Ars moved quickly through the crowds towards Blueno's bar. When he arrived, it was already open, and quite a few clients were already present, Ars approached the bar counter, and ordered a drink.
"Can I have a cup of rum?"
Blueno nodded, unaware that he had become prey for the person he was about to serve.
After receiving his drink Ars quickly finished it, and ordered another one. He kept repeating the process until it would be believable that he was very drunk. Now he only needed a reason to start a conflict with Blueno. And since he was acting drunk, any small thing would do… There was also the option to bullshit into a fight.
Ars waited for a bit, for a mistake to happen, but since there wasn't one happening and he didn't feel like waiting more, he decided to go with the second option, random bullshit, go!.
"Thiws drwink taaastees like gawrbage!"
Then Ars grabbed the cup and threw it at Blueno's face, it was so unexpected that Blueno didn't even react, it hit him right in the forehead, leaving a small cut. Then he approached with fists raised while declaring.
"Ehat thwis twooo!"
This time Blueno did protect himself but Ars managed to touch his blood.
Before Ars could do anything else the rest of the customers reacted and stopped Ars and kicked him out of the bar.
Once he was outside Ars showed a pleased smile and disappeared between the buildings, searching for an isolated place, so he could transform without being noticed and return home.
It didn't take him too long to find the ideal place, and finally after a few more hours of travel, he was back home.
When he returned Elia approached and asked curiously.
"Did you complete all you had to do today!?"
Ars nodded, and replied with a grin.
"That and more. And call a maid, I need to take out a guest from my laboratory that will need help."
He got into his laboratory and pointed at the second tank. And told his guest.
"Get in there! Then I will let you leave this place for your new life."
The poor guy didn't even ask why, he was so used to following orders that he just did it unconsciously.
Ars made the machine start regenerating the guy's previous appearance. It didn't take long, before he was starting to look as a human once more.
Ars realized that his guest was probably younger than he thought. After his body started to regenerate Ars could see that maybe this child was not even 14, but looked older thanks to his physique and the previous wounds.
Ars awaited his recovery by the tank. And after a while, the procedure was done, and the young boy exited the tank.
Ars looked at him curiously and asked.
"How old are you?"
The boy looked confused, then thoughtful, and after a while he finally answered.
"I don't know exactly, but I think I am 16…"
Ars was shocked, he looked much younger than 16, Ars thought.
'Well, some people look younger than their actual ages, it's just one of those cases…'
Then he looked at him and asked.
"Do you have a name?"
The boy froze once more, then he looked like he was trying hard to remember. After a few minutes of silence he shook his head.
Ars sighed and went to get a confidentiality contract, even if there was less than 1% chance that the boy was a devout follower of the world government, there was no harm in being careful.
The boy looked at the contract, but for him it was only a paper with letters, since he didn't know how to read.
Ars looked at him and told him.
"Just think of signing it and accepting the conditions."
The boy nodded and tried to follow Ars orders. The moment he did, his body automatically signed a name. Peter.
Ars looked at it and commented.
"So your anime is Peter."
The boy's eyes shone and then muttered.
"Yes… Yes that was it… That was my name! Thank you!"
Ars smiled, he thought since the contract forced the real name to be signed, maybe he could get the boy's name. And he was happy it worked.
Then he grabbed Peter's shoulder and took them off from the laboratory, into the entrance of his palace. There a maid was awaiting them.
"Your majesty, welcome back!"
Ars smiled and pointed at the boy.
"Thank you, this young man here had a very troubled past, make sure to help him for the first few days, and get him a spot in school so he learns the basics of education."
She nodded and took Peter with her, towards a backroom where she could average what he knew and what she needed to teach. She supposed it was a lot since his majesty told her to get him into school for the basics.
Ars on the other hand went to have a late dinner.
He got to the dining hall and found a maid, then he asked directly.
"Can you prepare a late night snack? I'm hungry since I flew for a few hours and something to bite would be nice."
The maid nodded and inquired.
"What would be better? Just a snack or an actual dinner, we can do both fairly fast, as long as we keep it simple."
Ars thought about it and replied.
"Just a snack will be fine."
She nodded and left to prepare it.
After a while she returned with some cookies.
Ars destroyed them and quickly went to sleep.
The next day the newspaper exploded, while it did not announce the end of the tenryuubito, it did announce the disappearance of one. Ars knew the world government knew the truth but decided to cover it, so he laughed out loud.
Elia and all the other queens were curious about why he was laughing, but it was Reiju who asked first.
"Why are you laughing like that?"
He gave them the newspaper and the ones who understood what that meant gasped. Reiju looked at Ars seriously and asked.
"Does this mean what I think?"
Ars nodded and added, not 100% sure.
"Most likely."
The ones who didn't get what this meant were confused, this ones being Elia, Bell-mere and Kuina. Elia quickly asked, trying to understand what was happening.
"So what does it mean?"
Ars smiled a happy smile and explained.
"That the tenryuubito is most likely dead."
Kuina questioned something else.
"Then why the redundancy? And why are you so happy?"
Ars shrugged and replied calmly.
"Because they would need to admit that the tenryuubito was killed by an unknown party, and the world government would never admit that, because if they did, it would be the same as admitting that they are not gods… And for them that is more important. And I'm happy because I don't like them."
Olivia thought about it and asked Ars with a curious face.
"Are you in any shape or form involved in the death of this tenryuubito?"
Ars smiled and then nodded, before explaining.
"I am connected but I am not the one who killed her… Her slaves did, after I freed them, probably with their pants down… I can almost imagine the admiral's face when he found her helping her slaves have so much fun! And if the slaves didn't do it… Maybe the world government did, they can also just put her under house arrest… Because, in short terms, she became a stain on their image."
The people there who knew what the tenryuubito in general were like didn't care too much, but the others were horrified about the idea. Bell-mere instantly complained.
"You left a defenseless woman to be mistreated!? What were you thinking!?"
Rachel instantly defended Ars.
"You have no idea how much she deserved it… Let me be clear, I cant say 100% of the tenryuubito are evil, but at least 99.99% of them are absolute scum worse than pirates… So yeah, he was thinking properly!"
Ars remembered and calmly said.
"I also rescued a slave that she tortured until the young boy didn't look human. I restored his appearance, but his heart might be scarred for life."
Olivia looked at him and said.
"Can we see him?"
Ars nodded and explained.
"You can, but I sent him with one of the maids yesterday, so he can start adapting, but it will take time, and I honestly don't know how he will react to you guys."
Kuina was confused and asked.
"What do you mean by that?"
Ars sighed with a conflicted face, but explained anyway.
"You are all females in positions of power… And he was trained by one to follow any order at any cost when given by one… I know you guys are kind unlike them… But he might not be able to distinguish you guys from them for now."
They realized he might have a point.
In other places the same news was having very similar reactions.
New world…
Whitebeard Pirates…
Marco had bought the newspaper as usual and once he saw the title, he laughed and quickly moved to communicate this exciting news to whitebeard.
"Pops, read this news… Someone finally got done with the tenryuubito behavior and most likely killed them!"
Whitebeard took the newspaper and read the article, then he broke off laughing, before saying.
"One of those bastards got what they deserve, tenryuubito getting attacked… This brings back memories!"
At another location, Shanks had a similar reaction to Marco at first, but then he calmed down and commented.
"This is unexpected, and maybe will cause a bigger disturbance than we are realizing now… Let's hope not!"
Then he turned to Benn Beckman and said.
"We just got a new reason to party!"
Benn Beckman looked at him with a smirk and asked.
"I thought you were done with drinking, according to what you said a few hours ago… And according to you, any reason is a good reason to party."
Shanks laughed and declared.
"It's not like I want to but with such interesting news, we have no choice but to party!"
On Totto Land, Katakuri was also surprised but didn't pay too much attention, since there was no information of the responsible, but one of his sisters thought otherwise and went to inform her mother.
"Cinnamon, what do you want?"
She delivered the newspaper to her and commented.
"Some interesting news!"
Big mom read it and smiled, but soon her face returned to normal.
"One of them got what they deserved, but there's no information of who was behind the attack… The person behind the attack would be a good candidate for marriage!"
On Wano, King was the one who was the happiest, and was drinking joyfully. Kaido noticed he was in a good mood and asked.
"Did something interesting happen?"
King nodded, and gave him the newspaper. The moment he read part of the title he laughed loud then commented a bit hungover from the previous night.
"This is really interesting news. I wonder if I should do the same, that sounds like a good idea, but those bastards don't approach my territory… I will think about it later… But I wonder who did it!?"
Everyone around the world who knew the true nature of the world government and wasn't one of them was showing joyful expressions and running around excitedly.
On the other hand almost all nations that were linked to the world government were panicking and showing horrified expressions about such news. Some were planning how to use this incident to get on the good graces of the world government, others were thinking about the repercussions that might come because of this incident.
Back with Ars, he was keeping his daughters company, today both of them were passing the day with him, besides his daughters Ars was surrounded by a large group of maids.
Ars was basically playing house with the 2 little girls, while the maids snickered. After a while he got called for lunch. He picked up the 2 little girls and took them to the dining hall.
When he arrived he was surprised, there was a huge cake on the table, he looked around and asked.
"This is new, what is this for?"
Elia smiled, and explained.
"This is for dessert, and to thank you for helping us so much or straight up bring us back here… We realized that we never gave you anything besides ourselves and today we decided to give you a cake!"
Ars smiled sweetly and commented playfully.
"You didn't need to, especially since I eat your cakes quite often, though not the sweet edible kind, but I can assure you I'm very thankful that you all chose to give me an opportunity… But thank you for the cake, hopefully everyone can enjoy this one! But seriously, why?"
All the adult females blushed, while the 2 butlers just laughed silently, and gave him a discrete approving nod. Elia replied quickly.
"Nothing really!"
He decided to forget it and just enjoy it. After that they all passed the day as a big family, talking with each other, relaxing and playing around. Having taken the children to play in the lake with their pet whale and the other children.