"Tch..."
Ye Chen shot him a disdainful look. If Kuro hadn't stepped in to talk him down, he wouldn't have minded testing himself against Ross.
"Take them away."
Ross waved a hand, and several Demon Gate Guards charged over.
Sanji hesitated, but in the end, he had no choice but to hand them over.
That brought the matter to a close, but everyone on the street looked at Ye Chen and the others with hostility. When Ye Chen tried to buy a drink, the vendor flatly refused to sell him one.
"Get lost! I'm not doing business with you. You killed a Holy Warrior. You're an enemy of the Ala Kingdom."
"An enemy?" Ye Chen didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Sanji was still worried about Donna, and without stopping to exchange pleasantries with Ye Chen, he followed Donna and her mother.
After that, wherever Ye Chen went, people on the street pointed and whispered. It made him deeply uncomfortable. He would rather have fought an enemy outright, but these were ordinary people. No matter how much they hated him, he couldn't attack them.
By noon, even finding a meal proved impossible. He entered several restaurants, only to be rudely thrown out of each one.
Ye Chen was furious, and his stomach growled in protest.
Then he saw a father and son enter a restaurant. Neither wore a black cloak, so they clearly weren't followers of the Demon Gate. Before long, they too were thrown out. The little boy was so hungry he was skin and bones, and his father dropped to his knees, kowtowing again and again as he begged.
"Get lost! Stop interfering with my business." The restaurant owner stormed out with several burly men behind him. Without another word, they beat the father and son.
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