Chapter 160 - Chapter 162

A few days after the war with Kaido, Amell was sitting inside his office with Sylvia on his lap. They were reading the newspaper and laughing together, "I didn't think it was possible for you to be any more famous than you already are, honey." Sylvia said and sipped on her tea.

"Yeah, my attention was never to garner more attention on me. I am of your mindset, I wholeheartedly believe the fame I already had was enough." Amell changed the page in the paper and out from it fell a bounty poster. He caught it in his grip before it escaped his reach. He placed it on the table and when he saw it he shook his head and sighed out loud.

"What do they expect will happen by increasing my bounty?" He showed it to Sylvia and she shrugged her shoulders at it.

"I don't know, honey. But your bounty is starting to become impressive." She said calmly.

"So it wasn't impressive before? When was the last time you had a five billion bounty?" Amell laughed casually and took a sip of his whiskey.

"That was not what I meant, and you know it. But isn't your bounty the highest in history now? A little over six and a half billion. That's a lot." Sylvia said and gave him a kiss on the cheek.

"I don't know. Bounty has never been anything I care a lot about. But I think mine is highest, but who cares." Amell burned the bounty and placed a hand on her belly and smiled. "The only thing that matter to me is you and this little human growing inside of you." He said calmly while carefully rubbing her belly.

"Yeah, about that. Are we sure our baby will be human?" Sylvia said to him.

"What do you mean?" Amell looked at her with confusion evident on his face.

"I mean, with all the things you can do, are you sure that you're human still?" Sylvia raised a good question. Amell hadn't thought about that in many years. What was he? He convinced himself for a long time that he was and will always be human. But maybe Sylvia was right, maybe he had somehow transcended his own race.

After some quick thinking, he answered, "I don't think that is something we have to worry about, love. Even if I am not a human, I am still our babies father, and you better believe I will rip apart anyone coming to hurt our family." Amell said seriously.

"That's fine and all, but try and not do that a lot in front of our baby, we don't wanna traumatize our child," Sylvia said with a smile.

"I promise."

Sylvia nodded in satisfaction, "Now, what's our next step? Are you gonna take over Kaido's territory together with the other three?"

"No! I will not remove the emperor system entirely. I will just remodel it slightly. I will never use the Gotei to rule without mercy. Like in the Elemental Nations, I will make sure things are fair, but I will use the emperors as peacekeepers over the world, and they will work for the Gotei."

"Are you sure you can control, Big mom and the others. Whitebeard I don't think will go along with this." Sylvia said, seeming quite troubled by this.

"That's assuming I will actually allow them to keep their status. The emperors will eventually become tools for the Gotei, and those seats will be occupied by people of my own choosing. No more free-willed emperors. In my worlds, there will always only be one free-willed emperor. And that is whoever sits upon the throne of the Gotei." Amell spoke proudly of his new system design.

"Are you sure that will work?"

"Yes! I am sure of it. Without the World government, this world will find peace soon enough. Plus, for our baby, I will tame any world in the universe."

"It appears I made the right choice when I chose to stay by your side all my life." Sylvia giggled and leaned in to rest her head against his chest.

"Definitely. You will always be safe as long as I'm around."

"Okay, enough with the flattery. I have stuff to do so I can't laze around all day long!" Sylvia grew a determined expression and struggled free from her husband's grasp. "And don't you have emperor duties to do?"

"I suppose so. Love, if you see Orlando out there, ask him to come to see me, I need to have a word with him." Amell said. Since they arrived back here in this world, he had barely been in contact with Orlando. There was a two-part reason for this, one was that Orlando was still angry at Amell for forgetting him in the Elemental Nations, and the other was that Amell had promised Orlando and Gold total freedom to do whatever they wanted. Reason for this was that Amell no longer needed Orlando to travel long distances on. He was faster on his own, so the only times he called Orlando back personally was when he needed to take Sylvia somewhere and he didn't have time to do it himself.

"Will do, but I doubt he is here," The two pirates standing by the door opened them up for Sylvia while bowing their heads. She gave them a smile and walked out of the room. "Ash, go fetch our guest. It is time her and I had our meeting." Amell said to one of the pirates standing at the big double doors.

"Yes, captain!" Ash yelled loudly before running out of the room.

Amell leaned back in his chair and stared at the ceiling. He closed his eyes and his mind began to wonder. So much had changed for him in just a few days. Since the moment he took the head of Kaido the New World exploded in chaos and confusion. The World Government was furious with him, and the Light Unit had mobilised all their forces to try and locate and arrest Amell. Though this went without any success. After the Dressrosa war, Amell together with his entire crew disappeared from the world once again. This was exactly what made the world so afraid of him. He showed up, killed an emperor and disappeared without a trace.

In the New World, Big Mom had moved in on Kaido's territory, but in response to this, something truly unexpected happened. Whitebeard had moved in and stopped any and all advances she made on Kaido's islands. The thing that perplexed Sengoku was that Whitebeard didn't make a move on Kaido's territory. He simply stopped Big Mom and declared all of Kaido's islands off-limits. This, of course, caused the Marines and the World Government to suspect that he and Amell had a secret alliance, albeit nothing of that nature could be proved.

The doors to the office opened up and Ash rushed in with a woman behind her. It was one of the Headliners of Kaido's crew. "Thank you, Ash. Leave us!" Amell said in his emperor tone, making her very nervous. "Yes, captain!" Said both Ash and his companion and they left the office.

"Ginrummy, welcome to my office!"

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