Shaya: Sister-in-law, please behave yourself!

On the warship.

Inside Shaya's luxurious cabin, Stussy and Rouge sat quietly on the soft sofa, savoring the plush experience brought by the top-tier couch worth tens of millions of Berries behind them~

As for Shaya, he sat calmly before Stussy and Rouge, holding two exquisite jade plates worth over a million each, gently placing them beneath the women's feet...

Yes, at this moment, Stussy and Rouge had their bare feet resting on the trays on the tea table, their crystalline 'jade toes' displayed for Shaya, a Celestial Dragon, to properly 'fondle' and 'appreciate'~

Shaya gazed at the 'edible'-grade 'jade feet' before him, feeling something was still lacking. So he turned and walked to the cabin window, opened it, letting the sunlight from outside stream in, landing precisely on the trays atop the tea table~

Thus, under the golden sunlight, the two women's flawless, plump jade toes sparkled like treasures in the light...

It truly carried a hint of the poetic meaning—large and small pearls falling onto a jade plate~

Mm, the ancients spoke true; they did not deceive me!

Then, with no one around, Shaya pulled out the contract Roger had signed and quietly admired it in the sunlight streaming through the window~

If someone looked from the window behind Shaya at that moment, they would surely think he was constantly fondling Stussy and Rouge's pristine ankles, never suspecting he was reviewing the contract in his hands.

Mm, Shaya was always this steady in his actions.

"..."

Shaya flipped through the documents in his hands. The main contents were largely the same, with no strange traps hidden within!

Only in the clause regarding inheriting Roger's legacy did Shaya slyly play a trick. He didn't write 'inherit Roger's legacy'—he wrote 'inherit the legacy of Roger and the Roger Pirates'...

Inheriting Gol D. Roger's legacy versus inheriting the legacy of Gol D. Roger and his Roger Pirates—on the surface, it was just a few extra words, but in reality, the difference was vast!

Roger represented only Roger as an individual, but the Roger Pirates represented the entire crew led by Roger! This included, but was not limited to, Roger's remains after death, his blade Ace, his personal savings, ahem...

Even Douglas Bullet, 'Dark King' Rayleigh, 'Red-haired' Shanks, 'Buggy the Clown', and Gaban, who alongside Rayleigh was Roger's right hand—strictly speaking, they could all be counted within the Roger Pirates~

Of course, even if Shaya approached these living men with this contract, it wouldn't mean much. Rayleigh and the others were all great figures of the sea; they wouldn't give their lives for a contract out of love for their captain. None of them were fools...

Shaya's true purpose in holding this contract was to 'legally' and 'rightfully' take over Oden's assets. After all, while Rayleigh and the others weren't fools, Oden was...

Oden wasn't just a fool—he was a fool-boy, commonly known as a big fool 'bastard'~

As for Oden now, Shaya calculated the timing—he had likely already returned to Wano Country. Unfortunately, back when he willfully abandoned his people and chose to sail with Edward Newgate, Whitebeard, this country had already ceased to belong to him. Under the collaboration of Kurozumi Orochi and Kaido of the Beasts, the entire Wano Country had changed hands~

As for Oden, he was probably still dancing naked~

Shaya had no intention of helping Oden. For a fool like Oden, Shaya had only one phrase to offer him: "Keep dancing your damn dance!"

Shaya only wanted to take over Oden's assets...

Lady Toki, Hiyori, and Teacher Kaido's filial daughter, the 'Oni Princess' Yamato~

"Lady Toki, you wouldn't want your son Momonosuke to die, would you?!"

"Hiyori, you wouldn't want your brother Momonosuke to die, would you?!"

"Yamato, you wouldn't want to fail to inherit Oden's will, would you?!"

"Oden was a member of the Roger Pirates. I am the inheritor of the Roger Pirates. So Oden's widow, and Oden himself who calls himself Yamato, should naturally be taken over by me..."

One had to admit, Shaya's reasoning was well-founded and flawless.

For now, Shaya would let Oden dance naked for a few years, then be made into 'Sukiyaki' by Kaido and Kurozumi Orochi first...

As for Wano Country~

A country that felt obtrusive!

Forget it, let it simply vanish from this sea!

The entire Wano Country had a giant cross drawn over it on Shaya's mental world map! Once Vegapunk's Holy Mother's Flame was completed, it would be perfect to use Wano for an experiment!

Didn't Wano dislike contact with the outside world? Then let it simply stop contacting the outside world—disappear from this sea altogether!

As for the 'Pluton', one of the three Ancient Weapons hidden beneath Wano, bearing the name of a god, Shaya would take it over himself...

"Fate? The Nine Red Scabbards?"

"Ridiculous! If in twenty-five years, even your country no longer exists, then your so-called prophecy becomes nothing but a huge joke, Kozuki Oden..."

Shaya sat before the two women, toying with the jade beads on the table while a slight smirk curled at the corner of his mouth. If any of the Five Elders familiar with Imu saw Shaya at this moment, they would surely feel a chill run down their spines, a cold dread settling in...

Because at this moment, Shaya's icy eyes were no different from Imu, the master of the Void Throne! Both were equally lofty, treating all things as mere straw dogs!

Outside the window.

Occasionally patrolling Marine soldiers and World Government officials, as they passed by, naturally caught sight of Shaya, 'debauched' and 'indulging in daylight lechery'...

At this, every time, these righteous Marine soldiers and World Government officials would curse: "Damn Celestial Dragon! Scum of society! Filth of the world! Damn, I envy him—why was he born into such a good life?!"

Yes, when someone is reborn as a Celestial Dragon~

They go through several stages: first hating Celestial Dragons, then becoming a Celestial Dragon, and finally surpassing Celestial Dragons!

If they were Celestial Dragons, they would only play even more wildly than the average one~

It was like a person who had been suppressed for too long—they would always find an outlet to vent their dissatisfaction...

A perfectly normal behavior~

Thus, under Shaya's banner as a Celestial Dragon, they sailed peacefully and safely across the sea for a week, and were now about to return to the Holy Land...

Over the course of this week, whether pirate ships or merchant vessels—anyone who spotted Shaya's flagship would voluntarily yield the way...

On this sea, aside from the brain-dead, there was no one who dared provoke the Celestial Dragons.

It was also on the night before they were about to reach the Holy Land.

Just as Shaya was drifting off to sleep, a soft silhouette carrying a faint orchid fragrance slipped into his room and squeezed into his bedding...

Feeling the tender softness pressed against his back and the damp, warm breath, Shaya furrowed his brow, putting on the air of a righteous gentleman, and whispered softly, "Sister-in-law, please restrain yourself!"

"What you're doing truly puts me, your little brother, in a difficult position..."

"If I actually did something, wouldn't that make me a beast?"

"But if I did nothing at all, wouldn't that make me worse than a beast?!"

Yes, he, Shaya, was a righteous gentleman~

At least, he, Shaya, always thought of himself as a righteous gentleman~

That certain someone named Cao: "What a coincidence! Me too!"

Ahem...

Monday, begging for follow-up reads, brothers!