"It's fine!" Shiryu lied through his teeth with his eyes wide open. "Standing lets me remain in a State of Readiness at all times. If anything happens, I can react immediately!"
As he spoke, Shiryu's gaze carried a hint of killing intent as it drifted toward the young man from the Intelligence Department. The youngster's legs instantly went weak, and he nearly burst into tears and cried, Big brother, we're on the same side! Don't do anything reckless!
"Me too!" Smoky immediately followed Shiryu's lead, her eyes flashing with open ferocity as she stared directly at the young man.
Ronglin slowly rose to his feet, blocking the killing intent they had unleashed. The young man's heart pounded as though he had crawled out of hell, and he turned around and fled in a panic.
"Keep a low profile, you two!" Ronglin said helplessly. "People used to come chat with me all the time, but now you two spend every day either releasing Haki to intimidate people or using killing intent to pressure them. Even King of Ashil doesn't dare come report to me in person anymore! If you like spacing out, then just space out. Why do you have to give off an aura while spacing out?"
Shiryu and Smoky: "..."
Ronglin gently stroked the conference table and said, "You're both so powerful that ordinary people who don't understand you are already filled with fear toward you. If you release even a little more killing intent, their fear of you might end up being transferred onto me!"
Smoky asked in confusion, "Using intimidation against subordinate forces, forcing them to submit to the leader's pressure, then making them unconditionally obey any command issued by the leader—isn't that how rulers who dominate a region govern?"
Ronglin sighed helplessly. "That's the way pirates