Chapter 37 — Peach Rabbit: So Now No One's Going to Carry Me Anymore, Huh?!
Akira lifted Peach Rabbit with one hand, carrying her like a helpless little chick as he walked back toward the villa.
Bang.
He tossed the Vice Admiral onto the living room sofa as if discarding something that had lost its usefulness.
Peach Rabbit landed on the soft cushions with a humiliating thud. She had barely managed to push herself upright when Akira's cold voice descended from above.
"Sit here quietly."
"If you don't… I'll break your legs."
Akira looked down at Gion with an emotionless, condescending gaze.
"Since you were so interested in my 'training.'"
"I'll let you see it for yourself."
With that, Akira no longer bothered with her.
He turned and called out toward the master bedroom.
"Yamato! Baby 5! Viola!"
"Get back inside! We're starting the training!"
Peach Rabbit felt her shame and fury twist together into a suffocating knot. She clenched her fists, but the despair of facing someone overwhelmingly stronger crushed her resistance. She could only grit her teeth and endure.
Soon, the three women emerged from the bedroom.
Yamato still radiated an aura of explosive battle spirit.
Baby 5 and Viola, now clad in the newly acquired [Armor of Will], wore expressions of nervous anticipation.
Akira led them inside the master bedroom.
Bang!
The door slammed shut.
Leaving Peach Rabbit alone in the living room.
She was forced to sit on the sofa, drowning in embarrassment and frustration, as the sounds from behind the closed bedroom door seeped into her ears.
"Damn it, Akira's stacking three layers at once!"
"The rate of increase is too fast!"
"Damn! We need to push even harder!"
Dang! Dang! Dang!!
"..."
Peach Rabbit—Vice Admiral of the Marines, embodiment of "justice"—
Now sat motionlessly on a sofa.
Unable to do anything except listen to the absurd "training" going on behind that door.
She sat from morning until dusk.
From dusk until deep into the night.
The shock, humiliation, and fury inside her heart… eventually—
Shattered into a numb emptiness.
...
The next morning.
The "training" that tortured Peach Rabbit's psyche through the entire night finally came to an end.
Creak—
The bedroom door opened.
Peach Rabbit slowly lifted her bloodshot phoenix-like eyes.
She turned her head.
And saw Akira, Yamato, Baby 5, and Viola walk out looking refreshed and full of energy.
Yamato still looked spirited.
Baby 5 and Viola—
Though their steps were still unsteady, their faces glowed with newfound vitality.
Peach Rabbit's brows furrowed deeply.
Her Observation Haki instinctively swept over all four of them.
And the next instant—
Her pupils shrank violently!
"This… this is impossible?!"
A tidal wave of shock slammed into Peach Rabbit's very soul!
She realized—
Akira.
That monster.
His aura…
Had grown several times stronger than yesterday!!
That alone was horrifying enough.
But what chilled her even further—
Kaido's daughter.
The maid.
Even Viola, whose body yesterday was practically fragile paper.
All three of them—
Their physique and aura had transformed drastically!!
"Y-one… one night?"
"Just ONE night!!"
Peach Rabbit's worldview collapsed instantly.
"A speed of increase like this…"
"Is this really 'training'?!"
"This is completely unreasonable!!"
A fierce turbulence surged within Peach Rabbit's heart—
Jealousy.
Envy.
And something she could not bring herself to name.
For a brief, terrifying moment, a thought crossed her mind—
"Should I also…"
"Gah!!"
She immediately shut down the thought.
As a woman—and as a Vice Admiral of the Marines—she could never ask such a humiliating question.
She could only sit on the sofa with a stiff expression, enduring a mixture of shame and shock.
"Baby 5."
Akira stretched lazily and issued a command.
"Make breakfast."
"For four hundred people."
"Yes, Lord Akira!"
Baby 5 saluted enthusiastically and dashed into the kitchen.
At that moment—
"Ding-dong—"
The villa bell rang.
After finishing his "training," Akira stepped outside, refreshed, heading toward the ruins near the shore.
Doflamingo was already waiting respectfully at the entrance.
He had come to discuss the sale of the Sea Stone with Akira.
Peach Rabbit already felt suffocated in the villa.
The moment Akira didn't object to her following, her face turned slightly red and she hurried after him.
Partly to get some fresh air—
And partly because she wanted to secretly listen in, wondering what other secrets Akira might be hiding!
…
At the seaside ruins.
The moment Doflamingo saw Akira, he plastered the most humble smile he could possibly muster.
"Lord Akira! Good morning!"
But when his eyes shifted—
He spotted the Marine Vice Admiral behind Akira, her face flushed crimson.
Doflamingo's smile froze immediately.
His pupils shrank sharply behind his sunglasses.
"T-the Marines… a Marine Vice Admiral?!"
He looked closer.
Peach Rabbit's beautiful face held the faint red of embarrassment.
Her eyes, bloodshot from an entire sleepless night, shimmered with restrained frustration.
Hiss――!!
Cold sweat instantly ran down Doflamingo's back.
He understood.
"Akira… even a Marine Vice Admiral… he's already subdued her?!"
Doflamingo's respect for Akira soared to an all-time high.
At the same time—
He sensed something else.
Akira's aura…
Seemed…
EVEN stronger than before?!
"When he stood here two days ago, the pressure wasn't this intense!"
A savage storm of jealousy and admiration raged inside Doflamingo.
"Just by existing, he's stronger than he was two days ago?!"
"How does he increase his strength?!"
"No way… no way, could it be related to those women…"
"This secret…"
"I MUST obtain it!!"
Doflamingo steeled his resolve.
He glanced at Peach Rabbit, hesitated, then spoke.
"Lord Akira, regarding…"
"If you have something to say, say it."
Akira's tone was flat.
"You don't have to treat Vice Admiral Peach Rabbit as an outsider."
"From now on—"
Akira glanced at Peach Rabbit, whose face burned red with humiliation and fury.
"She is also one of us."
"Who's one of you!!"
Peach Rabbit exploded in mortification and rage!
"Akira! You bastard! Don't speak nonsense!!"
But Akira ignored her outburst.
He simply motioned for Doflamingo to proceed.
"..."
Doflamingo wiped his cold sweat and continued.
"Lord Akira."
"For that full shipload of Sea Stone…"
"There is a buyer interested."
His voice dropped as he glanced at Peach Rabbit.
"It's… the Revolutionary Army."
"They're offering 2 billion Berry."
"Revolutionary… Army?!"
Peach Rabbit's embarrassment was instantly consumed by shock.
"Are they insane?!"
She stared in disbelief.
"You dare discuss a transaction with the Revolutionary Army in front of me?!"
"I'm a Marine Vice Admiral, a candidate for Admiral!!"
But then—
She froze.
"Wait…"
A suspicion flickered in her heart.
"Two billion?"
"That's almost double the black market price!"
"Since when does the Revolutionary Army have that much money?"
Akira remained unfazed.
He simply nodded.
"The price isn't bad."
"Sell it."
"Yes."
Doflamingo bowed respectfully.
"Oh, right."
Akira added casually.
"Where's your Hobby-Hobby Fruit user? Sugar."
"Tell her to restore everyone in Dressrosa who was transformed into toys."
"What?!"
Doflamingo's face twisted in horror.
"Lord Akira! That—th-that cannot be done!"
He hurried to explain.
"Those toys are the foundation of Dressrosa's stability!"
"If all of them become human again, maintaining control over the kingdom will—"
He abruptly stopped.
Because—
Akira slowly turned his head.
Those cold, emotionless eyes fell onto Doflamingo.
"..."
A fear worse than death swallowed Doflamingo whole.
"I—I… I will do it immediately!!"
Doflamingo nearly collapsed, drenched in cold sweat.
"Good."
"Doflamingo, remember— I don't like disobedience."
"Y-yes! Of course!"
Doflamingo wiped his forehead again.
"And one more thing."
"For the Sea Stone shipment—"
"Tell the Revolutionary Army's leader to come to Dressrosa in person within three days."
"L-leader?!"
Doflamingo's voice cracked.
"You mean… the World's Most Dangerous Criminal—Dragon?!"
"Yes. Him."
"Tell them—if he doesn't come, I won't sell."
"..."
Doflamingo went numb.
This man's insanity surpassed even the Yonko.
But—
Akira's final order—
Was what truly made Doflamingo understand what "the new ruler" meant.
"Lastly."
Akira looked at the island, being slowly stitched back together by Pica and the others.
"Inform the 'overlords' of the New World."
"Y-Yonko?!" Doflamingo trembled.
"Yes."
Akira's eyes gleamed with icy, imperial dominance.
"Big Mom."
"Shanks."
"Whitebeard."
"The Vinsmoke Family."
"And the rest…"
"All those with a name in the New World."
"Tell them—"
"Dressrosa is now MY territory."
A cold smile curled on Akira's lips.
"If they want to keep doing business here."
"If they want to use this place as a transit route."
"If they want their profits to remain untouched…"
"Then within three days—"
"They must all come to Dressrosa."
"To renegotiate their contracts with me."
"If they don't…"
"The Dressrosa port—the gateway between the New World and the Old World—"
"Will block every operation they have."
"And even attack any of their trade ships passing through this territory."
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