A few days later.
Somewhere in the East China Sea, a ship with a sheep's head and a flag of a skull and crossbones wearing a straw hat on its sail was sailing slowly.
"Ha ha ha ha!"
A man wearing a straw hat laughed and raised the wanted poster in his hand. On the wanted poster, there was a photo of him, and below the photo was Monkey D. Luffy's name, and below that was a string of numbers. Thirty million!
"We've become wanted criminals!" Luffy laughed and said, "Thirty million Baileys!"
"Do you understand the seriousness of the situation?"
Nami rubbed her forehead helplessly, "30 million Baileys, that means someone is eyeing your life. If this continues, we can't stroll around the East China Sea leisurely."
She was just complaining about the price increase of the newspaper, and then a bounty for Luffy slipped onto the newspaper. Not only did the newspaper increase in price, but even their captain's price increased as well.
"This should be the highest in the East China Sea."
Sanji stroked his chin and said, "That Arlong only has 20 million Baileys."
"Yes, Luffy is the tallest in the East Sea."
On a deck a little further away from them, Zoro came over and said, "I was a bounty hunter for a while. The price of 30 million is indeed unprecedented in the East China Sea. The Navy Headquarters will definitely take action. The enemies we encounter in the future will be completely different."
"Hehe, no matter how many come, I want to be the Pirate King anyway!" Luffy laughed.
"Thirty million."
Nami continued to flip through the newspaper, "This price. Huh?!"
She didn't even finish her words, she just stared blankly at one side of the newspaper, her mouth unconsciously open.
"Why, did you find anything?"
Usopp came over and took a look at the newspaper, his eyes bulging out.
Sanji came closer, his eyes turned into hearts, his body twisted like noodles, "Beauty!"
Then, his pupils shrank and the cigarette butt was bitten crooked.
"Hey, what happened?" Luffy asked, tilting his head.
"There are two more."
Nami took out two wanted posters from the newspaper, her arms even shaking a little, and faced them towards everyone.
Zoro's expression was solemn.
Sanji's eyes turned into hearts one moment, then into surprise the next.
Usopp's mouth opened so wide that he almost fell to the deck, his face full of horror.
Only Luffy was smiling, his expression unchanged.
…
At the headquarters of the navy, in a building similar to a castle tower, a group of navy men wearing cloaks and with solemn faces sat in two rows. In front of them was a small wooden table with food on it.
On the platform at the rear, a navy man with green curly hair stood there, with a board hanging above him with several bounty notices on it.
"Ever since they defeated Captain Monka of the Marine Branch before forming a pirate group, their momentum has been rising all the way and it is impossible to stop them."
He pointed at three bounties and said, "Buggy the Joker has a bounty of 15 million berries, Krieg the Leader has a bounty of 17 million berries, and Arlong the Sawtooth has a bounty of 20 million berries. In the East China Sea where the average bounty is 3 million berries, they are all pirates with a bounty of over 10 million berries, but they were defeated by them."
The green curly-haired navy, the lieutenant commander of the navy headquarters, and the 'meeting king' Brannew slapped a bounty on the board for the Straw Hat Kid and said, "30 million Baileys. For the East China Sea, no, for the world, this amount is a very small amount for the first bounty, but we estimate that it will never be too high. Such evil signs should be eliminated as soon as possible to prevent them from growing stronger in the future."
At the top of the two rows of navy, a navy general put down his glass and looked at Brannew, "Go on, there is a more dangerous felon."
"Yes! Compared to this pirate with a bounty of 30 million berries, there is another even more dangerous person in the East Sea."
He removed all the bounty posters on the board and replaced them with two more.
"The pirate group they formed includes the 'Demon' Ajin, whose bounty is 12 million berries, and the 'Iron Wall' Palu, whose bounty is 7 million berries. These two were pirates from the former Krieg Pirates, so the 'leader' Krieg is likely to lose the fight with them."
Pah!
He posted a bounty order with a photo on it, showing a blonde curly-haired girl drawing a rapier in the streets of Oikot City. The girl looked very determined in the photo.
The bounty below the photo is 30 million Baileys!
"According to intelligence, they first appeared in the Kingdom of Oikot and caused unrest in the kingdom. This woman killed the Marine Branch Colonel Mouse during the unrest."
"Biendetta Lily, that's what she's called, but the nobles of the Kingdom of Oikot denied her existence, and the bandits caught by the navy also said that she was a bandit roaming around the kingdom and had attacked the king before."
"For such a dangerous rioter, the initial bounty of 30 million berries is not too much. If the Straw Hat Boy defeated the other pirates and was the beginning of evil, then this woman is already an accomplice of evil!"
"As for their leaders"
He removed all the bounty notices and solemnly put up a new one.
"This man has been in the world for less than half a month. He has murdered King Ennio of the Oikot Kingdom and King Murdoch of the Natia Kingdom. He has also robbed a large number of towns in the East China Sea, including large towns with prosperous economies. Wherever he went, everything was reduced to ruins. This attitude of not taking the World Government seriously at all."
He slammed the reward notice on the board and shouted, "This is already the most vicious criminal!"
"Ennio"
The naval officer at the top looked at the wine in the glass, was silent for a while, and said: "Is he dead?"
He looked at the bounty and said, "This criminal must be dealt a heavy blow and suppressed as soon as possible. He is different from the pirates of the Great Pirate Era."
Since the Pirate King Roger opened the Great Pirate Era, the pirates roaming the sea today, although they have attempted to rob towns and merchant ships, they will not act rashly when facing a country, especially when facing a country's king.
Robbing a town is easy enough, but robbing a royal city, or even killing the king... Such a heinous crime is not something that the pirates of the new era can do.
Rather, he is more like the shadow of those powerful pirates who roamed the sea before the Great Pirate Era!
"That's right! Such serious criminals must be curbed before they grow stronger!" Brannew echoed.
The photo on the bounty order showed a background of flames rising to the sky. A huge castle was burning, and outside the castle, a white-haired man was holding gold coins in one hand and a flintlock in the other, laughing wantonly.
"Norton Sager, bounty of 70 million berries! This price can only go down, not up! Pirates who dare to attack an allied country and murder the king are completely evil!"
(End of this chapter)