In the East China Sea, on the deck of a huge black ship.
Sager held a bottle of wine in his left hand, sitting on the throne in a weird but comfortable posture, half-closed his eyes, enjoying the warmth brought by the sunlight.
The weather is nice today and he is basking in the sun outside.
As for the men,
Palu was still being beaten by the pirates, and Ajin was treated the same way, except that one was still shouting and screaming, while the other remained calm with his teeth gritted. When hit by the iron rod, one could even hear a slight bouncing sound from Ajin's body, like the collision of hard objects.
It seems like I'm starting to get the hang of it.
"Sager!"
Lily suddenly appeared, holding a newspaper, her face solemn, "Today's newspaper"
Sager looked up, took the newspaper from Lily, and his expression suddenly became solemn. "Hmm"
He nodded and exclaimed, "That's great!"
"Not bad what?"
Lily was stunned for a moment, then came over and looked in the direction where Sager was looking. There was a piece of news about a beauty pageant in the newspaper, and below it was a photo of women wearing revealing clothes, showing off their bodies to the fullest, catching everyone's eyes.
Lily: "…"
"That's all you're looking at?"
"What else?"
Sager threw the newspaper away and said, "I can't read, so I can just look at the pictures. Lily, there's no need to show me this next time. What's the point of pictures? I should look at the real person."
"That's not it!"
Lily's forehead was bulging with veins. She handed the three wanted posters left over from the newspapers to Sager's face, "We've been wanted, Sager!"
As soon as these words were spoken, the pirates who were still training stopped and looked over here.
"Where is it?"
Renetia came running over from nowhere and asked excitedly, "Am I included? How much is the reward?"
Sager pushed the bounty poster away, took it in his hand, and was stunned after taking a glance at it.
He looked at Lily in surprise, "30 million?"
He just killed a colonel of the naval branch, so the price shouldn't be that high. The matter of the two kingdoms should be taken into account, plus the towns that were robbed, to get this amount.
"Seventy million Baileys?!"
Renetia, who came closer, also saw the bounty and exclaimed.
"How much, how much?!"
Palu was beaten black and blue and unconscious. He was shocked when he heard the amount.
As for the other pirates, they were stunned. Although they were not submerged by the water, they were also at a loss.
"Is it very high?" Lily asked.
She had no idea about the bounty, she just knew that Sag and herself would definitely be rewarded. After all, she had never heard of any rumors about the sea since she was a child. Now that she was using navigation skills, she was comparing theory with reality and gradually becoming proficient.
"Of course it's high!"
Renetia is different. Although she is only ten years old, she has been sailing on the sea with her master since she was a child. In order to collect materials and news about shipwrecks, she is familiar with the East China Sea.
"There are no pirates in the East Sea with a bounty of more than 20 million! Your 30 million is already very high, and it's the first bounty. Sage, 70 million? This kind of bounty has never been heard of in the East Sea. Only pirates from the Grand Line have it, and they have to be extremely dangerous guys!"
This bounty is unheard of.
Ajin and the others were even more horrified. They were all experienced pirates who had robbed so many towns and merchant ships, but the profits were only 12 million and 7 million. Even the leading captain would not make too much at once.
But now, 70 million is something that we cannot even think about.
After the shock, everyone admired him even more.
"The captain is indeed powerful. The initial bounty is 70 million. We are the undisputed overlord of the East China Sea!" a pirate shouted excitedly.
"Overlord of the East China Sea! Overlord of the East China Sea!" The other pirates echoed.
Sager shook his head and smiled: "70 million is quite generous of the World Government. Do you hate me for not dying?"
He was not panicked at all. After he killed the king of Oikot for the first time, he knew that he would be rewarded.
It would be a problem if you didn't take the bounty for killing the king of an allied country.
But the amount of the reward was beyond his expectations.
But
he looked at the wanted poster that showed an image of a boy wearing a straw hat with a bright smile on his face, except for himself and Lily.
"Monkey D. Luffy?" Sager muttered.
It seems that he has just accepted the bounty.
"Luffy? Is he the one wearing a straw hat? He has become famous too." Ajin looked up to the sky with a nostalgic look.
The guy who defeated Chief Krieg was a pretty good man.
"Is there anything noteworthy about this straw hat?" Lily asked when she saw that Sager looked strange.
"No"
Sager handed the bounty order to Renidia, who was trying to take it, and said, "It's not important. We are just traveling together."
"Sager, why don't you have a title?"
Renetia threw away the bounty order for the Straw Hat, glanced at his and Lily's bounties, and asked, "Since you've accepted the bounty, shouldn't you all have titles?"
"How can you give yourself a title without caring about it? What kind of idiot would do such a thing?"
Sager said: "This thing is either based on appearance or behavior. People on the sea spontaneously call it by name. It doesn't matter whether there is a title or not. Anyway, it refers to the person himself."
There are only names on the bounty order, no titles.
"Without me?"
Renetia disappointedly handed the bounty order to the pirates who wanted to see it, and clenched her fist and said, "Next time it will definitely be me!"
"What do you think this is a good thing?"
Sager shook his head and said, "Our current pirate group is the most eye-catching in the East China Sea. I have 70 million, Lily has 30 million, and Akin and Palu together have 19 million. The total value has reached 119 million. A pirate group with over 100 million in the East China Sea is not a good thing."
In the East China Sea where the average bounty is three million, a pirate group with over 100 million in bounty has emerged.
The navy will definitely send a large number of troops.
Staying in the East China Sea, within the confines of this world government, will lead to encirclement and suppression sooner or later.
"Plans really can't keep up with changes"
He had originally thought well that even if a bounty was offered, the price would not be too high, and he could still stay in the East China Sea for a while longer, at least allowing him to master his domineering power and improve the strength of his subordinates before heading to the Grand Line.
But it is definitely not easy to keep this bounty now. Only by going to the Grand Line, a place where all kinds of people mix, can we avoid attracting the attention of the entire navy.
Now, we can only go to the Grand Line first.
"Lily, how far is it to the next place?" asked Sager.
Lily thought for a moment and said, "According to the sea chart, we can reach the 'Shallow Sand Kingdom' in three days."
Sager gulped down a few gulps of wine and looked at the boundless sea: "Then we can stop there, get some supplies, recruit some men, and march towards the Grand Line!"
(End of this chapter)