Chapter 18: Back

New World, Fortis Kingdom, Port of Ship Construction Department.

Finally Hashirama and the others arrived safely at Fortis Kingdom. Hashirama with the help of his clones immediately arranged the placement of each of the construction workers and palace maids in the residence they would occupy at this time. The workers already knew about Hashirama's clone abilities. This was conveyed by Hashirama during the trip. In addition, they knew about the connecting channel owned by the Fortis Kingdom. It also made them even more amazed by the Fortis Kingdom and grateful for choosing to become citizens of the Fortis Kingdom.

Meanwhile Hashirama and the other higher-ups immediately rushed to the direction of the battle room because Ars had asked them to come so they could discuss the mission report and also some things they needed to discuss at this time.

By the time Hashirama and the others arrived at the meeting room. All the higher-ups along with Ars had arrived there and were waiting for their presence. Hashirama and the others immediately took their own seats and today's meeting began.

"Okay. Everything has arrived. We can start the meeting this time" Ars paused and continued while looking at Shiina, "Shiina, please read me the mission report"

"Okay" Shiina nodded and immediately opened the document compiled by her earlier and started giving reports.

"The mission this time went smoothly. We managed to recruit 500 construction workers and 50 women who will work as maids in the royal palace. Everyone recruited by us also has a wish and has set their wish to become a citizen of our kingdom. Of the 500 people we have successfully recruited, there are 156 ordinary workers while there are 394 contract workers and we have paid all of their salaries within the next 3 months. Next, regarding the division of housing units. There are 268 people who will later get a second unit house while there are 282 people who will later get a third unit house. That's the report."

Shiina then lowered the document and continued again, "Right now all the workers have been directed by Hashirama's clones to the residences they will be temporarily staying in"

"Good job" Ars nodded and continued, "You order whoever signs up first for us to share the house they will get. You sort each person according to the house they will get later."

"I understand." Shiina nodded.

"Okay. We will continue the discussion further" Ars' voice immediately became more serious than before, "Our kingdom is currently the concern of the World Government"

Everyone's faces immediately became serious upon hearing this.

"At the time of the previous recruitment. I'm sure you guys already know that there are people from the World Government who dare try to send their people to do a tracking of the location of this kingdom of ours. Luckily we have technology that can tell who they are. Although this time they failed. The higher-ups of the World Government will definitely not let us pass by. I believe by now they have sent their agents to do a trace of our kingdom. Therefore, we must start increasing the speed of building this kingdom so that we will also have readiness later if the time for our security system is up."

They all nodded.

Ars's gaze then looked at Hashirama, "There's still quite a lot of money to fund the salary payments, isn't it?"

"Sure" Hashirama nodded, "There are also funds that were obtained through the attacks we carried out against the World Government for their actions. However, the money has not yet been counted."

"Wait" Lowellmina suddenly said, "Assault? When did it happen?"

"The attack happened the night we arrived at Water Seven Island. Someone from the World Government sneaked into our ship to find our Royal Eternal Pose. However, the action was intercepted by Hashirama. Because of the attack they carried out, we also countered the attack by attacking the person who sent the mission to him" Jouichirou said calmly.

"It's surprising to hear you know this, Jouichirou" Kojiro said.

"Jouichirou knew about it because he saw it in person" Hashirama said calmly.

"Then what about the raid?" Isshiki suddenly asked, "Do they know that the mastermind behind the attack was us?"

"No" Hashirama shook his head, "I went to attack not using my appearance but the appearance of an undercover agent to attack us."

"If so. We are now safe. The World Government must be tracking that person's whereabouts. After all, his current actions could be said to be treason. He also has many secrets to keep. They will definitely hunt him down" Kaguya said calmly then looked at Hashirama, "Did you manage to get rid of the corpse?"

Hashirama nodded, "I threw it in the ocean. It is possible that at this time the corpse of that person has been eaten by fish. There's no way the World Government would know about this and it's possible that at this point they still think that the agent is still a fugitive at the moment."

"Even though. Surely the World Government will continue to pay attention to our kingdom. They can do the act of dividing the agents they have. You should know too. The number of agents owned by the World Government is very large and is currently the largest worldwide. They can divide the number of agents they have in the two tasks" Lowellmina said seriously.

"Right now we can forget a bit about this matter" Ars suddenly said, "Though they did everything they could. Of course they wouldn't be able to find the existence of this kingdom even if they had our Kingdom's Eternal Pose. As long as I don't allow them to come. They won't be able to come to this place. However, we must also remain vigilant against their actions while we are outside the kingdom."

Shiina who was listening to this conversation slightly understood the flow of the conversation. Although he was a little surprised by Hashirama's murder. However, in retrospect the World Government will pose a threat to their homes. Shiina too if she was given a choice. She would definitely do that.

Ars' gaze stared at Kaijin and the others, "You can start the project construction from February 8th. Use tomorrow's time to teach your subordinates about the buildings to be built along with the use of the equipment."

"We understand." Kaijin and the others nodded.

"By the way, Ares. We need equipment to build. Currently we only have one piece of equipment. Even that equipment is specifically for shipbuilding and is not suitable for building houses and others."

"I see. I will later prepare it at night in front of the royal palace courtyard. I will prepare 20 units of construction equipment that you will use" Ars then looked at everyone, "And tonight as well. We will help each other build a curtain to place the dining table and cutlery for the workers to use."

"We understand." Everyone nodded.

Ars' gaze then looked at Kaguya, "Kaguya, there is currently quite a lot of fresh funds coming in through taking the spoils of war. You can already calculate it and put the funds into our royal fund."

"I see." Kaguya nodded.

Ars' gaze then looked at Myrd, "Myrd, later when construction starts on the 8th later. You will start to build the fellowship building. The location will be built in the middle of an urban area." Ars' gaze stared at Hashirama, "The area for the construction of the fellowship building is still full of trees. Please tomorrow you cut everything down so that it is ready to be built. Tonight, we will immediately mark the size of the area that you will cut down while also building a guardrail."

Ars' gaze then looked towards Myrd, "You came to me after this. I will submit the design of the fellowship building. You study tonight so you can teach your subordinates tomorrow."

"I see" Hashirama and Myrd said in unison.

Simultaneously Hashirama's den-den mushi sounded. Everyone immediately looked at him.

"Please pick up, Hashirama. There's a possibility it's from Iceburg or Otohime. They definitely need something."

Hashiama nodded and immediately picked up the communication line.

"Hello, Hashirama here"

"Hashirama-san, it's me, Jinbei"

"Oh? Jinbei. What is it?" Hashirama asked in a friendly tone.

"Here, I'm currently with Whitebeard's pirate group and also please convey to King Fortis that Oyaji has sent his greetings back to him and wants to meet him too." Jinbei's voice was so strong that it was heard by everyone in the battle room.

"Tell Hashirama, if the time is right. We can meet. I also accept his greetings." Ars smiled as he said.

"Jinbei. His Majesty is currently with me and has heard everything you have to say. His Majesty said if there is time. Meetings can happen."

"I will convey this to Oyaji"

"By the way, what's the matter that you contacted me? If you want to say that, can't you just say it to His Majesty directly?"

"I was afraid to disturb him, Hashirama-san. Surely King Fortis has a lot of work for him to do especially now that your kingdom is under construction."

"Well, that's true" Hashirama nodded, "Well, then, why did you contact me?"

"Whitebeard's pirate group knows about the wood your kingdom produces and has the desire to place an order. However, they want to know, can they get a discount? They want to buy in bulk."

"Tell Jinbei, we can give them a discount for each wood to 400 thousand berries. We can't reduce it from that price," said Ars.

Hashirama nodded, "Jinbei, Your Majesty has agreed. We can give you a discount of 100 thousand berries, that means the price of wood that we sell to you is only 400 thousand berries. How?"

"Please wait a moment"

New World, Moby Dick.

The conversation between Jinbei and Hashirama was heard by everyone who was there.

"What do you think, Oyaji? How much wood are we going to buy them?" Jinbei asked excitedly.

"Gurarara~ They were very kind by giving us a discount" Whitebeard said with a laugh then looked at Marko, "How much wood do we need, Marko?"

"We only need about 1000 woods" Marko said calmly then continued, "However, Daddy. It's better if we buy in bulk. I think instead we have to renovate the ship damaged by the battle. We'd better rebuild to be new. That way, the ship will have better endurance than the current ship."

"Good idea." Whitebeard nodded and continued.

"Jinbei, tell them we will buy as much as 10 thousand units of wood"

New World, Fortis Kingdom, Royal Palace, Meeting Room.

"10 thousand wood? Okay. When should I drop off the goods and also where can we meet up?"

"You can deliver the goods tomorrow. Can you drop him off at the Sphinx Island?" Jinbei asked hesitantly.

"Sphinx?" Hashirama's gaze stared at Ars.

"No problem. I'll give you the island's Eternal Pose later." Ars answered calmly.

"I can do it, Jinbei. We'll meet there tomorrow. Prepare the payment as well."

"Hahaha… I see"

Closed communication link.

"Looks like you have a lot of work to do tomorrow, Hashirama" Jouichirou teased.

"I think so too" Hashirama said then looked at Ars, "Ars, let me do the logging today. So that tomorrow's assignment won't be a problem."

"Today's felling? Do you want to do something tomorrow? Don't tell me you want to try to challenge Whitebeard?" Ars asked while raising his brow.

"Of course" Hashirama's face smirked, "Even not fighting at full strength. Of course I want to try his strength."

Ars sighed then said, "Alright. However, be careful there. Don't use all your strength especially using your strongest ability. You're just there just a dual friendship if that's the case."

"I understand." Hashirama nodded.

"Ars, aren't we going to discuss the visa issue yet?" Kaguya suddenly asked while changing the subject.

"Discussors regarding Visa, we will wait for the head of the occupation department to come to discuss this matter. Right now, we don't need to talk about it. It's too soon for us to talk about it."

Kaguya nodded.

"Tomorrow, besides there will be construction workers who start working here. There will be palace maids as well who will work. I hope Jouichirou, Gin, Kojiro, Shiina, and Iowa. You can all help out by explaining the tasks they have to do as well as by helping them learn how to use the equipment here. There are many tools here that have never existed in this world and they don't know how to use them. You help them to teach him."

"We understand." Everyone whose names were mentioned immediately nodded.

"Okay. We will end this meeting here. Starting tomorrow, we will start getting a lot of work. I hope we can all do our best."

Everyone nodded.

"You can rest or do whatever you want"

One by one they started to leave the meeting room to do what they wanted to do. Shiina then walked over to Ars, "Ars, do you have time now?"

"Time? Of course. I'm pretty loose for now. Is there anything you need?"

"Good" Shiina said happily, "I just found an interesting book in the library. How about we come read together?"

"Can I come along?" Lowellmina asked as she walked towards them.

"Of course" Shiina said excitedly, "The more people the better"

"Okay. Before that, you two go and arrange your things first. Later when you're done, you guys call me in the room. I will go meet with Myrd first to discuss the matter of building the fellowship building."

"We understand" Shiina and Lowellmina immediately left the meeting room and immediately took their belongings to the room to be cleaned up. Meanwhile Ars went to his room and saw Myrd was waiting for him at his door.