Inside the solemn, majestic Palace, upon the lofty Throne.
"You handled the mission well, Owl."
Hades glanced at the photographs before him, a hint of amusement lurking in his eyes.
The photographs showed the corpses of Mosquito Girl and Locust Man. Both were thoroughly dead, with no possibility of survival.
A mysterious figure stood below, clad in a black robe and wearing a mask.
This was Owl, the new Hell Commander-in-Chief following Dove's resignation, a Mythical Zoan Ghost-Faced Owl Devil Fruit User and one of the Kingdom's Top Combatants.
As the Kingdom's Hidden Forces, he and the members of Hell handled many affairs that could never see the light of day.
This time, he had personally stepped in as a safeguard to prevent the World Government's operation from failing.
Just as he had anticipated, the government's operation had not gone smoothly.
Although they had successfully killed Locust Man, Mosquito Girl might have escaped if Owl had not intervened.
After all, Mosquito Girl posed a far greater threat than Locust Man.
Locust Man could not even enter the Kronos Kingdom, let alone bury locust eggs there to unleash a plague.
Even if he actually managed it, the Kronos Kingdom could locate those eggs immediately and destroy them all before the plague began.
Mosquito Girl was different. She could unleash a terrifying Blood Mosquito Calamity in a very short time.
The World Government had already paid a heavy price. With that lesson right before their eyes, how could they let her go so easily?
Then Hades turned to another figure.
"Dixiu, how did it go?"
Dixiu was Hades's son.
He was now the Commander-in-Chief of Netherworld. This time, he too had a special assignment, one even more important than Owl's.
He also wore a black robe, something of a standard uniform in