"I think they're probably afraid."
Even Kaido felt something was wrong. Many of the people standing at the harbor had long since turned ashen-faced.
By the usual pattern, they would encounter only three kinds of situations.
The first involved ordinary pirates, who would be defeated and badly wounded by the Royal Army.
The second involved pirates with some renown who had made their way into the New World from the Four Blues. They would be defeated by reinforcements from the Marine Branch.
The third involved powerful pirates whom the royal guards could not withstand and whom even the Marine Branch struggled to suppress.
Faced with that situation, they could either scatter and hide in various secret passages or wait to die.
This time, the king had left first through the backup harbor, claiming he was going to rendezvous with the Marine Branch's reinforcements.
In truth, he had pushed the danger onto these ordinary people.
What else could they do? If they could not escape, they could only sit and wait for death.
"Is that so?"
Shane watched the people of the Drum Kingdom as the large ship entered the harbor.
Every one of them was deathly pale, like lambs awaiting slaughter.
"Shane the pirate, we can provide a certain amount of Beli and gold coins, but you must not set foot here!"
The civilians of the Drum Kingdom feared that once Shane landed, he would overturn the entire kingdom.
All they could do was negotiate peace with the pirates!
They were already well aware of everything Shane had done in the West Blue and South Blue.
With no royal guards present and no reinforcements arriving in time, ordinary people like them naturally had to buy their lives with Beli.
"Beli?"
Shane laughed. This ship carried gold brought down from Sky