With the Red Hair Pirates joining in, rebuilding Elegia became even easier.
Besides that, after discussing it with Shanks, Uta revealed her identity and the truth about Elegia's destruction ten years ago to the public during a livestream.
As Shanks put it-
"My daughter has no reason to hide who she is."
At the same time, he took the opportunity to explain to everyone else why he had appeared on Elegia.
Compared to the pirates who wanted to capture Uta to threaten Shanks, people like Kaido and Big Mom, who were after Vegapunk, were far more dangerous. If their sole purpose was to deal with Shanks, they would actually have much less interest in Uta.
Speaking of this made Shanks slap his thigh in frustration...
Why hadn't he noticed that when Xie Wen and the others had teamed up to fool him earlier?
Besides, with both the Palico Research Commission's Cat Claws flag and the Red Hair Pirates' Pirates flag flying over Elegia, even Kaido and Big Mom would have to think carefully before coming to cause trouble for Uta.
What's more, Uta was hardly incapable of fighting back herself...
Thinking of his daughter's devil fruit ability, which could make falsehood indistinguishable from reality, Shanks felt both reassured and depressed.
Although Shanks had offered a whole pile of reasons, Xie Wen felt the main reason was still his worry that the scene from "Operation Illusion" would repeat itself, so he had simply made it clear that this place had nothing to do with Vegapunk.
But in any case, after Shanks stepped forward to dispel the rumors, the pirates who had followed him there indeed stayed off Elegia and left them alone. However, they did not turn back immediately either, instead continuing to search outward from Elegia.
Clearly, while they might