The Real Truth?

"I?"

Bada was stunned for a moment, then looked down at his chest. "But I... I can barely hold back the Bullet lodged in my heart!"

"When I go to save the people this time, it will probably be my death day."

"I'm not afraid of death itself, but I'm afraid that after I die, there will be no strong protectors to safeguard the people..."

"If I say the future of the Bass Kingdom includes you, then you will definitely be there."

Kuta looked at Bada and chuckled.

"It's just a Bullet, isn't it?"

"While this might be impossible for most people in this world, it's child's play for me."

Kuta waved his hand dismissively, as if in a Versailles fashion.

"What?"

Upon hearing Kuta's words, Bada immediately raised his head and stared at Kuta excitedly.

"Boss, you... you mean you can help me remove the Bullet?"

After he finished speaking, he looked at Kuta with an expectant expression.

Although I was prepared to die, who doesn't want to live?

He also wanted to build Bass himself, watch these children grow up, and spend time with Lia!

"Um!"

Kuta didn't keep Bada waiting long and nodded firmly.

"Ha ha ha ha!!"

Seeing Kuta nod, Bada couldn't hold back any longer and burst into laughter.

He was laughing for a while, then he started crying again, crying like a child.

No one knows how much he has wanted to personally end the lives of the Pirates on Bass Island over the past few years.

No one knows how much he has wanted to bring the people of Bass back to China over the past few years.

No one knows how he has endured countless nights over the past few years.

He endured humiliation to survive; he was despicable; he was extremely afraid of death; he knelt down more than once.

All for that one bite of food, that one bite to feed the hundreds of frail children and the hundreds of uncles who should have been enjoying their retirement in this boundless, dark cave.

"Ah..."

As he cried, he picked up the wine jar and began to drink it in large gulps.

He was drinking wine, but also tears, and even more so, his powerlessness as king towards Bass.

Kuta looked at Bada quietly and smiled gently.

This guy! Ever since I met him, I've had this feeling of being surrounded by death.

It's like someone who's terminally ill.

On the surface, it seems fine, but inside, it's already rotten and decaying.

To make this guy shine again, we need to not only break his expectations of death.

Kuta leaned back, looking at the lights on the dome.

"We must also break the shackles of the Celestial Dragons and the World Government!"

That's just how the world is for most people!

It's neither glamorous nor fun; instead, it's full of cruelty.

He never expected that the first island they reached on the Grand Line would be home to such a tragic country.

We already know this from what we already know.

The Celestial Dragons took a liking to Bass Lia, the daughter of Bada, and forcibly abducted her.

Bada's wife was killed by one of the Celestial Dragons's subordinates while trying to stop him.

And eight

By the time Da received the news, the Celestial Dragons had already left.

He had to temporarily abandon his wife's funeral and hurry out to sea to catch up with this Celestial Dragons.

Although they eventually caught up with and rescued their daughter, but...

But the daughter had already been branded Slave Mark by the Celestial Dragons.

However, for Bada, this suffering was only the beginning.

What made him even more desperate was that when he returned to Bass with his battered daughter, Bass had been breached by the Navy and the World Government, and the entire Kingdom was engulfed in flames and ruins.

This guy had no time to grieve and could only join the battle. Unfortunately, he was no match for the World Government Spy Organization, CPO, and was left with a fatal scar that could kill him at any moment.

The fire was engulfing the entire Bass.

Severely injured, Bada had no choice but to use his ability to disappear, making himself untraceable to his enemies.

From then on, the Bass Kingdom was destroyed, and Bass Bada disappeared forever from people's memories, as if it had never existed.

Kuta turned to look at the children laughing and playing in the distance, and his heavy heart lifted.

That's just how the world is.

Where there is light, there is darkness.

Darkness, however, is often something that cannot be seen by others.

The only way to protect these frail people is to keep them in the spotlight.

Even World Government have their pride.

He has already figured out how to help this country.

With his mood improving, Kuta grabbed the sake jar on the table and drank it down.

Bang--!

Kuta put down the wine jar, looked at Bada, and laughed, "Alright, alright, stop crying. You're over fifty years old, aren't you ashamed?"

To save the Bass Kingdom, we must first save this admirable Bass Kingdom.

"I didn't cry!"

Bada wiped away his tears and stubbornly said, "It's just sand in my eye."

"Hahaha!! Yes, yes, you didn't cry, you didn't cry."

"Ha ha ha ha..."

"Um!"

"We all know that this underground space is filled with flying sand!"

Ahua pushed up his glasses, staring at Bada with a flushed face, and said in a serious tone, "Look, I'm even crying."

"Ha ha ha ha!"

He couldn't help but burst into laughter as he spoke.

Their loud laughter swept through the underground space like the wind, filling the entire area with joy.

Everyone burst into laughter.

Those who never gave up hope even in the depths of despair deserve to laugh and be happy, not to be sad.

Chapter 18 The Real Truth?

Within the vast space beneath Winter Island, laughter filled with hope.

Inside the Royal Palace on Spring Island, a rally to rally troops was being held.

Pirates, Human Traffickers, and Bounty Hunter from all over Bass Island gathered in the palace on Spring Island.

This filled the entire palace with an atmosphere of tyranny and lawlessness.

Within these auras.

Among them, the figures on a sofa at the head of the palace were the most powerful.

They are respectively.

The captain of the "Hass the Pig" Pigfoot Pirates, with a bounty of 70 million Beli.

Koby Mad Sword Mad Sword Pirates, Captain of the crew with a bounty of 55 million Beli.

He was a well-known Bounty Hunter, nicknamed "Black Gun," who was famous throughout the first half of the Grand Line.

These guys are gathered here to deal with Kuta; the 500 million bounty is enough for them to squander for a long time.

This is also the driving force behind their willingness to form an alliance and fight the enemy together.

The tall, imposing figure, wearing Daikoku mane hat, Haas the Pig, spoke first.

"The Kuta Pirates have a total bounty of 520 million Beli."

A glint of extreme excitement and bloodlust flashed in his eyes. "I don't care whether he killed a Golden Lion or a silver lion!"

"He's just a kid who's only just set sail. With so many of us, taking him down will be a piece of cake."

With that, he arrogantly grabbed a jar of wine, tilted his head back, and drank it down.

"Yes!"

"He's just a kid who's only just set sail! Kill him, and our bounty will increase a lot."

Wearing a large cloak and with a long Mad Sword hanging at his waist, Koby's face was full of madness.

"The Captain's right! They're just a bunch of brats; they're too young to be playing the Pirates game!"

"Ha ha ha ha..."

The room was instantly filled with wild, unrestrained laughter.

Amidst the laughter, there were also some who couldn't laugh at all. These were the people who had been knocked unconscious by Kuta's Conqueror's Haki at the dock and then had their food and money stolen by the Bada gang.

Although they didn't know why they suddenly fainted, they knew it must have been Kuta and his gang who did it.

The fact that such a monster could make so many of them faint silently is something that even the powerful Pigfoot Pirates and Mad Sword Pirates would find somewhat intimidating.

While they were still in a daze, the others around them quickly pulled them along and started eating and drinking heartily.

"Hahaha!!"

"You guys aren't scared out of your wits by the Silver Hair Crew, are you?"

"That's enough!"

"They're just a bunch of brats!"

"With Captain Pig's Foot and Captain Mad Sword, the Silver Hair Crew is just meat on our table; we can eat them however we want."

As they spoke, they glanced at the Black Gun and swallowed hard.

"And there's also Lord Black Gun! Lord Black Gun is a big shot who has shot down more than one Pirates with a bounty of over 100 million!"

Clearly, these two guys had never heard of Golden Lion.

After all, the Golden Lion was active twenty years ago.

Only veteran Pirates, the Navy, and those powerful forces know how terrifying the Golden Lion is.

"Hahaha!!"

"We were overthinking it."

After listening to their companions' words, the Pirates glanced at the three important figures sitting at the head of the table, suppressed their fear, and their eyes turned fierce.

Yes!

With Lord Black Gun, Lord Protagonist, Lord Mad Sword, and so many others around, what are they afraid of?

With so many of them, even the navy couldn't easily annihilate them.