Chapter 304 Uta Wants to Go Home
The film that Tesoro had bluntly named "Hidden War" premiered.
After a bombardment of publicity from the World Economic News Service, people across the world were filled with anticipation for this movie.
So naturally, after the film's release, it immediately triggered a wave of excitement throughout the entire world.
Brett was currently watching the movie with Shyarly.
The film's quality went without saying—it was quite solid.
Tesoro valued his reputation above all else. He would never allow any obvious flaws in his work.
The Fish-Man Island audience members around Brett held their breath, deeply immersed in this tense and thrilling plot, as though they themselves had become the protagonist, fighting desperately against cruel and formidable enemies in a suffocating environment.
Though Brett was basically in a distracted state the entire time.
Even though the film's quality was indeed solid, having already watched it several times and essentially witnessing this movie's journey from rough to its current complete state, he really couldn't muster much interest anymore.
If not for accompanying Shyarly, he wouldn't have bought a ticket at all.
Brett's eyes remained fixed on the big screen, but his mind was thinking about what Shyarly had told him earlier.
In an unintentional prophecy, Shyarly had seen a future involving that world-famous songstress, young lady Uta.
Shyarly said she'd seen Brett battling some monster at a certain moment in the future.
Normally this wouldn't be particularly special. This world had as many monsters as you could want. Any sea beast or Sea King living in the ocean could be called a monster.
But the problem was—Shyarly said she saw Brett falling into a hard fight.
That was somewhat problematic.
Brett believed that with his current strength, even searching the entire sea, he shouldn't find more than a handful of opponents.
So where exactly had such a powerful monster emerged from?
However, this monster seemed to have a deep connection with that young lady Uta. If so, Brett understood somewhat.
After all, if he remembered correctly, Uta was the main antagonist in that theatrical film he hadn't had time to watch before transmigrating.
To be called a main antagonist, one naturally needed to possess extraordinary power.
Things Shyarly prophesied were one hundred percent facts that would occur in the future.
Brett was genuinely quite curious—what exactly was the connection between that attention-starved Uta and that monster, and when would he encounter it?
He just hoped it wouldn't be at too awkward a time.
Encountering an opponent who could make him fight hard was troublesome enough. If the Navy took advantage of the situation at that moment, that would be truly unlucky.
Though Shyarly always said the future would only advance toward beautiful directions, Brett still wanted to take fewer beatings and experience fewer setbacks during this process toward a beautiful future.
Who would want to go through countless hardships when they could proceed smoothly, right?
By the time Brett returned to his senses, the movie was already reaching its end amid the audience's cheers.
This film was naturally quite successful as well.
Though Brett was contemplating, he hadn't forgotten to release his Observation Haki during the viewing to observe the people's reactions.
What made him feel gratified was that during the viewing, Fish-Man Island's people had fully empathized with the protagonist.
When the protagonist suffered persecution, they gnashed their teeth. When the protagonist encountered danger, they felt anxious. When the protagonist launched his great counterattack, they cheered excitedly.
When the movie let out, Brett could already hear people discussing matters related to spies.
"Are those spies really that terrifying?"
"Of course! Didn't you watch the movie? They might be lurking among us right now!"
"Don't say such scary things."
"How is this scary? Haven't the Immigration Bureau and Ryugu Palace been promoting vigilance against infiltrating enemies lately?"
"Oh, I see."
In the wider world, on this boundless sea, this film once again caused a sensation.
Though this movie's scale was far smaller than the previous one, its level of tension and excitement far exceeded it.
Most people on the seas had suffered hardships. Some might have even personally experienced war. But such tense and thrilling covert struggles—they'd absolutely never witnessed before.
However, this matter actually didn't have much impact on Brett now.
The only reason he'd had Tesoro film this movie was to promote counter-espionage work on Fish-Man Island.
As for what results this movie would achieve, how much profit it would bring—Brett didn't care.
As long as it could successfully stir Fish-Man Island residents' vigilance toward government agents, that was enough.
"Looking at it this way, the results are quite successful."
As they left, Shyarly remarked.
"Yeah."
Brett nodded. "Since it's working, let's ride this momentum and intensify promotion of counter-espionage work's importance. What happened during the Reverie—I don't want it repeated."
Those fellows from before were still mining in the tunnels.
Being betrayed by his own people—Brett didn't want to experience such a thing a second time.
"How are things in the New World?" Shyarly tilted her head. "Zephyr and the NEO Navy."
"Hm?"
Brett was somewhat surprised. "Since when did you start caring about affairs on the seas?"
Shyarly gazed straight ahead, only calmly answering him, "After all, this is the scenery you've always been seeing."
Brett smiled. He held Shyarly's hand. The cool mermaid lady's hand was cold, but it brought such peace of mind.
"Things will be fine over there for now."
Brett said. "The government isn't stupid. They understand better than anyone—Zephyr isn't the focus. I'm the key."
"How arrogant, Brett."
Shyarly snorted softly.
"Can't help it. Your childhood friend has already become the eye of the storm moving the entire world."
Brett said with a smile.
Even someone as violent as Kaido couldn't directly move against the NEO Navy now.
Because they all understood too clearly—without eliminating him first, dealing with Zephyr would be meaningless.
Two days after the premiere, Tesoro found Brett.
"You're leaving Fish-Man Island?"
Brett was somewhat surprised. Hadn't this guy fled to Fish-Man Island because he worried the government would move against him?
"Just leaving for a trip. I'll be back soon."
Tesoro also looked somewhat troubled. "My good disciple wants to visit her hometown."
Brett raised an eyebrow. Tesoro's disciple—wouldn't that be—