Under Scarlet Tiger-sama's Conqueror's Haki, the Fish-Men of the Fish-Man District had no ability to resist at all. Their eyes rolled back, and every last one of them passed out.
Hody Jones and his few subordinates were no exception.
Without the boost from Energy Steroids, Hody Jones's strength was quite ordinary. His extremist views did nothing to strengthen his will, either, so as someone who was essentially a foot soldier, he naturally had no answer to Hua Mei Meow's Conqueror's Haki, just like all the other foot soldiers.
Xie Wen had originally planned to kill Hody Jones while he was at it after taking the Energy Steroids, but at the request of Fukaboshi and the others, he left this unimportant fellow for the Ryugu Kingdom to deal with.
As for whether they would ultimately execute Hody or simply lock him up as they had in the manga, Xie Wen honestly did not care.
Even if Hody Jones escaped from prison later and staged another rebellion like in the manga, King Neptune and the others would have brought it on themselves. Xie Wen had already given them every warning he could. If King Neptune still refused to learn his lesson, Xie Wen could hardly force them.
With that kind of time on his hands, he would much rather take the cats on a proper tour of Fish-Man Island!
Of course, before returning to Fish-Man Island, they made a detour to the Sea Forest and found the Poneglyph that had been sitting there all along.
Just as King Neptune had said, this Poneglyph was an apology letter. Its contents were not even as detailed as the information held by the mermaid royal family. But perhaps because of its unusual content, or perhaps because it really was the last Poneglyph to be carved,