The Pirate Princess Becomes Queen

Three minutes later, Perona saw "Master Magic Duck" playing cards with her own shadow.

"Master Magic Duck" perfectly embodies the phrase "addicted to duck dishes." This guy loves playing cards, but his luck has always been terrible. Now, when he plays cards with his own shadow, he loses nine out of ten times. When Perona entered, Karu's face was covered with notes, and he looked extremely dejected.

From the main body, a shadow is separated, and then from the shadow, another shadow of a slightly lighter color is separated. In terms of the development of the "shadow clone" ability alone, Karu has surpassed Gecko Moria. As soon as Perona entered the room, she saw those three dark shadows.

"Lord Moriah!"

She rushed over, hugged the duck, and started crying, sobbing like a baby. The duck, Karu, was completely confused. What was going on? It was taking the opportunity to discard its cards, saying, "There's an outsider interfering, I'm not playing this round!"

Although Perona wouldn't treat Karu like her own father, she was clearly very friendly towards the duck because of her affection for him. This extended to her regard for the Magic Duck's keychain as well.

Perona said in a very proud tone, "Alright, for Lord Karu's sake, as long as you can help me awaken Kumasi, I'll work for you for a while. But let me make it clear beforehand, I won't do any fighting or killing. I'm a princess! Hahahahaha!"

She emphasized the word "you," meaning that she was helping "Magic Duck" and not you. This Ghost Princess was clearly resentful of Vivi's actions of "scaring" her with Conqueror's Haki.

With the help of Princess Mononoke, a local expert, the cleanup of the mansion went very smoothly.

She offered up the basement where she had been hiding for many days. In addition to food, there were also many daily necessities in it. In the ruins of the mansion, it was the cleanest and tidiest room.

When Perona left, she took about a third of the treasure from Moria's vault, which was worth about 100 million Berries. The treasure is now in the basement.

"Don't you dare steal them! These are all mine!"

Just as Vivi was about to "reasonably distribute" the treasure, Perona completely lost her temper! Even the Magic Duck's face was of no use!

What's mine is mine, and no one can take it away!

When her "fair distribution" proposal met with resistance, Vivi had no choice but to give up.

Chapter 169 The Crocodile is in the News Again

"Let me make this clear beforehand: I'm going to seek revenge on Crocodile! He killed Lord Moria! You can't stop me," Princess Mononoke said very solemnly before joining the group.

“The sand crocodile is my enemy too. Don’t worry, we’ll fight the sand crocodile together.” Vivi held out a hand to her: “How about we turn this world upside down together?”

Princess Mononoke's eyes held a hint of disdain, seemingly quite uncomfortable with her sudden burst of enthusiasm. She merely extended a finger and lightly touched the back of her hand, which was her acceptance of joining the group...

With Princess Mononoke's help, the corpses in the mansion were re-examined.

Gecko Moria had initially categorized his zombie subordinates in considerable detail, but now most of the elite corpses are gone. For example, Ryuma the Swordsman's corpse spontaneously combusted, and Oars the Demon was taken away by scientists from the World Government. The remaining corpses on the island are of relatively ordinary quality.

Among them were the face-bat zombies who had secretly tipped off Vivi, and Perona's little rag doll zombies, who were considered among the elite.

These zombies have lost their shadows and are now completely corpses. They need to be re-injected with shadows to recover.

Vivi didn't waste any words. She didn't completely trust Princess Ghost, so she needed to have her own eyes and ears.

She had the duck stuff the shadow of the long pirate captain into the human-faced bat zombie's body.

Those corpses that had been controlled by shadows for so long had actually developed new consciousness, which is why Princess Mononoke believed that her little teddy bear zombie could be resurrected and could stand up and talk to her.

However, when a new shadow enters an old corpse, there is still a process of adjustment between the two. Once the shadow's self-awareness is worn away, the old consciousness within the corpse will merge with the shadow, creating a completely new consciousness.

The shadow inside the human-faced bat zombie was now very resistant to Vivi, but it didn't matter. Relying on the vampire's intimidation of the bat, she easily suppressed the other party's thoughts.

"Go ahead, you'll still be called Hilton, and from now on you'll be in charge of patrolling the mansion."

"No! I am Alexander Yaris Kentpol Harris Hendrykul Rudolf Abel... Hilton?" Like reciting a menu, the human-faced bat zombie rattled off a long list of names, but after finishing, it was confused itself. Who was it again? Why did it have so many names?

The pirate swordsman Shadow, wielding a 40-meter-long sword, was stuffed into the corpse of an old man. This old man was named Kaze no Jigoro, and as you can tell from his name, this was the same corpse that Gecko Moria found in Wano Country. It is said that he was a great swordsman who killed more than 7000 pirates to protect his family.

Perona confidently asserted that the stubborn old man was very strong, but Vivi didn't see how powerful the corpse was. This swordsman's abilities were largely exaggerated. However, in the spirit of not wasting anything, she also had Karu revive the corpse.

From now on, the stubborn old man will lead the zombie army on the island.

The members of the Long Long Pirates are not trustworthy, but Vivi is worried that if they go out and have fun, they will not only lose their lives, but also cause the "death" of the zombies on her side.

She couldn't give hints to each of them individually, so she could only let the tool, Mr. 3, temporarily lead them. After that, a bunch of people noisily began cleaning up the clutter in the mansion.

There's too much junk. If we were in Alabasta, we could have transported it to the desert and let Wapol eat it, turning waste into treasure. But now we can only load it onto the Long Long Pirates' dragon boat-like ship and throw it into the sea, ship after ship.

The renovation of the mansion lasted for three days.

Mr. 3 may not be good at fighting, but his support abilities are absolutely incredible. He can create any tool he needs out of thin air using wax, and once the wax solidifies, it becomes as hard as steel.

The mansion was cleaned up, but it could only be said to be roughly repaired. Building houses is a highly specialized job, and none of the pirates knew how to do it. They could only barely build a few habitable houses on the basis of the original mansion, and that was the end of the matter for the time being.

Vivi originally planned to help Perona revive her little teddy bear, but Princess Mononoke looked down on the silly pirates and decided to go find the "bear" herself.

Vivi did some research and found that the Ghost Princess was adopted by Moria when she was young. Perhaps because she had always followed the Seven Warlords of the Sea, she never had a bounty on her head. She could go wherever she wanted. The Ghost-Ghost Fruit was quite powerful, and ordinary people wouldn't mess with her.

After seeing Perona off, Vivi contacted her home country again. With her instructions, the old ministers published a full-page news article the next day about Crocodile's rescue of the people of Alabasta.

He spent 4 million Berries just to gain fame, so Vivi will definitely help him make arrangements.

Reporters from the World News also went to the scene and saw that many people were sincerely grateful for the food that the crocodile had given them.

The facts are clear, the evidence is sufficient, so what else is there to say? Time to go back and start writing, and once I started, I couldn't stop!

However, it was just a town. Alabasta has tens of millions of people, and the reporter was just one person. It was impossible for him to visit them all. Being accompanied by an old minister to see a town already showed the reporter's spirit of seeking truth from facts!

Unbeknownst to reporters and the general public, people were beaming with joy as they received the food the crocodile had bought for them, praising the Neferutari family.

People are so closed off these days, with no internet and no way to communicate. Vivi wasn't worried about being exposed at all. Instead, she instructed her old subordinates to give the reporters benefits and hype up Crocodile to the skies!

She also taught the World News a secret technique: what if you don't have a picture? You can draw one!

Mr. 3's partner, whom she was using as a tool, was a young girl named Ms. Golden Week who was actually an outstanding painter. She had secretly arranged for her to help with the painting. The colors were rich, the figures were prominent, and the paintings looked incredibly realistic.

Two paintings depicting Crocodile inspecting citizens, and two paintings depicting Crocodile comforting people in need.

Crocodile, oblivious to the concept of flattery, was overjoyed to see the newspapers filled with praise for himself while cultivating immortality in the Sabaody Archipelago. "Ms. Wednesday is such a good subordinate," he thought. "Look at him, without a word, our work is already in the newspapers!" In Baroque Studio, who else would be so proactive in helping him?

He felt that Ms. Wednesday was much better than Nico Robin, who could only be moved by a flick of a finger. If Robin didn't have the ability to decipher the Poneglyphs, he would have promoted Ms. Wednesday to be his second-in-command to help him usurp the throne of Alabasta.

Crocodile had no idea that the Five Elders in Mary Geoise were very unhappy after reading the extensive praise for him in the newspaper. Good heavens, Crocodile, that guy with thick eyebrows and big eyes, has such a high reputation now? What are you trying to do with such a high reputation?

Through some clues, they discovered that some of the forces involved in the recent looting of the Golden Emperor were members of the Revolutionary Army. Crocodile also confidently stated that the whole thing was at his behest. What does this mean? It's chilling to think about!

Chapter 170 The Three Admirals

The whale Laboon followed far behind. The fleet set sail from Alabasta and, after a month and a half, finally arrived at the naval headquarters, Marineford.

Marineford was a complete military fortress, with numerous gun emplacements densely packed around it. The patrolling naval soldiers were armed to the teeth, and any slight mistake would result in a loud reprimand from the commanding officer. Every now and then, one could see officers in righteous robes giving impassioned lectures to their subordinates. For a moment, Vivi even thought that the Marineford War had already begun its countdown.

The Navy's defenses at headquarters are very tight, that's fine, but if you consider the strategy that Zephyr calls "turtle-like" defenses, you'll find that they're a bit too tense.

Who would attack the Marine Headquarters now? There's no need to be so heavily fortified under normal circumstances.

Garp drove them to headquarters, then waved and swaggered away.

The following day, Vivi, as a princess of Alabasta, also attended the meeting between Zephyr and King Cobra.

She acted as the middleman, introducing both parties, and then quietly stood aside as a background figure.

The two sides had already spoken several times about the specifics and both expressed their intention to cooperate. The current meeting is just a formality; the key is the subsequent negotiations with other parties.

It's not like Zephyr can just leave whenever he wants, or have the Navy stamp and sign off on his departure.

Zefa is not only leaving, but he's also taking his supporters with him.

His relationship with the Neferutari family is now more like a partnership; to cooperate, one cannot take office alone.

Vivi knows a female swordsman named Ian who has made many contributions recently and has now been promoted to the rank of major. Binz, who is a bit reserved, is a captain. The two of them are quite representative, but they are not the highest-ranking people among Zephyr's supporters.

Shuzo, a Longarm Tribe brigadier who has mastered Armament Haki and Observation Haki and knows three of the Six Powers—Moonwalk, Finger Pistol, and Iron Body—is also on the list of subordinates that Zephyr wants to take away.

Besides this brigadier general, there were also a large number of officers and lieutenants from the headquarters and branches. These people were mostly Zefa's disciples, and the rest were their direct subordinates. Roughly calculated, this would take away more than two thousand elite troops.

Navy Headquarters is proceeding with extreme caution, fearing that making a hasty decision could lead to unpredictable consequences.

Fleet Admiral Sengoku is seventy-five years old this year. In any world, this age can be considered old. He has a very clear desire to retire. The original timeline launched the Marineford War with the intention of eliminating one of the Four Emperors before retiring, in order to maintain the balance of power at sea.

Fleet Admiral Sengoku has remained silent regarding Zephyr's decision to leave active duty in the Navy and join the military system of a member state. His meaning is clear: he will persuade others to comply, but he will not create obstacles in this matter. However, he will not offer any help either, as he is preparing to retire and does not want to cause trouble now.

The Nefertari family's targets are the three admirals of the Navy: Akainu, Kizaru, and Aokiji.

Vivi has been in this world for over a year, and there are still two years before Luffy sets sail.

This year, Akainu Sakazuki is 51 years old, Kizaru Borsalino is 54 years old, and Aokiji Kuzan is the youngest, but he is still 45 years old.

All three were powerful figures in the Navy. The least experienced among them had worked in the Navy system for nearly thirty years. They had friends and acquaintances everywhere, unlike Fujitora, who was parachuted in as an admiral.

All three have a large number of followers. If they cannot get their approval, the Navy will not be able to reach a unified conclusion, and there will be no point in negotiating with the World Government afterwards.

Zefa is the teacher of the three, but the relationship between teacher and student is not always the same.

Some relationships are good, and some are not.

Vivi had the smoothest conversation with her adoptive father, General Aokiji. The two talked sincerely for a day, each envisioning their future. With almost no obstacles, Aokiji agreed to the matter.

"If the teacher could stop the pirates at the source, even just a part of them, the Navy's work would be much easier. The teacher's personality is a bit extreme. He's old, but he still doesn't admit defeat..." Aokiji accepted Nefertari and her father's invitation to the banquet and sat in his seat, looking lazy.

King Kobra discussed the personnel and equipment that Alabasta could provide, and reiterated that Alabasta's navy was only a regional navy and would not conflict with the existing navy; at most, it would play an auxiliary and supporting role.

"Alright, I don't care about these things. Hmm... I'll have Smoker from East Blue cooperate with you. I hope the teacher's choice wasn't wrong..."

Aokiji has given a clear answer, but Kizaru's situation is more complicated.

This old guy is too slippery. If you invite him to dinner, he'll come, but when it comes to the main topic, he'll dodge the question and you'll never know what he's really thinking.

I treated them to meals for three consecutive days, but still didn't get a clear answer.

"Could we ask General Zefa to speak?" King Cobra asked Vivi.

"No, please don't." Vivi knew perfectly well that Kizaru and Zephyr had the worst relationship.

Zefa is indeed very domineering in his daily speech and actions. Perhaps military instructors have a tradition of giving students a hard time and using harsh methods to intimidate them. They emphasize strictness and believe that scolding you is for your own good. Zefa is even stricter with his students.

The old man often adopts an attitude of "I am your teacher, I am your father" when disciplining his students. This attitude works fine when dealing with Aokiji, but it falls short when dealing with Kizaru.

Kizaru is the oldest of the three admirals.

Old man, who are you to call your father? You're only twelve years older than me, how can you be considered my father?

Kizaru and Zephyr dislike each other. Kizaru thinks Zephyr is inflexible, while Zephyr thinks Kizaru lacks the demeanor of a Marine Admiral and has no principles in his actions.

How can this relationship be good?

Going to Zefa now will only make things worse.

King Cobra was at his wits' end, and that's when Vivi's established relationships came in handy.

She found the female swordsman Ain, who then helped her contact friends. After many twists and turns, she finally found Kizaru's subordinate, Sentomaru, who was known as "the most tight-lipped man in the world".