Captain of the Kuja Pirates.
Empress of Amazon Lily.
One of the Shichibukai.
Boa Hancock.
At that moment, she reclined languidly on her throne, propping her cheek on one hand and holding a newspaper, creased from repeated reading, in the other.
Her almond-shaped eyes stared fixedly at the newspaper.
There was a trace of curiosity in her gaze.
From time to time, the face of the man in the newspaper flashed through her mind.
A mysterious figure whose very first bounty had reached eight billion.
An overwhelmingly powerful fighter who had killed Akainu in an instant at Marineford.
A... hero who dared to kill Celestial Dragons with his own hands?
The very thought of the word "hero" made Hancock's heart give a violent tremble.
Unlike Luffy, who had previously beaten up a Celestial Dragon at the Sabaody Archipelago, Pero had killed the Celestial Dragons outright, without hesitation.
Those days in her childhood spent enslaved by the Celestial Dragons were a nightmare she could never escape for as long as she lived.
She hated the Celestial Dragons and wished she could tear them to pieces.
But she could not.
With seastone, the Navy could enter and leave her island freely.
To protect her country and her people, she could only choose to obey the World Government and wear the humiliating shackles of the title "Shichibukai."
Pero's appearance was like a ray of light in her world of unbroken darkness.
He had done everything she wanted to do but dared not.
In her mind, Hancock kept imagining how he had brutalized that Celestial Dragon and how he had wiped out all the Celestial Dragons on Bali Island.
That strength, that courage, filled her with immense delight.
For the first time, they also stirred a trace of an emotion called curiosity toward a