I only want to be a Shichibukai when I have Bengyu

The Grand Line, the New World.

Bikahi Island.

This is the largest of the twenty-seven islands under the jurisdiction of the Kingdom of Ecmundo, and it is also the island where the capital of the kingdom, Arabica, is located.

The Kingdom of Ekmundo is known as the "Kingdom of Coffee". The coffee beans produced on Bikahi Island alone can meet one-tenth of the market demand of the Great Line. The coffee beans produced on the 27 islands in the country are even more. It occupies nearly a quarter of the market of the Grand Line.

The capital of the kingdom, Arabica, is also known as the "Coffee City".

On the hill just north of this "Coffee City", the palace built of white marble is still brightly lit in the night. The entire hill is as bright as day, and it is in harmony with the sky. The bright moon shines together.

Contrary to the citizens' speculation that the royal family was enjoying a life of revelry and feasting, the entire palace was now immersed in a frightening low pressure.

The maids huddled on both sides of the corridor like quails, so frightened that they did not dare to breathe for fear of disturbing His Majesty the King, who was in a state of rage in the study.

until,

"Ta-ta-ta--" Brisk yet steady footsteps came from the other end of the corridor.

The oppressive and gloomy atmosphere suddenly showed signs of loosening.

"Your Highness Elus."

Seeing the man walking towards him, the head maid hurriedly greeted him.

Her short black hair is neatly styled, her green eyes are as clear as the finest emeralds, and there is no flaw in her handsome facial features. She is 205 centimeters tall and cannot be considered a 'giant' in this world. I can only say no. Considered a short man.

Socacio Eleus.

He is the first crown prince of the Kingdom of Ecmundo, deputy commander of the Imperial Guard, and deputy minister of foreign affairs of the kingdom.

Seeing His Royal Highness the Crown Prince appear, the trembling maids in the corridor suddenly breathed a sigh of relief. As the most merciful member of the Soccachio family, Elus has always been regarded as a life-saving elixir by the servants in the palace.

There is naturally more than one person in this palace who can appease the king's anger, but neither the queen nor the ministers, even the second prince who is only seven years old, and the little princess who is less than six years old don't care much about the servants. Life and death, or in other words, if using the heads of the servants can calm the king's anger, that would probably be a good thing.

He was afraid of comparison in everything, and with enough contrasts, Eleus naturally became the savior in the eyes of the servants.

"Gloria, didn't I tell you? When father loses his temper, stay away and go find mother or ministers."

Elus slowed down his pace and glanced at the head maid who was bending down to salute. The bruise on his forehead was obviously caused by a hard object, and it was very fresh. It was estimated that the injury was no more than an hour old.

"Being AWOL is not allowed."

The head maid Gloria is as stubborn as ever, adhering to the maid code that is said to be passed down from generation to generation within the Soccachio royal family. Elus doesn't know if that thing is passed down from generation to generation, but the maid's copy of the paper is yellowed. The code is definitely more than two hundred years old and can be considered an antique.

"Go to the doctor and get some medicine! This is an order."

As he spoke, Eleus quickened his pace and pushed open the closed door of the study.

As soon as the door opens,

White smoke like clouds poured out.

"Excessive smoking is bad for your health. You are not a smoke fruit user, so don't ruin your heart and lungs like this." All the windows in the study room were opened, and the cold sea breeze poured into the room, and soon the smoke filled the room. Blow away.

"Al, you're back."

The man sitting behind the desk coughed twice, snuffed out his half-burned cigar, and looked at Aleus standing by the window. There was a trace of light on the face that was almost 70% similar to Aleus. The smile, the cold murderous intention that almost surged out before, was suppressed back into the depths of his eyes, leaving only the happiness from the heart in his green eyes.

As the sixth generation king of the Kingdom of Exmundo, [Socaccio Burwell] is most proud of having a son who is a hundred times better than himself.

"Has there been any change in the Whitebeard Pirates?"

"The captain of the second team, 'Chen Horn' Geo, is probably about to die. He is terminally ill. Also, Whitebeard's health is not in good shape. The captain of the first team, 'Phoenix' Marco, is not on the Moby Dick. I heard that I went to look for medicinal materials. The ones in charge of the matter now are the captain of the third division, 'Diamond' Jozi, and the captain of the fifth division, 'Foil' Bista..."

This time Elus went out to the Whitebeard Pirates and paid the protection fee for borrowing the flag.

As a country that has been able to establish itself in the New World for two hundred years, the Kingdom of Exmundo naturally has the corresponding strength.

but,

There is a saying that is widely circulated in today's New World, that is, "The New World is the New World of the Four Emperors." I don't know where it originally came from, but in a short period of time, this sentence has gained the New World. Powerful people from all walks of life agreed from the bottom of their hearts.

That’s right!

The so-called new world is the new world of the four emperors.

If you want to continue to hang out in the new world, you can't do it without the tiger skin of the four emperors. The Kingdom of Exmundo is not afraid of the intrusion of those big pirates with a bounty of hundreds of millions. The kingdom's army is enough to wipe out these pirates who don't know the heights of the world. However, this does not include the Four Emperors.

Facing the four emperors who came to rule the new world, the Kingdom of Exmundo had to lower its proud head and choose one of the emperors to be a vassal.

Only by becoming a vassal of a certain emperor can the possibility of attacks by other emperors be greatly reduced. After all, in this new world, the only ones who can restrain the four emperors are the four emperors. Even the behemoth of the navy cannot fight against it now. The New World competes with the Four Emperors.

Four pirate emperors.

White beard, beasts, red hair, BIG·MOM.

Among them, the first one to be eliminated was [BIG·MOM—Charlotte Lingling]. As the only female pirate emperor, she gave birth to an entire pirate group by herself. She only trusted her original partners and children. , other foreign vassals have no status at all, and if Big Mom takes a fancy to someone and takes them as their husbands, wouldn't it be life-threatening?

Next is [Hundred Beasts - Kaido], this suicidal maniac who cherishes talents, likes to recruit strong people, and never forgets to build an army of pure animal devil fruit ability users is not a bad choice, as long as you are enough If you are strong, you can gain a corresponding status in the 'Beasts Pirates'.

It is a pity that when the Kingdom of Exmundo began to look for a protective umbrella, Kaido was still in the country of Wano and did not know what he was doing. He did not ascend the throne of the Pirate Emperor. At that time, there were only two Pirate Emperors in the New World, one was Whitebeard. One is BIG·MOM. As for the red-haired one, his rise came even later, so he couldn’t choose if he wanted to.

The final choice is self-evident,

The flag of the Whitebeard Pirates hangs high on the port, announcing to the outside world that the Kingdom of Exmundo is nominally Whitebeard's territory.

"Whitebeard is getting old too!"

Burwell sighed softly. He was forty-three years old and in the prime of his life. He had witnessed with his own eyes and ears and heard that the white beard, who was "more terrifying than a ghost", fought his way out of the flesh-and-blood millstone of the New World step by step. The first one to ascend the throne of the Pirate Emperor, like a skyscraper towering over everyone's heads.

However, even such a tyrannical person cannot withstand the passing of time after all...

"What happened to the Amento Kingdom's declaration of war? Are everyone in the Nebry family crazy?" Eleus dragged an armchair to the desk, sat down, and flipped through the pages without any politeness. Get up the scattered documents and letters on the table.

The Kingdom of Amento is a neighbor of the Kingdom of Exmundo and one of the forces under the banner of the Whitebeard Pirates. The Nebry family is the royal family of the Kingdom of Amento. Although there have always been frictions between the two countries, It has not reached the point of direct war.

But the Kingdom of Amento did just that, declaring war unilaterally and brazenly firing at the Kingdom of Amento, starting a war between the two countries.

Elus, who was walking back leisurely, had to speed up and hurried back.

"It's Umit, he's eyeing our coffee plantation."

Burwell said bluntly.

"Umet... the torrent of the deep sea, the king of shipping?" Elus looked down at the document in his hand. This is the declaration of war of the Kingdom of Amento. The wording on it is quite decisive, leaving no room for peace. The room for a strike completely shows his unyielding attitude, "Looking at this, everyone in the Nebri family should be controlled by Umit?"

"More than a month ago, there was no news from the spy we installed in the Nebry family. Before that, the Nebry family recruited a new group of pirates who were willing to surrender. It is estimated that the problem lies with that group of pirates. On my body." Bowell licked his lips, and the murderous intent rolled back into his green eyes.

Recruiting pirates is not uncommon in the new world.

The New World is the end of the great sea route, the end to which all pirates rush. It is also the huge tomb of countless pirates. This sea area filled with strong men can be said to be the nightmare of those pirates with naive illusions. Countless pirates are full of energy. The new pirates suffered a bloody blow in the new world, and their unrealistic fantasies were wiped away by this cold reality.

There are even many pirates who are tired of such a life of drifting on the sea, but they are unable to return to their hometown due to the high bounty on their backs. They can only find a way to survive in the chaotic land of the New World, so they join the local forces. Just the best choice.

As for why he didn't choose the Four Emperors, but instead defected to a second-class or weaker force.

The reasons are very complicated. Some people prefer to be a chicken head rather than a phoenix tail. Others are simply unable to rely on the Four Emperors. Others are out of repayment... and so on.

This time, the Nebri family was unfortunately plotted by the King of Shipping, Umit.

"The protection fee for the Whitebeard Pirates is well worth it."

Elvus threw the declaration of war back on the desk and said thoughtfully.

"The new world is the new world of the four emperors... These words are not empty words. Even the giants of the underground world need to lower their big heads in front of the four emperors." Burwell taught his eldest son about his life. Enlightenment.

"When the old man asked me to go to the Whitebeard Pirates and spend money to buy a flag, there were no Four Emperors at that time, there were only two emperors, Whitebeard and Big Mom, and the beasts were still in Wano... I was I had just taken over the throne not long ago, I was young and energetic, and I was not very happy, but the old man came back from the Red Earth Continent, hung me up and gave me a good beating."

The old man refers to Elus's grandfather, the old king of the Kingdom of Exmundo. Now the abdicated king is in good health and active. He serves as a high-ranking official at the World Government Headquarters in the Red Earth Continent. He is living a very comfortable life. Not long ago Then they found Burwell a stepmother who was said to be less than twenty years old.

This matter...

It makes me uncomfortable just thinking about it. Fortunately, I am in the Red Earth Continent. If I come back to Arabica, God knows what I will do. Anyway, Elus will never be able to call a woman younger than him his grandmother.

Burwell also seemed to have remembered this bad thing, his expression turned a bit worse, and he quickly ended the topic, "Well, anyway, you remember, it is definitely not a loss to spend money to buy the flag of the Whitebeard Pirates. , As long as Whitebeard does not fall for a day, no matter how much money is spent, we must continue to hang that flag."

As a giant in the underground world, Umit is known as the King of Shipping. Such a strong man has set his sights on the foundation of the Kingdom of Ekmundo. Instead of directly going to war with the Kingdom of Ekmundo, he instead uses it in a roundabout way. The reason why the Amento Kingdom took so much trouble to get ahead was because of the white-bearded pirate flag.

Umit did not dare to directly attack the Kingdom of Ecmundo.

Because that was a provocation to the Whitebeard Pirates.

The consequences of this are absolutely unbearable for Umit. Even though he has a wide network of contacts and strong connections and influence in the new world, and he is even a guest of Big Mom, one of the four emperors. However, all of this adds up. Neither can resist the pressure from "the strongest man in the world".

Fortunately, difficulties are dead and solutions are living. As long as your thinking does not slip, there will always be more solutions than difficulties.

After some careful calculations by the King of Shipping, wouldn’t the Kingdom of Amento, which is also protected by the Whitebeard flag, declare war on the Kingdom of Exmundo?

This is an internal struggle between Whitebeard's forces. As long as there is no clear evidence of manipulation by a third party, the Whitebeard Pirates will not manage this kind of struggle. Anyway, no matter who loses or wins, the protection fee that should be paid is It cannot be less.

Even if Umit succeeds in usurping the Kingdom of Exmundo, he will never reduce the protection fee for the Whitebeard Pirates, and may even increase it on his own initiative.

"Ahem, let's continue talking about business."

Burwell cleared his throat and continued: "Umit is eyeing our coffee garden this time, and he dares to risk offending the Whitebeard Pirates to control the Kingdom of Amento. There must be a tough battle to be fought. , Al!”

Burwell looked at his eldest son, whom he was so proud of.

"Release your duties as Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs! Become Vice Minister of the Navy, and you will be in charge of the war this time."