Wano Country, Sea Stone Mine.
With Ace and Teach leading the way, Raiga and the others entered the Sea Stone Mine without obstruction.
Not only did the alliance soldiers at the checkpoints not stop them, they even escorted them along the way.
It was not because their reputations were truly so effective, but because Garen had already called the mine's supervising officers and told the guards not to stop Ace and Teach.
If he had not been worried about giving himself away, Garen would have even wanted to have people bury a few more pieces of Kryptonite in the ground, so his CP0 agent friends would not have to work quite so hard mining.
Thus, under Garen's covert care, the CP0 agents arrived unimpeded at the Sea Stone Mine that Garen had strictly sealed off.
"Mr. Kuroda?"
The mine worker leading the way asked Raiga,
"Which mine shaft were your brothers buried in back then?"
Kaido's business was enormous, yet he displayed the ugliest side of a capitalist, refusing even to pay wages that amounted to a drop in the bucket for him.
Those mining here were all unpaid slaves.
Their living conditions were extremely harsh. They normally struggled even to eat their fill, and anyone in slightly poorer health would generally die within two years from exhausting physical labor.
And the Beasts Pirates' overseers had never regarded slaves as human. They would not waste time and effort properly burying dead slave laborers.
The slaves' bodies were usually tossed carelessly by the overseers into some abandoned tunnel within the mine, gradually turning into bones in the lightless underground as time passed, until they were forgotten forever.
With such a backdrop, the story Raiga had made up seemed highly convincing.
"Which mine shaft..."
Raiga hesitated for a moment, then surveyed the