Chapter 25

Chapter 25

In a sea of West Blue, an elegant ship is sailing to a direction. The whole ship is colored in dark blue; the body, sails and even the mermaid statue in front of the ship is blue. Though, the deck of the ship is normal with wood, the interior of the ship is also luxurious and there are lights in every corridor. The ship is powered by two engine under the ship which are powered by nuclear energy. So, the power of the engine is guaranteed as it can last for a whole year just fine, as long as it is not damaged.

It also did not take up the space in the ship as it is as small as a double bed and the room is fully isolated. So, there is no harm to everyone on board. This ship is named, 'Enterprise' ,and it is solely made for Esdeath. Right now, this beast of a ship is sailing straight to Illusia Kingdom to carry out Embra's order.

In the captain cabin, five woman are discussing things while looking at a huge map on the table. They are Esdeath, Izumi, and three B-rank assassins. They are standing around the table with Esdeath at the lead.

"So, it is decided that, we will anchor the ship here, at the sea. But, what about the escape route? Isn't it too far?" (An assassin)

"Hm. That is right. So, how about we also placed a submarine and three speedboat here at the coast?" (Esdeath)

"That is a good idea. So, with this we are ready for the plan, right?" (An assassin)

"No, Not yet. we have to gather some information. That scum won't go away just yet. So, we will leave his matter aside. For now, we gather information on Kano Country and Don family. Our main objective is the hidden treasure of Don family." (Esdeath)

All the five women nods and they discussed about their rendezvous point, time to meet ,and what to watch our for. The three assassins, who are wearing simple and light clothings gets out the room with Izumi who is also wearing some light clothing. Being left alone in the room, Esdeath sits down on the chair and thinks,

'Attack the scums but, don't kill them, huh? But, kill or not, marine will be on our tail anyway. So, why bother leaving them alive? *sigh* I sometimes do not understand my King. They are the people who destroyed our Kingdom 800 years ago. With just this reason alone, we have every right to kill those trashes who are calling themselves as Gods or whatnot. *che* Who do they think they are, the only god in this world is King Embra. He is the only god in this world.' (Esdeath's thought)

She is complementing whether she should disobey Embra's order and killing them accidentally but, she don't want her to be disappointed by Embra for disobeying her order. So, int he end, she decided to just leave them barely alive, on the side of the road, or, maybe in the pig farm.

However, what Esdeath didn't know was that, Embra already know her thoughts, so he has already privately ordered one of the assassins, who enjoys torturing to step forward after the Celestial Dragons are separated. The only one who knows his order is the assassin only as Embra directly sent his order to that assassin's watch and deleted soon.

Half an hour later, Esdeath, Izumi and ten Akatsuki members lands on the island where Illusia Kingdom is. But, because they chose a desolated part of the island, there is no one there and the submarine they rode on submerged in the water, keeping itself hidden. Beside it, there are also a few speedboat submerged and are ready to function as soon as the cover covering the boats are removed.

Ten Akatsuki members divided into five teams of two and goes around the capital of the Illusia Kingdom, which only has one capital under its name. They are all wearing black bamboo hat with veils covering their faces. On their neck is a black cloth tied in a fashion but, one can see red clouds on it. That cloth is the proof of being an Akatsuki member. As for Esdeath and Izumi, they are wearing their normal clothes which are general uniforms of Sakura Kingdom. Of course, there are no symbol on their uniforms because Embra do not want to announce his existence to WG yet.

Esdeath wears her uniform fully even under the sun as she is stopping the heat with a thin layer of her DF that is coating her whole body, clothes included. Because Her Devil Fruit is coating her whole body; 'freezing' the heat, before it can reach her, Esdeath is feeling just a normal temperature. The same cannot be said for Izumi though, as she takes off her overcoat to strap it on her waist, as soon as she steps onto the island. Both of them are still wearing their general hats with their sword on the waist and a Naginata on their back.

Izumi's Naginata is broken into three sects and is strapped in a huge bag behind her back, as her naginata has no scabbard or such.

Both of them enters the town under the stares of many lustful eyes but, as they are used to it by now, they didn't bother it that much. At first, Esdeath immediately kills anyone on sight whoever looks at her with those eyes but, after some times, she gets tired of it so, she just outright ignore them. The same is true for Izumi because there won't be an end if they were to kill everyone who looks at them with lust-filled eyes.

Walking around the town, they both do not talk as they are looking around the surrounding with their Haki. They are not finding for any particular person or stalkers. They are searching for some fights, hoping that they meet someone worthy to recruit. That is what they always do whenever they go around a town. They search for a talented people. Especially, they searched for those who have fire in their eyes, people who won't give up even under the most desperate situation.

Unfortunately, they didn't found that person even after two hours of searching and soon, they reached the most expensive hotel in the town. They enters the hotel and get two rooms while paying up front. However, as soon as they each went into the room, both of them jump off the windows and enter a room not far away from them. Of course, they made sure that, they are not being followed and they were as stealth as possible, too.

The room they enters is the lowest pay room where four people share the room but, it is okay because they are not going to sleep here anyway. And, in the room are more than four people, as all ten Akatsuki members, Esdeath and Izumi are in the room. As soon as they entered, one of the Akatsuki member goes and placed silencing devices on the corner of the room while one member places four talisman in the walls of the room. The tailsman are fuinjutsu seals made by General Mito to make a barrier. The barrier is a camouflage barrier for Kenbushouku Haki users which can fool them into thinking that, there are only one civilian in the barrier.

After all the barrier and devices are set up, Esdeath ask for information. It has been two hours since they separated, so,the information they got is not that much but, they at least find out the situation on the island in generals.

"...I see, So, there are two Vice-admiral and an admiral on this island, huh? This is a little troublesome but, it won't be a problem." (Izumi)

"HAha. Bringing an admiral, one of the pillar of Marine, just to guard a family of pigs... Che. I can't wait to kill them all." (Esdeath)

"As much as I want to agree with you in that, I think you should refrain from that, as King Embra has ordered it." (An assassin)

"I know, Anko. You don't need to remind me again. I will just leave them half-death." (Esdeath)

"NIhihi. I have a great idea, Captain, why not let me torture him a bit? I will also do your part." (Anko)

Esdeath face brighten a bit at the idea and thinks that it might be not wrong to do that because Embra did not ordered it not to. So, Esdeath and Anko started to draw a list on what kind of torturing methods they should use before leaving them half-death. The others do not participate in the talk between the two because as much as they would like to hurt the Celestial Dragon, their taste do not swing that way. After half an hour, everyone has already exchanged the information on the numbers of marine and those they have to looks out for.

After that, each members goes their own way, doing whatever they want till the meeting time in the evening, which earned them four hours of free time. But, before they rest, the Akatsuki members reports to Queen Senjumaru, the one who have authority for Akatsuki. They reported every information they finds out and their plans for the future to Senjumaru.

Ever wonder, how the Akatsuki, which is in West Blue is contacting Senjumaru who is on Agartha Island of Calm belt? In Earth distance, they would be about as far as Japan and Idian. Well, the reason why they can communicate such distance is because they have created an underwater communication network in the place of satellite. The underwater communication network is built by the Tech department and Grayfia six months ago. They have built it as soon as they decided to set out to sea again and till now, there haven't been an incident to the underwater network as they are buried deep in the ocean floor.

Anyhow, as soon as the communication ended, the members of Akatsuki goes out the hotel and enjoys their fun before the real event in night. Among them is Anko, who is heading towards the sweet shop. She is approached by a woman wearing a blue top with white loose shirt and black short. ANko is surprised seeing the person who approached her,

"OH. General Izumi, you want to go to sweet shop, too?" (Anko)

"No. I am here for you, Anko. In the room, I couldn't help but, notice that you suggested queen Esdeath like you know she is going to say that. And, before you suggested her, you looked towards your watch, right? Is that, what I am thinking?" (Izumi)

Anko is sweating profoundly hearing the words of Izumi and before she realize it, she is already in the alley way with her back to the wall. Anko shivers a little at the realization that, Izumi moves the two of them into the alley way without her being noticed. It is not that, Anko, has by no means let her guard down. It is just, Izumi moved so fast for Anko's senses to capture the motion.

'F-Fast... I didn't even see her moves. SH*t. I didn't even feel myself move before I see the back of a building. So, this is the power of a divine general, huh? It is fearsome.' (Anko's thought)

Anko, as a B-rank summon feels a little down to know that, there are still heights far higher than an A-rank. However, Anko immediately answers Izumi who is looking at Anko intently like she is ready to draw her naginata to cut Anko down in case she happened to be a traitor.

"Pl-Please wait. I received orders from none other than, his majesty, King Embra. He ordered me to suggest General Esdeath like that and told me that, I should also do the real thing, without killing them. He further ordered me that, I laser mark them on their forehead with a symbol of 'Greed'." (Anko)

Izumi loosen up a little after hearing that. She was thinking that, maybe there is a traitor in Akatsuki but, now that she knows everything, Izumi demanded Anko to tell her everything that, King Embra ordered her. So, Anko coughs up everything as there is no need to hide from Izumi, who is sharp. After a few minutes, Izumi apologize to her for mistaking her as a traitor and offer her to treat her as compensation.

And so, walking towards the sweet shop, Anko thinks again while looking at the back of Izumi who looks like she is a normal girl with that, light clothing.

'A master at Flash Step ,and a master at naginata, Izuni Nase. It is said that, there isn't anyone in Sakura Kingdom who is better than her in wielding a naginata. And, there is also no one in the Kingdom, who is better than her in close-range Kenbushouku Haki, either. Divine General of Spear, Nase Izumi, a monster through and through, alright!' (Anko's thought)

Being threatened to be killed like that, Anko felt fear of death for the first time and together with that, fear for Izumi is also growing in her heart but, she does not dislike that feeling. Rather, Anko feels delighted and decided to become closer to Izumi while feeling herself become wet.

At seven o'clock at night, Esdeath is reading a report from a member of Akatsuki. The report stated how much soldiers are in the marine base and where the Celestial Dragon family is currently.

'I see. So, one of the vice-admiral is a woman named Najenda, huh? She ate the size-size fruit which enables her to alter the size of any thing she touched as long as it is not a living thing. Hm. Her DF slightly resemble my husband's DF but, hers is far inferior. She would become a tricky opponent but, it is alright. The problem is the second vice-admiral.

Vice admiral Kizaru, the man who ate the fruit glint-glint fruit. It gives him the ability to create and manipulate light while transform himself into a light man. His fruit is powerful, alright. I think, I should deal with him first, before dealing with the admiral, Muzaka.

My blood is boiling a little at my first battle in a while. My last battle with Mito gives me so much fun at fight. I wonder, how will this Admiral Muzaka fight? No, that doesn't matter. Admiral or not, this is the first battle of Sakura Kingdom under the name King Embra. I will not lose. (Esdeath's thought)

Esdeath is excited for the battle that is soon to be occurring, a battle that is ordered by Embra. So, as a representative of Sakura Kingdom, she have to win the battle no matter what it takes for she is the former divine general and a queen of Sakura Kingdom. That is all on Esdeath's mind and she is determined to use her everything for Embra's order to succeed. Embra's order is this:

'Isn't it better to go out of West Blue flashily? Attack the Celestial Dragons and kill the marines. Show an example to the world of how strong you are. Then, set out to Grand line. '

Esdeath wants to fulfill that order very much. So, she will not be holding back in this fight. Soon, a black watch on he waist shows a signal that, everything is ready. Esdeath checks herself, including her uniforms and after looking herself in a mirror and sure that, everything is in its place, Esdeath jumps out of the window with flash step, a martial art technique that, Embra gave to all the combatant of Sakura Kingdom.

In the huge castle of Illusia Kingdom, there is a feast going on which are attended by all the royalties as a world noble is here. There are four celestial Dragon in here which is consists of two male and two female. Everyone in the feast is buttering up to the celestial Dragon who are sitting around the huge luxurious table. Everyone else is beside or behind them, praising them as much as they can. They are here just to rest a bit before heading back to Mariejois but, because of the King's request, they are going to stay here. Currently, the young man of the celestial dragon who is around 15 years in appearance is playing with a young girl of his age.

"Here, eat this. Oh good job. Here, eat this again. Oh *clap* *clap* Oh, Good job. Good job. You are a clever slave, aren't you?" (The young tras-, C.D)

"OH, my son, Charles. You have to eat yourself too. Don't always play with the slave." (The father Trash/ C.D)

"That's right. My treasure. What would have happened if my son become thin because of not eating" (The mother Trash/ C.D)

"HOi. Stay still Slave. I have not done having fun with you, yet. You haven't met my whip yet. So, don't go weak now." (The Daughter Trash/ C.D)

In the feast room, the younger C.D is playing with the young girl slave who is doing everything she can not to get beaten again while holding back her urge to cry even though tears are falling her face. The mother and father C.D are being worried about their son becoming thin for not eating a minute or two. Meanwhile, the sister slave is eating while sitting on one of her beautiful male slave and scolding him for not staying still. Beside them, the King and royal family of Illusia Kingdom is scolding the slaves for not doing their job properly while also buttering up to the C.D at any given moment.

But, this scene will not last longer as Esdeath is going to crush everyone in here.