After retiring from the Navy, I became a doting husband.

"boom!"

The boulder crashed down not far from Vander Decken IX, startling him into a cold sweat. If he had been hit by the boulder, he would have been finished, and all his ambitions and White Star would have vanished like smoke.

"call!"

King Vander Decken IX took a deep breath, calmed himself, and looked towards the square, where his beloved Shirahoshi was already standing.

"Father, Father, Brother, Brother!" Bai Xing shouted as he saw the platform collapse, trying to rush over to save people.

"White Star, don't move. Don't worry, your father will be alright." Martin said as he rushed down from the platform.

Neptune and Shirahoshi's brothers were all enormous, and Martin found them effortlessly. Fortunately, although the platform had collapsed, the boulders only damaged the base; the entire platform fell, and none of them were trapped underneath. Besides, given the physical constitution of humans in the One Piece world, they wouldn't die so easily, let alone fish-men.

However, one person was unfortunate. That person was Hody Jones. He had just tried to kill Neptune and got too close to him. Because he had taken the drug, the aftereffects kicked in, and he was crushed to death by the falling Neptune.

It is true that good and evil will eventually be rewarded. Hody Jones killed Neptune's wife, but he himself was crushed to death by Neptune. The cycle of cause and effect is inevitable.

Just as Martin was about to untie Neptune and the others, a hateful voice came from afar.

"Shirahoshi, my lovely little Shirahoshi, I've finally met you! Marry me!"

Vander Decken IX rushed toward Shirahoshi, proposing to her rapidly, as if afraid that if he was too slow, someone else would snatch her away.

Bai Xing was startled by the sudden appearance of Vander Decken IX, and said shyly to him, "You're not my type, and besides, you're old and ugly, so I'm even less likely to like you."

"I like heroes, heroes like Lord Martin, heroes who fight for the weak and save others."

Bai Xing's words were like a knife piercing Vander Decken IX's heart. Not only did the knife pierce in, but Bai Xing's subsequent words also stirred the knife within his heart.

"Damn it, how can you not love me? You can only love me."

Van der Deiken IX roared wildly, his possessiveness and jealousy completely erupting.

At this moment, Neptune was also rescued by Martin. He looked at Vander Decken IX in front of White Star and cursed, "Vander Decken IX, you bastard, how dare you threaten my White Star! Unforgivable!"

Neptune was absolutely furious with this bastard. At first, Vander Decken IX would send love letters to the Dragon Palace Kingdom at most once a week, but then he escalated it from letters to parcels, and finally even turned into threatening marriage proposals.

This frightened Shirahoshi considerably. At this moment, Shirahoshi's father, Neptune, was furious and ordered his three sons, the Neptune brothers, to lead an army to hunt down Vander Decken IX.

Even though he is wanted by the Ryugu Kingdom, Vander Decken IX still attacks the Hard Shell Tower where Shirahoshi is located with weapons. This has forced Shirahoshi to hide inside the Hard Shell Tower, and she hasn't been able to come out for more than a year.

Once freed, Neptune charged toward Vander Decken IX.

Neptune's enormous body trembled with each leap, and his furious gaze left the fishmen present somewhat bewildered. Was this really the king they knew?

In the hearts of these fish-men, their king was always kind and amiable.

Just as the fishmen were stunned, Neptune had already rushed in front of Vander Decken IX and punched him in the head.

"Oh!"

Vander Decken IX was sent flying by Neptune's punch, rolling several times on the ground before coming to a stop and lying motionless.

Looking at Vander Decken IX, who had been knocked away, Neptune looked at his fist in disbelief. "I was aiming for his head, how did he fly out like that?"

Enraged, Neptune completely forgot the size of the two men and didn't realize that his fist was almost as big as Vander Decken IX. This was what a fist the size of a casserole dish looked like.

"Who! Who dares to hit me?"

Van der Deiken IX got up and shouted at the crowd. His hat was gone and his clothes were tattered.

Seeing the furious Vander Decken IX, Martin and the others all pointed at Neptune, clearly telling him who had hit him.

King Vander Decken IX stared at Neptune. Wasn't this His Majesty the King, Shirahoshi's father?

Van der Deiken IX's initially angry expression subsided; being beaten by his father-in-law didn't seem like such a big deal after all.

Although Vander Decken IX mentally accepted Neptune's punch, he still said aloud, "Neptune, even if you are Shirahoshi's father, my future father-in-law, you can't hit me like that."

Neptune, who had initially felt somewhat embarrassed upon seeing Vander Decken IX's miserable state, realizing he had been a bit too rough, felt his anger rising upon hearing Vander Decken's words, and unconsciously clenched his fists, throwing another punch.

"Oh!"

This time, instead of being knocked away by Neptune, Van der Deiken IX blocked the attack with his own fist. Having experienced being knocked away the first time, he was always ready to be ambushed.

Neptune didn't just have one fist; after seeing his punch blocked, he threw another punch as well.

“Neptune, don’t think I won’t hit you just because you’re Shirahoshi’s father!” Vander Decken IX shouted as he defended against Neptune’s attack.

"White Star, White Star, what does White Star have to do with you? You scoundrel, you scoundrel, you madman!" Neptune shouted as he pounded his fists even faster.

"Go to hell!" Vander Decken IX jumped up and swung at Neptune's head.

"Boom! Boom!"

Neptune was caught off guard by Van der Deiken IX's counterattack and was struck squarely, immediately covered in blood, which flowed down his face, making him look rather miserable.

After attacking Neptune, Vander Decken IX fell from the sky. Unable to gain leverage in mid-air, he was seized by Neptune and sent flying again.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Vander Decken IX rolled around and fell onto the battlefield where the defeated fish-men and pirates lay scattered haphazardly.

"Cough cough!"

Vander Decken IX coughed a few times, got up, looked at the fish-men and pirates scattered on the ground, and casually slapped them out. One by one, fish-men and human pirates flew out and flew towards Neptune. This was his Target-Target Fruit ability.

Neptune was about to give chase when he discovered a large number of fishmen and humans flying towards him, forcing him to stop and block them with his hands.

Fortunately, these fish-men and humans weren't flying very fast, and Neptune easily blocked them.

Then Neptune noticed many weapons flying towards him—swords, axes, all sorts of weapons. Weapons are not like flesh and cannot be touched casually.

Neptune began to dodge the weapons, but no matter how he tried, they followed him like guided missiles, and their speed increased.

King Vander Decken IX watched Neptune flee in a sorry state and burst into laughter, "Hehehe! Hehehe!"

"Uh!" Vander Decken IX's laughter suddenly stopped. He discovered that he had been handcuffed at some point, and the handcuffs made him feel powerless.

The weapons that had been chasing Neptune suddenly fell down, one by one, to the ground. Neptune didn't understand why the weapons had stopped, nor did he know what had happened.

Neptune ignored all of that and rushed straight to Vander Decken IX, throwing a punch at him.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Vander Decken IX was slammed into the square by Neptune's fist, his body covered in blood, his eyes wide open but powerless to resist.

After Neptune calmed down a bit, he stood up and shouted to Martin, "Thank you, Lord Martin, for bringing people to rescue me. And thank you even more for saving the entire Fishman Island. Otherwise, with these lunatics in power, who knows what would have happened to Fishman Island."

Neptune was filled with lingering fear after speaking. He never expected the New Fishman Pirates to have such strength. The Sea King's army was completely powerless against them, and he himself almost died at their hands.

“Your Majesty, you are too kind,” Martin replied.

"Could you please tell me why the curse of Vander Decken IX suddenly stopped working?"

Neptune saw Martin standing next to Vander Decken IX, and just then the curse on Vander Decken IX broke, meaning Martin must have broken the curse.

"A curse? What curse?" Martin was baffled by Neptune's words.

“It’s the Target Curse of Vander Decken IX, everyone on Fishman Island knows it,” Neptune said.

“So that’s what it is. This isn’t a curse; it’s a Devil Fruit ability. Vander Decken IX must have eaten the Target-Target Fruit. Look, I put seastone handcuffs on him, and his Devil Fruit ability is disabled.” Martin said, pointing to the seastone handcuffs on Vander Decken IX’s feet.

"Devil Fruit ability? Devil Fruits actually have this kind of ability."

Neptune had heard of Devil Fruits, but he hadn't seen many Devil Fruit users. Fishman Island had almost no Devil Fruit users, and besides, fishmen and humans on land didn't have much contact.

While Martin and Neptune were talking, Shirahoshi's three brothers, along with the left and right ministers, were rescued.

"Men, take all these criminals to prison," Neptune ordered his ministers.

"Yes, Your Majesty!" The Left Minister accepted the order and prepared to deal with the criminal.

"Kill him, so he won't cause any more trouble later."

To prevent the Devil Fruit user from causing trouble, Martin directly beheaded Vander Decken IX with a single stroke.

Fishman Street.

"Mom, I'm Oreo. I just saw Martin on Fishman Island."

"Yes, Mom, it's that demon sword Martin."

"What? Mother has returned to the new world? Why is that? Am I confident I can kill him here?"

"Okay, Mom, I'm coming back right now," Oreo said, hanging up the phone.

Oreo's pirate crew was originally a branch of the Big Mom Pirates. They were sent to Fishman Island to gather and prepare to seize the island, and also to plunder it.

Unexpectedly, they ran into Martin, the Demon Blade, who had been out of contact for several years.

"I heard that Martin the Demon Blade only survived because Whitebeard let him off the hook."

“As long as I kill Martin, I can prove that I am stronger than Lord Cracker.”

"Lord Oreo, what did Mom say?" asked a pirate who looked like a steamed bun.

“Goubuli, Mom said we should go back to the New World and wait for her at the entrance. She’s going to kill Martin herself,” Oreo replied.

"How boring. We've wasted so much time here and haven't gotten anything out of it."

Goubuli complained.

"It's boring. Goubuli went to notify the other pirate crews to evacuate. Of course, they can take whatever they want with them when they evacuate, that's their ability. I don't think Mom will blame us," Oreo said with a sneer.

Upon hearing Oreo's words, Goubuli's eyes lit up and he immediately nodded, saying, "Understood, Lord Oreo."

Goubuli has had its eye on a few fishmen for a long time, but Oreo has always held them back. Now that they've been given permission, they can finally unleash their potential. Fishmen are valuable even in the Sabaody Archipelago.

"Oh!"

A pirate kicked open a door, picked up a female fish-man, and walked out.

"Stop! What are you doing? Put my wife down!" A male merman chased after them.

"Haha, what are you doing? Can't you tell?"

"I'm a pirate, so of course I rob people. Fishmen are a valuable commodity on land." The pirate said, and then turned to leave.

"Put my wife down now, or I'll get rough," the male fishman said, pointing his harpoon at the pirate.

"Damn it, how dare a stinking fish resist!" the pirate said, slashing down with his sword.

"clang!"

The pirate's sword struck the fishman's harpoon, cleaving him in two.

"Husband! Husband!"