A Young Woman

"Let's begin." Miming laughed. "I have a mysteriously unwavering faith in your taste!"

"Need to keep in mind the style of the Kingdom of Flowers in the West Blue, as well as the Bird Family traditions. I know." Tesoro understood the theme this time very clearly. Not only could he play around with interior design, but he could also hone his control over the Gold-Gold Fruit. It truly killed two birds with one stone.

Miming also had Cairns go to the harbor to grab the uncle who made West Blue barbecue—oh, no, invite him over. The biggest problem now was the shortage of cooks, so they could only recruit Chef 20 from the vacationing Twenty-Thousand-Li Sunny back into service.

Then there were the servants. They might as well rescue a batch of slaves while they were at it.

Within the Bird Family's empty palace, which resembled an unfinished shell of a house, Stussy, the Queen of the Pleasure District, had her first opportunity in her life to attend upon Saint Sanming.

Miming, meanwhile, watched the young woman before him with considerable interest.

This fashionable young woman, with skin as fair as cream—how old was she really? Stussy, the Queen of the Pleasure District, had been active on the stage of history for decades, yet no one knew her true age. Still, anyone familiar with her name only needed to make a slight deduction to realize that this stunning woman before them was surely an old lady.

Miming also knew her other identity very well. She was one of the emperors controlling the world's underground forces, the World Government's highest-ranking agent, and a member of CP0. On one hand, she controlled the world's largest slave market and brothels spread across the globe; on the other, she supplied intelligence to the government.