I Want to Become King

"Dad..."

Sakura jerked upright, drenched in sweat and gasping for breath.

"You're awake."

At the bedside, Gion looked at Sakura with a weary expression and breathed a sigh of relief.

"Auntie, where's Dad?"

Uneasy, Sakura clutched Gion's hand, her eyes full of hope. She desperately wished Gion would tell her that her father was still alive.

"You've been unconscious for a day and a night."

Gion did not answer directly, but her expression already said everything.

Tears fell silently as Sakura hugged her knees and sobbed without stopping.

"Sakura, it's time for you to grow up. Think carefully about it!"

Exhausted in body and mind, Gion patted Sakura's head, rose to her feet, and left the bedroom. Yet when she reached the doorway, she was so distracted that she nearly fell.

The strength she showed on the surface could not conceal the collapse in her heart.

"Dad..."

Curled up by herself, Sakura wept. Mansherry, Conis, Kalifa, and the others came to comfort her one after another, but it did little good.

That night, the starry sky remained as bright as ever.

Inside the ice chamber, Sakura lay beside Hina, her eyes silently fixed on the ceiling.

"Sakura, it's time for you to grow up."

"Promise Dad that you'll find the Life-Life Fruit and revive Mom and Master Doudou. Take good care of Auntie and your little brother for Dad. You must become king, become the Emperor of the Heaven Kingdom!"

"You are my daughter. You need to understand how treacherous this world is. Only strength is truth."

"If Dad is ever gone one day, you must live on strongly."

"Dad wants to conquer the world. But if Dad can't do it, will you complete it for Dad?"

"Remember, you are the Heaven Kingdom's sole heir."

"When Dad first came to