Don't Ask, I'm Pregnant

Just after Shaya left Rouge's room...

Stussy, dressed in a white suit jacket and high heels, her golden hair falling in big waves, walked toward Shaya.

"Stussy..."

Shaya looked at Stussy, one eyebrow lifting slightly.

"I'm pregnant~"

Upon seeing Shaya, Stussy first smiled faintly, then pulled a pregnancy test out from beneath her white skirt. Yep, if you asked, she was pregnant~

"Huh?"

Shaya's eye twitched slightly as he looked at the pregnancy test in Stussy's hand.

"How many months?"

After a long moment, Shaya sighed and asked in confusion.

"About two months~"

As Stussy spoke, she did not forget to shoot Shaya a flirtatious glance, her little gesture carrying a hint of seduction.

"Go take good care of the baby~"

Looking at Stussy's teasing expression, Shaya stepped close and pulled her into his arms, planting a light kiss on her cheek. Then he called over a passing servant and had them take Stussy to the Figerland family villa for a proper rest...

"Don't worry! My constitution isn't as weak as you think~"

After hearing Shaya's words, Stussy gave him a sweet smile.

Then Stussy looked at Shaya and asked, "Come to think of it, aren't you at all curious about how I've stayed young all these years?"

"Just don't make trouble for me..."

"I'm not interested in the secret to eternal youth. I'm interested in immortality. When Vegapunk can mass-produce immortality surgeries, remember to let me know..."

Shaya spoke to Stussy with a calm expression.

"Hmph, you really don't know how to make a girl happy~"

Stussy could not help but snort after hearing Shaya's words.

"At your age, you can't call yourself a girl anymore..."

Shaya yawned and continued walking ahead.

Before long, Shaya arrived at a courtyard filled with flowers and plants. A middle-aged man with his hair plastered with pomade and combed into the shape of a crescent moon sat in the garden, admiring the flowers while swirling the crimson wine in his glass.

"Shaya..."

Upon seeing Shaya, the middle-aged man could not help calling out to him.

"Oh? Isn't this Father? Why have you come home? Could it be that the Divine Knights have had nothing to do lately?"

Shaya turned toward the voice. When he saw the middle-aged man before him, he greeted him with a smile. Yes, that middle-aged man was Shaya's father—the old bastard Garin Saint, now well into middle age.

"Shaya, don't you think you have a few too many children?"

Garin Saint asked Shaya as he swirled the red wine in his glass.

"Isn't that because you and my brother are both so disappointing?" Shaya frowned deeply upon hearing that and snapped, "We are all descendants of The First Twenty, yet the other Celestial Dragon families have all flourished. Every family has at least dozens, if not hundreds, of members! Only our Figerland family is still so sparsely populated! For the prosperity of the family, I'd be willing to marry another hundred wives and have a thousand children..."

"You brat..."

Garin Saint nearly choked on his wine after hearing Shaya's words.

"Hehe, do you think I enjoy marrying wives? What a joke..."

"If I don't marry the younger wives, someone else will!"

"If other Celestial Dragons marry them, it will create new strength for them and new threats to us! Your son has risked his life for the Figerland family, for you and my brother. No matter how many wives I have to marry or children I have to father, I will never regret it. This is all part of my strategy. You wouldn't understand..."

After saying that, Shaya left behind a bewildered Garin Saint and turned to leave.

"Did I misunderstand him?!"

Garin Saint scratched his cheek, the corner of his eye twitching slightly.

"Sigh..."

After Shaya left, Garin Saint sighed helplessly. Shaya married Stussy to establish a connection with Vegapunk, and also to plant his own people within CP0 so that he could secretly control all of CP0. He married Rouge and gave her a proper status for the sake of Ace in her womb, so that he would have a reliable helper by his side in the future who could grow into a top-tier combatant! At the same time, it was to win over Roger's remaining followers and allow him to reasonably and legitimately inherit Roger's legacy~

As for Pirate King Roger, he was the symbol of an era. Calling upon the seas in the name of Roger's son would always draw countless heroes and great men to answer! Just like in the original story, fake Luffy—Demaro Black, the "silver-tongued" one—had been able to easily recruit a group of rising stars at the Sabaody Archipelago in Luffy's name, even though he could not control them himself. Sometimes, such names were even more useful than many people imagined~

Yes, Shaya did not marry women blindly. Did they really think he acted purely on lust?

It just so happened that these women, all powerful figures backed by enormous forces, were exceptionally beautiful and captivating. That was all...

Besides that...

According to Shaya's plan, he could marry Charlotte Linlin's daughter, Charlotte Smoothie, and establish ties with the Charlotte family~ Shaya did not need to make any preparations to marry Charlotte Linlin's daughter. Charlotte Linlin herself was someone who frequently arranged political marriages. Sacrificing a future Sweet Commander in exchange for the support of a Celestial Dragon was a deal Linlin would understand~

He could use the World Government's recognition of Kaido as Wano Country's sole heir and true king as the bride price to marry Kaido's daughter, Yamato, thereby deepening his relationship with the Beasts Pirates~

At the same time, he would have the "Four Great Grain Merchants" under his control provide "unconditional" support to Alabasta, which lacked both food and water to an extreme degree!

On this condition, he would marry Alabasta's sapphire, Nefertari D. Vivi~

He would gain the support of the Nefertari family—the sole surviving descendants of the original Twenty still outside the World Government—as well as Alabasta's military force of over six hundred thousand...

At the same time, if Alabasta was modeled after the Middle East, then surely that thing was slumbering beneath its sands as well, wasn't it?!

In Shaya's previous life, that thing had driven the entire world mad. Known as liquid gold, it had made countless nations fight until their heads were practically smashed in...

Yes, although what lay beneath Alabasta was not the Ancient Weapon Pluton, in Shaya's eyes, given Alabasta's geographical advantages, the thing sleeping underground was no less valuable than Pluton. Its name was—oil~

Although this world had plenty of things that could replace oil, when it came to energy, the more the better~ Who would ever complain about having too much energy?

Everyone knew oil easily bred mold, but this world had no mold~

If he had to name one, then Shaya, as a Celestial Dragon, was that mold!

Sitting bolt upright while on his deathbed, the great powers...

The hegemon was me all along?!

This chapter settled the main plotline~ And while I'm at it, please keep reading, brothers~