Year 1518 of the Sea Calendar.
East Blue, Goa Kingdom, Royal Palace.
"How can this ugly bastard be worthy of the Princess?"
"Your Royal Highness, do you mind having a different fiancé?"
A blood-stained long knife, stuck in the corpse of a blonde mushroom-head, swayed gently, like a happy dandelion softly fluttering.
Dazzling blood flowed and spread across the ground.
A black-haired youth sat on the golden throne, embracing a stiff blonde princess, and lightly tilted up her pretty face.
Princess Sarie Nantokanette.
The blonde princess was now sitting tremblingly on the black-haired youth's lap, her expression holding three parts fear, three parts awe, three parts anger, and one part gratitude.
The large hand resting on her waist made her entire body stiffen. She looked in disbelief at the corpses on the ground and the unfamiliar youth sitting beside her.
On the palace floor, besides the corpse of the blonde mushroom-head, there were two corpses dressed in noble attire and over a dozen guards' bodies.
"My father, the King, and my elder brother, were they truly... poisoned by them in secret?"
Princess Sarie Nantokanette pointed at the corpses of Outlook III and Sterry, trembling all over, her voice filled with anger and disbelief.
Sterry was her fiancé!
They were supposed to get married next month, and Sterry would become the Prince Consort of the Goa Kingdom, enjoying the kingdom's glory and power.
And Outlook III was the Grand Duke most valued by the King of Goa.
Yet they dared to assassinate the Royal Family!!
"Before they were executed, didn't Your Royal Highness clearly hear their 'sincere confession'?"
Jake inhaled the perfume scent on Princess Sarie, a hint of ambition flashing in his eyes.
He never expected that he, a shut-in college student from Earth,
after transmigrating to the chaotic Grey Terminal where thugs gathered in the Goa Kingdom and struggling to survive for several months, would actually have a chance to enter the Royal City.
No one knew how arduous and dangerous it was for him—a graduating college student who spent three of his four years listening to online classes during the pandemic—to survive in the chaotic Grey Terminal; it was truly a near-death experience.
Fortunately, due to certain hobbies, he had taught himself the Japanese.
Otherwise, he would have been even less able to survive, certainly facing certain death.
While fighting for survival, he managed to seize a Devil Fruit.
Under those harsh living conditions, he didn't hesitate at all, regardless of the ability it granted, and ate it immediately.
After that, everything about Jake changed.
With the strange Devil power, he found that the entire world had become benevolent.
The ferocious-looking thugs and ruffians in Grey Terminal showed 'warm smiles' after countless casualties.
What Wang Moubo said was absolutely right: when you are strong, the world is gentle to you, and everyone you meet is a 'good person'!
After Jake cultivated and developed his ability for a period, he was thriving in the chaotic Grey Terminal.
He was just about to set sail to achieve great things—punching the Warlord of the Sea and kicking the Yonko... When suddenly, the news of the mysterious successive deaths of the King and Prince of the Goa Kingdom spread throughout the entire Goa Kingdom.
This made Jake, who had already prepared to set sail, feel as if he had spotted a glittering golden shortcut.
Damn it!
If he could take a shortcut to become king, who the hell would bother being a pirate or a Bounty Hunter!
He had decided to usurp this nation!
If even a piece of trash like Sterry could become king, why couldn't Jake, a dignified Transmigrator!
In the One Piece's world, is usurping a nation and becoming king difficult?
Doflamingo usurped Dressrosa... After Kuma drove away King Becori, he inexplicably became the new King of the Sorbet Kingdom, earning the title of Tyrant... After King Wapol was sent flying by Straw Hat Luffy, Dalton, the Kingdom Guard Captain, became the new King of the Drum Kingdom, even changing the nation's name to Sakura Kingdom, and still retained the right to attend the World Government meeting.
Wapol established a new Evil Black Drum Kingdom in the South Blue and easily gained recognition from the World Government, becoming one of the fifty nations attending the World Government meeting.
In this world, as long as the Celestial Gold is paid in full, the World Government won't interfere with the internal power transitions of the Allied Nations.
This world is just that much of a joke.
Except for a certain Crocodile who wanted to usurp Alabasta, which had the background of the Twenty Kings.
Feeling the Princess's stiff body on his lap slowly begin to relax and soften.
Jake's mouth curled up, like an uncontrollable AK.
He truly hadn't expected this trip to the Royal Palace to go so smoothly.
He actually found Sterry's entire family in the Royal Palace, secretly trying out the throne.
And Jake happened to overhear their conspiracy and boasting.
Jake merely demonstrated a few Manchu Qing tortures, and Outlook III, the Didit couple, and Sterry—these three arrogant, useless nobles—immediately knelt.
Outlook III spilled the beans on their clan's entire plan to assassinate and replace the Royal Family.
"You want to be my husband, the King of the Goa Kingdom?"
Princess Sarie Nantokanette had somewhat resigned herself to fate. Even Outlook III and her fiancé Sterry were coveting the throne of the Goa Kingdom.
This man who suddenly appeared had killed Sterry and the others, exposing their conspiracy.
He even said things like 'Do you mind having a different fiancé?'... Even if Princess Sarie was foolish or naive, she now knew Jake's goal.
Princess Sarie slowly turned her head to look at Jake.
It had to be said that Jake was much handsomer than Sterry, that ugly mushroom-head.
Thinking of Jake's strange abilities, she pondered for a moment. Her slightly bewildered hands, placed nervously in front of her, slowly rose and wrapped around Jake's neck like a lover's.
Her body, sitting on Jake's lap, leaned closer to him.
"Thank you for avenging my father, the King, and my elder brother."
"Tomorrow, I... will announce the conspiracy of Outlook III and Sterry to seize power and usurp the throne."
"And you, my hero, you will be my fiancé, the new King of the Goa Kingdom."
Looking at Jake's handsome face, the slightly trembling Princess Sarie gently kissed Jake's lips.
She had decided to let the powerful Jake become her new husband to stabilize the situation in the Goa Kingdom.
Now, her father the King, her elder brother the Prince, and the influential Outlook III had all died successively.
She feared that as the sole surviving Princess, she would be unable to control the power and situation of the Goa Kingdom.
Frankly, she didn't want to lose her current luxurious life and power.
"Congratulations to you too, for transforming from the Princess of Goa into the Queen Consort of Goa."
Jake naturally embraced Princess Sarie, initiating their first immersive French kiss.
Princess Sarie's eyes grew increasingly hazy.
However, the corpses in the palace, combined with the fact that they were not yet married, caused Princess Sarie, who strictly adhered to noble etiquette, to push Jake away in a panic when she could barely breathe.
"Stop~"
"Please."
"First, please clean up the bodies of these criminals..."
A hint of panic appeared on Princess Sarie's flushed face; she had actually just enjoyed the moment of kissing Jake.
She had only known this man for less than two and a half hours.
"Accompany me to take control of the Royal Palace guards."
"Tomorrow... night... I will accompany you again."
Seeing that Jake looked unsatisfied, Princess Sarie worried that he might become displeased, and immediately gave him a shy, inexperienced look.
"A little time won't make a difference."
Jake smiled faintly, stood up from the throne with Princess Sarie, strategically suppressed his 'gun,' and calmed his 'brother's' fury.
Princess Sarie also saw Jake's reaction, and a flicker of light crossed her eyes.
A little anticipation mixed with a little shyness.
After the two tidied themselves up, Jake piled the corpses together.
Jake looked at the corpses of Outlook III and the Didit couple. If Sabo regained his memory and found out that his biological parents were killed by Jake,
would he come seeking revenge against Jake?
Princess Sarie, meanwhile, found a set of luxurious noble clothes for Jake.
"Let's go, my Prince Consort, we'll take control of the Royal Palace's military power."
Only now did Princess Sarie begin to feel a delayed sense of fear.
She hadn't realized that Outlook III had already taken control of so many guards and maids in the Royal Palace.
No wonder they were able to silently poison the King and the Prince.
If Outlook III hadn't needed to use Princess Sarie's identity for a political marriage to achieve the effect of a cuckoo usurping a magpie's nest,
she, the last surviving Princess, would probably have been assassinated too.
She, the Princess, was merely a stepping stone for the Outlook clan to become the new Royal Family.
"As you wish, Your Royal Highness!"
Jake displayed a wild smile, feeling like he had reached the heavens in a single step.
He truly hadn't expected usurping a nation to be so damn simple.