For this city, for this country, she had remained alone to this day.
"Jora, please have faith in your path!"
"If blame must be assigned, it should fall on the World **, on the Celestial Dragons!"
If not for the Celestial Dragons' extravagant greed, if not for the World ** placing itself above everyone else, how could so many pirates have emerged upon the seas? Most pirates were merely ordinary people crushed by the "Heavenly Tribute"
who had ultimately become plunderers inflicting ** themselves.
Had this middle-aged poet known that CP3 had orchestrated this pirate assault on the city, he would probably have angrily taken up his pen to denounce every member of the World ** in verse.
"There's no point arguing about this now. I must join the battle-"
"Activate the 'queen'!"
Watching the stronger pirates slaughter her people at will, Jora, the city's supreme ruler, could no longer stand aside.
Twang-
The strings quivered with a clear, ringing note, and the poet's solemn voice abruptly rose with passion:
"Calamity runs rampant, dark currents stir, and the majestic queen shall enter the battlefield, as graceful as though attending a grand banquet!"
They were deploying their "commander"
already?
The "Cheer-Cheer Fruit"
certainly possessed extraordinary power, but others had to hear its sound for it to take effect.
Even setting aside how Rossi's Calm-Calm Fruit naturally countered this ability, the proclamation ringing across the battlefield alone had all but eliminated the possibility of a surprise attack.
"Cleave the fierce wind, suddenly-"
The sharp sound of tearing fabric cut the verse short.
The clamor on the docks was abruptly torn apart.
Something invisible cleaved through the crowd like a giant plow through the earth, leaving a fan-shaped clearing.
A brawny figure wielding a heavy weapon flew backward, the object in his hands