Goa Kingdom.
In the inner city, inside a huge castle.
In a luxurious conference room, a large number of well-dressed nobles are gathering here. Compared to the past, each of the nobles sitting in this conference room looks less good-looking than before.
At the top of the table, the king wearing a crown looked at the nobles who were silent, and his heart was full of anxiety.
"I didn't call you here to keep you silent. Empire is about to call. You should know what you will face!
We must find a way to survive now. I think everyone knows how the nobles in the Empire occupied area are doing now, so now we are all a grasshopper on a rope!"
As the king finished speaking, there was a commotion among the nobles below.
"Your Majesty, it is simply impossible for your Majesty to defeat Empire with our armed forces of the Goa Kingdom. Otherwise... or we surrender! This way..."
However, before the nobleman finished speaking, he was interrupted by an old nobleman standing up.
"Hass, I think you are out of your mind. Do you think Empire will let us go if we surrender!
Unless you haven't killed those untouchables in these years, and you have a good reputation of loving the common people! Do you? Do you think those untouchables Empire imprisoned in your cellar will not be found!"
"Haha, I believe I don't need to explain what will happen to you once Empire discovers you!"
The noble named Hass shuddered. Over the years, his family had taken pleasure in abusing the untouchables. This would have been nothing in the past, but in the occupied area of the Empire, there was no case of such nobles surviving the third day.
"Then... what should we do? Who among you has clean hands? Then we will all die!"
Thinking of death, all the nobles' expressions changed at this moment.
The old noble stood up, his face suddenly brightening and darkening, and it took him a long while to look at the king.
"Your Majesty, at this time, we can only drag more people into the water!"
"Oh! What can the old Duke do?" The king's eyes sparkled and he asked with a bit of expectation.
The old Duke pondered slightly, and after thinking about it in his mind, he spoke slowly.
At this moment, all the nobles' eyes were focused on him, which made the old Duke a little proud.
"Your Majesty, for this plan, we have no choice but to resort to death. Empire doesn't like to use the law to convict people!
Since we nobles are all unclean, why not drag the common people in the outer city to be unclean too! In this way, I don't believe Empire can kill all Goa Kingdom.
Once Empire gives up the law because of the common people, do you think we nobles can also use this to demand fair treatment from the Empire!"
When the old Duke finished speaking, the eyes of all the nobles sitting there lit up.
"But Duke, what should we do?" A nobleman stood up and asked in confusion.
"Jie Jie Jie, you said that that place is what we nobles and commoners hate the most!"
The noble who asked the question reacted instantly, "The old Duke is talking about Trash District!"
"Yes! It's Trash District. When Celestial Dragons was supposed to come over, we decided to deal with Trash District.
But in the end Empire sent people to destroy Mary Geoise. Celestial Dragons was afraid of the Empire and put it aside at this time.
Now that we are facing the threat of the Empire, why don't we continue to recycle waste and let Trash District become a stain that everyone in the Goa Kingdom can't get rid of!"
There was a hint of cruelty in the old Duke's eyes.
The eyes of all the nobles began to look uncertain.
"This is feasible. Those rubbish are useless anyway. Why not let them sacrifice for the kingdom again!"
Soon many nobles agreed to this matter.
Seeing this, the king also showed a relaxed smile on his face, "Okay, then let's discuss what to do specifically!"
The next day.
Goa Kingdom In the outer city area, all civilians were informed by the Kingdom Sheriff to go to the square to vote.
At first, many civilians didn't know what was going on, but after arriving at the square, they gradually understood what the kingdom wanted to do.
It turns out that the kingdom wanted to completely eliminate Trash Mountain and asked them to sign and vote to approve the matter.
Once the consent rate of the entire kingdom exceeds 80%, the kingdom will use its power to burn the entire Trash Mountain with fire and purify the entire Goa Kingdom environment.
Many civilians living in the outer city are ecstatic about this.
Maybe the aristocrats in the inner city are far away from Trash Mountain, and they still can't feel the disgusting smell that the mountain of garbage gives off every day.
However, ordinary civilians living in the outer city endure the rotten stench emanating from Trash Mountain all the time.
This made many civilians complain about Trash Mountain outside the city wall, so they signed their names without hesitation.
As for the living people in Trash Mountain, who would care about them? Originally, those people were the ones at the bottom of their despised chain.
A group of worthless people, living is a waste of air.
In this way, the Trash Mountain elimination plan was soon voted and signed by the Goa Kingdom, and the whole people agreed.
The kingdom also began to prepare for this. After contacting a nearby pirate, the matter was quickly settled.
And because of this incident, Sabo was forcibly taken back to his home by his father again.
At this time, he didn't understand why his father wanted to interfere in his life even though he had already given up on his son.
When he returned home, he looked at the closed doors and windows around him and felt extremely depressed. Ming Mingcai and his two brothers, Luffy, decided to become adventurers together.
Just a few days after he was happy, his father sent someone to threaten Luffy Ace's life and took him home by force, and never allowed him to go out again.
Thinking of this, he only felt that his life was dark, and he was alone, hugging his legs, huddled in front of the window.
He hates the life of a noble, he hates this kind of life where freedom is lost and controlled by others. He wants to escape. He longs for the freedom of adventuring everywhere on the sea.
But how should he get rid of this dirty status.
"Damn it! Damn it! Damn it, if only I wasn't a noble!" Sabo slapped the ground hard.
However, just when Sabo was venting his anger, the closed door suddenly opened.
An extremely ugly face was secretly looking at him through the crack in the door.
"Who is it!" Sabo looked up suddenly.
"It's you... what are you doing here? Shouldn't you be trying to please your father at this time?" Sabo shouted angrily at the big face outside the door.
"Haha! Brother, it seems that you are not willing to accept what you are going through now! As a younger brother, I just want to come and comfort you. After all, who calls you an older brother?"
"Hmph! You came here to see my joke, right! Stelly"
Sabo hates this adopted brother who has short blond hair and is extremely ugly.
Because this adopted brother is extremely hypocritical, just like all the nobles in this country, his hypocrisy is disgusting.
"Oh! Oh, brother, I am a good boy, why would I come to see my brother's jokes?
Brother, you don't know yet, but your favorite Trash Mountain will be burned to the ground by a fire tomorrow. Brother, aren't you very happy to hear this news?"
Stelly said with a sinister smile.
"What!" Sabo suddenly opened his eyes wide, stood up and grabbed Stelly's collar.
"How is that possible? Stelly Where did you hear this news?"
Stelly looked at the furious Sabo and immediately made a scared expression.
"Don't you know, brother? This is something that the entire kingdom knows!"
"Impossible... impossible... there are still so many people living there! How could the kingdom be burned down like this!"
Sabo let go of Stelly and took a step back in disbelief.
"Onii-chan, are you sure the people living in Trash Mountain are people, not garbage!"
"Asshole! Asshole! I've had enough of this country full of evil. I'm going to save Ace, Luffy, and I'm going to stop their atrocities!"
After saying that, Sabo suddenly pushed away Stelly who was standing at the door, picked up the steel pipe placed aside and ran towards the door.
Stelly was pushed hard by Sabo and fell to the ground. He stood up and rubbed his butt, revealing a sinister smile on his thick lips.
"Haha, brother, don't come back after leaving this time! I will inherit everything from you."
After saying that, he closed the door gently, as if nothing happened, returned to his room, lay down at the window, and silently watched Sabo rushing out of the mansion.
"What a stupid and lucky guy, but that's the end of it!"