Watching Lowett stand there, calm and aloof as he looked down on him, Agin wanted nothing more than to rush up and smash him with his iron crutch.
That young man looked so clean and exceptional, yet he was so cold and ruthless when he killed!
But that was only normal, wasn't it?
Bitterness welled up in Agin's heart.
Nine out of ten pirates were ambitious and supremely arrogant. Unless they were on good terms, if a Great Pirate with a bounty several times higher than the other party's suddenly killed them because they had merely sent a subordinate to negotiate, that would not be excessive. It was commonplace.
But there was nothing he could do. Agin understood Krieg.
Krieg had already been arrogant enough. This time, after swallowing the armories of seven kingdoms and a bank from an Affiliated Nation, he had money, weapons—everything he could want. Captain Krieg, who dared declare he would build a fleet of five thousand men, would never admit that he was inferior to Lowett.
Much less come negotiate in person.
Agin himself had also prepared to die.
He just had not expected the gap in strength to be so vast!
So vast that merely two retainers had slaughtered all of them as easily as killing chickens.
Against such powerful, inhuman beings, was joining forces really a good idea?
"I..."
Agin opened his mouth, swallowed, and calmed down.
Things had come to this. If he died, he died!
But he had to deliver the message. That was the task his captain had given him.
With that thought, he gathered his courage and met Lowett's gaze.
"Captain Lowett, Captain Krieg has learned of what happened to you in Loguetown. To be honest, Captain Krieg shares your thoughts."
"Oh? Go on."
Lowett took a sip of