Some time passed.
The current time will soon approach the said time. It was the time for the Fortis Kingdom to do a live broadcast announcing the Fourth Kingdom establishing a cooperative relationship with their kingdom. Although many have guessed and also know about which kingdom has succeeded in establishing a cooperative relationship with the Fortis Kingdom. However, everyone's interest did not diminish. Because there may be other information that will be conveyed.
The information they wanted to get was information regarding the recruitment of workers in the Fortis Kingdom. Because this is the only way for them to get citizenship status from the kingdom. Although no one can guarantee this. However, they don't care about that.
Currently all the places that provide a place to watch live broadcasts together are the Prodance Kingdom, Ryugu Kingdom, Amazon Lily Kingdom, Saboundy Island, and Alabasta Kingdom. All these places were now filled with various kinds of citizens who intended to watch the live broadcast.
In the front row near the live broadcast screen, there were a large number of people holding den-den mushi. Those people were the representatives of the great powers which were assigned to record the live broadcast. There were representatives from the Navy, World Government, Pirates, and also various Kingdoms.
Along with the enthusiasm of residents who want to watch the live broadcast. Every major power in this World such as the World Government, Navy, Sea Emperor, Shichibukai, as well as various other powers. Every single one of the higher ups of this power had taken their time even though they had their job to do. They put the work aside and chose to watch this live broadcast.
Because this live broadcast is more important than the work they are currently doing.
Currently only in small villages where the residents cannot access live voice which is now imminent. However, they are also still waiting for the information that will be obtained from the live broadcast through the newspaper which will later be distributed by the World Economic Journal.
Finally the time shows 13.00 PM.
The den-den mushi who was in charge of playing the live broadcast was active and immediately the screen in front of him immediately showed a picture which showed the press conference room of the Fortis Kingdom complete with King Fortis - Ars and the Commander of the Royal Alabasta Army - Bell was already there while staring at the screen ahead.
Ars smiled casually while Bell who was sitting beside Ars looked quite nervous. Because he knew that at this time he had been seen by a large number of people. This is his first experience.
"Finally!...." exclaimed a resident in the area of Saboundy Island.
Everyone was instantly excited by the time the live broadcast finally started.
"Who is currently with King Fortis?" One of the spectators who was on Amazon Lily Island asked in confusion.
"Isn't that…"
"Commander Bell!"
"Why is Commander Bell there?"
"Stupid!" One of the people who heard that immediately shouted excitedly, "Doesn't that mean what we predicted earlier was correct? Our Kingdom is truly establishing a cooperative relationship with the Fortis Kingdom"
"What?!" The audience in the Kingdom of Alabasta was immediately shocked by those words.
"Cooperation?! Hey, doesn't that mean…"
"That's right!" Exclaimed an Alabasta resident excitedly, "We will eventually gain access to work in the Kingdom of Fortis?!"
"Extraordinary…"
"Unlucky!" One of the residents shouted angrily.
"What's wrong with you? Aren't you happy?" Ask one of his friends.
"Don't you have any faults?" The person asked back with a strange face, "We previously protested to His Majesty. Don't you feel regret right now for doing such an act?"
"...."
Listening to the words of his friend, then the person along with the people who heard the words fell silent.
Previously when they got the news that the Kingdom of Alabasta was expelled by the World Government. They protested against Cobra. Regarding the protest, Cobra did not respond to it. Cobra wanted to wait until Ars himself would provide information about this cooperative relationship. Because the cooperative relationship formed by their kingdom is not just an ordinary cooperative relationship but there is also a cooperative relationship that involves territorial reconstruction.
Cobra is afraid that he will misunderstand this and prefers to let Ars explain it himself.
Instantly everyone watching, especially the citizens of the Kingdom of Alabasta immediately regretted what they had done earlier. They even currently have the urge to go do apologies to Cobra. However, because the live broadcast will be implemented soon. They resisted their desire.
"Bells!" Kohza who was currently watching the live broadcast with Vivi and others at the Rebellion Army Headquarters was immediately surprised by Bell's appearance on the screen.
Kohza was Vivi's childhood friend and it was fitting that she knew Bell who had served as the Commander of the Royal Alabasta Army since the two of them were children.
"How's the leader? You already believe in me, don't you?" Vivi asked excitedly because with Bell's presence there, it could already indicate that the Alabasta Kingdom had really built a cooperative relationship with the Fortis kingdom.
Kohza suddenly fell silent hearing this and immediately thought of all the explanations Vivi had given him earlier including the actions Crocodile had done so far.
"Unlucky! That Crocodile bastard! How dare he!…" Kohza said angrily.
It's not only Kohza who is currently having angry emotions but only everyone especially the members of the rebel army who listened to Vivi's explanation earlier were furious. They did not expect that all this time they had been toyed with by Crocodile.
"Good afternoon everyone" Ars immediately opened the live broadcast by greeting, "I'm sure you must have known me and also I'm sure some of you who are currently watching the live broadcast know the contents of this live broadcast"
Ars' gaze then turned to Bell who was beside him, "Before that, introduce the one beside me right now is the Army Commander of the Kingdom of Alabasta. His name is Bell."
"S-good afternoon everyone" Bell said nervously
"Truly the Kingdom of Alabasta…" muttered Wapol who was currently watching in his royal palace on Drum Island, "How could King Fortis accept such a kingdom to cooperate with their kingdom when our kingdom is being rejected?"
"I don't think it was King Fortis who rejected us, Your Majesty" Kinderela said, "It was the stupid king of the Prodance Kingdom who refused us to be able to establish a cooperative relationship with the Fortis Kingdom"
"That's right" Musshuru, "If King Fortis knew of our intention to establish a cooperative relationship. Our kingdom must have been immediately accepted by them. Because maybe our kingdom is one of the two kingdoms that Fortis Kingdom has always wanted to work with."
"Hmph! That's right" Wapol nodded, "That Stupid King Bastard of the Prodance Kingdom. He became very arrogant after successfully establishing a cooperative relationship with the Fortis Kingdom. Even just talking he immediately hung up on me! Just wait! If until my kingdom can establish a cooperative relationship with the Kingdom of Fortis. I will definitely repay all of this"
"No need to be nervous, just relax" Ars said with a smile, "Think about what is in front of you right now, you are in an empty room where no one is with you or sees you. You think that you are currently only with me to have a conversation and consider me as your friend so that you can have a good conversation"
Bell slowly listened to Ars' words then took a deep breath and his previously nervous expression instantly calmed down.
"He has great skills for manipulating one's emotions…" Tsuru said.
Sengoku nodded, "The words used are also quite light and easy to understand. In addition, he has a friendly demeanor that allows people who talk to him to easily get rid of the nervousness he has when talking to him."
Ars' gaze then looked ahead again and continued the previous conversation, "As you have seen for yourself this time. I was with the Representative from the Kingdom of Alabasta. Some time ago, the Alabasta Kingdom side had sent their representatives to the Prodance Kingdom to ask for help in contacting our kingdom. The request for help that the Kingdom of Alabasta wants is to ask for help from our kingdom to solve various kinds of problems that are currently being experienced by the Kingdom of Alabasta."
Ars paused for a moment and continued, "Lucky. The Kingdom of Alabasta itself is one of the two kingdoms that our kingdom has targeted. Which targets? The target for our kingdom is to establish a cooperative relationship"
"One of the two kingdoms?!"
"It means…"
"Hasn't our kingdom been getting the attention of the Fortis Kingdom before?!"
The citizens of the Kingdom of Alabasta were shocked by this information. Meanwhile, the residents who watched were also surprised by this information.
"Well, continuing what I said earlier. As you know that the Kingdom of Alabasta is one of the two kingdoms that our kingdom wants to establish a cooperative relationship with. Therefore, through the conversation we had with the representative of the Alabasta Kingdom namely Bell. The agreement has been made. Although we haven't done a formal signing where the signature was done by the two royal leaders on a document. However, this can be done later when the situation experienced by the Kingdom of Alabasta is stable. Therefore, from now on, the Kingdom of Fortis officially declares that the Kingdom of Alabasta has established a cooperative relationship with our kingdom."
Ars's gaze immediately became more serious than before, "Those who dare to take any action against the Kingdom of Alabasta. Better withdraw their troops there immediately. I don't care who they are. As long as they dare to do bad deeds against the Alabasta Kingdom. Our kingdom will immediately pursue them and will immediately destroy them until there is nothing left."
Ars' previously serious gaze then turned cold, "I'm sure you guys no longer need a trial, right? You can take the example of our kingdom's actions against the previous World Government."
Imu and Gorosei who were watching this live broadcast had their faces immediately turned ugly.
"If you want to give it a try, I'll invite you. World Government, you guys can try again. Try to attack the Kingdom of Alabasta." Ars said casually, "However, I hope you are prepared for the consequences. As long as you take the slightest step— No, as long as the order comes from your mouth. At that very second, your Territory, namely Mariejoa, will be destroyed by me immediately. Don't forget that in Marijoa this time. There are a lot of my spies scattered there. You guys even some time ago had done something stupid. If it weren't for me being too lazy to take action against you guys. I think Marijoa is now ruined because of your stupid actions."
Ars himself did not know about the actions of the World Government. This is also implied in his words where Ars uses the words "Stupid action" or "Some time ago". Ars used that sentence to make the Gorosei think that right now there really are spies in Marijoa and they are currently being monitored by them.
Meanwhile, if the Gorosei really didn't do what Ars said before. Ars himself has used the sentence "Some time ago" where the concept of time in the sentence itself is abstract which means it could be in the near future or far away. While there is also a "stupid act" which means that the sentence can refer to various actions carried out by the Gorosei, both good and bad.
Currently Ars is using psychological play to destroy the thoughts of the Gorosei.
"God damn it!" Masato shouted angrily, "Can't he—"
"Masato!" Ogata suddenly called out to him, "Shut up!" Ogata looked at him coldly, "Right now, we might have been stared at by spies. As long as we say something bad about King Fortis. We can't guarantee what they will do to us."
"..." Masato suddenly fell silent hearing this with a gloomy face.
"We almost destroyed Marijoa…" Yasunori said grimly.
"I guess… We're going to be summoned by Imu-sama right now…" Noda said grimly.
"Wororor~ What an interesting threat" Kaidou who was watching the live broadcast on Onigashima Island said excitedly while laughing, "I think it would be very interesting to do that. What do you think, King?"
"The Fortis Kingdom can do that because they have the power to do it" King said calmly.
"Are you saying that as long as we have the power we can do that?" Kaidou smirked "Wororo~ Take it easy, King. As long as we get those guns. We would definitely do the same– No, it's even more interesting."
After listening to those words from Ars, Kaidou recalled the action he had done, which was to ask King to investigate the spies on their side.
"Dahahaha…" Shanks who was watching the live broadcast just laughed excitedly, "As expected of him. That person is really not afraid to say such things to the World Government."
"How many times has he slapped the face of the World Government?" Limejuice asked.
"At least it's been a few times and only he managed to do that" Hongo said calmly.
"He succeeded because he has the power to suppress the World Government" Ben Backman said, "As long as one has the same power as the current King Fortis. He can do it too."
"Hmph!" Hancock who was currently watching the live broadcast on Saboundy Island was very happy that Ars humiliated the World Government again.
Hearing the threat that Ars gave. There were many responses that came out of everyone. However, for the citizens of the Prodance Kingdom, Ryugu Kingdom, Amazon Lily Kingdom, and Alabasta Kingdom. They immediately cheered with enthusiasm.