"Do you want to go to Holy Land Mary Geoise?" the shop owner asked cautiously. Anything involving the Celestial Dragons called for extra care.
Shin nodded with a smile. "That's right. I have something to take care of. I hadn't planned on bothering with them, but they occupy a place that has something I need."
Hearing Shin speak so casually, the shop owner felt a bad premonition rise within him. Having done business in the Sabaody Archipelago for so many years, he had seen plenty of lawless people, including pirates who had clashed with the Celestial Dragons. But few ever actively sought to go to Holy Land Mary Geoise.
"Uh, it's not exactly above us. In fact, Holy Land Mary Geoise is still some distance away. The Sabaody Archipelago is considered an outlying frontier of the Red Line, while Mary Geoise sits at the very top of the Red Line."
"So I just keep going upward, right?" Shin replied indifferently, already preparing to turn and leave.
But at that moment, a commotion broke out. Amid cries of panic, pedestrians on both sides of the street hurriedly fell to their knees.
"The Celestial Dragons are here! Get down!" The shop owner anxiously dropped to the ground, not forgetting to warn Shin.
Turning around calmly, Shin spoke in a helpless tone. "Well, someone's about to get themselves killed."
The "someone" he referred to was naturally not himself. Who it was went without saying.
A man with a stupid bubble-like helmet over his head strode past with a proud look on his face. He did not so much as glance at the commoners kneeling on either side, while several attendants followed behind him with cautious expressions.
Celestial Dragons! In this pirate world, they were an utterly idiotic existence. Calling themselves descendants of the