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"Shh~"
Loya pressed his finger to Gion's lips, smiling as he said, "You know nothing~ Just relax and prepare for pregnancy, then nurture your baby and give birth~"
Gion nodded, smiled, and then nestled into Loya's arms.
"I'll put on my navy coat later and show it off in front of my other wives~"
Suddenly, Loya said with a smile.
"Eh??"
Gion's eyes lit up.
Loya made her do this... was he trying to establish her authority over the other wives by treating her as the primary wife?
A sweet feeling suddenly filled her heart.
Chapter 117 Prestige, the Guest Steals the Show
After the maid Bonnie finished dressing Gion.
Gion dons the cloak of naval justice.
Wearing a white suit, Loya took her hand and slowly stepped down the stairs of the cruise ship.
At the newly built Nine Serpent Port, hundreds of Nine Serpent female warriors have been organized to line the streets to welcome them, holding flowers in their hands and eagerly awaiting their arrival.
"Lord Wu has returned to the country!"
"Lord Wu is back!"
Loya and Gion walked hand in hand through the sidewalk, with female warriors on both sides scattering flower petals at them.
Margaret rode the Aquatic Transport Tortoise (Note: a magical creature from Alabasta, about the size of a large SUV, with limbs longer than a regular tortoise and moving very quickly) through the crowd and arrived in front of Loya and the others.
"Your Majesty, Margaret, the deputy captain of Your Majesty's direct guard, reports for duty."
Margaret got off the tortoise-shaped carriage and knelt on one knee a meter in front of Loya.
The look in her eyes as she gazed at Loya was filled with anticipation and fascination.
"Margaret, get up!"
Loya reached out to help her, but when he saw Margaret's gaze, he suddenly remembered something.
So he flipped his hand over and placed the back of his hand in front of Margaret.
Margaret's gaze immediately burned with passion. She took Loya's hand in her hands and kissed the back of it reverently.
"Your Majesty, please get in the carriage."
Margaret stood up and lifted the carriage curtain to speak.
"Margaret, this is my wife, Ms. Momousagi~"
"She was originally one of the most capable elite vice admirals in the navy, but now she's joining me in the Women's Kingdom~"
Loya, holding Gion's hand, solemnly introduced her to Margaret and the other female warriors around them.
You can call her Princess Momousagi~ or Princess Protector~
"If I am not in the Kingdom of Women, seeing Linglong is as if she were seeing me!"
Loya added.
Margaret and the group of female warriors were immediately taken aback.
"Your subordinate greets Queen Momousagi!"
As the vice-captain of the newly formed King Martial Guard, Margaret knew more about Loya than the ordinary female warriors and immediately understood Momousagi's importance.
At that moment, he dared not show the slightest disrespect and bowed deeply to Gion.
The twenty-odd female warriors of the King's Guard who followed behind the water and land tortoise immediately bowed to Gion along with Margaret.
"Greetings, Queen Momousagi!"
The hundreds of female warriors around them immediately followed suit.
They shouted in unison, "Greetings, Queen Momousagi!"
"Ladies and gentlemen, we are all sisters, please do not stand on ceremony!"
Gion, within the Navy, commands several thousand female naval soldiers.
Although she was pleased with the scene before her, she was also quite experienced in such situations, and immediately spoke in a dignified and measured manner.
"Let's get in the car, madam."
Loya then took Gion's hand and helped her onto the tortoise carriage first, before sitting down with Margaret's assistance.
Margaret stepped into the driver's seat of the tortoise carriage and began to slowly drive it toward the Wu King's Palace (newly built).
More than twenty female warriors from the King Wu's Guard were divided into two lines and jogged along the two sides of the tortoise-shaped chariot to provide protection.
All matters on the cruise ship were handled by Bonnie, Gion's personal maid (who had been promoted to the head of the large cruise ship), who led the female warriors of Kuja to unload cargo from the cruise ship.
For the past month, every time Loya sent a ship to Kuja, in addition to sending his wife, he would also transport a large amount of supplies, livestock and female relatives (maids) on board.
This water-and-land transport turtle was one of the livestock previously transported to Kuja.
Loya transported three of these water-and-land tortoises to the Nine Serpents, and gave one to the Empress.
One was Loya's own vehicle, and the other was provided for the other ladies.
Loya has everything (strength, status, beauty, and wealth), so of course he needs to decorate his own territory to make a good impression!
"Back when Hancock became a Shichibukai, I was the one who handled the negotiations~"
"This is my second time visiting the Kingdom of Women. I didn't expect it to have changed so much in almost ten years!"
Gion sat in her luxurious tortoise-shaped carriage, looking through the beaded curtains at the Women's Kingdom, which had undergone tremendous changes, and remarked with some emotion.
Loya smiled and said, "The changes have only happened in the last month or so."
"Oh? It was modified by your people, wasn't it?" Gion immediately smiled knowingly.
Because of abundant resources and wealth, as well as the need to store large quantities of supplies and weapons, and the large number of female relatives sent by Loya (totaling more than 18,000 people), many houses, palaces, roads, and training squares were built here.
"Many countries are at war, and the human trafficking business is severely intensified, especially for underage girls, who are very cheap."
“I had my men (Sebastian and others) buy up large numbers of young and underage girls and transport them to Kuja.”
"To support these people, it is natural to build a lot of infrastructure."
Loya explained.
Of those 18,000-plus women, 99 percent were purchased from human traffickers.
Those who were over eighteen years old were assigned to be maids and began working.
A few who demonstrate the necessary qualities will be recruited into the reserve force of the King Wu's Guard.
And the majority of girls, about 80 percent, are underage girls aged 0 to 17.
These girls were divided into two groups. Those under the age of 13 were not assigned to manual labor but instead studied academic subjects in the schools that were set up. The slightly older girls were also assigned to learn handicrafts.
Those aged 13 and above study cultural knowledge for two hours at night, while during the day they are trained in physical fitness and participate in a certain amount of physical labor.
"I remember the population of the Women's Kingdom were female infants abducted by the Kuja Pirates when they went out to plunder, right?" Gion asked.
"Some were bought from orphanages, or rescued from human traffickers."
Loya added.
One of the things Xia Qi did in Chambord was to act as an intermediary in the Kingdom of Women, buying baby girls and young girls cheaply from orphanages.
"In this cruel world, women are inherently weaker than men. Some poor families drown their baby girls, abandon them, or sell them. The birth of the Kingdom of Women is perhaps a product of abandoned women banding together for warmth in a corner of the world."
Gion remarked with emotion.
The two talked quietly for half an hour.
The water-and-land transport turtle finally arrived slowly in front of a large palace complex covering more than a thousand acres, constructed from giant rocks and the wood of the Adam Tree, with the central main building exceeding a hundred meters in height.
Gion looked up at the magnificent palace complex, then glanced at the small and shabby Empress's palace hundreds of meters away, and couldn't help but shake her head with a wry smile.
"Honey, aren't you being a bit too ostentatious? Compared to the Empress's palace, yours is like the difference between a makeshift village and a royal palace!"
"Anyone who didn't know better would think you were the mistress of the Women's Kingdom~"
"You've overshadowed the main character!"
Chapter 118 The Hidden Struggles Within the Daughter Kingdom
The Empress's Palace.
Upon receiving news of Loya's sudden return to the country, Snake Princess was eager to leave the palace and lead her guards to welcome Loya.
But Gloriosa stopped her.
"Snake Princess, you cannot go to greet King Wu. You must send someone to summon King Wu to an audience with you!"
"Besides, King Wu returned to the country without informing you first, which is disrespectful to you!"
However, in order to see the lover she had been secretly admiring, Hancock clearly ignored Gloriaosa's words.
"Get out of my way, you old man! Don't stop me from seeing Lord Wu!"