"You're being far too presumptuous!" Ronglin's gaze fell on the Empress. "They're nothing but ordinary civilians. How could you be so cruel as to turn them all to stone?"
The Empress sneered and tossed her hair. "I'm so beautiful that even if I occasionally kill a few people, I can still be forgiven!"
Seeing the Empress's seductive gesture and incomparable beauty, the people around them immediately screamed and cheered in response.
Ronglin turned to the Straw Hat Kid, who had just arrived, and said with a cold laugh, "I never expected you to fall so low. You're just going to let her do whatever she wants?"
Luffy looked distressed as he glared at the Empress. "Stop dragging innocent people into this."
The Empress's arrogant expression immediately vanished, replaced by a pitiful look. "But that Marine wanted to capture you! I had no choice but to fight back!"
"Bastard!" Momousagi gritted her teeth. "Then turn all these people back right now!"
"Hmph!" The Empress's haughty expression returned as she looked coldly at Momousagi. "And what if I refuse?"
This Is the Difference!
"Then I'll try killing you and see whether that Devil Fruit ability disappears." Ronglin spoke slowly as he stepped out from beside Momousagi and walked toward the Empress one step at a time.
Momousagi watched Ronglin's back. This man truly was impossible to fathom. There was no pattern to his conduct. Neither righteous nor evil, he was utterly unreadable.
On the surface, he looked lecherous, always seeming to harbor improper thoughts toward her. Yet when these civilians were innocently dragged into this, he immediately stopped caring that his opponent was the Empress, a woman even more beautiful than herself.
So he really is a hypocrite? To preserve his image, he's even willing to lay hands on a beauty! Momousagi's