CHAPTER 173: CHAPTER 173: FOUR GIRLS WITH SIMILAR FATES, THE SAME KNIGHT

"Carina, Nami, Perona... let me introduce you. This is the captain of the Kuja Pirates, and also the legendary Pirate Empress, Boa Hancock."

When Carina, Nami, and Perona, who had been waiting for Karl, boarded the Perfume Yuda.

Looking at Hancock standing next to Karl, whose figure, looks, and temperament completely surpassed their own, the three girls immediately cast strange glances at Karl.

Especially Carina and Perona, who saw a familiar quality in the well-behaved and dependent Pirate Empress, couldn’t help but cover their foreheads slightly.

Nami, on the other hand, gave Karl two thumbs up and said with an admiring expression, "Amazing, amazing... As expected of you, Karl!"

At this moment, Nami’s admiration for Karl was completely from the heart.

She hadn’t expected that her teasing remark back then in the deep sea, "Is the next one the Pirate Empress?", would actually be realized by Karl today.

What was even more terrifying...

It had taken Karl only a little over an hour to achieve this.

To conquer the legendary world’s most beautiful woman in under an hour, this speed was even faster than conquering the legendary Mermaid Princess.

Such a skill with women was even more masterful than a master of love.

Even as a woman, Nami was in complete admiration of Karl.

As for Karl having another great beauty by his side, the world’s most beautiful woman, the Pirate Empress, whose looks, figure, and temperament completely surpassed theirs.

Neither Nami nor Carina felt jealous.

With so many beauties around him, Karl, this natural-born monster with boundless energy, had still remained chaste until Carina came of age.

Carina’s position could not be shaken even by the world’s most beautiful woman.

If she couldn’t beat Carina, then even if she was the world’s most beautiful woman, her status would be the same as theirs, so there was no need to be jealous.

Not only were they not jealous, but with the world’s most beautiful woman becoming their "sister," Nami and Perona actually felt a strange sense of accomplishment.

At the same time, they were also very curious about how Karl had conquered the world’s most beautiful woman so quickly.

And so...

After the three girls and the three Boa sisters had introduced themselves.

The Perfume Yuda silently followed Yamato’s large three-masted galleon from a distance of several hundred miles, while the three Boa sisters held a banquet for Karl.

In Hancock’s boudoir, the "Social Master" Carina and her assistant, Nami, who were waiting for the banquet to begin, after getting some information about Hancock from Karl, pushed Karl and the not-so-talkative Perona out of the room and began to talk with Hancock.

After Carina pushed Karl out, Hancock, who had originally been hostile to the girls around Karl, quickly fell to Carina’s and Nami’s sugar-coated bullets.

Not much different from Shirahoshi, besides those few years of slave life in her childhood, she had spent over a decade either on Amazon Lily or on expeditions in the first half of the Grand Line. Hancock, who was so innocent that she would fall over with excitement just from Karl saying her name, was no match for the foxy and burglar cat of the original story.

Under Carina’s and Nami’s proactive show of goodwill, Hancock’s hostility towards them quickly dissipated.

The two women, Carina and Nami, had gathered from Karl that Hancock had once been a slave of the Celestial Dragons.

To create a sense of resonance, Nami did not hesitate to recall her past nightmare, telling Hancock all about how Cocoyasi Village was ruled by the Arlong Pirates, how she had started stealing at the age of eight, and how she was only rescued from the darkness after meeting Karl.

The similar experience indeed made Hancock feel a sense of resonance.

Immediately after, Carina also told Hancock about Robin’s and Shirahoshi’s experiences, making her remember the names of the two women she had never met.

It had to be said...

The fates of the four women, Nami, Robin, Hancock, and Shirahoshi, were indeed very similar.

They all had extremely dark childhoods and had a nightmare from a young age.

But in the end, they were all rescued by the same person.

That person was the knight, hero, savior, and god in their hearts—Karl.

After a heart-to-heart talk, Hancock, whose Observation Haki could clearly sense their sincerity, had her hostility towards Carina completely disappear.

In its place was a favorable impression born of empathy.

When the banquet began, and Karl, Perona, and the two Boa sisters pushed open the door and entered.

The three women, Hancock included, were laughing and talking, and had already started calling each other sisters.

Like Robin, Carina and Nami naturally called Hancock, who was 28 this year and would be 29 after her birthday, "sister."

Carina, whose status was unshakable, never cared about the so-called order of arrival.

Whether it was Robin or Baccarat, Carina would add "sister" to the end of their names.

Hancock was no exception.

Seeing Lord Karl, whom she hadn’t seen in three years, having her spiritual world also engraved with Karl’s brand, and at the same time making her first, second, third, and fourth female friends in her life, Hancock was in a very good mood today.

The tyrant’s mask that she showed to her people was also taken off for the first time.

The Kuja warriors attending the banquet were all mesmerized by Hancock, who was laughing and talking at the dining table, sometimes covering her mouth to laugh, and sometimes showing a fangirl expression to Karl.

While the women were having their banquet, Karl’s Observation Haki finally discovered Shirahoshi, who had been secretly following them, the fastest in the sea, so fast that even he had a hard time detecting her.

And so...

After the banquet held on the deck of the Perfume Yuda, the legendary world’s most beautiful woman also met the world’s most beautiful mermaid.

Both were stunned by each other’s beauty and temperament.

Shirahoshi was a bit better off; she just felt that this big sister, like Lord Karl, seemed to have a special effect on her.

Hancock, on the other hand, had to admit that this legendary Mermaid Princess, just like in the picture published in the World Economic Journal last year, was indeed no less beautiful than her.

After conquering Hancock, Karl was in no hurry to "correct" this Pirate Empress.

Hancock was now his property.

Unlike being forced to be a slave of the Celestial Dragons.

This Pirate Empress, who, in these three years, because of Karl, had completed a self-redemption, and whose mind was now filled with only Karl.

With Karl’s words, "Become mine," she had spiritually recognized Karl as her master.

Hancock, whose body and soul both belonged to Karl, was like in some games, with a favorability of 100, would never betray, was willing to be an enemy of the world for him, and even sacrifice herself.

She was now, like the little dragon and Carina, another half that Karl could completely trust.

Gaining Hancock was equivalent to gaining the entire Kuja Pirates, which meant gaining control of Amazon Lily, a country with a history as long as Wano Country’s, and an incomparably complete Haki system.

Indirectly gaining control of one of the world’s rare Haki powerhouses, Karl’s certain ideas could now be implemented.

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