Vergo stood at a distance, quietly observing. He stood in stark contrast to the sea of cheers around him, like a traveler detached from the world.
"This man really knows how to stir people's hearts. He's completely different from the Marines I saw on the Grand Line. Doffy was right. This guy... is dangerous!"
"Looks like for a long time to come, I'll have to be a Marine who upholds Justice!"
"You... you actually killed His Majesty the King!" The royal officials around them seemed to have short-circuited. They instinctively wanted to loudly condemn him, but the moment they opened their mouths, they met the cold gazes of the people. Their momentum immediately deflated. "K-Killing is bad. Killing is wrong. Um... if there's nothing else, we'll be leaving first."
"Don't let these accomplices get away! Kill them!"
"The Marine sir was right! This is Justice's judgment!"
These royal family members had always been frail, and every one of them still clung desperately to their bundles. If people had not kept falling behind earlier and drawing the crowd's fury, they would have long since been torn to pieces.
Now that they were surrounded by the crowd three layers deep and three layers wide, there was naturally no chance of escape.
The slaughter ended quickly. Suppressed sobbing could faintly be heard from within the crowd, the emptiness and confusion that followed revenge.
The bundles the royal family members had clutched even in death were opened. Inside were treasures dazzling enough to blind the eye—pearls, jade, gemstones, diamond rings, necklaces. They had taken nearly all of the royal family's most valuable possessions.
"Even if it isn't all their wealth, just this much would be enough to make whoever owns it one of the richest people in the world, wouldn't it?"
"The Flevance