The empresses of Amazon Lily generally did not occupy the throne for long.
Most of them were young women, who very rarely remained on the throne even before the age of forty.
The reason for this is quite simple.
Empress Amazon Lily is responsible not only for robbing and hunting the sea kings, but also for many of Amazon Lily's internal affairs.
With such a life, it is simply impossible to have children.
According to the long tradition of Amazon Lily, each of the warriors must give birth to a child, as the stable maintenance of the tribe's numbers depends on it.
Even the Empress remains a normal woman.
Constantly watching how other women give birth and raise cute daughters, after reaching a certain age, the Empress also has the desire to give birth to a child.
Therefore, Amazon Lily Empresses usually leave the throne at a fairly young age, and do not rule until old age.
As for the successor...
According to Amazon Lily traditions, the next Empress is chosen in a duel, not by blood right.
The most powerful Amazon Lily warrior becomes empress.
Therefore.
To become the next Empress of Amazon Lily, Hancock will have to overcome many other competitors by becoming the strongest warrior.
This was, of course, an extremely difficult task for Hancock, who was now only twelve years old.
But Hancock, as the owner of Haoshoku no Haki, had the desire to become the strongest Amazon Lily warrior from the very beginning, and Yeruashi's words only strengthened her intention.
She would definitely become the empress of Amazon Lily!
"..."
The Empress turned her head several times to look at Hancock and Yeruashi, then abruptly jumped back to the Kuja Pirate ship, "Paw!"
She shook her head, noticing that Hancock was still looking at the ship Yeruashi, "You can't make contact with men at that age..."
There is an instinctive attraction between men and women.
This is the foundation of life.
But men cannot live in Amazon Lily.
This has long been the main taboo of the Kuja tribe.
That is why only when women reach a certain age and begin to feel the desire to have children, they are told about men and where children come from.
This was done so that women would not be attracted to men and would perceive them only as a tool.
Following this tradition, Amazon Lily women trap strong men to conceive a child and break up with them when it is all over.
Contact should be as brief as possible to eliminate the possibility of feelings.
But Hancock apparently spent a lot of time with this man on the ship, which naturally led to her having feelings for the opposite sex.
This is too bad for Amazon Lily's women.
Once upon a time, such women would pop up from time to time, but worst of all, they rarely betrayed Amazon Lily over this.
The most recent example was the former Amazon Lily Empress.
The Empress did not want to see Hancock, who had great talent and potential, transform into the former Amazon Empress Lily.
Then, after a moment's thought, she said, "Hancock, don't be too grateful to this man..."
"Although he saved you, he also put you in great danger."
"You were lucky to find us while you were sailing, otherwise, this ship would have been destroyed by the ¿marine kings sooner or later."
There were other women nearby who had noticed Hancock's affection for Yeruashi.
One of them said, "The empress is right, though it may seem she was kind to agree to bring you home, but a man who dared to go to Calm Belt so recklessly is not trustworthy."
"The men are just our prey."
The women in the vicinity voiced their opinions.
Hancock, who had been watching Yeruashi's boat recede, turned her head and looked quizzically at the women around her.
She wanted to say that Yeruashi was much stronger than they could imagine, to the point that the sea kings were not dangerous at all, and there was nothing rash about sailing through the Calm Belt, but she simply wasn't allowed to open her mouth.
Sandersonia and Marigold were also not allowed to interrupt the women, who had been talking incessantly all this time.
While the women talked incessantly with Hancock.
Yeruashi's ship had already sailed quite a distance.
At this moment, the Empress suddenly narrowed her eyes and chuckled, "Here it comes!"
Immediately after the Empress' words, a huge wave surged several hundred meters away from the Yeruashi ship.
In the midst of the waves, the head of the sea king appeared, reaching a length of almost a kilometer.
The Yeruashi's small boat was no bigger than the tooth of this huge sea king!
"It's... a giant sea king!"
The Amazon Lily warriors exclaimed in a daze as they looked at the huge sea king in the distance.
Sea kings vary greatly in size.
Kuja pirates often hunt sea kings several hundred meters long to return to Amazon Lily with more meat.
But the sea king, nearly a kilometer long, is beyond what they can handle.
Too big!
This is already far more than the sea kings are capable of hunting.
They can only rely on the sea kings' fear of sea serpent venom to retreat safely.
As for hunting such a sea king with poison...
Once in a frenzy, such a sea king can easily, with just a flick of its tail, break your ship into splinters!
Even if successful, such a hunt is bound to incur heavy losses.
It made no sense to pay such a bitter price for the flesh of the sea king.
"Look, Hancock."
The Amazon Lily Empress casually looked at the giant sea king and the Yeruashi ship in the distance, "Luck is very changeable, if you hadn't accidentally bumped into us, you would have been buried at sea right now with this man, so it's not worthy..."
The Empress's voice was abruptly interrupted.
All the female warriors on the deck of the Kuja pirate ship stared dazedly at the sea in the distance.
Their eyes widened abruptly, as if an unbelievable scene had unfolded there.
On the other side.
The giant sea king, nearly a kilometer long, opened its huge mouth and rushed toward the tiny yeruashi ship, intending to swallow it in one fell swoop.
But at the last moment.
Yeruashi, who had been standing silently on the deck all this time, took a step.
He simply clenched his left fist and punched it.
Explode!!!
The head and upper part of the sea king, which is almost a kilometer long, exploded with force and disappeared without a trace.
The lower part of the sea king's body froze, sticking out on the surface of the sea.
"I heard that the meat of the great sea kings tastes very good... It's worth tasting."
Yeruashi lowered his fist and looked at Robin, who was standing next to him.
Robin calmly looked at the sea king's body sticking out of the water and nodded, "I haven't tried it either, but according to the information in the books, this meat really tastes good, then I'll try to cook it."
"Okay, I'll look forward to it."
Yeruashi smiled and waved his palm, cutting off the most delicate parts of the sea king.
Then he froze the meat and went up to the second floor of the ship with Robin.
The deck of the ship was empty, as if the previous scene was just an illusion.