"Stop shouting."
"Morgan and all your men are now my prisoners."
Wang Shi walked up to Kuro and, with a sharp click, fastened an explosive Slave Collar around his neck.
"Bandage him up!"
Wang Shi gave the Guard Army behind him an order.
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
A large group of guards rushed forward, bound Kuro, added a pair of handcuffs, and carried him away.
Only then did Kaya and Merry finally emerge, trembling with fear.
"Your butler is the pirate Kuro, also known as Kuro of a Hundred Plans."
"I suspect you've been sheltering a pirate. Do you have any excuses?"
Before Kaya could ask about Kuro, Wang Shi had already slapped a grave accusation on them.
An explanation?
There was no such thing as him explaining himself first.
Other people were the ones who had to explain themselves to him, their king!
"Impudent! The man standing before you is His Majesty Wang Shi, king of the Goa Empire!"
"Kneel and answer his questions!"
An official from the Goa Kingdom shouted at Kaya and Merry.
The two immediately collapsed to their knees, their faces deathly pale.
"Your Majesty, please forgive us. We truly didn't know that our butler, Klahadore, was a pirate."
Merry cried out in panic, while Kaya's eyes were filled with disbelief.
Their kind and gentle butler, Klahadore, was actually a pirate?
"Since you're ill, I'll let you off this time."
"Once you've recovered, report to the Goa Empire. My queen happens to need a group of female attendants."
Wang Shi spoke coolly. He didn't pursue the matter any further and simply turned to leave the mansion.
He was in a hurry to attack the Moonlight Kingdom. He had no time to waste on Kaya, a wealthy young woman.
Once he conquered the Moonlight Kingdom, all it would take was a single order.
Kaya would have to answer the call to the palace.
That was how overbearing he was!
As the Guard Army and bounty hunters followed Wang Shi away in grand style, Kaya and Merry, who had been about to explain themselves, stood there in a daze.
"It's all right now, Miss Kaya."
Merry let out a breath, as if he'd just escaped death.
The ferocious looks from the guards and officials had nearly scared them to death.
"Once I've recovered, I'm supposed to report to the Goa Empire?"
"Was he talking about me?"
Kaya asked Merry beside her, utterly bewildered.
"Miss, it sounds like the Goa queen needs some female attendants."
Merry answered cautiously. He hadn't expected a king to summon Miss Kaya when she was ill.
"Female attendants?"
Kaya furrowed her brows. What was she supposed to do? She didn't want to leave Syrup Village.
But for now, all she could do was take things one step at a time.
After all, they couldn't stand against a king.
On the way back to the harbor, Wang Shi and his group didn't see Usopp anywhere.
That coward had probably gone into hiding long ago.
"Set course for the main island of the Moonlight Kingdom!"
Wang Shi wasted no time. He had to conquer these kingdoms before the surrounding nations and the World Government could react.
Even Vinsmoke Judge had managed to conquer four Affiliated Nations in the North Blue and kill all four kings in a short time.
There was no reason Wang Shi couldn't take four kingdoms in the weakest sea, the East Blue.
Besides, the commanders of these Marine Branches were all useless.
They were all wicked colonels who deceived their superiors and oppressed the common people.
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
The four warships sailed out of Syrup Village's harbor and made for the Moonlight Kingdom's royal city.
Half a day later.
Jango, Sham, Buchi, and the other slaves served as a suicide squad, joining Eric and Van Augur as they stormed the Moonlight Kingdom's royal city.
After Wang Shi once again exiled the Moonlight royal family, who had resisted fiercely, the title King of Exile began spreading like wildfire among the Guard Army and bounty hunters.
On one of the islands belonging to the Moonlight Kingdom, Wang Shi discovered a small island called Shimotsuki Island.
It caught his attention.
He hadn't expected Usopp and Zoro to be from the same country.
But Wang Shi had no time to land on Shimotsuki Island. He was busy with his wars of conquest.
Another three days passed.
The neighboring Organ Kingdom also fell to the Goa Kingdom's army.
Wang Shi exiled the Organ royal family as well.
However, Wang Shi didn't find the Buggy Pirates in Orange Town, in the Organ Kingdom.
It seemed Buggy, whose luck was bolstered by Conqueror's Haki, had escaped disaster.
Wang Shi had conquered three kingdoms in a single week, setting the entire Goa Kingdom abuzz.
Nobles and officials of every rank, and even the common people of the Goa Kingdom, eagerly joined the empire's campaign to take over the three kingdoms.
By the time the World Government began paying attention to the Goa Kingdom's latest war of expansion, Wang Shi's fleet of conquest had already entered the Konomi Kingdom.
His pretext was that the Konomi Kingdom had slighted King Wang Shi and Queen Sally by sending only "one hundred thousand in gifts and ten thousand catties of oranges."
When the Goa Kingdom's fleet broke through the Konomi Kingdom's royal city, Captain Nezumi of Marine Branch 16 began to panic.
He immediately reported Wang Shi's brutal actions to Marine Headquarters.
He hoped Marine Headquarters would stop the Goa Kingdom and Wang Shi's reckless expansion.
Captain Nezumi was genuinely afraid that Wang Shi might discover his partnership with Arlong.
He knew that Captain Morgan of Marine Branch 153 had been captured by Wang Shi.
At Marine Branch 16.
"That's right, the brutal king of the Goa Kingdom has already exiled the kings of four kingdoms. In the East Blue, people are calling him the King of Exile."
"He also arrested Captain Morgan of Marine Branch 153 for no reason at all. He's openly defying the authority of the Marines!"
"Wang Shi is utterly lawless!"
"His heinous exile of four kings is just as evil as Vinsmoke Judge's Four-Nation Slash in the North Blue!"
Captain Nezumi gave a grave report into the Den Den Mushi, making Wang Shi sound almost like a tyrant or a great pirate.
At Marineford, Marine Headquarters.
Fist Garp was in Sengoku the Buddha's Fleet Admiral's Office, stealing rice crackers.
Hearing that the Goa Kingdom was expanding unchecked, Garp furrowed his brows.
He didn't want his hometown to become a kingdom at war.
"What kind of trash is this new king? He's dragged my hometown into a war!"
"King of Exile? I'll teach him a lesson with the Fist of Love!"
Garp cursed and immediately took out a Den Den Mushi to ask Slap, the mayor of Foosha Village, how things were going.
He wanted to know whether the flames of war had reached peaceful Foosha Village.
When he learned that Foosha Village had been unaffected, Garp's anger still didn't subside.
"Sengoku, I'm going back to the East Blue! I won't allow more conflict to break out in the peaceful East Blue."
"Besides, didn't that king capture a Marine colonel? I'm going to teach him a lesson."
Garp said as he made to leave the Fleet Admiral's Office.
"Stop right there, Garp!"
"The Goa Kingdom has legally applied to the World Government to annex the three kingdoms!"
"Also, the Goa Kingdom's officials have already reported the matters involving Captain Morgan and Kuro of a Hundred Plans."
"Before Captain Nezumi even filed his report, the Goa Kingdom had already provided evidence of his protection of the Arlong Pirates."
Sengoku the Buddha rubbed his forehead. This new king of the Goa Kingdom had a real knack for doing things by the book, leaving him no room to interfere.
The World Government had already approved the Goa Kingdom's military action.
Sengoku had guessed that the Goa Kingdom must have reached an agreement with the World Government over the Heavenly Tribute.
That was why the World Government had let them proceed at every turn.
With the disgraceful cases involving Captain Morgan and Kuro of a Hundred Plans, as well as Captain Nezumi and the Arlong Pirates, Sengoku couldn't interfere in the Goa Kingdom's affairs.
He even had to thank Wang Shi.
He was grateful to Wang Shi for helping the Marines eliminate these corrupt elements.
Meanwhile, Big News Morgans had finally begun paying attention to Wang Shi's feat of "exiling four kings."
It seemed he'd discovered another evil king like Vinsmoke Judge.