Several days later.
West Blue, Nostra Island waters.
“Your Majesty, is it absolutely necessary to capture this gangster Capone Bege?”
On the Exile Emperor, Aramaki felt a little anxious about not heading to the battlefields of Flower Country and Sang Country immediately.
He truly wanted to quickly make a name for himself across the Four Seas, rise to Imperial Marquis, and become an Imperial Marquis standing at the pinnacle.
“See, you’re rushing again.”
“Look how steady Issho and Zoro are.”
Wang Shi, who had just finished his cultivation, looked at Zoro, who was still cultivating, and couldn’t help but admire this cultivation maniac.
Moreover, Issho seemed to value Zoro, that moss-head, quite a lot; their temperaments seemed to align well.
Issho truly taught Zoro diligently, treating him like a disciple.
They truly are the classic combination of a blind man asking a lost man for directions; one dares to ask, and the other dares to answer.
Now, when it comes to sword questions, Zoro asks and Issho answers.
If they aren't enemies, they truly get along comfortably.
“I heard that the Eight-Treasure Marine Corps of Flower Country likes to store the treasures they plunder in the Treasure Jade Ice Mountain, which is perpetually frozen.”
“The Qing Jiao family, with hundreds of years of heritage, has stored quite a lot of treasure there.”
“But twenty or thirty years ago, after Iron Fist Garp dented Conical Pimiento’s pointed head, Qing Jiao can no longer open this treasure.”
“This time, we can conveniently seize their ‘ill-gotten gains’!”
“And Capone Bege, a Devil Fruit user of the Solid-Solid Fruit, is an excellent transport captain.”
Wang Shi slowly spoke. In truth, he originally wanted to capture Capone Bege to transport the massive amount of gold from Sky Island.
But now that they were going to Flower Country, they naturally had to seize the Eight-Treasure Marine Corps’s treasure along the way to earn some Berries for the Goa Empire and alleviate the pressure of the celestial tribute.
The Eight-Treasure Marine Corps, by Conical Pimiento’s generation, had already seen 12 generations of leaders, so its foundation was quite solid.
After Conical Pimiento’s head was dented and his strength greatly diminished, the status of Flower Country’s Eight-Treasure Marine Corps had been steadily declining.
The Eight-Treasure Marine Corps’s strong fighters were also in a state of transition, with none of Qing Jiao’s children able to take over his leadership position.
Not a single one of them had managed to grasp the Eight Impact Fist’s true essence!
Each successive leader of the Eight-Treasure Marine Corps had to cultivate the Eight Impact Fist to a strength capable of shattering the Treasure Jade Ice Mountain before they could take over leadership from the previous leader, who would then bestow upon them the ultimate technique, Drill Dragon Drill Nail.
Today’s Conical Pimiento could only place his hopes on his grandchildren.
He hoped that his talented grandson, Cai Yi, could grasp the Eight Impact Fist’s true essence and become the new leader of the Eight-Treasure Marine Corps.
Currently, Old Cai has already become the deputy leader of the Eight-Treasure Marine Corps by virtue of his strength, the successor to the 13th generation leader.
Conical Pimiento, the 12th generation leader, had even tattooed the number 13 on Cai Yi’s waist in advance.
He just hoped that his grandson could quickly grasp the Eight Impact Fist’s true essence and become the 13th leader.
However, in recent years, due to Conical Pimiento’s weakened strength and the inability to open the family treasure, the Eight-Treasure Marine Corps’s development has been extremely poor.
Even Cai Yi, the deputy leader and successor, had to enter into a marriage alliance with the Two-Treasure Marine Corps for the benefit of the Eight-Treasure Marine Corps.
One should know that the Two-Treasure Marine Corps leader’s only daughter, Holly (also translated as: Uholisia and Horisa), had already ‘cursed to death’ 25 husbands; she was a muscular woman with a masculine appearance, extremely ugly.
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“So Your Majesty needs a transport captain? Then I will definitely capture Capone Bege for Your Majesty!”
“He’s just a mob boss; it’s his good fortune to become a transport captain for the Goa Empire.”
Aramaki, a South Sea native, didn’t know much about Capone Bege, the West Blue underworld boss.
After all, Capone Bege’s reputation only circulated in the West Blue; his bounty wasn’t high, and he hadn’t appeared much in the World Economic News.
Even after Capone Bege unified the West Blue underworld and became the West Blue Godfather, he chose to go to sea as a pirate and arrived at the Sabaody Archipelago.
His bounty was only 138 million Berries, almost at the bottom.
He couldn’t even compare to Killer, the Slaughter Soldier, who was Kid’s subordinate, a rookie king.
“Treasure?”
Nami, whose keyword was triggered, immediately had her eyes light up, filled with a craving for treasure and Berries.
To specifically find a Devil Fruit user to carry treasure, how much money must that be?
Could it be that even their three ships couldn’t hold it all?
The more Nami thought about it, the more excited she became, her small face flushing.
“Since Conical Pimiento is a great pirate with a bounty of over 500 million, then we’ll completely crush the Eight-Treasure Marine Corps and seize their treasure.”
Aramaki smiled. So King Wang Shi wasn’t wasting time, but preparing to defeat the Eight-Treasure Marine Corps and seize their treasure.
It seemed His Majesty had already tacitly approved that they could defeat the leaders of Flower Country.
This trust made Aramaki very satisfied.
He would absolutely not betray Wang Shi’s trust.
He wouldn’t let Wang Shi come to this island in vain, to capture Capone Bege, this transport captain.
They were determined to seize the Eight-Treasure Marine Corps’s treasure.
“I heard that Capone Bege has become the uncrowned king of the West Blue underworld, having almost unified all the West Blue’s underworld forces.”
Issho spoke, even the Twin Serpent Island casino where he was located belonged to Bege’s sphere of influence.
“This is called unification? Didn’t he just surprise and eliminate other underworld bosses, forcefully coercing those underworld forces to pay him protection fees?!”
Wang Shi didn’t believe that someone of Bege’s caliber could truly dominate the West Blue underworld.
At most, he was a nominal underworld godfather, and he hadn’t truly subdued so many underworld forces.
After all, the West Blue is extremely vast, with numerous factions.
Bege probably couldn’t even penetrate the underground underworlds of powerful nations like Flower Country and Sang Country.
Any pirate marine corps from Flower Country could easily defeat these small fry like Capone Bege.
Bege’s subordinates, Weird Gun Vete and Killer Gotti, were all gun users without Devil Fruit abilities or martial arts.
Capone Bege liked to hide soldiers within his body-castle, and through surprising attacks, he assassinated many underworld leaders.
His fearsome reputation came from these unexpected, cowardly massacres where many people ganged up on a few.
Anyway, Wang Shi didn’t see how strong Capone Bege was.
“Your Majesty seems to look down on this Capone Bege.”
Issho was dumbfounded. As expected of the Imperial Emperor known as the King of Exile, he even looked down on a West Blue underworld godfather.
“He has some brains, but not enough. The title of unifying the West Blue underworld is only because those great pirates don’t care about it.”
Wang Shi smiled faintly. In this world, the status of pirates is countless times higher than that of underworld gangs and mountain bandits; the hierarchy of contempt is very severe.
The so-called underworld is actually similar to those hooligans and ruffians who bully civilians; they might not even have bounties.
No bounty means these underworld figures are low-class individuals.
This is the worldview and values of the chaotic and disorderly factions in this world.
After Bege felt that the low-level game of the underworld was no longer fun, he directly chose a higher-level playstyle, which was to go to sea as a pirate and seize the heads of stronger enemies.
Kid, that mob boss, also went to sea as a pirate, claiming he ‘didn’t want to stay in a small world.’
Pirates are the ‘high-status profession’ in this world!
The ‘highest profession’ endowed with attributes like ‘freedom,’ ‘wealth,’ ‘power,’ and ‘dreams’ by Pirate King Roger.
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