Chapter 133 - Chapter 135

A giant portal opened up inside Amell's office and two eagles together with Amell himself walked out of it. "Damn, opening a gate directly between two worlds is a lot harder than I thought it would be." Amell sighed and closed the portal behind them.

They were alone now in the office and it was total silence, so Amell walked over to his desk and sat down. "Fourteen years I have been away from this place. Robin is twenty-four this year. If I knew leaving and returning would both feel this awful, I would have never left. But then I wouldn't have met Naruto. Maybe I should have just stayed on Ishgar and not travelled to other worlds." Amell leaned back on his chair that followed his movement bent back with him.

"Kaa!" Orlando looked at Amell while tilting his head.

"Yeah, you can go outside, just don't go too far away from this island." Amell waved them both away and Orlando flew straight through a window on the ceiling and out into the open air.

'What the hell? After forgetting him in another world, I should expect a lot of my things to get destroyed or go missing.' Amell watched Gold fly up after Orlando.

And right at that moment when the eagles had left, a man with long black hair, and beautiful, almost feminine facial featured barged into the office. "Honorable Grandfather, I was made aware of your return! Welcome back!" Byakuya said while fighting the many different emotions bubbling up inside of him.

"Byakuya," Amell stood up and walked around the desk so that he now stood before his kneeling grandson. "Drop formalities this one time, will you," Amell said and helped Byakuya stand up, and Amell embraced his grandson in a hug.

They separated and Amell went back behind the desk and sat down. He observed Byakuya carefully with a warm gaze, "How have you been, Byakuya?" He asked while crossing his arms and leaned back on his chair.

"I am doing fine, Grandfather. I have been busy with the expansion of the Gotei 13. At this point in time, we are secretly in control of East blue and North blue. And we publically control a large part of the Grand Line, and we just took over another island that was under Big Mom's control in the New World." Byakuya said in his proper military tone while kneeling.

"hm, how active are the other commanders?" Amell asked calmly. He naturally exuded an Emperor's aura without thinking about it, it was just a part of him.

"They have fought in random skirmishes with other crews from time to time. But no one has made any big moves since that requires your approval first. So what they have been doing is mostly establish their powers around the world. Some of them has taken more control than others. Hisoka for example subordinated one of the Seven Warlords. They are seven extraordinary pirates that have the Marine and World Government behind them." Byakuya said.

"So Hisoka became a politician, interesting," Amell said and looked at the monitors where he saw the thousands of pirates walking and running around on his island. They all served him, and this was just one division among all thirteen of them. He started to understand why the Marines feared him as much as they did, this was an absolute massive fighting force. Probably rivalling the Marines in terms of quantity, maybe only slightly less.

"And how is Robin doing? I take it the Gotei have kept her safe." Amell said and his aura was released and slightly shook the entire building.

"Yes, she is well. She has joined one of the Warlords as a spy, and she is using him to get to the poneglyph he is hunting." Byakuya said.

"I see. Then we will let her continue. I wouldn't want to mess up anything for her. I will meet her later, for now, let her focus on her mission."

"Yes, Grandfather!"

Annabelle came walking in through the open double doors, "Excuse me, Captain, Commander Guts has engaged one of Kaido's commanders on an island both the Gotei and the Beast Pirates are aiming for. It looks to be escalating quickly." She said with both her hands behind her back.

"hm, Byakuya, go back to your island and await further orders. I will go there personally. Tell Cal to move over there as well." Amell said calmly.

"Yes, Grandfather!" Byakuya stood up and walked out, and Annabelle walked after him.

"Time for me to make an appearance again," Amell said and smiled confidently.

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