New World, near the waters around Frost Island.
On a certain island, a slave-catching ship was docked beside the shore of this deserted island.
Not far from the beachside jungle, a group of slavers were fighting a woman.
If Valthior were here, he would definitely find this scene very familiar.
In fact, it was familiar—because the woman fighting the slavers was none other than Amatsuki Toki, who had been traveling forward through time.
Toki was not very strong. She could not even properly deal with a group of ordinary human traffickers.
After a brief fight, Toki had already lost hope for this jump through time and planned to activate her ability again, continuing to leap into the future.
However, just as she was about to do so, the roar of cannon fire suddenly rang out in the distance.
The slave ship docked on the shore was immediately crippled by a single cannon shot.
"What the hell?!"
"Someone attacked our ship!"
"Who did that?!"
"It's... it's a fleet flying the flag of the World Government!"
Not far away, several escort ships flying the World Government's flag protected a large luxury cruise ship that looked completely unarmed but was decorated in an extremely extravagant style. They slowly approached the island.
On the front escort ship, Spandine held a telescope and cursed.
"We are almost near Frost Island's waters, yet we can still see these damned slave ships? Are they trying to smear the Young Master's reputation? Send people. Wipe them out!"
Before he finished speaking, Spandine saw Toki through the telescope—the woman holding a blade and fighting the traffickers. He froze for a moment.
"Huh? Wano clothing? She looks quite beautiful too. Bring that woman here and ask her what is going on!"
Very soon, a group of CP9 members quickly landed on the island, eliminated the slavers, and incidentally rescued the kidnapped slaves.
However, Spandine was not a good person.
He destroyed the slave ship only because he did not want such dirty rats appearing in his Young Master's territory.
As for the rescued slaves, of course he would not send them back to their hometowns one by one. Frost Island happened to be lacking population, so he would simply send them there to work.
What? Was that not the same as the slavers? What kind of joke was that?
The slavers wanted to sell them for money.
He, Spandine, was not selling them for money.
How could that be the same?
"Commander, this woman says she is not from Wano…" A CP agent brought Toki before Spandine.
Toki was also very polite. She spoke first.
"Thank you for helping me. May I ask who you are?"
"I am a member of the World Government. You are dressed like this, yet you say you are not from Wano?" Spandine frowned and asked strangely.
"What is the World Government?" Toki asked curiously.
"You do not even know the World Government. Then you really are a remnant of Wano!" Spandine immediately said.
Everyone knew that Wano had closed itself off from the outside world. Ordinary citizens there knew nothing about the outside. This woman had not even heard of the World Government, and with the way she was dressed, she was definitely from Wano.
"I really am not from Wano, but I very much want to go there. I heard my ancestors came from Wano!" Toki said excitedly.
"Your ancestors?" Spandine was still very confused, but he soon began using his skills as an agent.
Toki was an extremely innocent person by nature. On top of that, Spandine had saved her, so her goodwill toward the World Government side instantly rose to the maximum.
Spandine quickly began explaining to her what the World Government was.
As Toki listened, she became deeply moved. Wiping tears from the corners of her eyes, she said, "As expected, the Twenty Kings ultimately won…"
Spandine was completely confused.
She knew about the Twenty Kings, but not the World Government?
Bringing out his true nature as an agent, Spandine asked roundabout questions for a while.
Then he was completely stunned.
This woman before him was actually from over eight hundred years ago?
The World Government had not even been founded at that time. The great undertaking of the Twenty Kings had not yet fully succeeded.
And according to this woman, her Amatsuki family had also been one of the forces under the Twenty Kings.
Hearing this, Spandine sharply realized that anything deeper was not something he should be listening to.
If he kept listening, he might end up touching a taboo.
So he immediately said in a low voice, "All right, all right. Stop. I do not understand a single word you are saying. But if you want to go to Wano, I am afraid that is impossible."
"What do you mean?" Toki froze and asked in confusion.
"Wano betrayed the Twenty Kings and has already fallen. Now, that place is called Frost Island," Spandine answered Toki with words that sounded truthful, yet were actually very carefully arranged.
"Wano has fallen!?" Toki was stunned.
She had never seen Wano.
Since childhood, she had lived aboard ships. Over eight hundred years ago, the world had not yet been flooded and changed into its current form. Naturally, Wano had not yet closed itself off from the outside world, and many people from Wano lived all over the world.
The Amatsuki family had been one of them.
When Toki was very young, the Davy clan attempted to conquer the world, and a massive war broke out.
To avoid disaster, the Amatsuki family fled the kingdom where the Davy clan was based—Laugh Tale. Several years later, after many hardships, they joined the allied forces of the Twenty Kings, who had already begun their uprising against the Davy clan.
War always brought death. The Twenty Kings had not won smoothly from the beginning.
During one fierce battle, the allied forces of the Twenty Kings were defeated, and the Amatsuki family perished with them. However, Toki survived and used her power to travel through time, escaping that era.
After that, she continued drifting through different times. Sometimes, after wandering for three to five years, sudden situations forced her to jump forward again. Over and over, she kept doing this.
During all that time, she had always wanted to return to Wano and see her homeland.
But she had never succeeded.
And now, after arriving in this era, someone was telling her that Wano had already fallen?
Did that not mean her wish could never be fulfilled?
Her ability could only take her into the future. It could never return her to the past.
Now that she had arrived in a timeline where Wano had already fallen, it meant she could never go back to Wano again.
After a brief shock, Toki grabbed Spandine's arm in disbelief.
"How could Wano possibly betray the Twenty Kings? The Ethanbaron family was one of the Twenty Kings. Wano was the rightful homeland of one of the Twenty Kings. How could they betray themselves? You must be lying to me, right?"
Ethanbaron was one of the rightful Twenty Kings, and also Wano's royal family eight hundred years ago.
According to Toki's understanding, since they were one of the Twenty Kings, how could they possibly betray the Twenty Kings?
"In fact, after the Twenty Kings established the World Government, they all chose to move to the Holy Land, Mary Geoise. Their original worldly thrones were also handed over. Later, Wano was ruled by the Kozuki family. But the Kozuki family was ambitious. They no longer wished to serve the Twenty Kings, so they chose to build high walls around Wano, cut it off from the world, mislead the samurai, and turn their backs on the World Government for more than eight hundred years. It was only recently that the young master of the Jaygarcia family broke through Wano's walls, defeated the Kozuki family who had betrayed the Twenty Kings, and completely destroyed Wano!" Spandine said gravely.
"The Kozuki family betrayed the Ethanbaron family?" Toki hesitated.
She had heard of the Kozuki family before.
They had once served as retainers to the Ethanbaron family, fighting alongside the allied forces of the Twenty Kings against the tyrant king, Davy D. Jones.
But in the hundreds of years that followed, had such a thing really happened?
Seeing Toki's dazed expression, Spandine, as one of the main participants in the scholar incident, naturally knew that his young master was very interested in the history from hundreds of years ago.
Then if he brought her to the Young Master, the Young Master should be very pleased, right?
"I am now heading to what used to be Wano, which is now Frost Island. Do you want to come with me? I have not told you yet—I am the most loyal servant of the young master of the Jaygarcia family. I can introduce you to the Young Master. I believe he will also be able to clear up many of your doubts," Spandine said after thinking for a moment.
As for why Spandine was heading to Frost Island—
That was because he was the person Butler Alfred had arranged to deliver dozens upon dozens of beautiful women to Valthior.
On the luxury cruise ship escorted by his fleet were the beauties Alfred had selected for Valthior.
To Toki, she had once served the allied forces of the Twenty Kings as well, even if eight hundred years had already passed.
According to Spandine, the Twenty Kings had won and established the World Government to oppose tyranny. That matched everything she knew.
Since Jaygarcia was one of the Twenty Kings, the young master of that family could indeed be considered someone she should serve.
On top of that, there was her obsession with Wano.
If she did not go and see it with her own eyes, she would never be able to let it go.
So after a brief moment of thought, Toki earnestly asked, "Then I will trouble you, Mr. Spandine."
Compared with the original story, Toki's situation was completely different.
This time, she had met Spandine. And Spandine had a very skilled tongue.
As a result, Toki had been rescued from traffickers by the World Government right from the start. Then she learned that the World Government had been founded by the Twenty Kings, along with the story Spandine had just told her.
Because of this, Toki now felt a natural sense of belonging and goodwill toward the World Government.
Seeing that she had agreed, Spandine did not delay any further.
Very soon, the fleet set sail again and headed toward Frost Island.
At the same time, on Frost Island—
Valthior also met the Queen of the Pleasure District, Stussy, who had come to pay her respects.
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