83 Leaving (1/2)

Neptune gazed at them all before he sighed. ”When will you guys be leaving?” Neptune could guess that they were going to leave today. He would be missing his daughter, but he knew that it would be for the best if she left with Izan. Neptune wasn't stupid enough to not know what would be happening in the future. Chaos… Neptune would steel himself in the future, he would stand in the front with his army behind him, facing the wrath of the enemies.

”Soon.” Izan replied Neptune with a smile, he could see through Neptune's facial expression. Neptune was one of the few straight forwarded guys that would stand with his subjects. People could and would call Neptune, stupid, ignorant and wouldn't be fit to be a king. Yet, Izan would rather having people as Neptune and Cobra as his allies rather than someone that would cower behind his army when facing a threat.

”Haha, let us enjoy a meal then!” Neptune laughed out loudly before he stood up and showed the path forward to Izan and his wives. Neptune gazed at Shirahoshi who was standing near Izan, he felt slightly saddened, but nothing much that would hurt him.

They all followed behind Neptune till they entered a room with a long table. There were maids piling up plates on the table. The maids gazed at the ones behind Neptune, the six females and the sole male. All of them were beauties that couldn't be matched unless they had to search around the entire world.

The maids knew who they were, members of the Heavenly Pirates, all of them had great strength that could match the strength of Vice-Admirals and maybe even Admirals if they teamed up. Lastly they gazed at Izan, his blood red hair and his jet-black eyes were mesmerising, but they didn't dare to stare at him for too long as they lowered their heads.

They had all read the newspaper of who he was, Heavenly Emperor Izan, being stronger than Admirals and his prowess is nearing the strength of the other old Emperors as Immortal Kaido, Red-Haired Shanks and Big Mom.

The eight of them sat down around the table. As Izan, Jiutian, Shirahoshi and Perona had already eaten onboard of Defying, they only drank water and chatted joyfully.

Neptune ate quietly as he watched how Izan and Shirahoshi acted and spoke together. Neptune couldn't help but to sigh before speaking. ”I am very happy that you, Shirahoshi has finally found your partner in life. I bet that your mother would be very proud.”

Shirahoshi couldn't help but to tear up as she heard her father speaking about her mother. But when Shirahoshi's tears were about to run down her cheeks, a finger swept away her tears gently. Shirahoshi gazed at Izan who were staring at her with a kind expression.

”Whenever you feel like it, you can speak with either me or your sisters. We would gladly listen to you and your past…” Izan caressed Shirahoshi's cheeks gently.

Shirahoshi couldn't help but feel happy as she hugged Izan while nodding in his embrace.

It took Shirahoshi ten minutes before she calmed herself down. At that time, Nojiko, Robin and Hancock had already finished eating. Nojiko, Robin, Perona, Hancock and Jiutian sat near each other and spoke to each other in a low voice.

Izan stood up from his chair while holding Shirahoshi. He glanced at his wives for a brief second before he nodded. Izan turned his gaze towards Neptune, a smile appeared on Izan's face as he started speaking in a calming voice. ”Neptune, we will be leaving now. When I have finished handling some matters, I will come back and move Fishman Island up…” As Izan finished speaking, he let out a mysterious smile.

Before Neptune could even ask what Izan meant, he saw all of them vanishing from their spot without leaving anything behind. Neptune sighed as he leaned back at his chair. ”I will trust you this time, Heavenly Izan…”