During dinner Ars explained the situation to the queens and they understood and agreed with him, then they heard that the previous group had asked for a ride to Sabaody.
Reiju and Bell-mere asked at the same time.
"Can i go too?"
Ars nodded and replied.
"You both can come."
Ars looked at one of the maids and said.
"Can you call for Roygu 1 and 2?"
The maid nodded and quickly left.
Shortly after, Roygu 1 and 2 appeared.
"Your majesty, we heard you called for us."
Ars nodded and directly explained.
"Tomorrow in the early morning, I will be flying to Sabaody to leave a group of people, two of the queens will be going, and you will go as bodyguards. During that time i will be hunting some pirates in the new world for bounties."
Roygu1 nodded and asked thoughtfully.
"Should we bring Roygu4 too? In certain situations, it will be useful to have 2 females from the royal guards."
Ars nodded and replied.
"Thats a good idea, having one more is always a good idea. You can inform her! And be here early in the morning."
They nodded and left.
The following morning everyone was there ready for take off.
Roygu 4 was a bit lost, she was looking around thinking about how they were going to travel to Sabaody. Then she saw Ars transforming into a gigantic dragon, she couldn't help but comment a bit excited.
"We get to ride a dragon!?"
Everyone laughed, but like her most were quite excited.
Reiju looked at them and just smiled, while Bell-mere joked.
"We get to ride him quite often, to go there… Or there… or just playing around…"
Ars just stood there ignoring the banter around him and awaited his passengers to start getting on his back. Shortly after they were all ready and Ars took off.
After a few hours of travel they arrived at Sabaody, and Ars asked directly.
"Do you need me to get you a way down to fishman island or will you wait for me to come back?"
Reiju thought about it and replied calmly.
"We will wait after we get a ship, any recommendation for who does the coating?"
Ars nodded and replied with a serene expression.
"We don't need someone to do the coating… But be careful of the bobbleheads that sometimes come here, and if you are looking for a bar go to shakky's rip off bar."
Reiju nodded and replied.
"We will avoid the dumbasses like they are the plague."
Some of them looked confused but decided to ask after Ars left.
Ars nodded at them and quickly left.
He started moving towards the last location where the super super handsome pirates were spotted.
He failed to find them there, but considering their normal activities, he could almost predict their movement, the question was… Were they really that dumb? The surrounding territories were all protected by Whitebeard.
He followed the most likely path they would take, and the moment he arrived he got his answer… Yes, they were that dumb… Ars decided to go after them anyway, the few crew members of the whitebeard pirates stationed here, weren't that many and seemed to be having a bit of a bad time trying to defend themselves, they weren't from the main crew and he didn't recognize any of them.
Ars moved towards the enemy captain that was fighting who he supposed was this whitebeard affiliated crew captain.
When Ars approached them, the whitebeard pirate, feeling that Ars might be a new enemy, since he did not recognize him, he groaned, but then Ars said.
"Leave this dumbass to me."
His eyes shone and asked.
"Who are you?"
Ars thought about it and replied after considering his options.
"Just someone after this guys crew bounties, hopefully we can reach an agreement after this."
The man nodded and went to help his crew. He was just thankful that someone was helping them.
Ars looked at the captain of the super super handsome pirates, and laughed directly at his face, then tried to hide a smile putting his best serious expression, said.
"I can imagine why you are obsessed with the word handsome, because your face looks like someone took a clown mask, ate it, pooped it out and then plastered it on your face…"
Ars couldn't endure it anymore and broke off laughing again.
The enemy's face was full of horrible scars, that he probably got from a fight with another pirate crew where his face got burned off, and since then people scream at his sight. And he enjoyed it, but he hated when people made fun of his appearance. So he was attacking wildly without being able to land anything, he was so mad that he didn't realize he wasn't landing anything properly.
After laughing his ass off, he just dodged easily and decapitated the guy using a rankyaku. After that he quickly went around killing the remaining enemies, and with his haki he could feel someone strong coming in a ship not too far away anymore.
He went to the previous person who he thought was the captain and asked.
"Are you all in one piece?"
The man laughed it off, and replied.
"No… Quite a few of us have died and some have some bad injuries… But we are alive… I should introduce myself, I am Jack Coffing, and I'm the vice-captain. Our captain went to speak with Whitebeard, since we joined recently and we thought we would get attacked soon, we simply didn't expect it to be this soon… At first we thought no way, but, after sighing at them a few times, our captain decided it was better to talk in person, since the main crew was nearby… Never imagined that they would attack not even half an hour after he left."
Ars nodded and understood, they were also new arrivals to the new world, and got destroyed on this island, never making it to the future events, besides, they were background characters… even if some of them did, he wouldn't remember them.
As they were speaking, Ars could feel someone approaching quickly through the sky. He smiled, knowing who was the most likely candidate.
The vice captain talking with him, noticed him glancing to the side with a small smile, and asked.
"Is there something wrong!?"
Ars could sense a bit of unease in his voice, probably thinking about more enemies. Ars shook his head and explained.
"Your reinforcements are here!"
He started looking in the same direction, and after a few seconds they could see a phoenix approaching at high speed.
Then Marco landed and started looking around, he was surprised by the fight being already over, then he asked.
"You guys managed to win by yourselves?"
The vice captain shook his head and pointed at Ars.
"Not quite, this guy here saved our asses, he is after their bounties, we lucked out on that…"
Marco looked at Ars and thanked him.
"Thank you for the help, I guess you want the heads right?"
Ars nodded and Marco said directly.
"You can take them all, after all we can't exactly collect bounties, and I will start healing our friends over here."
Ars nodded, he was very happy with the deal. Ars quickly commented, almost murmuring.
"Now to pass the day on fishman island, with my wives and friends… I will hunt more later on."
Ars was about to take off when Marco stopped him.
"Can you wait for a few minutes?"
Ars was a bit confused but nodded. After a while, Marco finished healing everyone, and took out a den den mushi, saying something to someone, then he turned to Ars and explained.
"Since you intend to go to Fishman island and that is our territory I kinda thought you could use a guide."
Ars thought about it and saw no downsides, so he nodded but warned Marco.
"Well it isn't the first time going there but, a new friend is always appreciated."
He nodded and asked.
"So how are you going there?"
Ars quickly replied.
"First I will go to Sabaody to group with my family and friends. Then I will ask politely, if someone will allow us to share their ship on the way down."
Marco thought about it and said.
"I don't think most people will allow it…"
Ars showed a confused expression, then asked.
"What do you mean? People are always happy to allow me to board their ships, sometimes they need a little convincing… And I will fly to Sabaody."
Marco raised his eyebrows, akuma no mi with flight capabilities were a bit uncommon, if not rare. He finally nodded and looked at his crew, then said.
"I will be going along with this friend here, if you need something use the den den mushi this time."
They all nodded.
Both Ars and Marco took flight and traveled to Sabaody, where he exchanged the bounties.
There, it didn't take long before finding his wives talking with Shakky, having a good time along with everyone else.
Apparently Otojoō had brought a few bottles of their wines, and Shakky was quite enamored with them.
When Ars and Marco entered, they all looked at them, Reiju asked directly.
"Did the hunt go well?"
Ars nodded and then Bell-mere added while smiling proudly.
"By the way, we just got our first fan of our wines, outside the kingdom."
Shakky saw Marco and smiled at him, saying calmly.
"It's been a while since we saw each other."
He nodded back at her but his eyes were looking at the cup on her hand, he quickly asked.
"Indded, but that drink smells amazing, where did you get it?"
She smiled and pointed at Ars wives and Otojoō.
He looked at them directly and asked politely like his life depended on it.
"Can I have some?"
They nodded and gave him two bottles directly, he quickly opened them and tried the drink. When he savored it his eyes went wide and praised it.
"This is definitely one of the best drinks i ever tasted… Consider me the second fan outside your kingdom!"
He looked at us and asked.
"Where can I buy more of these?"
Ars thought about it and replied relaxedly.
"Maybe here or Fishman island, we still haven't decided where to sell."
He nodded and gave us a den den mushi number, then said.
"When you decide, please call this number to inform us, we will buy them very happily."
Shakky laughed and nodded, then added.
"Me too! But I would prefer it if I could sell it here."
Reiju smiled and explained.
"The person in charge of the distribution isn't here with us today, so we will have to leave that for later."
They nodded and after that, Ars looked at them and asked.
"So, should he go down to Fishman island?"
They all looked at each other and Bell-mere as a representative replied.
"We decided that we wanted to attend the auction today."
Ars nodded and asked.
"At what time?"
She looked at the time and commented.
"In around 30 minutes."
Ars nodded and asked.
"Should we start moving towards it then?"
They nodded and started pouting masks and loose dresses to hide themselves. It didn't take long for them to be unrecognizable. Ars put a simple face mask on and left with them to the auction house.
When they arrived the place was already starting to get crowded, so they entered and found a place to sit while waiting for the auction to start.
Shortly after the auction started, Marco was also with us also using a mask, so he wouldn't attract a different type of attention.
At first the auction started with small items, increasing in value over time, soon a paramecia akuma no mi appeared. The host introduced it.
"This akuma no mi is the spark spark fruit that allows the user to create, control and emit electricity. It starts at 150 million berries."
The auction house got a bit more excited, it was a decent akuma no mi. Even Marco was participating. But Ars' wives and companions were still silent. Ars was starting to ask himself why they wanted to come.
After a few more items Ars finally discovered the reason. A really young child was being sold. It wasn't a human child, it was a sky island resident, if it was a skypean or a shandian, Ars didn't know, their appearances were too similar. The host would soon introduce the child.
"This child is from a race known as the shandians, they are a race of warriors, and the starting price is 100 million berries."
Reiju instantly lifted her hand to get in the auction for the child.
There were a few people who contested her but after a few minutes of going back and forth she got the child. And she looked at me and said directly.
"Go pay the 180 million to the auction house."
Ars just nodded and left for a few minutes.