotte family was unaware. Although the latter was less likely, it was still possible. In that case, as long as the people Arthur sent were cautious, there wouldn’t be any problems!
After all, the best time for the Marine to capture someone would be during the transaction. However, this time, Arthur was sending out Skybreaker. If they traveled through the underwater route, it would be easy, and the Marine wouldn’t be able to catch up. In the end, the ones being pursued would be the Charlotte family!
Arthur would give them a few seconds of silence, but apart from that, he couldn’t be sorry. After all, he had gained the benefits!
The main escort personnel Arthur prepared to send this time were Shion, Milo, Skybreaker, and a clone of Raichu. Additionally, there were twenty accompanying servants!
Among them, Raichu’s clone was brought along by Arthur in case anything unexpected happened during the transaction.
Raichu itself had a certain level of combat power, and at critical moments, it could serve as a power supply for Skybreaker, prolonging his fighting time.
Outside the waters of the Kingdom of St. Martin.
A naval warship was hiding in the shadow of a small island, spying on various merchant ships heading from the direction of the Kingdom of St. Martin towards the Reverse Mountain.
“Ah, what’s wrong with Commodore Gion? Why has she been sticking his butt out since morning?”
“Yeah, I noticed something was off early on. Not only is she sticking his butt out, but she’s also spreading her legs wide apart. What’s going on?”
“I heard that last night, Commodore Gion had dinner with the King of the Kingdom of St. Martin, and they ate very late!”
“What!!! Is it true?”
“No wonder, I was wondering why Commodore Gion is acting like this today!”
“But didn’t Commodore Gion and us arrive just yesterday? How did she manage to hook up so quickly?”
“Oh, you don’t understand. There’s something called love at first sight!”
…
All the female soldiers on this warship were brought by Commodore Gion from the headquarters. Although they were on a mission, the female soldiers couldn’t help but gossip.
And the subject of their gossip was none other than Gion, who was standing at the bow of the ship, with her legs apart and her butt sticking out.
In fact, Gion had heard their gossip.
She remained unfazed on the surface, but her face kept twitching, feeling both ashamed and angry. But after feeling a spicy sensation there, she dared not close her legs and could only secretly regret why she ate hotpots yesterday!
And it wouldn’t be good to explain this to the female soldiers!
She couldn’t possibly say that she was hurting down there, right?
So, she secretly made a decision that next time she would bring these people to eat that spicy hotpot together, and it had to be the spiciest kind. Then, everyone could stick their butts out together!
After that, these gossips would no longer hold any power!
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Underwater not far from them.
A yacht resembling a whale was speeding quickly.
“It’s a pity that Deathmask can’t see this beautiful view!” Milo sat on the sofa on the yacht, holding a glass of red wine, looking at the surrounding deep-sea beauty through the transparent glass, sighing.
Deathmask was supposed to be on this mission, but a few days ago, he discovered that he could enter and leave the Soul Society, and he could even cultivate there.
His cultivation speed was much faster than usual, so Arthur let him stay in the Soul Society to cultivate. That’s why he missed this mission!
“You can see this beautiful view as long as you’re alive, but where Deathmask is, you can only see it if you’re dead, so I think it’s a pity for you!” Shion poured cold water on Milo without hesitation.
“Chuu!” Raichu, who was enjoying a massage from a maid on the side, called out in agreement.
“Based on my analysis, I think Shion is right!” At this moment, a cold mechanical voice sounded, and Skybreaker chimed in.
The combination of a person, a beast, and a machine left Milo speechless!
“Ah-ha, look, that should be the naval warship sent to monitor us over there!” Milo quickly changed the subject.
Upon hearing his words, in the next moment, Skybreaker directly projected the location of the warship in front of them and magnified it several times.
“Hmm!?” Shion looked puzzled, wasn’t the person standing at the bow of the ship the new Commodore Gion?
Why was she standing in that posture?
“The person at the bow should be Commodore Gion, right? Why is she standing like that?” Milo also voiced the same question.
Suddenly, Shion seemed to have figured something out.
A peculiar expression appeared on his face.
“I heard… that last night, His Majesty Arthur had dinner with Commodore Gion!” Shion pondered for a moment and said.
“Could it be!” Milo widened his eyes, looking at Shion as if he realized something, and quickly said, “Knock it off, don’t continue!”
Shion immediately knew that Milo had misunderstood and quickly explained, “No… what I mean is, they both had spicy hotpots for dinner last night!”
Now, Milo also showed a strange expression. Upon hearing the words “spicy hotpots”, he instantly understood what had happened.
“Ah-ha… the weather is really nice today. Let’s hurry on our way and forget about them!” Milo said solemnly.
“Yes, I think that’s the right thing to do. Let’s go!” Shion rubbed his chin and nodded in agreement.
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