Even better. It would pour more fuel on an already booming card market.
Hades knew just how popular cards were. In an age when islands were isolated from one another and entertainment was scarce, they were a full-blown phenomenon.
Even islands with thriving entertainment industries could only reach their surrounding waters.
That was the result of many factors.
Of course, the arrival of the Visual Den Den Mushi would change everything. This was only the beginning.
In the future, the "World Diva" would use the latest Visual Den Den Mushi to let the whole world hear her songs in little more than a year, becoming a superstar.
They were still a long way from that! But the world had already begun to change.
Hades had originally established the Heaven Card Company so the era of the Rocks Pirates would not be forgotten.
It had been designed for children from the start, to reach them while they were young.
It had some effect, though not much.
The Rocks Pirates had grown more terrifying and powerful, roaming the world and wreaking havoc across the Four Seas, not just the New World.
They had brought countless crimes and fears that were already etched into people's hearts. How could the World Government erase all that just because it wanted to?
Perhaps it could have managed it at the height of its power.
But it could not do so now.
Beset by troubles at home and abroad, the World Government had no energy to spare for it, let alone the manpower and resources such a worldwide operation would consume.
In an era when the Affiliated Nations held more sway, the World Government could no longer interfere in their internal affairs.
It had considered the idea, but after calculating the cost, it abandoned it entirely.
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