At that moment, Sanji charged toward his love almost without hesitation.
By the time Reiju, who had been walking beside him, reacted, Sanji had already darted into an alley and was rushing toward the street on the other side.
Seeing this, Reiju hurriedly set down the ingredients she and Sanji had been picking out, then chased after him, trying to call him back. "Tsk, Sanji, you idiot, what are you doing?"
But at that moment, Sanji's eyes were filled with nothing but the incomparably beautiful mermaid standing at the end of the alley and gazing out at the street.
Ah~ Is this love? That surging, passionate feeling...
However, just as Sanji was about to step out of the alley, the beautiful mermaid was suddenly kicked to the ground by a foot.
The next moment, a fat man in strange white clothing and a bubble helmet entered Sanji's frozen field of vision.
"You lowly Fish-Man! How dare you hurt me? Die, die..."
"I spent tens of millions of Belly to buy you..."
"Don't you understand that serving a Descendant of God is the greatest honor for a lowly inferior creature like you?"
The Celestial Dragon kept cursing as he stomped on the mermaid again and again. His vicious, furious words echoed through the street, while countless civilians knelt on both sides of the road. Behind them stood numerous World Government agents and several Marines.
Yet faced with the Celestial Dragon's violence, the World Government agents and Marines could only remain silent. Those who could not bear to watch turned their heads away, doing their best not to look in the Celestial Dragon's direction.
As for the civilians, they knelt trembling beneath the Celestial Dragon's fury, praying that he would not vent his anger on them and would simply leave the street