You're Not My Type...

At this moment, surrounded by the New Fish-Man Pirates' entire force of roughly one hundred thousand, the powerless citizens of Fish-Man Island dared not speak despite their fury. Some even looked at the photograph beneath their feet with tears in their eyes.

She had clearly been a queen, yet had never put on airs—the gentle older sister who treated everyone like her children.

She had tried every possible means, never retreating before any adversity, holding fast to the fish-men and merfolk's original dream: to live on land.

Even when drunk, she had roared through the Den Den Mushi broadcast without a shred of decorum, weeping as she sought to make that dream come true—to make merfolk, fish-men, and humans cast aside their hatred completely. The hero, Otohime.

"How... how could you insult Queen Otohime, who loved us so dearly?!"

Bang!

Smoke curled from the dark muzzle of the gun. Behind the fish-man man lying in a pool of blood, a New Fish-Man Pirates member stared coldly, his pupils filled with fury.

"Shut up! Queen Otohime is a sinner of the New Ryugu Kingdom. Her ideas are heresy, and her very existence is a crime. Fish-men are the finest race in this world!"

"Anyone who refuses to step on this photograph can say goodbye to the coming New Fish-Man Kingdom forever!!!"

"Well said. Anyone who fails to declare their stance during this ceremony will vanish from this world completely..."

Ikaros, a New Fish-Man Pirates officer sent by Hody Jones to oversee matters, burst into loud laughter. Under the terrifying coercion, countless fish-men and merfolk could only step on Queen Otohime's photograph beneath their watchful eyes.

Meanwhile, the senior officers of the New Fish-Man Pirates were speeding toward Sea Forest when a sharp sound of something cutting through the water came from