Weakness

Princess Otohime had not finished speaking when King Neptune hurriedly stopped her.

Neptune wore an utterly ingratiating smile as he half-covered his mouth and whispered into his wife's ear.

"Hey, wait, Otohime. We agreed... as long as we sent them away..."

Only then did Otohime bite her teeth in frustration and stop speaking. She sat back down.

Tiger frowned instead.

Not only was he a member of Fish-Man Island.

It was also because of what Otohime had said.

If she had said it about other pirates, or in some other setting, Tiger would not have had any objections.

But at this moment, saying such things in the banquet hall of the pirate crew he belonged to—

It was a provocation against his crew, against his companions, and against Ye Mu, their captain.

So Tiger made no attempt to conceal his anger and slammed his fist heavily onto the table.

"Princess Otohime, I can't pretend I didn't hear that!"

In an instant, the banquet hall's originally false atmosphere of merriment shattered, and everyone grew tense.

"Big Brother Tiger!"

Jinbe called out to Tiger nervously, while Arlong watched with an expression of amusement.

King Neptune hurriedly reached out and stood in front of his wife, his face filled with anxiety as he explained.

"I'm sorry... Otohime didn't mean it that way... It's just that there have been far too many pirates appearing on Fish-Man Island recently... That's why she has some resentment toward pirates..."

That was definitely not the main reason.

The true reason was that although Fish-Man Island was located ten thousand meters beneath the sea, they still knew about some of the things happening in the surface world because of the pirates who came there.

As one of the members of the World Government's allied nations, Fish-Man Island—which wanted to