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[ "Alright!! I'll go!"]
["If it were before, Luffy might consider it..."]
[After all, if he were being hunted down by the World Government, he'd have to consider Grandpa's feelings...]
["But now... he's already mysteriously been given a 50 million Berry bounty. Is there any difference between being hunted or not by the World Government???"]
["At most, the bounty will just increase a bit, right?"]
[The old saying goes, 'Many a fight makes a master'.]
[That's probably Luffy's mindset right now...]
[At this moment, Luo Qin spoke again: "But I have one condition... If you agree to me, I'll really teach you academic knowledge~"]
[Luffy shrugged: "Hmm, tell me first, what's the condition?"]
["...According to Crocodile's intelligence... there's a historical Poneglyph under the mausoleum in Alabasta Kingdom's royal garden! I want to go translate that historical Poneglyph!"]
[Luo Qin stated her condition.]
["This..."]
[Upon hearing this, Luffy's face showed a difficult expression: "You... this means you don't want to teach me! They have their mausoleum, so can I just go in?"]
["What's a mausoleum?"]
["To put it bluntly, it's their ancestral tomb!"]
["And it's a royal ancestral tomb, how can you just waltz in and out?"]
[Luo Qin continued: "You can ask the little princess of Alabasta Kingdom for help~"]
["Little princess..."]
[Luffy thought for a moment, then realized Luo Qin was talking about Vivi Princess~]
[Luffy picked up Crocodile. This was a great achievement for the entire Alabasta Kingdom!]
[And this matter was initiated by Princess Vivi, asking Luffy for help...]
[So... if Luffy brings this matter up to Princess Vivi, she will likely agree~]
[Seems feasible...]
["I can try... but... I can't contact her now... I can't just go to the royal palace gate and say, 'Hey, I'm looking for your princess~'"]
[Luffy spread his hands~]
["Heh heh~"]
[Listening to Luffy describe this scene, Luo Qin was forced to laugh~]
[Afterwards, she smiled: "Don't worry about that, I can contact her~"]
[Pointing to Crocodile, who lay dead on the ground, Luo Qin said: "Currently, Crocodile's Baroque Works doesn't know about this matter. As long as I issue commands in Crocodile's style, I can contact 'Miss Goldenweek'."]
["Okay, then you contact her!"]
[Luffy nodded, then thought of something else, so he said: "Wait!!! Besides this, issue another command to the other agents of Baroque Works to gather at 'Whiskey Peak'.']
["You want to catch them all in one net????" Luo Qin asked in surprise.]
["Yes! They're worth a lot of money!" Luffy said very seriously.]
["!!!" ]
[Hearing this reason, Luo Qin's expression instantly became very colorful~]
[He's clearly a pirate with a bounty on his head, yet he wants to catch people to exchange for bounty money.]
[Aren't you afraid of being taken out by the Marines when you exchange the bounty?]
[Although this idea of Luffy's was very bizarre, Luo Qin still did it...]
[The next day...]
[The senior agents of Baroque Works were all 'taken out'~]
["Merry Go docked at the wild port of Whiskey Peak, where Marine Branch 19 is located~"]
[ "...? Didn't you say you'd take them to exchange for bounty money?"]
[Seeing Luffy and the others actually start training there, Luo Qin was very bewildered~]
["Wait for it..."]
[Luffy picked his nose, continuing to watch his companions train~]
["Wait for it?"]
[Luo Qin looked confused...]
["Are these agents perishable or something?"]
[Night slowly fell~]
[The moon, like a mirror, hung in the sky, its clear, flowing light spilling onto the vast sea~]
["Hmm, the moon is a bit bright today, but it still can't compare to us!"]
[Luffy looked up at the sky, then reached out and made a combat gesture forward. Immediately, his body leaped onto Whiskey Peak. He burrowed into the small forest~]
[Baji, Solon, Shanji, Wusuo, Gangba all followed closely behind!]
["Hmm...?"]
[Watching this scene, Luo Qin's eyes widened in surprise. He looked at the senior agents of Baroque Works who lay dead in the seawater bucket lock. He looked at Nami in confusion, "Luffy and the others... what are they doing? Aren't they going to take these agents with them???"]
[Nami chuckled: "Hehe, you finally understood."]
[After a while...]
[When five figures rushed out of the forest, Luo Qin's mouth widened in shock. He could almost fit an elephant in it~]
[In Luo Qin's astonished gaze, Luffy pointed, and the others, in pairs, picked up stretchers...]
[Each stretcher had several seawater bucket locks hanging on it~]
[Moonlight illuminates the way, five bodies stride towards the battlefield!]
[When they returned, those senior agents were gone. They only brought back 232 million Berry in bounty money~]
["You guys... um... is this how you exchange bounty money?"]
[Although Luo Qin understood, her heart was still greatly shaken...!!!]
["Not originally, but then a little accident happened, so we did this~" Luffy laughed, then walked off with the money~]
[Marine Branch 19]
["Ouch~ Ouch~"]
["It hurts me to death!"]
["What are you yelling about? My arm and thigh are swollen in five places, and you're only swollen in one place! What are you yelling about?!!" ]
["Damn it! I'm only swollen in one place! But that bastard, I don't know what kind of grudge he has with me, he hit me in the same place on my butt more than ten times with some thick wooden stick!! Ouch~ Ouch~" ]
[...]
[Just as the Marine soldiers were wailing, a pale-faced financial officer ran over: "Colonel Losji, I've checked it clearly. A total of 232 million Berry in bounty money was stolen! And those people at the main gate wooden barrier have also been checked clearly... they all have bounties. Their bounty amount is exactly 232 million Berry!"]
["Such a coincidence???"]
[Colonel Losji rubbed his swollen cheek, looking suspicious. "Colonel, why don't we report to higher-ups that someone infiltrated our base and took 232 million Berry in bounty money? This way, higher-ups won't know we were broken into?" The financial officer whispered.]
[Colonel Losji thought for a while, then his eyes widened suddenly!!!]
[He raised a hand: "No!!! You'll report it like this: say that this fellow infiltrated the Marine Headquarters at night, and this colonel led everyone to bravely resist, eventually catching most of them, but five comrades escaped with 320 million Berry!"]
["Colonel, it's 232 million Berry!" The financial officer corrected him.]
["Huh?"]
[Hearing this, Colonel Losji's face changed. He forcefully poked the financial officer's forehead with his index finger: "Are you a pig's brain? You clearly lost 320 million Berry, didn't you?!"]
[The financial officer finally reacted: "Ah... right, right!! It's 332 million Berry! The entire treasury only has a few million Berry left... These bastards, they should die!"]
[Sengoku: "Damn it!!! After the observation is over, go thoroughly investigate this Colonel Losgi! See if he's ever done this kind of operation before!!" ]
[Gol D. Roger: "Hahaha! Isn't this observation much more interesting????"]
[Shiki: "Laughing myself to death!! This Colonel Losgi clearly only got a beating, but he can immediately embezzle 120 million Berry from this incident, and then claim the great merit of capturing all of Baroque Works' senior agents!!! This is absolutely a talent within the Marines!!!" ]
[Wang Zhen: "Sengoku, he's made such great achievements. Don't you have to promote him to Vice Admiral???"]
[Charlotte Linlin: "Mamamama!"]
[Edward Newgate: "Gurararara!"]
[Jiang Fa: "Oh... truly shameful!!!"]
[Return to Alabasta Kingdom, contact Princess Vivi again~]
[Princess Vivi brought Luffy and his group into the royal palace~]
[King Cobra personally hosted a royal feast for Luffy and his group~]
["Mr. Luffy, if Vivi hadn't told me the truth, I would still be in the dark!"]
[King Cobra raised his glass to toast Luffy~]
[Before, he was still wondering why it suddenly started raining continuously all over the country...]
[He had the royal guard investigate this matter, but found nothing~]
[Until Princess Vivi returned to the royal palace and told him the whole story, he then understood how great the Tang Sect was!]
["Hmm, no need to be polite. It's also that we have the power, otherwise... we would have already been in another island."]
[Luffy didn't bother with courtesies, eating meat and drinking wine in large mouthfuls~]
[Helping someone so much, eating more of his food isn't excessive, right?]
[Luo Qin was very happy~]
[Vivi even proactively toasted Nami, and both of them drank until their faces were red and flushed~]
[Sanji hugged four or five palace maids, eating the delicious food they fed him, while his nose bled. His nose probably bled about seventy or eighty bowls worth~]
[During this time, the royal guard captain Pell came to King Cobra several times. King Cobra politely apologized to Luffy, then went to the door to listen to Pell about something~]
[From the banquet to the door of the banquet hall, plus the two people standing outside, even if they had keen hearing, they couldn't hear what you were saying.]
[But... this doesn't include Luffy!!]
[Luffy, with his keen hearing, clearly heard the conversation between King Cobra and Pell~]
[The gist of it was...]
[Because it started raining again in Alabasta Kingdom, people across the country are celebrating!!! Many people hoped that their guardian deity, Mr. Crocodile, could appear and celebrate with them!]
[But Crocodile had been missing for several days, not showing up. Many 'dead-end fans' started worrying if Crocodile was in danger, so someone called the Marines about it.]
[Marine Headquarters contacted Crocodile by phone, but couldn't reach him...]
[So, Marine Headquarters contacted the Alabasta royalty, asking them to pay attention to Crocodile's movements~]
[And Marine Headquarters also stated that if Crocodile couldn't be found, the headquarters would send someone to investigate this matter!!!]
[After finishing his conversation with Pell, King Cobra returned to join the banquet~]
[He didn't mention it to Luffy.]
[This matter, Luffy didn't ask much about it.]
["Mr. Luffy!!! On behalf of the people of the entire Alabasta Kingdom, I express our sincerest respect to you and your companions!!! If you have any requests or needs, please feel free to ask me!!!"]
[As a king, Cobra must express his sincerity to Luffy~]
[How can a single banquet be enough?]
[However, the Alabasta Royal Family's taxes are not high, and in the past two years, due to droughts, Cobra has been allocating funds for disaster relief everywhere, leading to their national treasury not having much money left~]
[Otherwise... Cobra would have directly given 1 billion Berry to express his gratitude to Luffy!]
[And not waited anxiously for Luffy to speak~]
[Luffy thought for a moment, then smiled: "...Actually, I've learned from Vivi that your royal treasury is also in a tight spot right now. But since you've spoken, then I'll ask for 200 million Berry! Just consider it my 'compensation'~"]
["Compensation..."]
[Hearing this, Cobra was a little confused~]
["Nothing. Anyway, just give me 200 million Berry and that's fine~"]
[Luffy didn't explain much, just specified the number.]
[200 million Berry, for the current Alabasta Royal Family, is actually quite a stretch. But if they tighten their belts, this money can still be squeezed out...]
["Good! Besides 200 million Berry, you can also take more of the royal palace's fine wine and food ingredients~"]
[King Cobra is not a small-minded person. Although 200 million Berry will put the current Alabasta Royal Family in some difficulty for a period of time...]
[But for what Luffy did, 200 million Berry is indeed very little.]
[A few days later~]
[The Merry Go docked at the wild port of Oilseed Flower City~]
[Except for Luffy, everyone else is on the ship~]
[Oilseed Flower City, downtown area!!]
[On top of the highest building's dome~]
[A figure appears here...]
["Look!!! Someone's there!!! It's Mr. Crocodile, the guardian deity's favorite spot to stand!"]
["Has Lord Crocodile returned?"]
["No! No!!! He's not Mr. Crocodile!! He's that great pirate with a 50 million Berry bounty, Monkey D. Luffy!"]
["I remember him!! He fought Mr. Crocodile and defeated Mr. Crocodile!"]
["Quick, what's he holding in his hand?"]
["Can't see clearly!"]
[... (Money good)....]
[Soon, a large crowd gathered here, as well as many Marines who came to investigate Crocodile's disappearance~]
[Luffy stood on the dome, looking down.]
[In his hand, he held Crocodile's head~]
[Although so many days had passed, under Nami's Slip-Slip Fruit ability, microorganisms couldn't enter this head, so Crocodile's head still looked lifelike...]
[Crocodile was killed by him, so no matter how Cobra tries to explain to the Marines, it definitely won't make sense!]
[As for publicly announcing Crocodile's crimes and the truth about the Dance Powder to the common people?]
[Don't even think about it!]
[People only believe what they see with their own eyes!!!]
[Including Luffy himself...]
[Even when he first met Crocodile, his first impression was that Crocodile was a 'labor model' serving the people...]
[Plus the previous 'Royal Palace Dance Powder Incident', if Cobra were to announce the truth to the people, he would ultimately only be seen as framing and persecuting Crocodile...]
[Many people would even think that Cobra must have resented Crocodile's popularity among the people, so they would cruelly slaughter this guardian deity in the hearts of the Alabasta people.]
[Of course... this actually can't be blamed too much on these commoners. After all, their strength and worldview determine that they cannot see the truth.]
[Now that Luffy stands here, he intends to end this matter!]
[Crocodile was killed by him, so he plans to let more people know.]
[However, this way, the dead Crocodile truly becomes a good guy, and Luffy is firmly established as the "great villain." ]
[When he asked for 200 million Berry from Cobra earlier, the 'compensation' Luffy spoke of actually meant this matter.]
["It doesn't matter. I've already got a 50 million bounty. Why don't I just give my bounty a good boost!" ]
[Shaking his head slightly, Luffy looked at the crowd below and casually tossed Crocodile's head.]