"Are you sure you don't want to stay a little longer?"
I asked her, now out of the premises of my home, levitating far away. There were still questions in my head but I had received some answers. In her case, I could see she had more to think than me, even though the revelations I told her were a bit bleak.
"I have a lot to think about... but I'll return to visit Mihawk, Bonney… and also, Ali"
"You could stay a bit longer and meet Ali, I think she wants to talk to you-"
"I'm not ready to see her yet, let me go for today".
An odd smile resurfaced as Isabel stretched her hand forward to me and I shook it softly and tensely.
"It is hard for me to believe what you are, what you have done, who you stand with".
I didn't release her for a moment and neither did she.
"Why?"
"You're a celestial dragon. You don't behave like one, but you protect them".
At this point, at least to me, being a celestial dragon was a synonym of being the enemy. It didn't matter what background you had, what you had done in life, whether you had friends or not... I had put deep in my heart the fact that I had to destroy Marie Geoise or this world wouldn't be able to move forward.
But now I have met a celestial dragon who may not be as bad.
She released me, but her hand switched positions, caressing my cheek very softly.
"I have taken this path and I know the end of this path finishes with my death, Veyron".
"…"
"After living for thousands of years, I have already lost everything meaningful, only my family remains. We knights… never waged war without good intentions. At some point, the fight I started twisted into something I could no longer recognise".
"After hundreds of years, the human heart is bound to change".
"Yes, it turned into a mess... but I belong in that mess. Alicia, Bonney, Mihawk… I only hope you can keep them away from this mess that we have become on top of the red line. I'll help you destroy it, but I must perish with it, do you understand?"
I nodded profoundly, keeping a long breath.
Her hand released my cheek and all it took for me to blink, she had already disappeared... her power was the power to control 'lines'. God knows in what way she used her powers to disappear from my senses like that without leaving a trace.
"Baby..."
I ignored Primrose and walked up to my room. There, I found Hancock, Sandersonia and Marigold all hugging my mother who looked a bit uncomfortable but was still sleeping nonetheless. That's how peaceful she must feel.
In short words, Isabel revealed some things to me... the world government's agenda is simply to keep the power they currently have and stall for time. This individual, Lord Imu... is planning something and whatever she is planning needs time.
They have an ancestral weapon capable of very easily destroying a whole island, much like me, and this weapon is currently on stand-by and loaded waiting for me to make a move. Its objective is Rusukaina and there is virtually nothing that can stop it.
The Ancestral Weapon, Uranus.
Some other things are as I expected and some that don't.
The CP0 is trying to discover the locations of Shandora and Amazon Lily unfruitfully... and last but not least, the high charges Marie Geoise already suspect Stussy.
She also revealed something to me that's not important but worth noticing. The Gorosei, after the incident in Wano, now refers to me as: 'The Ancestral Weapon, Prometheus'.
...
I approached the women I love with Prim standing near the door and gave each of them a kiss. I will protect them no matter what, no matter the cost. It is me against them... and I promised I would never lose again.
I'll shatter the world government and its thousands of years of wicked history.
Definitely.
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"The ships... they're still coming".
"I don't know how we're going to repay this..."
"Hiyori-sama, the representative from Rusukaina is here".
...
*GROWL!!*
"..."
"Hello?"
The massive ape handed something to her, it was a note.
'
Dear Shogun of Wano, Kozuki Hiyori.
Hello, you must be the newly appointed shogun of Wano, Kozuki Hiyori. I'm Dracule Veyron, together with this letter I have attached the list of items we have dispatched for the sake of the reconstruction plans in Wano.
Dracule Veyron.