The next day.
News Coos took off from newspaper agencies large and small across the world, leaving behind copies of newspapers.
Today's front page headline was particularly eye-catching.
[The Holy Mother who saved thousands of children was brutally murdered by the ungrateful Giant Tribe of Elbaf! I can't help but ask...]
The photo showed a heroic Marine.
The content was his personal statement.
"My name is Popote, a Rear Admiral from Marine Headquarters. Ten years ago, Mother Carmel entrusted me to the Marines. There are many colleagues like me in the Marines who are upholding justice on the sea just like me."
"If it weren't for the Holy Mother, I would have died on the battlefield of the New World long ago, and the current me wouldn't exist."
"But not long ago, the giants of Elbaf attacked ships under the World Government without cause and killed the Holy Mother as well."
"Even if the giants of Elbaf held resentment towards the World Government and the Marines because members of the Giant Warrior Pirates were captured back then, how innocent was the Holy Mother who raised thousands of children?"
"You must know that over thirty years ago, when the Giant Warrior Pirates were about to be executed, it was the Holy Mother who persuaded the Marines and the World Government to spare the members of the Giant Warrior Pirates who were originally sentenced to death."
"Since then, many righteous giants from the Giant Kingdoms of the Four Blues have joined the Marines to execute justice and maintain the stability of the sea."
"Yet the giants of Elbaf rejected this kindness from the World Government and even forgot the favor the Holy Mother once showed them. It is simply despicable and shameless!"
"I can't help but ask, compared to the giants of the Four Blues who embrace civilization, are the giants of Elbaf truly such barbaric, rude, and inhumane existences?"
With a person involved speaking out, many people around the world instantly believed it to be true.
Somewhere in the New World.
A large ship, far exceeding the size of ordinary vessels, was sailing at high speed.
Harald, like a small mountain, sat at the bow, gazing in the direction of Elbaf, his eyes full of tenderness.
I wonder if Ida has lost weight.
How much has Hajrudin grown?
Does Loki look a bit like me, or a bit like that woman?
"Your Majesty Harald, bad news! Something happened in Elbaf!!!"
At this moment, a guard approached in a panic, holding a newspaper.
"Something happened?"
Harald's heart sank. He took the newspaper, and after reading the content clearly, his expression changed drastically.
He believed that Jorul and the others would absolutely not kill Mother Carmel on their own initiative.
There must be a misunderstanding here.
He must figure out all this and make the facts public.
Otherwise, Elbaf's path to establishing diplomatic relations with other countries will only be more difficult.
"Full speed ahead!!"
Harald stood up, grabbed an extra-large oar, and thrust it forcefully into the sea.
Meanwhile.
Elbaf.
The White-White Sea near the Fisherman's Village.
"Prince Loki, we can't go any further. We'll fall from the White-White Sea. Have you forgotten that you fell from here before?"
Gerth blocked Loki's path, full of worry.
"Don't worry, I'm just showing you the ability of the fruit you brought yesterday."
Loki looked at the white clouds within reach and nodded in satisfaction.
Thanks to the unique environment of the Sun Realm.
He didn't need to go through the trouble of finding thunderclouds.
He could directly use the White-White Sea to create Thundercloud Homies.
"That Devil Fruit?"
"That's right, the ability Mother Carmel possessed before."
Loki raised his hand and injected a fragment of his own soul into the pure white cloud: "Odin, awaken!!!"
The cloud enveloped by soul power rapidly absorbed the surrounding mist.
As water vapor gathered.
Rumble!
The cloud turned into a dark cloud, and an indifferent and majestic face appeared on it.
Finally, it turned back into a pure white cloud like cotton candy, with one eye open and one eye closed, stepping forward respectfully: "Father God, Odin, ready for orders at any time!!"
"Interesting. Does the personality of the Homies also differ depending on the user?"
Loki remembered.
The personalities of the Homies created by Linlin in the original timeline, to put it nicely, were innocent and naive.
To put it bluntly, they were missing a screw.
The high-level Homie created with his own soul didn't have such a situation.
However, that's good. He doesn't like his subordinates to be a bunch of idiots.
"Wow! It's alive, just like the toys Mother Carmel made before."
Charlotte Linlin excitedly pulled Gerth onto the back of the cloud, jumping up and down.
Gerth was also extremely amazed: "It's become like an Island Cloud, and we can even step on it. Does this mean we can fly?"
"That's right."
Loki answered with a smile and took the two flying high into the sky.
On the other side.
West Village.
"Ugh ah!!!"
"Damn World Government, so shameless."
"Damn Marines, they clearly deceived us first. We haven't said anything yet, and now they turn around and slander us!"
"Calling us barbarians, and wanting to deceive the giants of the Four Blues to continue serving them."
"This man named Popote, there was no such person among the children sold. Another liar telling lies with open eyes, right?!"
Giants, reading the content on the newspaper, flexed their muscles, angry to the extreme.
Deceived them, and then raked them over the coals. Too despicable.
"Lord Jorul, Lord Jarul, lead us on another charge! Wash away the humiliation we suffered with the blood of the Marines!"
Facing pairs of expectant and restless eyes, Jorul and Jarul were extremely distressed.
Agree?
Harald might come back any day now.
Harald definitely wouldn't approve of this way of expanding the conflict.
Refuse?
If this group of hot-blooded young people hold it in any longer, they might go out to sea on their own.
The casualties caused then would be even greater.
At this moment, a pure white cloud drifted from afar.
"Is that? Enemy?"
"A moving Island Cloud? Why does it have a mouth and eyes? Is it alive?"
"No, calm down, there are people on it!"
"Prince Loki, what are you doing here?"
The abnormal situation was discovered by everyone immediately.
Loki was standing on a cloud shaped like cotton candy with Linlin and Gerth.
The cloud also had an anthropomorphic face, one eye open, one eye obscured by the cloud, revealing indifference.
Loki looked down and explained: "This is the assistant I created with my ability! Odin. After Mother Carmel died, I obtained her ability."
"As for why I came here." Loki paused slightly, sweeping over the pairs of eyes burning with anger, raised one hand high, and spoke powerfully: "Warriors of Elbaf, the Sun God is watching us. The humiliation Elbaf has suffered needs to be washed away with the blood of the enemy."
"Those willing to go with me, prepare to depart! Let the World Government and the Marines understand that giants are not to be insulted lightly!"
Fighting the Marines can not only collect some souls for reserve.
But also make the relationship between Harald and the World Government even worse.
Simply killing multiple birds with one stone.
Must push for this war to start.
"Wash away the humiliation, blood for blood!"
"Wash away the humiliation, blood for blood!!"
The emotions of the Elbaf warriors, which were already extremely suppressed and restless, were instantly ignited completely. They raised their weapons high and let out restless war cries.
The violent momentum stirred up the wind and clouds.
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