"Huh~"
Looking at the image projected onto the wall by the Den Den Mushi, at the girl sitting in front of the piano, and listening to the song coming from the Den Den Mushi, Hino’s eyes lit up.
"This girl?"
"Lord Vans, this is the girl I wanted to talk about."
The reporter pushed his glasses up his nose, his face flushed as he looked at Hino, and said excitedly, "This is the first time this girl has appeared to the world, but I see… I see the brilliant light of starlight in her."
"With our promotion, she will definitely, definitely become a world-famous diva in the shortest possible time."
At this point, the reporter paused, then continued in a serious and excited tone, "I dare say, she will be the next era, no, she will be the hottest diva of this era, and even the world's number one diva."
"The number one diva?"
As a reporter with a keen instinct for news, Hino had also thought of this possibility the moment he saw Uta.
However, after seeing the silver-haired figure flashing by in the live broadcast, he quickly suppressed the excitement in his heart, turned and told the reporter to wait aside. He had to call his elder brother Kong Tai to ask if they could help promote this matter.
After all, no one knew what the girl's true relationship with elder brother Kong Tai and his group was.
What if they did a good deed with bad intentions, and brought trouble upon themselves, seeking death!
"However, this matter still needs to be reported to the president first."
With that in mind, Hino picked up the Den Den Mushi on the table and quickly walked into Morgans' office, the innermost part of the newspaper agency.
After that, no one knew what Hino and Morgans said inside, but after a while, Hino came out again and gave the reporters in the agency the order to fully promote the news they saw in this accidental live broadcast.
...
Elegeia.
Kong Tai put down the receiver of the Den Den Mushi and shook his head with a smile.
"What's wrong?"
Beside him, Kuina asked curiously.
"Nothing," Kong Tai chuckled, then continued, "That guy Hino saw our live broadcast from somewhere, saw Uta's performance, so he called to ask if they could spread Uta's video and news worldwide."
Kuina said "Oh!" and then looked at Uta, who seemed to have transformed after coming into contact with music while performing with Brook, and smiled, "That's a good thing!"
"At least, it's a good thing for her."
Everyone here could see Uta's love for music, and they could also see how important she considered this accidental live broadcast. They could also feel her desire to become famous.
Fame was not for herself, but to let more people hear her music, and to let her music infect more people, to bring even a glimmer of light and warmth to those in darkness.
"Mmm!" Just then, Kong Tai suddenly turned his head, his gaze falling on the top floor window of a ruined building behind the stage.
Even though the moon was high, and even though it was pitch black inside the window, Kong Tai still saw that figure, like a mad scientist.
"Discovered me so easily?"
Meeting the silver-haired boy's sapphire blue eyes, Gordon’s heartbeat faltered for a moment.
"As expected of the world's strongest."
He naturally recognized Kong Tai.
It was he who deliberately kept Uta ignorant of the outside world.
When news arrived, he usually read it first, but after reading it, he did not show it to Uta, but directly destroyed it.
Ever since Elegeia was destroyed, the only light left in his life was Uta. He wanted to train Uta into the true number one diva in the world.
To say he was selfish!
Yet, he could face Uta, the destroyer of his kingdom, with a calm demeanor and a smile every day.
To say he was magnanimous!
Yet, he was selfishly wanting to keep Uta's voice with him forever. Even knowing about the existence of that demonic score, he never thought of burying the score forever in a place no one could find. Instead, he kept it in a secret chamber beneath the ruins.
"That person is Gordon, the one Uta mentioned!"
Following Kong Tai's gaze, Kuina also saw Gordon.
Uta had already introduced them to the situation on the island, and they had learned from Uta that she was not alone on the island, but had a person who could be considered her foster father and her master, Gordon.
Looking at the oddly shaped Gordon, Kuina nodded slightly at him before turning to Kong Tai.
"Yes! It's him."
Withdrawing his gaze, a hint of something unreadable flashed in Kong Tai's eyes.
He was not surprised by Gordon's appearance, only surprised that the guy wasn't coming over. Was he afraid of them?
He could feel from Gordon's eyes and aura that Gordon should know them.
But if Gordon knew them, why didn't Uta know them?
This made him pay a little more attention to Gordon.
But only a little.
Shaking his head, Kong Tai stopped thinking about it. Instead, he picked up the wine gourd on his right, rested his head on his right hand, and leaned back on the chair, enjoying the wonderful performance of Uta and Brook with Kuina and their friends.
"Hoo~"
In the ancient and dilapidated building, seeing that Kong Tai and Kuina had both withdrawn their gazes, Gordon's heart finally returned to normal, and he subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief.
He could tell from their eyes that Kong Tai and Kuina bore no ill will towards him, but the pressure from their identities made him dare not face them as casually as Uta did.
After all, they were not simple pirates, but the world's strongest, the ones who had killed two Emperors and climbed to the summit, treading on the heads of Emperors, the true world's strongest.
Towards such a person, even though he was once a king of a country who was above ten thousand people, he dared not be careless.
The reason he didn't go over was simple: first, he was afraid of attracting the attention of Kong Tai and the others; second, he was old, and the excitement below was obviously more suitable for young people, not for him.
As for Uta's live broadcast.
To him, this was naturally a good thing.
Before, there was no chance for Uta's voice to spread beyond this island. But now…
Looking at the girl in front of the Den Den Mushi camera, showing a smile from the heart that he had only seen when he first met Uta, Gordon's face couldn't help but show a relieved smile like an old father.
He was indeed selfish in wanting to keep Uta's voice with him forever, but after so many years together, he had truly treated Uta as his own daughter and was nurturing her as the successor of Elegeia.
When he saw the daughter he had nurtured finally about to make her debut on the world stage.
How could he be so selfish as to enjoy Uta's voice, which belonged to the whole world, by himself?
Therefore, towards Kong Tai and the others, who made Uta genuinely happy and enjoyable, he was filled with gratitude in his heart at this moment.
He glanced at the simple stage below again, then turned around. His steps were clearly no longer as heavy as before, but he turned and walked into the darkness with a light stride.
Everyone has their own stage, and their own era. He knew that from tonight onwards, the era that belonged to Uta would descend.
Because no one, not even him, the former king of the music country, Elegeia, understood the charm of Uta herself, her music, and her voice better than he did.