Encountering Stussy eavesdropping in the corridor was just a small interlude.
After York left the room, he first found something random to eat to fill his stomach, then personally prepared a nutritious breakfast.
Meat, eggs, milk, vegetables—the four essential elements were all there. The key point was that it was cooked in a Chinese culinary style, complete with color, aroma, and taste.
He had just walked out of the kitchen when the wafting aroma of the dishes immediately attracted Whitebeard and the Golden Lion, who were loitering around.
"Smells so good~~"
"York, I didn't expect you to have such skills."
Seeing the greedy looks on these two guys' faces, York walked straight past them.
"Don't block the way! This is specially prepared for my woman! If you want to eat, go lick the wok; I haven't washed it yet."
"You kid! That's too much!"
York snorted lightly.
"I'm not your chef!!"
Back in the room, Gloriosa had already woken up.
She sat leaning against the headboard, her eyes somewhat vacant.
York entered the room carrying the fragrant dishes. Seeing no reaction from her, his eyes instantly turned into a holy white color.
"Mmph!"
Gloriosa groaned, her pretty face instantly flushing red as she glared at York with shame and anger.
"Don't glare at me with that look. Come eat."
The holy white light in York's eyes faded, and Gloriosa returned to normal.
She casually lifted the blanket. A faint, holy white magical pattern could be seen quietly fading away on her lower abdomen.
As she left the bed, a smear of dried dark red could be seen on the sheets.
"Mmph!"
Her long legs went weak, and Gloriosa, having just gotten out of bed, almost couldn't stand steadily.
A strong arm reached out from the side and wrapped around her waist, helping her steady herself.
"Let go of me!"
Gloriosa pushed York away with all her might, but her arms were powerless. She could only allow the young man to support her to a chair in the room and sit her down.
Looking at the sumptuous dishes in front of her, Gloriosa didn't act pretentious and directly picked up her chopsticks to eat.
As the food, complete in color, aroma, and taste, entered her mouth, her beautiful eyes flickered instantly. However, she said nothing, merely devouring all the food with great appetite.
After the meal.
While York was clearing the dishes, Gloriosa suddenly spoke up: "Even if you have my body, I can never fall in love with you! My heart belongs to Roger!"
"Doesn't matter."
York replied calmly.
"I only care about your body anyway. Besides, I will have many women in the future; it's impossible for every one of them to love me 100% deeply."
Of course, this was a lie. York's possessiveness was very strong; otherwise, the Devil Fruit he obtained by distorting reality with his will wouldn't have been the Happy-Happy Fruit.
A Mythical Zoan-type fruit should have been what the vast majority of transmigrators universally wanted.
The reason he said this was just to "moisten things silently" (influence subtly).
Women are emotional creatures.
Sweet words touch their emotions most easily.
Women are also creatures who admire strength.
Their instincts naturally gravitate towards the strong.
Women are even more deeply controlled by their bodily instincts.
As long as their bodies are conquered, the conquest of their psychology and emotions is only a matter of time.
Expressing now that he didn't care at all who Gloriosa loved was to let her know that York couldn't be manipulated by her emotions.
At the same time, conquering her in reality with his fruit ability and body made her realize that York was a strong man she couldn't resist. She had to choose either to submit or to flee.
Finally, fulfilling the responsibilities of a qualified husband, coupled with some sweet words, would touch her emotions in a subtle way.
With this three-pronged approach, conquering Gloriosa completely, body and soul, was just a matter of time.
Of course, women who remained unwilling to submit even under this triple offensive definitely existed, but they were mostly married women or lovers deeply in love with each other.
Only when two people originally loved each other deeply and were forcibly separated would they remain unforgettable to each other.
Individuals like Gloriosa, who was very likely just experiencing unrequited love, wouldn't have such deep obsessions.
After all, if it weren't unrequited love, Ace's birth mother should have been her.
Unfortunately, York was a tiny bit of a mysophobe.
He wasn't interested in women who had been played with by others, no matter how beautiful or alluring they were.
So, the kind of fiercely chaste women who become legends in stories were unlikely for him to encounter.
Back to the topic.
After Gloriosa rested for a day, her body completely recovered to normal, and Rocks officially held a welcome banquet for her.
After the banquet ended.
Rocks finally issued the first operation order in half a year.
Plunder the Kingdom of Saxon!
There was no other reason; this country was very rich! It was one of the wealthiest countries in the New World!
They hadn't made a move on this country before because its military was very strong, and attacking them would require paying a price.
But a few months ago, the old king died, and the new king ascended the throne.
This new king was a pacifist who had been duped into lameness.
He disbanded the national army, expelled the strong individuals in the kingdom, and even imprisoned and beheaded some of them, or sold them to the World Government.
Rocks saw this opportunity and prepared to give this new king of the Saxon Kingdom a little pirate-style beating.
"Set sail! If you don't have the guts, just stay cooped up on the island!!"
"Ooooh!!"
The Rocks Pirates set sail. The main ship was at the very front, followed by a large fleet.
After all, they were attacking a kingdom this time; relying only on the dozen or so core members of the Rocks Pirates certainly wouldn't work.
Not that they couldn't conquer it, but they wouldn't be able to carry away much stuff.
Although Rocks' ship was large, its capacity was limited.
Bringing the underlings along was partly to help deal with fodder soldiers and partly to carry more treasure after the victory.
...
10 days later.
The Rocks Pirates arrived at the target island.
"Fire!!"
Rocks waved his long sword, and the ship's cannons roared.
York leaped first, stepping on a cannonball, crossing over ten nautical miles to land directly on the island.
*Boom!*
Drawing his sword, his cannon-fire swordsmanship blasted the army guarding the port into disarray.
"You are warriors protecting your home and country! You should die by the sword!"
York did not activate his fruit ability. He brandished his sword and rushed into the crowd, hacking left and right, killing until people were overthrown.
The intelligence gathered by Wang Zhi was very accurate.
The strong individuals of this country really were gone.
With his half-baked swordsmanship, York slaughtered his way from the army's vanguard through the entire formation, encountering almost no opponent of significant weight.
Occasionally, some people would use Armament Haki, but it was only basic application, capable only of hardening and wrapping around fists, feet, or weapons. They were no match for York at all.
"Jiehahaha! For the sake of the treasure, you all go die!!"
While York was slaughtering within the army formation, Golden Lion, Whitebeard, and the others also landed on the island one after another.
In order to plunder this country completely, they all restrained their respective fruit abilities, only causing small-scale destruction, but uniformly carrying out large-scale slaughter.