"Lord Mu Chen, I did everything you asked. Could you let me serve you?"
Shalria raised her head, her eyes gleaming with a sickly light.
Mu Chen had not expected Shalria to make such a request.
Damn it, I'm not a Celestial Dragon. I can't do something like that. We'll see how you behave from now on. If I find out you're capturing slaves, I'll never see you again.
Mu Chen left only those words behind before walking straight out of the room.
Watching Mu Chen's departing back, Shalria called out, "All right, Minister Mu Chen. I'll behave myself from now on!"
Hearing that, Mu Chen felt as though he had found himself a mother. Why was she so hard to deal with?
Sure enough, not a single Celestial Dragon was normal.
Inside the strategic conference room at Marine Headquarters, Sengoku held the slave emancipation order signed by Shalria.
"Mu Chen, do you know how many calls of accountability the Five Elders just sent me?"
He slammed the document onto the table, making brown ripples splash across the coffee in the teacup.
"They said the dignity of the Celestial Dragons has been trampled."
Although the Five Elders did not know that Shalria had been spanked by Mu Chen, they simply could not understand why she had released so many slaves for no reason.
The only thing they could think of was whether Mu Chen had done or said something to Shalria.
Leaning against the window like nothing had happened, Mu Chen looked out at the sea while flexing his somewhat swollen right hand. Remembering the teeth-grinding sensation of slapping Shalria, he could not help but frown.
"Marshal Sengoku, offending those people wasn't my intention. I just wanted to do a good deed."
"That's not the point. The point is that