Chapter 296: Declaration of War (22)
Chapter 295: Declaration of War
Jaya Island had always developed at breakneck speed, like an engine fitted with rockets. After it became the Empress's territory, the pirates here kept themselves quiet and did not dare stir up trouble, doing nothing but spending money steadily.
Even the occasional troublemaker would be eliminated by bullets fired from who knew where.
Most pirates had no sense of danger. They still thought of the town as some feudal city and could not imagine that Revolutionary Army soldiers capable of shooting people dead were stationed within it. Their weapons were far more powerful than ordinary guns—after Franky moved in, the snipers' rifles had even been fitted with silencers.
With such power combined with silencers, even fewer pirates could survive an ambush.
Once enough people died, the pirates settled down.
They spent money honestly, docked here, and then left. It was not a bad safe haven—as long as safety could be guaranteed, many pirates were more than willing to find a place like this after docking.
After all, finding such a place on the Grand Line was harder than reaching the heavens. Even on the Sabaody Archipelago, there was plenty of slaughter—slave traders worked hard to pick pirates too weak to defend themselves as prey, capturing them and selling them at auction houses as slaves for the Celestial Dragons or slaves for some other allied kingdom.
There were almost no other islands with such a place—a sanctuary where people could spend money and sleep without fearing their heads would be cut off in their dreams.
Naturally, Leo would not let go of a place like Jaya Island, which was practically his own home.
But after the News Bird finished broadcasting Leo's livestream, the people gathered in the square looked at