Paros Island, at a luxurious estate.
"So you're here too, Loki, Teach."
At Hades's invitation, Linlin entered the estate with her two sons, Typhon and Katakuri. She spotted two familiar figures at once, waved, and greeted them with a warm smile.
A calculating gleam lurked in her eyes. Both Loki, the Prince of the Giant Tribe and its strongest warrior, and Teach, the "Black Emperor," were men she longed to marry into her Family.
She hoped to bear exceptional children.
Of course, she could only dream about it.
"Looks like you were invited too. But are we the only ones?" Loki asked, rubbing his chin as a glint flashed through his eyes.
"This doesn't seem like an ordinary banquet. Something important must be going on."
As the cleverest of the Giant Tribe, he had already sensed something unusual about the invitation.
The moment he arrived, he could tell this was no simple banquet.
Only their three factions were here. By rights, the other Sea Emperors should not have missed it either.
The invitation itself had hinted that this was no ordinary gathering, so they had brought few people with them.
But what could possibly involve all three factions?
After all, they had no significant ties to one another.
Neither Linlin nor Loki could refuse an invitation from Hades.
The same went for Teach.
In the past, neither he nor the Black Emperor Pirates had had any connection to the Kronos Kingdom or the Pluton Pirates.
For Teach, receiving an invitation from Hades was an honor in itself.
After all, he had grown up hearing tales of Hades.
Everyone had someone they admired when they were young, and Teach was no exception.
To him, Hades was a figure of legend.
In all those years, Teach had seen him only once, at