After being baptized by cannon fire, Arlong Park, which had barely counted as grand and imposing before, had been reduced to a field of ruins.
Arlong's tall building, modeled after an amusement park on the Sabaody Archipelago, had also been blasted to pieces by the Marines' shells. Yet its sturdy steel frame barely kept it standing in place.
Garen, Nami, and Wallace were currently walking through this "dangerous building."
Arlong cared greatly about wealth. His greedy nature made him far more cautious about hiding money than his intelligence would suggest.
Although Nami had been an officer of the Arlong Pirates for six years, even she did not know where Arlong kept his treasure.
But before Nami's professional skills as the Cat Burglar, Arlong's hidden treasures were not all that difficult to find.
Arlong had ruled twenty villages across the surrounding seas. Over the years, he had accumulated an astonishing amount of wealth.
After following Nami around Arlong's territory twice, Garen felt as though he had wandered into the lair of some Western dragon. The sheer variety of treasures nearly dazzled him blind.
Yet Garen did not take any of the money. Even Nami, who loved money as much as her life, did not take any.
Nami merely called all the villagers of Cocoyasi Village over.
Arlong Park instantly became lively:
The villagers' faces were flushed with unnatural excitement. Their eyes gleamed as they charged into Arlong's territory, once regarded as a dragon's den and tiger's cave, then panted heavily as they carried out armful after armful of Arlong's treasure.
There might not be strength in numbers when fighting Arlong, but there definitely was when dividing treasure.
Under Garen's slightly shocked gaze, Arlong's treasury, which would have needed an excavator to shovel through, was emptied by the villagers in less than