Conflict

To put it bluntly, of all the Shichibukai, Hancock had the smallest ambitions and the least drive.

The others—even Gecko Moria dreamed of killing Kaido for revenge and becoming the One Piece King. Hancock just wanted to be an ordinary pirate.

"Hancock isn’t here. She’s probably out at sea looting." Yota frowned. "Let’s wait for her on Amazon Lily."

"I heard Amazon Lily doesn’t welcome men?" Kyros asked. "Will it be all right if we just go there?"

"Since when did we care about that?" Yota asked with a strange expression. "It’s a complete pirate den. Are you planning to reason with pirates?"

Kyros opened his mouth, suddenly feeling that Yota made perfect sense. Why was he trying to reason with a bunch of pirates? Just because they were women?

Of course, that was easy to say. After all, people’s values tended to follow their faces. Even Yota couldn’t treat the women of Amazon Lily the same way he treated ordinary pirates.

Well, whenever Yota encountered ordinary pirates, he usually just sent an Almighty Push from afar, wiping out both ship and crew in one go. Only when he ran into Devil Fruit users would he put in a little extra effort—first obtaining the Devil Fruit, then killing everyone.

As the Azure Dragon drew closer and closer to Amazon Lily, the women on the island spotted the flying ship in the sky. A commotion immediately broke out below.

Then, apparently intrigued by the flying ship, the women actually began attacking it with bows and arrows.

Yota rested his chin on one hand while using the other to release Flame Clouds to shield his ship. At the same time, he muttered, "Why do I always feel like I have no deterrent power at all? I should already be the strongest pirate, shouldn’t I?"

"Now that you mention it, Lord Yota, you’re a Great Pirate who defeated Mother and Kaido, and you even caused havoc in Holy Land Mary Geoise. So why is your bounty still only around one billion Beli?" Charlotte Pudding complained as well.

Naturally, Charlotte Pudding had no idea about Imu’s orders. Because Yota was too powerful, he was instead being deliberately downplayed.

The Marines had originally wanted to place a massive bounty on him, but later realized that a high bounty might only increase his prestige, attracting huge numbers of pirates and allowing him to form a pirate crew. In the end, they had barely raised his bounty at all.

After all, when the World Government had raised the bounties of people like Whitebeard in the past, it had partly been to spur the Marines on and encourage pirates to kill one another.

But now that Yota was excessively powerful, the World Government had chosen to turn a blind eye to him instead.

"I think it might also be because we’ve never had a particularly famous flagship. Just looking at our Azure Dragon, you can’t really feel the presence of a Great Pirate Crew, can you?"

Violet spoke up as well.

"So we need some large or distinctive ships?" Yota rolled his eyes. Thinking it over carefully, he felt there might actually be some truth to that.

In the original story, anyone remotely powerful either had a high-end pirate ship or one with distinctive features. A crude and unremarkable ship like his Azure Dragon really was an oddity among them.

"Forget it. I’m sure that once I properly greet them, they’ll come to know me deeply."

The moment he finished speaking, Yota brought his hands together.

"Wood Release: Tree World Descent!"

A rumbling roar erupted, and the entirety of Amazon Lily instantly transformed into a green ocean.

Although Wood Release’s stamina-draining effect was far inferior to its Chakra-absorbing effect, that still depended on the strength of its user.

What was more, every one of Yota’s ninjutsu had been improved countless times by Red Queen. They were super ninjutsu several times stronger than their original versions, making them even more terrifyingly powerful.

With Yota’s current strength, any ordinary Amazon Lily warrior caught by the branches for even a brief moment would have all her stamina drained away, left completely at the mercy of others.

Furthermore, Hancock and the other elite fighters of Amazon Lily were not on the island at all. Thus, Yota captured them all in a single move.

"No matter how many times I see it, it still looks utterly outrageous," Violet said. "To think ninjutsu and Chakra can accomplish something like this. It feels like the Chakra in our bodies isn’t even the same thing."

Violet had also undergone human modification. Her eyes had long since been transformed into Byakugan, and her body possessed the bloodline of the Hyuga clan. Thus, she had Chakra in her body as well, and had even learned some applications of Gentle Fist.

But that was precisely why Violet could not help but marvel at the difference between herself and Yota. Even though they both used Chakra, the gap between them was as vast as heaven and earth.

Forget Yota—even compared to Charlotte Pudding, Violet felt that her Chakra was nowhere near as strong, like the difference between a lake and the sea.

Still, Violet did not care much about it. After all, she had never positioned herself as a combat type. With the Byakugan combined with the Glint-Glint Fruit, Violet’s sensory abilities could be called the greatest in the entire Pirate World.

The Azure Dragon slowly descended from the sky and landed at a dock near Amazon Lily. The moment the ship settled, a branch stretched over like a ladder and rested against the Azure Dragon’s deck.

"Come on, let’s take a look around Amazon Lily." Yota casually spoke, then led everyone onto the branch. The branch retracted, carrying them directly onto the island.

At that moment, the female warriors of Amazon Lily were all hanging from the trees, listless and weak. Yota casually snapped his fingers. With a rumbling sound, the branches slowly withdrew into the ground.

The women of Amazon Lily immediately fell to the ground. However, though Tree World Descent had been released, the stamina it had absorbed would not return so quickly.

"Who exactly are you people, daring to invade Amazon Lily? Do you not know that this is the territory of Shichibukai Boa Hancock?"

Just then, a tiny old woman with a head full of white hair stepped forward and shouted at Yota and the others.

"You recovered pretty quickly. I didn’t expect that out of everyone, this old lady—the oldest among you—would recover the best. You definitely aren’t ordinary," Yota said as he looked at the somewhat familiar old woman.

"I am the Former Queen of Amazon Lily," the old woman replied. "Outsiders, you are not welcome here!"

"You make it sound like we’ve wronged Amazon Lily somehow. You were the ones who attacked first, weren’t you?" Charlotte Pudding snorted.