The bubble ship slowly docked at the port of Mary Geoise.
World Government officials had long been waiting there.
As they descended from the sky, the city's appearance came fully into view.
The entire city was clearly divided into two parts. One was near the port, packed with buildings, while the other lay beyond a high wall and enormous gates—a place that was obviously an ultra-exclusive residential district.
That was where the Celestial Dragons gathered.
"It's so beautiful!"
The Little Princess looked around excitedly. Coming from a desert nation, all she had ever seen had been endless yellow sands.
Arriving in such a bustling, prosperous city was indeed an unprecedentedly novel experience for her.
Bright remained silent.
He released his Observation Haki, and all manner of sounds from every direction reached his ears.
There were the voices of the Marines guarding the area, those of the government officials who had come to receive them, and even Aokiji's impatient thoughts, which he heard with perfect clarity.
But what he heard more of were desperate screams and agonized wails.
After arriving, Aokiji left, while the government officials receiving Bright and the others led them onto a road that moved forward on its own.
"A road that moves forward by itself?"
King Neptune marveled at the sight.
"After all, this is the World Government," King Cobra said with a smile. "Their technology has always been ahead of the world's."
Bright merely sneered.
Ahead of the world?
He heard it very clearly. A large portion of those desperate, anguished voices came from beneath this road.
This road had never run automatically. It carried people forward not through machinery, but because people beneath it pushed it like cattle and horses.
Beneath the great road, ragged, gaunt people with lifeless eyes pushed it continuously, numb and