Chapter 31

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Chapter 31

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Still, though, Max returned the rudeness a thousand times over. And everyone was shocked at his action, even Wapol was left agape at the action.

"Why you looking at me like that, jackass? You want me to be your daddy or something? You look like you need a daddy," added Max. 

This was the final nail in the coffin as Wapol became enraged. "Men!! Kill him!!"

Chess and Kuromarimo went for the attack, one aimed his bow, and the other charged in close combat. Dolton also started transforming into his hybrid bull form and got ready.

BAAAAAAM!!

But suddenly Max pulled out a spiked bat and swung widely. Hitting Kuromarimo head-on, splitting his head open like a watermelon. The same attack's shockwave went forward like an arrow and hit chess on his chest, shattering every rib he had.

BOOOOOM!!!

The attack didn't stop there and even made a canal through the ground. Destroying everything on its way.

"Okay, everyone here saw it!" Yelled out Max, "Wapol attacked me, so since he attacked the World Noble Sharlia's guard, it's pretty much the same as attacking her! So with this in mind, and since the Drum Kingdom has no king, I will humbly crown myself King."

"You can't do that!" Yelled out Dolton, now a giant broadsword already in his hand. "Who gave you such a right!"

Max pointed at Sharlia. "She wants me to be king. Trust me, you don't want to go against a World Noble."

"I did?" Sharlia seemed confused. Raynare deduced that this was most likely the first time Sharlia had even heard such a thing.

Max just looked at Sharlia and narrowed his eyes. This made her nervously scratch the back of her head. "Yeah… I wanted you to do that… obviously."

"Of course," Max smirked. "You pretty much ordered me. I am not in a position to refute a World Noble. After all, what could a poor, powerless marine like me even do in this situation? Also, he attacked first."

'Okay, now he is playing the victim card too hard.' Thought Raynare. 'He acts like everyone here didn't see him provoke Wapol and kill his two bodyguards.'

"I mean the emotional damage and trauma that I got from his insults will probably take a could hundred millions of Beri to heal. With a good psychological professional." Max said, sighing in sadness. This made everyone cringe at his self-pitying words. "Also my soldiers will become official Royal Guards, and THAT will INCREASE their pay."

Hearing the highlighted words, his men yelled out in joy.

"Long live Max, the Just Marine!"

"Long Live the King!"

"May he reign a thousand years!"

Max had a self-satisfied smile on his face as he spread his arms like he was some kind of messiah.

Raynare clapped as the others did. But she had an unconvinced look on his face.

'Can't he at least act like he is sorry? He did just take over a monarchy. And killed two of their best soldiers.' She contemplated, but as she looked around none of the soldiers of Wapol seemed too eager to even protect their previous King's honor or throne.

That was when Raynare understood. This has been Max's plan all along. For some reason, he had shown his power and 'generous' heart. He showed that any man who followed him would get a cozy position.

But what happened next shocked her. As one of Wapol's men pointed a gun at the back of their previous King's head and shot.

Boom!

It felt like the gunshot had rung through the whole kingdom. Dalton looked back in shock, he couldn't believe that someone had just done that.

Raynare observed the spies on the ship and saw that even Blueno and Kaku couldn't hide their shock. Max had told her of their allegiances. Also, this would mess their jobs too, after all, their target of observation had just killed a King and taken over a country. All of this, without the World Government even having a hint of what was going to happen. They had failed their jobs as spies. 

'Ugh, this one move of his has so much tact and it will create so many waves. Yet all of them seem to be beneficial to Max, people at the top will see this. So why the hell would Max want to antagonize those people?' Raynare for the life of her couldn't figure out what Max was thinking or what his plan was. 

"This is not a time for fighting! This is a time for healing. The doctors of this country have been suppressed too long by the tyrannical Wapol who practiced cannibalism, torture, and murder daily!" Max's words wrung about and now he seemed more like a cult leader as the people around him started to listen to him in a trace.

Raynare on the other hand zoned out the yells of joy around her as Max went to help the people whose king he just dethroned… and as soon as she thought that, Max had just also executed Wapol.

Max had crocodile tears run down his face as he heard some of the enemy soldiers' stories.

This was complete madness, and yet Max seemed to thrive in it. 

*sigh* 'What a troublesome man I chose to follow.' Thought Raynare, tired as Max went about prancing around.

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Two days... that was how long it took for the people of Drum Kingdom to see Max as their true King. It felt like the Wapol situation was such a long time ago.

This made even Raynare afraid of Max's charisma. To her it was scary, she had been logically thinking about the situation all along and yet even she felt like the Wapol situation was such a long time ago too.

"Hey~ Ray~ come here and party with us!" Yelled out one of the crew members, but she just shook her head and went away. Currently, they were in the royal castle, and Max was in the middle of the group too, he was just laying around, joking with the normal people.

There was even a raccoon-like creature dancing around on the cap-... the King's shoulders. "Time to bring our Bing's sake… crew… maid? How does the song go again?"

Raynare smiled, seeing Max finally seeming to drop his guard for once. She also noticed that the spies were around, at least Blueno was. Kaku on the other hand wasn't in the vicinity, this made Raynare a little skittish, but she had to protect Max while he was drunk. 

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-Max POV-

One rarely gets the chance to act drunk, so this was my time to let loose. I don't like drinking, and even if I did, doing something like that in this world while also in a situation like this would be the height of stupidity. Even Kaido didn't confront Oden while the former was drunk like he was against Luffy in their first fight.

Chopper's laughs made me chuckle a little as I twirled him like a baby in a drunk man's arms. He flew up and down, the super old grandma Kureha had told me to not let Chopper drink as he was underage… but c'mon now… I overtook a Kingdom. It would be silly to falter to an old woman's words. 

Though I want her secret to living long, sadly she hadn't offered the thing to me yet. 

Now as a King, I also have political immunity as the Marines and World Government can't just come and arrest me. Even if they wanted to, they can't, because I never committed any crimes… true they could say that I stole from pirates, executed kings, overtook kingdoms.