Purchase

East Blue, Sixteenth Branch.

Countless Marine soldiers could not help but show fear on their faces.

They felt helpless about their futures.

Another colonel had forcibly barged into the Sixteenth Branch and searched through a series of criminal evidence right in front of Captain Nezumi. Captain Nezumi had never expected another colonel to arrive uninvited, and so he had been caught red-handed.

Looking at the shocking criminal records Captain Nezumi had accumulated through colluding with pirates,

Smoker's expression gradually darkened.

"Do you know that you are a Marine?" Smoker clenched his cigar between his teeth and revealed his weapon, a Seastone jitte.

"What are you trying to do? Smoker, we're the same rank!" Captain Nezumi pressed himself against the wall.

Smoker remained silent.

"I'm telling you, I have connections at Marine Headquarters too. Don't do anything reckless. You have to send me before a court-martial..."

"There is no longer any need for that." Smoker struck with his jitte and shattered his head.

"Captain!!!" Tashigi sucked in a sharp breath.

"It's time for a major cleanup in the East Blue. The Fleet Admiral should be happy for me." Smoker scattered the sheets of paper in his hand into the air.

Tashigi instinctively caught one of them:

Arlong is really stingy. He only gives me forty percent every time. Does he not see how many crimes I've covered up for him?

Year xxx of the Age of the Sea: Arlong destroyed an island, killing approximately six hundred people.

...Arlong killed roughly a thousand civilian resistance fighters and massacred fifteen villages.

...Arlong killed a retired female Marine. At last, no more filthy commoners resisted, and he began collecting taxes.

...Arlong's twisted tastes are as bad as ever. This time, he actually wants a little girl to save up one hundred million Beli, then arrest her in one sweep as a thief once the deed is done. I can take forty percent of the Beli.

Tashigi's face gradually turned pale.

Even beneath the white coats of the Marines who championed justice, there were still many shadows. Who knew how many Marines committed vile deeds in the name of justice?

"All Marines, assemble immediately. Bind your own hands. Do not make me do it myself." Smoker walked out of Captain Nezumi's office and looked at the Marines outside.

"Why? We were only following orders! Why are you arresting us?!" one Marine could not help but shout.

"Because you are Marines!" Smoker could no longer suppress the fury in his heart. White mist spread through the air as Smoker walked away into it, and the word Justice on his Marine coat was gradually obscured by the fog.

"I can only offer a futile apology here." Smoker tore Ling Donglai's wanted poster in half and tossed the fragments into the sky.

"This world truly is absurd..."

There were certainly no shortage of madmen on the Grand Line. As for those who had never managed to go mad, they had probably already been buried at sea after learning the gap in their strength.

Because of this, some bounty hunters had already noticed this walking thirty-million-Beli prize and begun recklessly provoking a power beyond their imagination.

Electrical waves echoed around him, and he vaguely sensed quite a bit of malice.

Since he had only just begun exploring this kind of bioelectric wave, Ling Donglai was completely unable to tell where that malice came from.

"Good grief..." Ling Donglai followed Nami into a women's clothing store.

"Captain, what kind of clothes do you think would look good on me?" Nami looked toward the section with less fabric.

Ling Donglai turned to look at the dresses with more fabric.

Based on his many years of playing Miracle Nikki, Nami actually... looked good in anything.

"I always feel like skirts are inconvenient for moving around. They flutter about when I run." Nami followed Ling Donglai's gaze.

"Then buy some sporty outfits, along with other kinds." Ling Donglai had no real concept of money in this world.

After all, everything cost tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even tens of millions of Beli.

With that kind of purchasing power, it was truly hard to grasp the actual value of cash.

"Great!" Nami hugged Ling Donglai and rubbed her head against his chest muscles. Then, one article of clothing after another began disappearing from the store shelves.

Ling Donglai sat to one side, quietly watching Nami pick out clothes and try them on.

Entertainment in this world was incredibly scarce. There were pitifully few high-end durable goods, and there was not even much need to buy houses. Other than enriching one's life, what else was there to spend money on?

Under such circumstances, watching Nami change clothes had become one of Ling Donglai's few forms of entertainment aboard the ship. That was why he had enough patience to admire Nami as she selected outfits, to the point of making her embarrassed under his gaze.

"Eek... Isn't this a little too much?"

Under Ling Donglai's gaze, Nami finally looked at the piles of bags she had selected after satisfying her urge to shop, then asked him quietly and somewhat embarrassedly.

"If you like them, you can buy as much as you want." Ling Donglai did not particularly care.

"...All right, Captain. Take these clothes to the carriage first."

Nami seemed to think of something. She placed all the bags in Ling Donglai's arms and pushed him out the door. Only after seeing him walk away did Nami let out a sigh of relief, then blush as she began choosing her underwear.

Ling Donglai carried Nami's pile of women's clothes toward the carriage parked nearby.

The carriage was specifically for storing their purchases. Otherwise, they would have to carry everything back and forth to the ship again and again, which would be far too troublesome.

"This is an opportunity. The clothes are blocking his vision and hindering his movements. First, I'll pretend to bump into him by accident and make him inhale the hallucinogenic fragrance. Then, in the instant I apologize, I'll draw this poisoned dagger and stab him in the..."

Not far away, a little girl who had been staring fixedly at Ling Donglai held up a dagger and measured his height.

"The abdomen."

After measuring Ling Donglai's height, the little girl realized she would have to raise her hand to stab his abdomen. That would not be smooth enough.

She reluctantly shifted her aim to between his legs. It would be smoother, but that was far too indecent and embarrassing.

Then there were his thighs, but what use was stabbing a thigh? After agonizing over it for a while, the little girl still chose the difficult operation of stabbing his abdomen.

"Why are you so tall?!" the little girl complained bitterly.

"After that, Karoo, you'll come in and deliver the final blow. If we fail, take me and run. Do you understand?" the little girl said to the duck beside her, who was about the same size as her.

After hearing this, the duck miraculously nodded to show that he understood.

"Then it's settled. We'll kill this super pirate with a thirty-million-Beli bounty first and become famous in one stroke!"

The blue-haired little girl took a deep breath. "Come on. You can do it, you definitely can do it. For Alabasta! You can do it!"

Thanks to Never-Extinguishing Golden Eyes_ for the two-hundred-point donation. I heard the contract ranking is basically a pay-to-win ranking, so I curiously checked the standings and found that I really had climbed to around twentieth place.

So while I'm asking for votes, if possible, I'd also like to ask for donations. Even the minimum amount is fine. If I can stay ten places higher on the weekly rankings, I'll add extra chapters too. In other words, if I can remain in the twenties by the weekend, that will do. One extra chapter for every ten places gained.

Also, regarding advancing Magnetic Field Rotation: in order to keep the power scaling from getting too out of hand, I'm using Enel as the benchmark. In other words, Ling Donglai's current twenty million volts are only equivalent to one of Enel's ordinary skills.

And after all, the protagonist was not a Martial God who was directly transported into the pirate world, so Magnetic Field Rotation is still too early. At present, he can only barely come into contact with electrical waves through a Den Den Mushi.

When writing fanfiction, I will inevitably patch some of the original work's loopholes with my own interpretations as secondary settings. Therefore, there definitely will not be scenes like defeating Crocodile with a little water, or rubber directly being immune to Enel's lightning attacks. (Did the invincible Logia stop thinking after getting Ora Ora'd by ordinary physical attacks?)

Finally, how much longer until the magnetic field rotates... Of course, that depends on everyone's votes to speed it up!