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Chapter 32

Title: Drum Kingdom Takeover...

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[Max POV]

Anyone with common sense could see that I was committing crimes worse than most pirates. 

But that would be different if I changed the words that described my actions. After all, I just confiscated stolen wealth, executed criminals who resisted law enforcement, and I even saved a Kingdom. The way one said it made all the difference, it could make me look like an unpredictable ruthless wild card, the other makes me sound like a Hero.

Ahhh… like always, Justice will prevail. After all, whoever wins will become the Justice and what is right in the world. I won against Wapol, so he will be a villain that has committed whatever horrible crime I can think of. Plus, he was generally pretty bad too so this wasn't entirely false. The truth isn't a fact, the truth is what people believed to be true. Even a lie can become the truth once enough people believe it.

Dolton seemed to have some attachments to Wapol, most likely due to Wapol's father. After all, the previous King, before Wapol, was a good man. Still, though, I knew that Dolton would come around to like me. Well, he better come around to like me, or else… Before the canon timeline came around then a new person would get the Bull-Bull Fruit and Dalton would have to be taken care of.

I don't like leaving around people who hate me. They should just… disappear under mysterious circumstances-... who am I kidding? I will kill them all, I will kill a thousand of them if I have to, if that wasn't enough then I will kill a thousand more.

Letting his enemies live and gather together are things that only fools like Kaido and Oden allow to happen. I would rather kill my enemies before they become dangerous. Kaido should have killed Momonosuke when he had the chance in the past. Instead, the young man grew to become a thorn to his side.

Still, though, this wasn't the time for such thoughts. I would rather enjoy myself, also I noticed Raynare guarding me, thinking that I was truly drunk. That's cute of her.

Sharlia was also looking at me from one of the balconies in the castle. Does she think that I wouldn't see her? Also, Kaku in the bathroom was informing the World Government about what had happened the last three days. I hadn't let him contact the World Government, sending some killing intent at him every time he was about to do so. I don't think he knew it was me who was doing this, after all, in his eyes if I knew that he was a spy then I would have killed him. Sadly for him, my mind can't be predicted by normal logic. I was someone with knowledge of the future, and even then, if someone knew what I knew they would have a hard time predicting me.

Welp, better continue this party! I doubt there will be another chance where I can mess around with the excuse of being drunk.

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In a week under Max's rule, Drum Kingdom experienced rapid changes. I didn't like the whole dreary cold look it had, so I also opened many ski resorts around. Sharlia liked them, though Raynare must be there to secretly oversee her just so my precious World Noble doesn't break her neck in some accident.

That would be a dumb way to die for my cute Legal Law Breaking Card. She was still useful and had a role to play in my little honest plan for power. Of course, everything I do must be loosely based on law… kinda. So even I had to be careful. 

I have learned my lesson from other people's mistakes. Pablo Escobar was a person that everyone knew killed people and dealt with drugs, yet he was careful enough to not be captured for his crimes. Yet he got caught due to Tax Evasion. Truly a horrible horrendous crime, worst than murder.

Also, the number of hospital buildings skyrocketed during this week. Using physically powerful people to build was amazing. Especially Kaku, the man could build a whole hospital in under an hour but was goddamn impressive. Glad that I took him in, true, he might be a spy, but that doesn't mean that he wasn't useful. Especially since he needed to impress me to get in my good graces so I used that even more. The spy never knew that he wouldn't get in my good side even if he built a hundred hospitals.

No matter where, it someone chased after powe, politics will need to coexist along side it. As long as one wants to live as strong or become strong, he will need 'friends' who are in high places. Even the Yonko are no exception, they need a powerful crew and powerful acquaintances. 

Power draws in powerful people towards you. To keep that power would be wise to make as few enemies as possible, and even those little enemies it's better to destroy them. It's the logical conclusion to things.

Though saying such things out loud wouldn't be a good idea. After all, it would only serve to aggravate people of different opinions. It is always best to keep one's real thoughts close to their chest and not speak if one doesn't know what they are going to say.

Well, I wasn't special, everyone had something they wanted to hide. The best friendships are based on lies. That was the truth of the matter. Every relationship was like that too, a human will die alone, each of us had so many secrets that when we died we still took so many of them to the grave. Even the people we trusted most wouldn't know about something, it's in our instinct to be sociable, but at the end of the day that led to secrets.

The world truly is a complicated place. Trying to understand everything is a fool's dream, but each of us was a fool in one way or another. We believed in things and orchestrated others based on our beliefs.

The happy ending of each story told an unspeakable despair behind it.  The happy ever after in stories was a lie, what did Cinderella do once she got to the palace with the prince? Did she understand that she had just decided to spend the rest of her life with a man who she knew for only one night and had just danced with him? Or maybe she thought a prince willing to do so much for her wouldn't do the same thing for other pretty women that came around?

Heh, each of our stories will end in tragedy. No matter how we play, the game will come to a bad end.

I sat with those thoughts on my new throne, it wasn't anything too glorious and its main feature was to make me comfortable.

*sigh*

That was the price of looking too much into things from a logical standpoint. It made people miserable, me included. The more things change, the more they stay the same. 

Maybe the happiest time in this world had been on that island where I had been starving. At least then, food was the only thing I worried about.

Baam!!

Suddenly my throne room doors opened violently and a man came in. "My King! An envoy from the World Government has come to meet with you!"

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A/N: I had an amazing day today, so if we reach 800 Power Stones today, then I will upload another chapter.

P.S: I did amazing in an exam!