Shaya Had Always Been Kind-Hearted Since Childhood—He Couldn't Bear to See Lovers Kept Apart!

"Moria's challenge to Kaido, Moria's defeat, and Kaido slaughtering everyone in Moria's crew except Moria himself—were all of that part of your calculations too, Shaya? You plotted against all of them and ultimately created this situation where Moria had no choice but to rely on you..."

Hearing this, Stussy narrowed her eyes and looked at Shaya as she questioned him.

"Hehe, who could say?"

"Moria and Kaido are both great figures of the seas!"

"Everyone has their own thoughts..."

"How could I possibly predict who they wanted to challenge?"

Shaya answered ambiguously.

"Hehe..."

The more Shaya spoke this way, the more Stussy suspected that he had long since prepared everything—that Shaya had guided Moria into war with Kaido, then profited from the conflict between the two.

"Enough. You've only just given birth, so don't overthink things. You must rest properly! Work can wait; your recovery comes first." Shaya gently stroked Stussy's cheek and said softly, "If your chest feels too stuffy, have the servants find me in the garden..."

"Go on, go on..."

At that, Stussy waved Shaya away, signaling that he could leave.

"Hehe~"

Shaya did not say anything more. He lightly kissed Stussy's fair forehead, then turned and left to continue with his work.

"How can I not be anxious?"

After watching Shaya leave, Stussy clenched the fine silk quilt on her recovery bed.

"That woman Rouge is no pushover!"

"I have to secure more of a foundation for my child before he grows up!"

At that thought, Stussy's eyes narrowed slightly.

Stussy did not even put a young girl like Doll in her eyes. A mere new account should not try playing against a max-level account like her—there was no way she could win...

Stussy had only one enemy in her heart: Rouge!

Rouge was no pushover. She was a member of The D., and the only woman Pirate King Roger had acknowledged in his life. Her methods were certainly not simple.

"Hm? Come to think of it, what was my child's name again?" Stussy suddenly froze. Then, looking at Shaya's retreating figure, she roared, "Shaya, you scumbag! Get back here right now! What exactly is my son called? You still haven't told me!"

"Huh? Was there such a thing?"

Shaya, who was just about to step out the door, froze.

As for Stussy calling him a scumbag, he simply ignored it...

For a Celestial Dragon, that word was clearly a compliment.

"His name is Hathaway, Hathaway the Flash!"

Shaya turned around and smiled at Stussy.

In the days that followed...

After seeing Doll off and delivering Hathaway, Shaya ran back and forth between the rooms of Stussy and Rouge...

Such days passed quickly!

Before long, more than half a year had flown by!

The time came to the year 1500 of the Sea Circle Calendar.

It was worth mentioning that Shaya's nominal child Ace and his true eldest son Amuro were both already one and a half years old. Both children were very clever. At only one and a half, they had already learned to speak, walk, and even run and jump a little.

Shaya had spared no effort in educating his sons. From a young age, he let the two children absorb and understand everything he did, deepening the bond between them and their father.

Besides that, the companies invested in and controlled by Shaya, Doflamingo, Crocodile, and Moria had also achieved considerable results throughout the Four Seas, already controlling the agriculture and livestock industries of multiple countries...

Moreover, after Shaya raised the Knowledge level on his system panel to level eight through reading, gaining an all-around enhancement...

Shaya's strength had now steadily reached the level of Katakuri, King the Conflagration, and Marco the Phoenix at the beginning of the story—the standard second-in-command of an Emperor's crew...

Everything seemed to be developing steadily.

One day, when Shaya returned from the library, he received an interesting piece of intelligence from Stussy.

"So, Purmerdor bought a very beautiful blonde slave while visiting the lower world, and now he's showing her off everywhere?"

Sitting in the garden with one leg crossed over the other, Shaya took a sip of the red tea in his cup before looking at Stussy beside him and asking softly.

"Precisely."

Stussy nodded lightly. This information had not originally been worth reporting...

It was only because Shaya had recently been asking whether there were any beautiful golden-haired slaves in the Holy Land that she had paid attention and reported it to him.

"What is that girl called?"

Shaya set his teacup on the round table and asked Stussy.

"Back in the lower world, she seemed to be called Stella~"

"But Shaya, you know that once she came to the Upper World and was branded with the Hoof of the Heavenly Dragon, whatever her original name had been no longer mattered..."

"From today onward, she was nothing more than a pretty, fragile ornament belonging to the Celestial Dragons—the descendants of the great gods. That was all~"

Stussy looked at Shaya and spoke with a smile.

"Stella? Interesting. Have CP0 snatch her from that worthless Purmerdor and bring her to me! I want to see her in my garden within half an hour..."

Shaya ordered Stussy.

"My, my, CP0 has no authority to interfere in the affairs of the Celestial Dragons..."

Stussy reminded Shaya upon hearing that.

"Ignore that useless Purmerdor. Just bring Stella directly to me! If he tries to stop you, tell him to come to the Figarland family and demand her back..."

Shaya explained.

"Very well~"

Upon hearing that, Stussy swayed her firm hips and walked out of the garden.

About ten minutes later.

Several CP0 agents in white suits and masks brought a bewildered Stella into Shaya's garden.

"Reporting to Saint Shaya, the woman you requested has been delivered."

After casually tossing Stella onto the garden lawn, the CP0 agents immediately dropped to one knee in Shaya's direction and spoke respectfully.

"Mm. Dismissed."

Shaya waved them away.

"Understood."

Having received Shaya's order, the CP0 agents immediately vanished from this troublesome place.

"Y-you are..."

Stella, like a startled little animal, looked at Shaya nervously.

Shaya ignored Stella outright. To be honest, Stella was rather pretty...

But a slave who had nothing besides her looks was not worth Shaya's notice!

The only reason he had Stella brought here was because he recalled that she seemed to be the White Moonlight in the heart of Gild Tesoro, the man known as the Golden Emperor. Of course, Tesoro himself would be sent to the Holy Land as a slave before long~

Come to think of it, there were quite a few talented people among the Celestial Dragons' slaves! The slaves of the Celestial Dragons and Impel Down could be considered the two greatest gathering places for talent in the world of the Pirate King...

As for Gild Tesoro, the fact that he could develop the Goro Goro no Mi to the point of awakening made him a one-in-ten-thousand talent! If Shaya could win him over, make him serve loyally as his dog, then he would still have some use~

And if not, Shaya was a kind-hearted person. Since childhood, he had never been able to bear seeing lovers fail to be together!

So he could only send Gild Tesoro and Stella, the White Moonlight in Gild Tesoro's heart, on their way together...

Three chapters! Brothers, please keep reading!