142. Cheap Feelings

"I don't want to be the king of Zou, at least not now."

Tahir looked at Granny Cat opposite him and, after thinking for a moment, made his position clear.

"I know you won't," Granny Cat put down Tahir's hand and waved to Pedro and Shishilian in the distance.

Shishilian didn't show much resistance and naturally sat next to Granny Cat. Pedro hesitated and then sat a little further away.

Tahir glanced at his childhood best friend, but then looked away.

"That's why!"

Tahir looked past Granny Cat and at the mink tribe standing sparsely outside the Whale Forest in the distance.

"I don't know how many were bewitched by Roger after he came here, and I don't know how many people still stick to the so-called 'agreement with the Kozuki family.' If they are a group of eccentric guys, then bringing them to my side will only become a burden or even a hidden danger."

"The world is changing, and I am no longer from Zou. Everything I do has nothing to do with this place or the Mink Tribe. You can wait until we change the world and then see what is right and wrong. But now—"

Snap!

Tahir closed the small folding fan in his hand and looked at Pedro in the distance calmly: "If I become the leader of this country, I may not be able to control what I think, and those who dare to fly the flag and become a pirate, I will be the first to burn him to ashes."

Pedro fell into silence after Tahir left, and he wasn't even aware of the departure of Granny Cat and Shishilian.

He had been to the sea, and even in the past few years, he had been reading newspapers with Granny Cat to understand the situation outside.

The world is indeed changing, and the place for pirates to stay has become increasingly narrow.

Even in the New World, there is only a small part of the place where pirates are still blatantly operating.

Blackbeard, Big Mom's territory...

As G-5 advances and Vice Admiral Garp enters the New World, most of the pirates in the middle have fled to these two places.

And the original territory of the Red-Haired Pirates...

Judging from the information in the newspapers, it may have become a purgatory.

Pirate's Purgatory.

As for Kaido of the Beasts...

His territory in the outside world itself is very scattered. Except for occupying some islands that produce ore, he rarely places flags elsewhere.

In recent times, it is rumored that the island he occupied has been attacked frequently, but Kaido himself seems not to care.

Rairyu...

He has indirectly or directly strangled the necks of the "Four Emperors."

In the dead of night, Shishilian returned to the Forest of Whales. Looking at Pedro, who was still sitting there, Shishilian walked over to him and sat down next to him.

Shishilian also met Roger back then, but he did not admire Roger as crazily as Pedro did.

He is a lion mink and has far more affection for his pack than Pedro does.

Starlight shone in the Whale Forest, and Shishilian did not speak to comfort Pedro, because he did not agree with that strange agreement from the bottom of his heart.

Twenty years ago, when Inuarashi and Nekomamushi escaped back to Zou, they were like bereaved dogs and were in panic all day long.

Although they soon became kings here with their strength, Shishilian did not agree with them from the bottom of his heart.

Open your mouth to go to the palace, shut your mouth to go to the palace.

Even the king has become someone else's slave. What do the people of this country mean?!

Is the entire country a slave to the Kozuki family?!

A group of people, for a "promise" that has long been unverifiable.

For generations, ancestors have been chained tens of thousands of meters high in the sky, isolated from the world.

When Dylan came to Zou, for a moment, Shishilian even hoped that Dylan would kill Inuarashi and Nekomamushi directly.

These two have become slaves through and through!

Feeling Shishilian's breathing getting heavier, Pedro turned his head and looked at him.

"Shishilian ..."

Shishilian glanced at him and said nothing, but his palm was already on the handle of his sword.

Seeing Shishilian's actions, Pedro smiled bitterly: "You don't agree either..."

Shishilian looked at Pedro indifferently, his palm already holding the handle of the sword:

"Why should I agree? Pedro, our people's lives are already very difficult and miserable. We have been trapped and chained on the back of Zunesha for thousands of years."

"Don't you really know what kind of life we live? Or are you unwilling to think about it?"

"You only met Gol D. Roger once and you were attracted to him. Your feelings are still so cheap and ridiculous."

"Nekomamushi and Inuarashi, at least they followed Oden and were raised by him.

What about you? You have never experienced anything.

You are all relying on your own imagination! For these boring imaginations, you also brought Zepo, Pekoms, and Pay to the sea.

Pay is missing and Pekoms becomes a member of the crew of the 'Four Emperors'.

Isn't that enough?"

"It's okay if it's your dream or your own. For the sake of other people's dreams, you risk the lives of your compatriots!"

"If Tahir hadn't begged Big Mom to save you, you would have died long ago! And you have forgotten all this!"

"Why did Zepo part ways with you after he came back!? Why did Tahir turn a blind eye to you!?"

Shishilian stood up and drew his sword, looking at Pedro.

"In the past, I didn't care where you were going, but today. No! If you still insist on being a lackey of the Kozuki family, either I will kill you, or—"

"You kill me!"

"And I!"

At the edge of the forest, a polar bear wearing sunglasses walked out.

Zepo looked at Pedro, his body already surrounded by thunder and lightning.

"Pedro, the pain of losing a family member can only be understood after experiencing it. We were stupid back then, so I don't blame you, but today."

Xepo also drew his weapon: "I won't do stupid things again."

"I..."

In order to help Nekomamushi search for the Poneglyph, Pedro bewitched the young Zepo, and the young Pekoms went to sea together.

In the end, only he and Zepo returned to Zou.

"Make your choice, Pedro!"

Zepo opened his palm and there was a green pill.

"This is the potion I asked for from Granny Cat. It will confine all your power. We..."

I don't know when, but those same people who had dispersed returned to the edge of the Whale Forest again.

Zepo looked at his fellow Minks with different expressions in the distance and said in a deep voice: "The hope and continuation of our race will not be entrusted to pirates! And you—"

"You are the only 'pirate' in Zou now!"

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