"Tell me, what kind of justice do you believe in?"
Gern did not answer Fisher Tiger's question immediately.
Instead, he lifted his fingers from the stone tablet and turned to face him, a faint smile playing on his lips.
Meanwhile, the light of the Sea Forest fell across Gern's face, outlining his sharply defined features.
"Calamity. Calamity Justice," Gern said slowly, every word seeming to carry immense weight.
"It will shatter all the evil in this world."
Fisher Tiger's pupils contracted slightly. He sensed an almost obsessive conviction in Gern's words.
"Only through indiscriminate, large-scale, calamity-level destruction..." Gern continued, his gaze as unfathomable as the deep sea.
"Can civilization be reshaped." He paused and looked straight into Fisher Tiger's eyes. "Isn't that right, Tiger?"
This was also the first time he had explained the true meaning of his justice to anyone in detail.
The reason was simple. The man standing before him...
Was a true "Sun God," a liberator, Fisher Tiger!!
Fisher Tiger met Gern's gaze. In those eyes, he saw something familiar-or rather, the feelings buried deep in his own heart...
Dissatisfaction with the existing order, a longing for change.
But Gern's methods were more extreme, more... dangerous.
"Indiscriminate destruction..." Fisher Tiger repeated quietly, his brow furrowed. "That would hurt innocent people."
"Change has always come with sacrifice." Gern's voice was frighteningly calm.
"Just as you saw while traveling the world, the existing order is rotten to its core.
Gentle reform? That's nothing but a placebo to delay death."
Fisher Tiger fell silent.
He remembered everything he had witnessed in the human world!
The horrors of the Slave Market, the evils of racial discrimination, the tyranny of the Celestial Dragons... every scene was carved into his memory like a knife wound.
"So, that's why you approached Fish-Man Island?" Fisher