“Understood.”
After receiving the order, Shayna appeared in front of Tesoro in the blink of an eye and with a sweeping kick, she sent the two people suppressing Tesoro flying. There was no need to use flames and skills; even her sheer leg strength was too much for them to handle.
Shayna’s kick targeted their heads, exerting a force that went beyond the neck’s capacity. As they were propelled into the air, their necks twisted like pretzels, sealing their fate.
Simultaneously, she lifted the owner of the slave market. Although her height was just over three meters, making her look somewhat diminutive compared to King, she was still a giant to the ordinary owner.
“You..you..what are you doing?”
Shayna didn’t answer, she just took the bunch of keys from his waist and then tossed him away. After all, Tesoro has a bomb collar around his neck; she naturally has to do a perfect job, and not just get limited to orders alone.
Since Arceus’ order was to bring Tesoro back, handling details like the keys was also essential.
She then lifted Tesoro and placed him back on the ground. After the severe beating he received, he seemed unable to muster the strength to unlock himself, so Yamato was holding the keys and trying them one by one.
“Stella, please, help me bring Stella along as well.”
As he spoke, the movement of his mouth tugged at the wounds on his face. Those people had certainly aimed at his face during the beating. Since he is just an ordinary man, they naturally didn’t care about any repercussions.
“Please, I’ll pay you back everything.”
He raised his hand with great difficulty and gripped Yamato’s wrist. The recent experience has taught him one thing: having money alone was useless. Only when you had the power to protect your wealth could you avoid being a lamb waiting to be slaughtered.
Authority, strength, money—only by having all these could one do what they wanted in this world.
“Alright, I’ll promise you, but you’ll have to work for us in the future.”
Such was Yamato’s personality, setting her apart from Kaido. While Kaido acts impulsively, he also factors in the notion of benefits and frames his decisions accordingly.
While Yamato believed that what she was doing was right. She didn’t consider what she could gain by doing this; she did it from the heart. That’s why she agreed to Tesoro’s request.
She had no idea about Tesoro’s life trajectory. From her perspective, at most, she would receive gratitude from two people and two ordinary individuals.
The final sentence was a result of Arceus’ teachings. There were too many injustices in the world. She couldn’t possibly intervene in everything, so she needed to consider other aspects as well.
“Dad, is this okay?”
“Of course, but your training intensity will have to be gradually increased again. Not to mention reaching your father’s strength, at least you should attain Mandrell’s level. This way, you won’t always have to rely on others.”
Hearing this, Shayna proceeded towards Stella without waiting for instruction. Stella was confined in an ordinary iron cage, capable of imprisoning an ordinary person, but utterly ineffective against someone like Shayna.
She tore a hole in the bars which were as thick as her wrist. At this moment, the panicked voice of the slave market’s owner came through.
“Stop! That woman is a merchandise that a Celestial Dragon has reserved. Do you want to die?”
His subordinates were kicked flying, and he was thrown away as well. Experiencing this made him exceptionally furious, but he quickly regained his composure.
He was well aware how much his business attracts hatred, so both of his bodyguards were highly skilled. Even pirates with bounties of ten to twenty million berries weren’t a match for them. To be able to kick them away with a single blow, the other party’s identity was certainly not simple.
In his line of work, the most crucial skill was reading people. He knew who he could offend and who not to provoke.
Great Pirate Era has given rise to an increasing number of powerful individuals. However, those with bounties surpassing a billion are only a few. Most of these individuals possess distinctive traits, like Arceus’ appearance.
At first, he didn’t pay attention, but after being thrown away, he quickly recalled the identity of the other party, and at the same time, he also remembered the identity of Shayna and Olga, two officers with bounties over a 100 million.
He could never have imagined that someone like Tesoro would be connected to these people. They were people he couldn’t afford to mess with.
“You can do as you please with that man. I’ll double the money and give it to you, but that woman can’t go!”
If the Celestial Dragon arrived here and didn’t find their merchandise, his fate would undoubtedly be tragic, and might even be turned into a slave.
His attempts to stop her were naturally ineffective. Shayna was merely carrying out Arceus’ orders and couldn’t be disrupted by such pressure from outside.
“Aren’t you afraid of incurring the Celestial Dragons’ wrath?”
These words did indeed make Shayna pause momentarily. Then, her palm moved towards the bars and sliced them. A section of the bar was held in her hand like a javelin.
“You talk a lot, but you’re right about one thing. Those Celestial Dragon bugs are too troublesome.”
“Bu…Bugs?! How dare you speak like that!”
“Why wouldn’t I dare? Sooner or later, I’ll crush those scum to nothing.” Lunarians once lived above the Red Line, and the Celestial Dragons were enemies of their race. So, she naturally wouldn’t have any reverence for the Celestial Dragons.
At this point, the owner of the slave market suddenly realized something. These people found the Celestial Dragons troublesome, yet they detested them and were doing things that would infuriate the Celestial Dragons.
If they didn’t want trouble, the best method was for no one to know about this matter, and apart from themselves, the only people who were aware of it were right here.
“Wait.”
“Swoosh!”
Before he could say anything more, Shayna weighed the bar in her hand and threw it towards him. Flames clung to the iron bar, and the sharpened “spearhead” pierced through him from front to back.
“If all of you died, then no one would know what happened here, right?”
This is a lawless region; a few deaths here were nothing out of the ordinary.
Even with the Beasts Pirates’ emblem on their clothes, ordinary members still encountered some trouble on their journey here. There were always reckless newcomers who wished to challenge the New World’s forces.
“Lord Sacred Beast, please head to the auction over there. We’ll handle things here.”
After bringing Stella out, Shayna had no intention of leaving. After all, covering up wasn’t as simple as silencing witnesses. Simply eliminating those who knew about it wasn’t sufficient. The connections behind running a slave market here were far from simple.
Erasing traces, causing confusion—she had a lot to deal with. At the same time, Olga was left behind; her illusion abilities would prove greatly useful.
Not long after Arceus and the others left, the slave market was engulfed in a raging inferno.
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