One Piece: World Conquest Begins with Creating a Little Empress

Shanks couldn't help but twitch his eye after hearing Char's words.

"With a monster like you in the government, it's a nightmare for pirates."

Shanks couldn't help but sigh.

"Haha! Brother Shanks, you really don't need to stay out there as a pirate! Whenever you want, you can return to our Figarand family, become a glorious Celestial Dragon, and enjoy the noble privileges you've never had since you were a child!"

"As for other matters, you can rest assured. Regarding your return, I have been working hard to make arrangements over the years, and everything is almost ready. Therefore, no Celestial Dragon will be dissatisfied with your return..."

After hearing Shanks's exclamation, Char laughed.

"Haha! Returning to the holy land? Forget about it!"

"I now have the companions I've always dreamed of by my side, and I live a carefree and happy life every day. I have no desire to go back to the Holy Land and become some kind of Celestial Dragon..."

"Besides, my agreement with Captain Roger has not yet been fully fulfilled."

When Shanks heard that Char had made all the preparations to welcome him back to the Holy Land as a Celestial Dragon, his expression paused slightly before he revealed a nonchalant look.

Shanks genuinely doesn't care about his Celestial Dragon identity; frankly, he'd rather not have it. What he pursues is true freedom...

"The promise with 'Pirate King' Roger?!"

Char frowned slightly after hearing Shanks' words.

Xia didn't say much about it...

After all, even Char didn't stop Shanks from fulfilling the promise he made with Roger. After all, Shanks, a man who grew up on Roger's pirate crew, values ​​promises above all else…

"Anyway, Char, I still want to thank you!"

Shanks raised his glass as he finished speaking.

"Have a drink..."

Char looked at Shanks raising his glass and couldn't help but smile. He then picked up his glass and gently clinked it against Shanks's.

"Ding~"

With a crisp clinking sound between the glasses, Char and Shanks downed their drinks in one gulp.

"Crack~"

The door of the Makino Tavern was suddenly kicked open.

A man wearing a red coat, with long black hair and a disgusting beard, swaggered into Makino's tavern under the watchful eyes of government agents and pirates.

"Ha ha……"

After sensing the gazes of everyone in the tavern, the man first gave a disdainful sneer, then his gaze was fixed directly on Shanks and Char!

Immediately, the man swaggered towards Shanks as if no one else was around. Then, quite familiarly, he put his arm around Shanks' shoulder in front of everyone and laughed, "Hey! Pirate! When my little brother told me that more than five government warships had surrounded the entire Don Island, I was really scared!"

"I thought those idiotic world governments had finally discovered my hiding place and were about to launch a Buster Call on the entire island! But I'm not one to sit idly by, and of course I won't just sit here and wait to die! Just as I returned to my stronghold to prepare my weapons and was about to crush the navy surrounding the island, I discovered that those warships had already retreated!"

"I heard from my underlings that before I arrived, you and your men fought against government soldiers! So, you were the one who repelled them? I didn't expect someone who looks so frail to actually have some strength!"

"Heh, those government soldiers were quite lucky; they actually ran into you first! If they had been a step later and encountered me, it wouldn't have been as simple as just escaping; they would definitely have had to leave something behind..."

The man put his arm around Shanks' shoulder and talked for a long time, oblivious to everyone else.

In fact, the man was terrified, and he was venting his fear in this way! The reason he and his henchmen had rushed down the mountain was to find a chance to escape…

As for fighting the government soldiers? He didn't have the guts...

"If you're here for a drink, then please make yourself at home..."

After a while, Shanks seemed to finally notice the man beside him, a man who claimed that he could destroy all the World Government's warships by himself, and that the government was even willing to launch a Buster Call to slaughter the entire island in order to deal with him.

"Damn it! Our boss is talking to you..."

As Shanks finished speaking, the bandits' men immediately became enraged...

They seemed unable to tolerate Shanks's nonchalant, somewhat disdainful tone towards their boss.

"Eh……"

Just as the bandits' henchmen were getting angry, the bandit with his arm around Shanks' shoulder waved to his men, signaling them to shut up. He continued to look at Shanks with a smile and said, "I've come here to make friends with you! I like to befriend people with strength, and I like to be brothers with the strong! To be honest, I have fifty-six brothers like you! As you probably know, in our line of work, having more brothers means having more options. If you become sworn brothers with me, you'll definitely get plenty of meat to eat! You probably don't know who I am yet, but I'm the famous 'Mountain Bandit King' Higuma (Sunkuma), a man with a bounty of eight million."

"Boom..."

And it was precisely at the very moment Sieg finished speaking...

The CP0 members, who had been sitting in the corner of the tavern, had now stood up. They were wearing masks and looking at Sieg with indifferent expressions.

"Um?!"

Sieg looked puzzled.

"You think you can be His Highness Xia's brother?!"

The CP0 members looked at Sieg and asked in a cold voice.

"Xia Yasheng?!"

Sieg paused for a moment; the title seemed somewhat familiar. He felt as if he had heard somewhere that there were people in this world who would add the title of "Saint" after their names! But suddenly, he couldn't quite recall where.

"Boss Sig, something terrible has happened... something horrible..."

"That man sitting next to the pirate! Although he's not wearing a transparent mask, I've seen the style of his clothes before in the capital of the Goa Kingdom! He's a Celestial Dragon..."

When Sieg's underling, who was in charge of intelligence, noticed Char sitting quietly and calmly drinking next to Shanks, his expression suddenly turned panicked!

Although Char's clothes were a modified version of the Celestial Dragon uniform, abandoning the bulkiness of the original and looking more fashionable, he retained some of the symbols that signified his Celestial Dragon identity...

Therefore, Sig's little brother, who had once knelt in the crowd and caught a glimpse of a Celestial Dragon from afar, finally recalled the fear he had felt when he saw Char, being dominated by the Celestial Dragons, who were the world's nobles.

"bump!"

Unfortunately, before this young man could finish speaking...

A single bullet pierced right through the young man's forehead!

No! That wasn't a bullet! It was a finger gun released from between the fingers of a CP0 agent.

"Who gave you permission to look directly at Lord Xia?!"

After dealing with the petty bandit, the CP0 officer spoke with a cold expression.

"Let's take care of all these small fry!"

"An eight million bounty? It's not even worth sending him to Impel Down. He's just a petty thug who only knows how to bully civilians..."

Meanwhile, Xia, who had been calmly sipping his drink, spoke with a cold expression.

"As ordered!"

After obtaining Char's permission...

These CP0s can finally act with peace of mind.

"Shh!"

Suddenly, Sieg's vision blurred, and CP0, who was originally several meters away from him, appeared in front of him and suddenly struck several pressure points on his body with its fingers.

"Cough cough..."

Sieg, suddenly brought up by CP0, felt his body go limp, and then, completely out of control, he collapsed to the ground...

Just as Sieg fell to the ground, his other underlings had already been mostly taken care of by the CP0!

"Snapped……"

Before Char could say anything more...

These CP0 members had already opened the tavern door and piled the unconscious bandits one by one onto the cargo carts, as if they were being carried as luggage. They then hauled the carts toward the sea near Windmill Village, intending to send all the bandits to the King of the Near Sea.

As for why the CP0 members killed the bandits instead of keeping them in the tavern, it was because they were afraid that the bandits' blood would soil the tavern floor, making His Highness Char feel disgusted and uncomfortable! At the same time, they also didn't want the stench emanating from the bandits' corpses to affect His Highness Char's mood while drinking.

"Alright! The trash's taken care of, everyone cheer up..."

After Char had knocked out and cleared out all the bandits in the Makino Tavern, he signaled to the remaining CP members to open the tavern windows...

The stench, which had been tainted by the rotting body odor of the bandits, instantly replaced the pleasant air inside the Makino Tavern with the outside air. If Xia had stayed in that stench any longer, he feared he would suddenly suffocate. This was why Xia hadn't spoken, attacked, or even glanced at Sig after he entered! In Xia's eyes, Sig was nothing but a pile of excrement; even looking at him was a desecration. Let alone speaking or attacking him—that would disgust him…

"Keep drinking!"

The pirates inside the tavern weren't bothered by the little incident involving Higuma's raid on the tavern; they were in no mood to drink! They'd seen plenty of clowns like Higuma; he was just trash, an eight-million bounty nobody...

"Haha~"

As for Makino...

Despite her young age, a girl who can single-handedly run a bar at that age is definitely not an ordinary person.

She smiled and continued pouring drinks for Char and Shanks.

"what……"

Only young Luffy, gazing at Char's retreating figure, was deeply moved.

Char's ability to defeat "Mountain Bandit King" Higuma with just a few words deeply shocked young Luffy...

In this regard.

Luffy exerted all his strength and arrived at the bar where Char and Shanks were sitting.

"Um?!"