What.
…What?
…Whaaaaaat?!
“Captain Peter! Get a hold of yourself!”
“M-my legs, they’ve got no strength…!”
“Wait, then all that fucking bullshit was actually true? It wasn’t some joke?!”
“Then Master Oppa is a Sacred Seat—!”
“Gasp! Captain? Hey, C-Captain! Help over here! Our captain fainted with his eyes open!”
The pirates were noisy even in the way they panicked, but Gyeon Riok showed no sign of loosening the arms wrapped tightly around her.
Struggling because she could barely breathe, Jioh clamped down hard on the corners of her mouth that kept trying to rise.
Ahem.
No.
She must not smile.
‘Maintain dignity. Maintain charisma.’
I am a Sacred Seat.
The one and only Sacred Seat in the universe.
If she started grinning at the public’s shocked reaction now that her secretly-overpowered identity had been exposed, she would sink to Hwanghon’s level!
‘Nooo~ See~ Tsk, tsk. You should’ve believed me when I told you. Scared shitless, right? Terrified, right? Trembling because you’re afraid of the consequences—’
“Wait. Then the Immortal Spear is the Sacred Seat’s biological younger brother…?”
“My God!”
“I knew he was no ordinary man, but even his origins! Truly, the crown prince of the pirate world!”
“This much we have no choice but to acknowledge. A bloodline worthy of the man who tormented us for more than ten years…!”
Even the priests who had been frozen solid had somehow joined in, their voices rising in…