Finally.
The tenth day.
Baccarat arrived in Alabasta at a leisurely pace.
For the past ten days, Alabasta's entire upper echelon had been on edge and panicking. The feeling of waiting for death was truly unbearable.
Three days earlier, just to be safe, Cobra had decided to send Vivi away.
Even though she had caused a huge disaster, he still loved his daughter dearly.
At that moment, in Alubarna, the royal capital.
The royal palace.
A group of nobles and ministers knelt in the hall, led by Cobra.
On the throne, Baccarat lazily filed her nails.
"If you knew this day would come, why did you do it in the first place? Begging me here is useless. I'm just a tool sent to destroy Alabasta. The one who gave the order to annihilate your kingdom was Queen of Joy, the Appearance Representative."
"You can only blame yourselves."
Without even giving Cobra a chance to speak, Baccarat's figure faded from the throne. When she reappeared, she was high above the Alabasta Kingdom.
"Alabasta has repeatedly provoked the Richest Group. I am carrying out the order to annihilate the kingdom!"
Baccarat's voice was quiet, yet it carried across the entire capital.
Every civilian looked up.
In fact, many civilians and pirate crews had already left during those ten days.
After all, the news from ten days earlier had caused a huge stir.
The Richest Group wouldn't just pretend nothing had happened. Any day, a sun might fall from the sky, or a sandstorm, or a thunderbolt.
But no one had expected the one to come would be Queen of Luck, one of the Richest Group's three most beautiful women.
No one had heard that Queen of Luck had the power to destroy a kingdom—or, more precisely, to unleash widespread natural disasters. As