The palace guards standing before the great doors were basically useless against someone like Dragon. With a single glance, the guards all collapsed on their own.
Then Dragon pushed open the doors.
"Ahhhhh!"
"Pirates! Pirates have broken in!"
"Don't kill me! I have lots of money—I can give it all to you!"
"Guards? Where are the guards?"
Amid wave after wave of screams, the nobles inside the doors, who had originally been dressed in splendid finery and looked perfectly respectable, now shrieked madly like frightened quails, huddling into a single mass.
"These guys..." Ace curled his lip. "These are the so-called nobles of the Goa Kingdom?"
Honestly, although Ace knew the Goa Kingdom's nobles were terrible, he was not Sabo. He did not deal with these people up close every day, and he had never expected the nobles to be this pathetic.
It would have been one thing if they did not go to the front lines to command during battle. But they hid here, and the moment they saw someone come in, they were frightened into this state. People like this could be nobles? What a complete joke.
Dragon's expression barely changed. After all his years in the Revolutionary Army, what kind of ruling class had he not seen? The Goa Kingdom nobles' performance was not even the worst Dragon had encountered.
Not to mention anything else, the royal family of White Town Flevance had done far worse than the Goa Kingdom.
The Goa Kingdom merely did not regard the people of Uncertainty Terminal as human. Flevance's royal family did not regard the citizens of their entire country as human at all.
"Everyone, we are not pirates," Dragon said softly. Under the effects of the Wind-Wind Fruit, his voice was quiet, yet it echoed throughout the entire hall, allowing