In the center of town, atop a raised platform.
The host's voice rang out once more:
"Now, if you haven't heard of them, you don't deserve to call yourselves World Nobles!"
A spotlight shone on the other side of the platform.
There, more than a dozen iron cages were wheeled out.
"Besides the Buccaneer Tribe children, this year's competition features another kind of super-rare 'rabbit.'"
Excitement colored the host's voice:
"Found at last, after 800 years—the Davy Clan!"
"So those are the Davy Clan!"
The Celestial Dragons below were stunned for a moment, then erupted into an even more frenzied reaction.
"Davy?!"
"The clan that supposedly fought alongside Joy Boy?!"
"Weren't they wiped out ages ago?!"
"Capture them! Study them! Dissect them!"
The Celestial Dragons shouted in righteous indignation:
"You belong to a hated clan! No one has ever loved you, not for generations!"
"Are you Buccaneers too? Then die alone and in despair!"
"It's too dangerous to let these people live! If we can wipe them all out, today will be a day of celebration!"
The Celestial Dragons below jeered and hurled whatever they had in their hands.
Goblets, fruit, even knives flew toward the Davy Clan on the platform.
The slaves in the iron cages had nowhere to run. They could only endure it all in numb silence.
They curled up and used their backs to shield themselves from the flying debris.
Inside one of the cages, Teach's mother clutched little Teach tightly, shielding him from every attack with her own body.
Little Teach stared down at the crowd in terror.
They were a bunch of devils.
Devils dressed in luxurious clothes and wearing ridiculous bubble helmets.
They snarled and waved their arms, twisted smiles on their faces as they trampled all over other people's dignity and treated