After the Freedom Army reorganized into the Revolutionary Army, Dragon's forces began operating across the Four Seas.
For now, the World Government did not take them seriously, merely viewing them as pirates with a bit of ambition.
After all, what they did amounted to little more than petty trouble in the eyes of the World Government. Although the CP Agency and the Marines had launched a series of operations against them, no top-tier forces had taken part.
Dragon had only arrived in the Goya Kingdom some time ago.
The plan to burn down Gray Terminal had not been a spur-of-the-moment decision. It had been decided several months earlier.
When the Goya Kingdom's royal family learned that a World Government inspection delegation would be visiting, they made this decision.
The Goya Kingdom had a severe class divide. The royal family lived in the royal palace, while the nobles lived in High Town surrounding it, separated from the outside world by walls. Beneath those towering walls lay Central Street, where the ordinary citizens lived.
Farther out was Edge Town, where large numbers of the kingdom's lower-class people gathered, along with criminals.
Beyond Edge Town was Gray Terminal, home to those who lived in the Goya Kingdom but were treated as trash by the country.
This had always been the Goya Kingdom's way. Anything unwanted was discarded, and it had once been regarded by many nations as a model for isolating society.
The burning operation was not known only to the King. Everyone in High Town, from the royalty and nobles down to ordinary children, knew about it.
Yet they all tacitly kept silent. Not a single person leaked the news to those in Edge Town or beyond it. Until the flames arrived, the people living in Gray Terminal had no idea what