I the King of bandits of the East Sea

At the foot of the mountain, the allied forces formed by the Kingdom Army and the Navy were steadily tightening the encirclement.

Colonel Carvin, stationed behind the front lines of the Navy branch, looked up towards the direction of the wooden house. In his view, a large number of bandits were quickly emerging, charging towards them.

"They've launched the first wave of charge, attempting to break through? They're faster than I expected."

Colonel Carvin nodded lightly, commenting:

"However... this is meaningless. The difference in numbers is too great."

"A mere bandit group of two hundred people dares to claim to be kings. It's truly laughable."

Soon, the first wave of charging bandits reached the front lines of the encirclement.

As expected by Colonel Carvin and others, the battle quickly played out.

After a brief exchange of close combat, the smaller number of bandits fell into a disadvantaged position after a brief stalemate.

Parker, the leader of the Kingdom Army, looked disdainfully at the bandits who had fallen into a losing position, then turned his head and laughed:

"This operation to eliminate the bandits really owes a lot to your Navy's help."

"With this, our Kingdom Army will be able to quickly proceed to take on the next mission."

As he spoke, he acted as though the bandits who were still fighting had already been eliminated.

"Next mission? Oh, right, your Kingdom Army plans to go welcome the World Nobles?"

Colonel Carvin's mouth curled into a smile, and he began conversing with Parker.

"Something like that, after all, they are Celestial Dragons, the true nobles of the world. A person might never even get to meet them once in their lifetime."

Parker, the commander, also smiled, his expression light and carefree, completely unlike someone on a battlefield.

Both commanders of the allied forces clearly had no regard for the bandits.

...

At the same time, on a mountain peak farther away, a few pairs of eyes were looking through telescopes, observing the movements of the battlefield from a distance.

"The battle has already begun..."

The man cloaked in dark green, Long, put down the telescope, stood up, and started to walk away.

"Wait, Long, where are you going? Aren't you going to watch the battle? Maybe we'll finally see Sig BOY make his move."

The transvestite king, Ivankov, quickly stopped Long, who was about to leave.

"Since the battle has started, there's no suspense left."

"But... Sig BOY's subordinates are clearly about to collapse, the battle hasn't even been going on for long."

Long didn't stop walking; he just shook his head slightly.

"As a revolutionary, I can probably guess his thoughts."

"What Sig is doing is simply trying to train his subordinates. Otherwise, what was the point of his loud expansion?"

"After all, Sig is a top-tier Conqueror's Haki user. Once he gets serious, a single thought from him could make this so-called alliance fall."

"This pointless battle isn't worth watching. I'd rather go do something more meaningful."

"I see, you plan to deal with the Bulsam Pirates, right?"

Ivankov tugged at the edge of his cloak, spun around in place like a dancer twirling a skirt, and excitedly said:

"But I still want to stay here a bit longer, to witness Sig BOY's Conqueror's Haki with its own special effects~"

The Bulsam Pirates Ivankov mentioned were the pirates responsible for igniting the end of an uncertain station, causing a major fire.

After Sig obtained information about the Goa Kingdom's plan to ignite the station, the Revolutionary Army had tried to evacuate the residents around the station in advance.

However, their efforts had failed.

The residents of the uncertain station were all vagrants, gamblers, and criminals, not exactly good people.

Even though they had been warned that a fire might break out at the station, they didn't believe it, thinking that the Revolutionary Army was simply trying to recruit them.

As a result, the Revolutionary Army decided to change their plan.

They would act quietly when the Bulsam Pirates were about to start the fire, preventing the fire from happening.

After exchanging a few words, the two groups of Revolutionary Army agents, who had been observing in the shadows, one group followed Long as he left, while the other stayed to continue watching the battle.

...

As time passed, the situation on the battlefield gradually worsened.

"Boss, we really can't hold on any longer!"

"Please, boss, help us! The number of the allied forces is too much!"

"Boss!!!"

One by one, the bloodied bandits kept retreating, and the front line was on the verge of collapsing.

"Now you need me to take action? What use are you guys?"

Sig's voice was still low and indifferent, with no fluctuations whatsoever.

Only the sound of the Emperor Engine, bang bang bang, grew louder.

"Please, boss, we really can't hold on! Boss..."

More and more bandits fell, the front line continuously shrinking under pressure.

Sig still stood motionless, as if he were a statue.

Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang...

"Looks like... is this the end?"

Sig's low voice made the pirates retreating behind him perk up, but they also felt a slight sense of shame.

Yeah, for us underlings, it looks like this is the end.

What the boss means by this is that he's about to make a move.

But this also means we didn't pass his test.

Many of them secretly lowered their heads, feeling somewhat dejected.

"No! Sig, boss, we can still fight!"

With a shout, the bloodied bald man blocked Sig's path.

He stood covered in blood, but the fire in his eyes had not yet died out.

"Sig, boss, I'm going to make you king!"

His originally shiny bald head had become soaked with blood, now resembling a red marinated egg, yet it still shone brightly.

".....You've done enough."

Sig's deep voice rang out, accompanied by the increasingly loud sound of the emperor's engine.

The bald man no longer argued, but instead looked at the pirates around him.

"Brothers, have you forgotten what the boss has taught us?"

The bald man shouted hoarsely:

"We... no matter what difficulties we face... we must not be afraid!"

His shout was mixed with the sound of the emperor's engine, each thud heavy and powerful.

The sound blended with the bald man's shout, becoming like the low murmur of an ancient god, filling the soul.

In that moment, everything around them fell silent, and all the heavy breathing stopped.

A pirate lying on the ground supported himself with his long sword, struggling to stand, then shouted along with the bald man:

"Face it with a smile!"

"The best way to eliminate fear is to face fear..."

More and more pirates subconsciously shouted out in unison.

"Persistence is victory!!!!!!"

In the dark forest, the pirates' eyes grew wide, and their faces all suddenly broke into smiles full of positive energy, their faces seeming to swell up all at once.

"Oriyé!"

"Oriyé!"

The shouts of everyone blended together in one voice, overpowering all other cries and gunfire, shaking the mountains and forests!

Amidst the background sound of the emperor's engine, over a hundred pirates, all wearing smiles filled with positive energy, shouted "Oriyé!" and launched their final charge!

......

On a distant mountain top, the Okama King Ivankov's hand holding the telescope trembled, almost dropping it.

"What is this? Their faces... did they just get bigger? Are they some kind of ability users similar to hormones?"

Ivankov dumbly lowered the telescope, the scene just now had caused him a huge shock.

It was the first time he had seen something similar to his own techniques.

Ivankov touched his own startlingly large face and muttered to himself:

"Could it be that Sig Boy's pirates are training to be Okama like me?"

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