Although the World Government tried to hide the news of the navy's defeat by actively spreading the news that the island had been destroyed by a terrible natural disaster, but the opposite rumors were still actively circulating at sea.
Rayleigh and Shakky, as people as close as possible to these events, were absolutely certain that the navy headquarters was destroyed by Yeruashi's hands!
Although they did not know exactly what ability Yeruashi had used to trigger the meteorite fall, they had no doubts about the veracity of the rumors that Marinford had been destroyed by the Traveler.
After Rayleigh roughly confirmed the course of the incident, he only smiled bitterly and thought that the navy's act of provoking Yeruashi was really a very bad idea.
...
Ten days later.
At Shakky's bar.
"It's time to say goodbye, here's the cost of the room and Mr. Rayleigh's backbreaking work."
Yeruashi walked to the bar and placed a few tens of millions of belli with a smile.
Millions, tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of belli, those sums don't matter too much to Yeruashi and Rayleigh, the key is whether they want to make money or not.
For a man like Rayleigh, standing on top of the sea power, there are many ways to get hundreds of millions or even billions of belli if he so desires.
"Ah, that's too much."
Shakky looked at the money on the counter and exhaled a puff of smoke, "Does this include the cost of the ship's coating?"
Yeruashi shook his head, "No, we don't need a coating, I don't intend to go to Gyojin Island right now, but I'm going to take a walk along the top of the Red Line."
Shirahoshi was not even born yet.
By going to Gyojin Island, he will only be able to see beautiful scenery, but not enjoy the company of the Mermaid Princess, whose beauty, as stated in the original, is comparable to the beauty of the legendary Pirate Empress.
Although Yeruashi still had memories of Shirahoshi's appearance, they were now already a bit blurred, so it is definitely worth seeing the Mermaid Princess with his own eyes.
Yeruashi certainly had some interest in the Mermaid Princess and the Pirate Empress.
After all.
No one among men can compare to him in looks and charm.
The only ones who can barely match him, even in terms of looks, are the Mermaid Princess Shirahoshi and the Pirate Empress, Boa Hancock.
Shakky nodded.
She was well aware that it wouldn't be difficult for Yeruashi to cross the Red Line, and even without the overlay, she still had to have a way to travel across the bottom of the sea.
"Aren't you going to say goodbye to Rayleigh?"
"Rayleigh is busy at the moment and I already told him I'll be leaving the Sabaody Archipelago soon."
Yeruashi shook his head.
Shanks had arrived at the Sabaody Archipelago and had already met Rayleigh.
Yeruashi had no desire to meet Shanks now, and besides, he had already spent enough time in the Sabaody Archipelago.
After Robin said goodbye to Shakky, they immediately headed for the sixty-third grove, where their boat was moored.
After a while, someone recognized them.
"That's... Nico Robin, the Devil's Girl!"
"The bounty on the head of 79 million belli!"
The pirate hunter eagerly pulled out his gun.
But the other pirate hunter immediately punched him in the arm in horror, and tensely said, " Stop! Have you lost your mind? don't you see the person next to him?!"
"Huh?"
Looking closely at Yeruashi, who was walking next to Robin, the pirate hunter shuddered and turned very pale: "This guy.... 'The Traveler', with a bounty of 3 billion 248 million 200 thousand belli? But how could he be here? Didn't the newspapers say that two days ago he had destroyed half of some New World kingdom?!"
"How should I know?!"
His companion said, "You almost killed us, you idiot! Over three billion... for the first time in my life, I see a person with a bounty of over a billion. How terrible can a monster with such a bounty be? There are rumors that what happened at the Marine barracks is related to him."
"Didn't you say Marinford was destroyed by a meteorite?"
"You idiot! This is only the official version, I've heard rumors that the real reason for Marinford's destruction was.... The Traveler! That's why his bounty had skyrocketed to three billion belli! The news of the destruction of half the kingdom in the New World, was released by the World Government only as a distraction!"
During the walk through the Sabaody Archipelago, these kinds of conversations were constantly overheard around Yeruashi and Robin.
Yeruashi certainly noticed the curious and frightened looks from all sides, but he was too lazy to worry about such small things, he just looked at Robin and chuckled: "Ah, popularity has its downsides too, now we can't just wander down the street like ordinary people."
Although not everyone can recognize it at first glance, this still happens quite often, if Yeruashi doesn't deliberately try to hide his presence.
"It's all because Lord does terrible things all the time."
Robin sighed helplessly.
He looked around and was about to say something, but suddenly Robin's gaze stopped at the end of the street.
Numerous people at the end of the street quickly scattered to the sides, freeing the central part, and fell to their knees.
Robin, who had lived in the Sabaody Archipelago for some time, was quite familiar with this scene.
"The Nobles of the World..."
Seeing that Yeruashi continued to walk forward unhurriedly, Robin also continued to walk beside him as if nothing had happened.
The World Nobles, also known as the Sky Dragons, are the descendants of the 'creators' who founded the World Government.
The Sky Dragons have the highest power and status in this world, and the Gorosei who run the World Government are the highest representatives of the Sky Dragons.
After a short time.
In the middle of the street appeared a man dressed in a white spacesuit, with a bubble on his head.
He was not traveling in some kind of bubble transport, typical of the Sabaody Archipelago, but in a man with a necklace.
The man, completely covered in scars and bruises, was struggling to crawl along the ground.
The road did not intersect with Yeruashi and Robin, the man was crawling along the cross street from left to right, about ten meters ahead of them.
"...It's disgusting."
Yeruashi stopped and said quietly, watching the Sky Dragon sitting proudly on the crawling slave.
He had come to the Sabaody Archipelago quite some time ago, but he had just met the Sky Dragon.
In truth, he had hoped that the destruction of Marinford would moderate the arrogance of the Sky Dragon a bit, but in the end, it didn't seem to have any effect.
"Of course."
Robin, standing just behind Yeruashi, nodded.
In fact, at the time of meeting Yeruashi at the age of eleven, he had already spent several years in the shadow world and had seen quite a bit of darkness, but this was nothing compared to the Heavenly Dragons.
About ten meters in front of them.
The Sky Dragon sitting on the slave's back didn't seem happy with his speed and began to thrust his dagger into the back, "Hurry up, you useless scum!"
The slave's body trembled and blood ran down his back, but he kept crawling forward, not daring to resist.
Yeruashi had seen far more darkness in Naruto's world than Robin, but nothing he had seen could compare to the Sky Dragons.
Being the descendants of the kings who created the World Government, the Sky Dragons consider themselves deities and view the common people as cattle.
But no one dares to resist them, because the Sky Dragons can command the Navy at will.
They can even give orders to the Admirals!
It was precisely because Garp did not want to obey the orders of the Sky Dragons that he repeatedly refused to be promoted to Admiral.
"People who have never known pain..."
"They don't have the qualifications to be at the top of the world."
Yeruashi glared at the Sky Dragon sitting on the slave crawling in front.
"Come on, Robin."