Pirate: Eternal

"Ah!"

Norrington smiled disdainfully.

"Those guards are just slaves I bought. They can't even defeat me. You actually expect them to be able to resist Vlad?"

The strong man of the revolutionary army felt a little confused and asked: "Don't you have any natives of the Kingdom of Eden under your command?"

"Ha ha."

Norrington laughed to himself and pointed outside the palace.

"Go out and take a look. Which one of them is not extremely rich and wants to be the boss. Who will serve me?"

After saying that, Norrington threw away the strong man and strode towards the palace gate with an unusually determined and tragic expression.

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"People inside, listen, you have been surrounded. For the sake of being old friends, surrender without killing!"

"You were just deceived by the king's evil words. If you step back from the cliff at this time, the Piercing Guild will forgive you."

"The sea of ​​suffering is boundless and there is no turning back!"

"..."

Directly opposite the palace gate, a large loudspeaker was tied to a wooden stake about ten meters high, and the words of persuasion to surrender were repeatedly played all the time.

If you look down from a high altitude, you can see that there are hundreds of tents densely packed around the palace, and there are several tables outside each tent.

There are three, four or a group of people sitting around these tables. These people are dressed in different clothes, but they all carry the unique machine guns of Xihai.

"Hahaha, three aces, give me some money!"

"Heaven Hu!"

"Fart! You are obviously my husband!"

"Double Kings, place an order!"

"..."

When Vlad came here, his whole body was in chaos. This was no spontaneous militia, it was just a group of rabble and hooligans.

They actually gathered people to gamble while surrounding the enemy!

"Marcus actually lost to these guys? It seems I have to find a way to replace him."

Cervantes suddenly felt a strong sense of crisis, and his trust in Marcus dropped directly to negative numbers.

Although there were more people on the other side at the time, Marcus was the CP0 of the World Government's intelligence agency, and he was knocked unconscious in just one encounter. It was really...

"Actually, they are very powerful. It's just that I don't manage them very well."

Vlad defended them, but also felt the need to properly regulate their conduct.

The citizens of the Eden Palace were very wealthy, and Vlad had never worried about them stealing from each other, so there was only one law in place.

Can't be sour...

To be precise, you cannot force someone to have sex without the other party's consent...

And this law only applies to women who cannot be forced. If some people's preferences are men, they will be like grooms every night when they go on expeditions to surrounding countries.

Of course, it's also possible that she could be a bride every night.

Zhi吖-

At this moment, the heavy door of the palace opened.

"That bastard king is out, stop playing!"

Immediately, someone overturned the card table, picked up a gun and rushed towards the palace gate.

"I finally caught a handful of double kings and four 2s, and you just play this trick to me? You won money and you still want to run away?!"

The landlord was furious, grabbed the cards and chased after him.

This kind of thing happens frequently at many card tables. The image of the king suddenly becomes cute in their hearts. Of course, some people hate the king more and more.

"..."

"Vlad, we lost. We just want to let our family go."

The king and several knighted nobles walked out of the door, without any weapons on their bodies, as if they had given up resistance and allowed themselves to be dealt with.

"You know my character, I like to sit together..."

As Vlad spoke, the crowd blocking the palace gate parted, allowing Vlad to lead Ozma and his party to the king.

"But that's treating an enemy. Are you my enemy, Norrington?"

"We are not enemies..."

Norrington lowered his eyes, took a deep breath and continued.

"But I just want to tell you that what you are doing is wrong!"

Norrington shouted the last half of the sentence almost hysterically.

"Oh?" Vlad raised his eyebrows, "Where did I go wrong? Even if I am wrong, I will not change it, but now I am willing to listen to your opinion."

"Whoo~"

Norrington and several nobles breathed a sigh of relief. According to Vlad's past style of doing things, being willing to talk to them means that the situation has not reached an irreversible point.

In the past, unless he was at a disadvantage and needed an opportunity, Vlad would usually take action directly upon meeting him. Sometimes he would even do despicable things like sneak attacks when he had an advantage.

"This country is already sick. People have launched wars against neighboring countries year after year under your call. Do you know how many wives have been separated and families have been destroyed over the years?"

"I have adopted many runaway slaves. Whenever they tell the story of their suffering, as the king of a country, I feel heartache and at the same time feel deeply guilty for them."

"Our Kingdom of Eden is already so powerful, do we still need to worry about threats from neighboring countries?"

After finishing his words in one breath, Norrington looked at Vlad firmly. At this moment, he had a great sense of justice.

"Then why don't you take out your family property and distribute it to them?"

A hint of sarcasm appeared on the corner of Vlad's mouth, and his cold eyes resembled those of a villain who committed many crimes.

"Can't you bear it?"

"Human desires are endless. They have them, you have them, and even I have them."

"Human beings' joys and sorrows are not the same. When you are happy, someone will always be sad. This is like the law of conservation of ability. Whatever you gain, someone must lose something."

"This world is not beautiful. When you go out and take a look, you will find that you are actually living in paradise."

"The nobles and common people of the Kingdom of Goa have developed to the point where they are at war with each other. The people of the Kingdom of Alabasta even have a luxury to drink water. The common people of the Kingdom of Magi are sick and need to get medical treatment. With the king’s permission, Wano was even ruled by a pirate.”

"Not to mention that some villages and small islands are visited by pirates all year round. If they can't pay protection fees, they can't even save their lives."

"You just want to feel superior as kings and nobles. Don't make any excuses here. If there are no civilians in the Kingdom of Eden, how do you think you will be better than the people in these countries?"

"Relying on the revolutionary army? They don't even dare to expose their base, and they still need to rely on others for food!"

After the conversation was over, Vlad walked up to Norrington and looked at him condescendingly.

"Even if we people in the Kingdom of Eden have conflicts, they have never been at a life-or-death level. Whenever we sleep at night, we don't have to worry about thieves even if we leave the door open. How do you think this comes about?"

"Everyone has evil nature. I let them give evil to the surrounding countries and leave good to their relatives and friends."

"We can only be selfish and sacrifice others to fulfill ourselves, so that we can always live in heaven."

"I've told you so much, do you know you were wrong?"