Fleet Admiral Kuzan's decision would, at most, have surprised ordinary people.
But it was an entirely different matter when it reached the ears of the Celestial Dragons living in Mary Geoise.
Normally, the Celestial Dragons would not have cared how the world changed.
But many streets and squares still had screens connected to Visual Den Den Mushi.
After all, ever since the Lott Pirates appeared, they had rarely been allowed to descend from the Red Line.
A live broadcast of an unprecedented war could serve as entertainment over tea.
But after Kuzan's speech, the Celestial Dragons of Mary Geoise realized that things did not seem as simple as they had imagined.
At that moment, the Holy Land Mary Geoise seethed like a pot of boiling water.
Many Celestial Dragons were exceptionally furious.
A male Celestial Dragon with rather distinctive features kept lashing the mount beneath him with a whip.
Crack! Crack! Crack!
He cursed as he did so. "The Navy! The Navy! How dare you do this! We are your masters!"
Although the mount beneath him was furious, he silently endured it.
At the same time, he secretly cheered Peach Spring on.
He did not know what sort of organization Peach Spring was, nor whether it would be even more vicious than the World Government.
He knew that as long as the World Government was defeated, he might be rescued.
And his task now was simply to hold on until then.
In a square elsewhere, many Celestial Dragons were discussing this development.
"Peach Spring? What gives them the right to live in the same world as us? Send word to those agents to conquer Peach Spring as soon as possible. It has been ages since we went down there. We don't even have enough women at home anymore," an old