The once-bustling sea restaurant, filled with guests, became empty after Ian sat down with his four maids; all the customers stood up and left after Ian took his seat, each one looking as if they had escaped death, fleeing to their respective ships and quickly departing from this troublesome place.
At the same time.
In the back kitchen of the sea restaurant.
"How did a Celestial Dragon suddenly come to our sea restaurant?"
"Wuwuwu, will we all be killed today? I heard that Celestial Dragons are capricious; they kill when they're in a bad mood, and they kill when they're in a good mood too!"
Upon learning that a Celestial Dragon had come to the sea restaurant, the two chefs in the back kitchen were so afraid of the Celestial Dragon's authority that even their voices trembled.
"You bastard!"
Just then, Patty, who had narrowly escaped death, walked into the kitchen, cursing, picked up a cleaver, and said viciously, "Using the identity of a Celestial Dragon to commit evil deeds, you'll die a gruesome death sooner or later!"
"Patty, keep your voice down! Do you want to get us all killed?" Another chef's face turned pale with fright, and he said with a trembling voice, "They are Celestial Dragons! We can't afford to offend them!"
Patty glared, his expression extremely fierce: "If it were back when I was a pirate, I would have killed him on the spot! Back then, I followed the Captain, killing our way from Glass Bead Island all the way to Conomi Islands, without even blinking an eye. Why would I be afraid of a Celestial Dragon who only brought a few maids?"
As Patty's words fell, the light in the kitchen suddenly dimmed, and then an old man with a towering chef's hat and a braided whip walked in.
Zeff, the founder and head chef of the Baratie sea restaurant.
"Patty, shut up quickly! If you don't want Baratie to disappear, then show off your best culinary skills and satisfy that Celestial Dragon adult!"
After scanning Patty and the other three in the kitchen, Zeff's expression was more solemn than ever. "No matter what your past identity was, you are now a chef at Baratie. Your job is to prepare delicious food for our guests. The identity of the guest doesn't matter, because no matter who they are, as long as they walk into the restaurant, they are our guests!"
"Boss Zeff, this isn't our fault!" Patty said discontentedly, "That Celestial Dragon was too much; not only did he dock his ship right outside the restaurant, but he also hung us up without a word. I don't think they came to eat at all; they're just looking for trouble with the restaurant!"
Hearing this, Zeff's pupils slightly contracted, and he said in a deep voice, "Shut up and prepare the ingredients quickly!"
"Can't prepare it!"
Patty, with a hint of resentment, casually tossed the cleaver he had picked up onto the cutting board. "He ordered a sea king donburi. If we could catch a Sea King to cook, would we still be here enduring his humiliation? We would have gone to the Grand Line to rule as kings!"
"That's simple," Kālniè's eyes lit up. "I guess he hasn't eaten Sea King meat either. Even if he has, there are so many types of Sea Kings in the ocean, there must be some he hasn't tried, right? So, we'll use sea beasts instead of Sea Kings! As for him saying no scallions and no garlic, that's absolutely not a problem!"
...In the restaurant, Ian sat at a window seat, observing Sanji, who looked like a waiter, with great interest.
If he hadn't transmigrated to become a noble Celestial Dragon, and furthermore, the beloved son born to Imu after an eighteen-month pregnancy, he might have greeted Sanji in a different way.
However, his current identity dictates what he must do.
Identity determines allegiance.
As a Celestial Dragon, and the young master of the distinguished Nerona Family, he naturally wouldn't drink and chat happily with Sanji.
Not only would he not drink and chat happily, but he also had to nip potential threats in the bud, one by one.
Especially that silly goose Luffy, he would absolutely not allow him to grow, and must eliminate him in his infancy.
In short, anyone who stands against the World Government, anyone who wants to overthrow the rule of the Celestial Dragons, is his enemy!
The reason is simple: his mother is Imu, the hidden controller of the World Government. To be an enemy of the World Government is to be an enemy of his mother, and to be an enemy of his mother is to be an enemy of him!
As for the forces that want to overthrow the Celestial Dragon rule, they absolutely cannot be allowed to grow stronger.
Of course, what he wants to do is not just to wipe out all the lawless pirates on the high seas who openly challenge the World Government's order, and to eliminate the Revolutionary Army that is fanning the flames everywhere and wants to overthrow his mother's rule, but also the nineteen Celestial Dragon families of the Holy Land are also his targets for cleansing.
One Holy Land, yet supporting nineteen Celestial Dragon families living in luxury, is simply a waste of resources.
The Holy Land only needs the Nerona Family and This Young Master, the Crown Prince of the Holy Land.
Sanji, for once, did not act like a pervert. Because of Ian's command, he stood quietly by the dining table, his body straight. It wasn't that he had changed his ways; it was simply that Ian's Celestial Dragon identity was before him, forcing him to drop his perverted image and maintain an expression as serious as a sworn knight beside a royal princess.
However, although he wasn't acting like a pervert, his eyes still occasionally glanced at Gunko, who stood behind Ian, and the three stunning maids whom Ian had his arms around.
"How about we make a bet?"
Ian, with one arm around a maid's slender waist and the other on another maid's thigh, looked up at Sanji and said with a friendly smile, "I bet that the sea king donburi This Young Master ordered will have scallions. If the sea king donburi has scallions, you all die!"
"If there are no scallions, regardless of whether the maids are satisfied with the dishes served, This Young Master will let you live!"
"Hmm?" Sanji's pupils slightly contracted, and then he feigned calmness, saying, "Must we bet?"
Ian smiled slightly and said, "If you refuse, this sea restaurant will disappear forever. Anyway, in This Young Master's eyes, this sea restaurant has no reason to exist! After all, from the boss to the chefs to the restaurant waiters, none of them are good people!"
"If This Young Master's intelligence is correct, the owner of this restaurant was once a pirate, and the two chefs who were just hung up were also ferocious pirates!"
"Oh, and~"
Before Sanji could react, Ian suddenly changed the subject and continued, dropping a bombshell, "This Young Master just used Observation Haki to overhear some conversations in the back kitchen. One of the chefs, named Patty, called This Young Master a bastard, complained that This Young Master was committing evil deeds by relying on his Celestial Dragon identity, and even cursed This Young Master to die a gruesome death!"
"What!"
As Ian's words fell, Gunko, standing behind him, suddenly looked up, and a terrifying killing intent was released without reservation. "How dare you curse the Young Master like that? You all deserve to die!"
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