"Red Hair has a daughter?"
At the Marineford training ground, a young Marine's rifle clattered to the ground. "That legendary Four Emperors... actually..."
The most impacted were Uta's fan base.
In a cafe on Sabaody Archipelago, several young people sat around a table, their phone screens all displaying Kaido's video.
A girl wearing a Uta fan hairpin suddenly covered her mouth, tears welling in her eyes: "Impossible... How could Uta be... a pirate's daughter..."
This emotion spread rapidly like a plague. Although the new generation of pirates included beloved characters like Straw Hat Luffy, the title "pirate" still carried an inherent stigma.
In the perception of ordinary citizens, pirates meant plunder, slaughter, and anarchy.
"My father was killed by pirates..." A fan's comment under Uta's latest video received tens of thousands of likes, "I can't continue to support her."
Uta's fan count began to plummet, with the number of followers on the live streaming platform decreasing by thousands per minute. The comment section of her latest single was filled with insults like "liar, pirate brat."
Some extreme fans even began organizing boycott activities, demanding that TikTok remove all of Uta's works.
What was even more regrettable was that some fans who were once obsessed with Uta now stood in the most intense opposition camp.
"We were deceived by her!" A former fan club leader angrily tore up a collected Uta poster during a live broadcast, "Her singing is simply the devil's temptation!"
However, amidst the clamor, rational voices were also trying to speak out.
Renowned music critic Brook wrote in his column: "Music should not be constrained by one's background. The emotion Uta's singing brings to people is real, and this beauty should not be easily denied."
But such voices were quickly drowned out in the torrent of public opinion.
Major sponsors began to urgently withdraw advertisements endorsed by Uta, and concert organizers were considering canceling subsequent performances. Overnight, the dazzling songstress who stood in the spotlight seemed destined to make a quiet exit.
And at this moment, no one noticed that on a remote island, Red-Haired Shanks was gazing at the distant sea horizon, his expression more complex than ever before.
Red-Haired Shanks stood alone at the bow of the Red Force, the sea breeze ruffling his short Red Hair.
He clutched his phone tightly, the screen still on the breaking news video interface released by Kaido. His usually calm demeanor now displayed a rare mix of emotions—anger, worry, and heartache intertwined.
"This Kaido..." Shanks's single arm unconsciously tightened around the gryphon at his waist, his knuckles turning white from the force, "How did he know about Uta?" He had kept this secret for over a decade.
But at this moment, more than pursuing Kaido, he was more concerned about Uta's situation.
Shanks opened TikTok, and the overwhelming barrage of insults and attacks made him frown. Those keyboard warriors hiding behind screens maliciously vented their anger, attacking Uta with the most vicious language.
He knew that in this TikTok era, invisible verbal violence was harder to defend against than real naval battles with swords and guns. Even the immensely powerful Celestial Dragons were helpless against cyber violence.
Because even they couldn't trace the perpetrators through the internet.
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