New World, Dressrosa Kingdom.
The royal palace, Scarlett's bedroom.
A crimson line sliced through the air, sending ripples through space as it opened a folded spatial doorway. Sephiroth, a long sword in hand, stepped out from within.
He glanced around the bedroom and found that Scarlett was not there.
So Sephiroth opened the bedroom door and walked out.
He had barely passed through two corridors when he ran into King Riku, who was approaching from the opposite direction.
"Good morning!"
Sephiroth raised a hand and greeted him with a smile.
However...
Faced with his smiling expression, King Riku merely darkened his old face and gave an indifferent "Mm!" before brushing past him without looking back. He could not even be bothered to exchange a few pleasantries.
As for the reason...
Recently, King Riku had discovered that his two precious cabbages had both been rooted by the same pig!
What was more, that pig had also gone around rooting other people's precious cabbages!
As for who that pig was, King Riku would not say. He did not even want to mention him.
If not for the fact that the pig had rendered great service to the Dressrosa Kingdom back then and had saved both of his daughters, he would have drawn his sword and charged forward...
Even if he knew he could not win, he would still splash the other man with blood!
Compared to King Riku's outright disregard, Queen Riku had reacted in the complete opposite way...
The queen knew full well that both of her daughters were the sort who, once they set their minds on something, would stubbornly see it through to the end. Thus, after discovering that her attempts at persuasion were useless, she changed her attitude toward the matter.
Now, whenever she saw Sephiroth, their conversations