"Um... I feel the king seems quite nice. How about we only target the nobles?"
Dragon raised a different opinion.
York looked at Gloriosa, Stussy, and Shakky, who hadn't spoken.
"What do you say?"
The three women shrugged collectively.
"You decide."
York grinned, looked at Kaido, then at Dragon, and finally said: "I don't plan to occupy this country for now, so let's leave the king alone, otherwise the order of this country will completely collapse."
"I decide! A great purge of this country's nobles!"
"Kill them all!! Loot all treasures!!"
"Good!!!"
Kaido responded loudly.
Although this didn't meet his expectations, it was just the beginning. There were more countries and islands waiting for them to destroy and occupy in the future.
Thus, the group split up, each responsible for a direction, threatening the island's residents to act as guides, and launched a massacre against the nobles of the Sorbet Kingdom.
At first, these guiding residents were hesitant, afraid that York and his group couldn't defeat the nobles' guards and would implicate them instead.
As a result, when York and his group truly exterminated a noble family, these residents who had suffered oppression for years seemed to have a switch flipped.
No longer afraid of anything, they proactively led the way for York and his group with great enthusiasm.
"Pirate lord, follow me!"
"That noble's manor is on the hill ahead!"
"I used to work as a helper in their house; they are very rich!"
Guided by an old man, York entered a noble manor.
Before long, happy screams rose and fell; the defenseless noble family all fell victim to York's ability.
However, after York controlled the people in the manor, this old man actually went straight to strip the clothes off the manor's mistress.
"Hehehe... The pirates did it anyway; no one will trace it to me..."
York narrowed his eyes slightly and released a holy light tentacle directly, piercing through the old man's body.
Chest pierced, spitting a large mouthful of blood, the old man looked at York with disbelief.
"W... Why..."
"An eyesore!"
No grand reason, just simply finding it an eyesore.
Of course, there was also a bit of displeasure at being used.
Meanwhile.
The other members of the Red Flag Pirates encountered similar situations.
However, everyone's approach was different.
Kaido and Gloriosa both decisively killed the people.
Shakky, on the other hand, directly captivated the other party with her beauty.
Actually, not just the guides, even the nobles she needed to kill were directly captivated by her face.
The other party actively opened the gates for Shakky, offering up wealth accumulated over many years.
Because of this, Shakky didn't kill them, instead arranging for them to move the wealth into a mirror.
Stussy, in the Mirror World on the other side of the mirror, quickly transported these incoming treasures using her ability.
Finally, Dragon was a bit complicated.
He first tried to reason with emotion and logic, persuading the other party not to do such things.
As a result, the other party mocked Dragon disdainfully: "You can do it! Why can't I?! At worst, I'll join your pirate crew afterward!"
Hearing this, Dragon's face darkened completely, and he ruthlessly killed the person guiding him.
But after killing him, turning to face the nobles he was responsible for cleaning up, he felt compassion again.
Only killing the adults among the nobles, but sparing the underage descendants.
Claiming: "Children are innocent; the sins of the previous generation shouldn't be borne by them..."
And among the children Dragon spared along the way, one was named Bekori!
He was the one in the original timeline who usurped the throne from the current king in the future, becoming the next king, splitting the Sorbet Kingdom in two, provoking Kuma's solo revolution, and was the culprit behind Kuma being framed as a tyrant by the World Government.
In the blink of an eye, several days passed.
The cleanup of all nobles in the Sorbet Kingdom finally ended.
York and the others regrouped, reporting their respective results.
Gloriosa and Kaido were similar to York, conducting a thorough eradication.
Shakky hardly killed anyone throughout the process but extracted all the money, including some scattered private savings hidden in corners, all contributed.
Dragon hesitated slightly but still mentioned only killing adults and sparing children.
After listening to everyone's reports, York was thoughtful.
Actually, this action against the Sorbet Kingdom was mainly a test of his partners.
To see their styles and philosophies of action.
How much money was robbed, whether the nobles were cleaned up thoroughly—these were secondary.
And after this test, York concluded.
Shakky would be better off as a flower vase (decorative figure) in the future, or debut properly as an idol, responsible for earning wealth from rich people.
As for Dragon, his mindset hadn't shifted yet; he didn't understand how dangerous it was not to pull up weeds by the roots.
But it didn't matter. After a few lessons, he would slowly learn.
Kaido and Gloriosa were currently the two most capable of executing York's orders perfectly. In the future, tasks regarding conquering islands could be assigned to them more often.
Having figured this out, York officially announced the end of the operation.
Everyone boarded the warship again and set sail.
Not far away.
Several Marine warships that had arrived long ago watched them leave from a distance, having no intention of approaching or firing at all.
Actually, they received notification on the day York and the others started the slaughter and arrived at the Sorbet Kingdom the next day.
Unfortunately, they really didn't have the guts to face the Red Flag Pirates, whose lowest bounty exceeded 500 million Berries. They could only land on the island after the incident passed to ask the locals what exactly happened.
Back to York.
After leaving the Sorbet Kingdom, they entered Stussy's Mirror World.
Looking at the treasures piled up like a small mountain in the Mirror World, York couldn't help asking: "How much money did we rob in total this time?"
Stussy pursed her lips and smiled.
"Not sure, but based on my experience, there's always 8 to 10 billion Berries."
Dragon and the Ivankov trio gasped collectively upon hearing this.
"So much?!"
"Even the Heavenly Tribute doesn't seem to have that much, right?!"
Dragon suddenly clenched his teeth.
"These rotten old nobles! They all deserve to die!!"
For the first time, he truly felt that the reason the lower-class people suffered wasn't that the country lacked wealth, but that the vast majority of wealth was gathered in the hands of old nobles!
And precisely these old nobles would rather take their wealth to the grave than share a little with the poor.
York looked at the indignant Dragon and smiled calmly.
"No need to be angry about such things; this is the norm in this world. We'll see plenty more of it in the future."
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