Under the blazing sun, the White Agate finally docked beside Bayam's pier. Klein, who had been waiting on deck, did not have time to greet Aierlan, the "Justice" he had encountered once again. He descended the newly lowered gangway, crossed the walkway, and entered the harbor.
He glanced at the waiting area for hired carriages and found that the few carriages there had already been hired by the previous batch of arriving passengers. Rather than wait in line, he headed into the city along the main road.
Rather than spend half an hour waiting for a carriage, I might as well walk straight back to the Azure Wind... Calculating the shortest route, Klein passed the notice board by the harbor. Out of an Adventurer's habit, he glanced over the wanted posters and notices pinned there, taking in and committing to memory the various Pirate Kings, Admirals, and vicious pirates beneath them.
Wait, was that Angel?
He withdrew the foot he had stepped out with and turned toward the top of the notice board. He found a new wanted poster pinned between several Pirate Admirals' notices, bearing Angel's alias, Angelica Zaki, and her latest bounty.
23,000 pounds.
When I left Tiana Island, she was still worth 18,000 pounds. That means the amount was updated only in the past few days and hasn't had time to spread from Bayam to the other islands... Klein frowned, stepped closer to the notice board, and read the contents of the wanted poster.
"Killed wanted pirates in the street... That raises the bounty too?"
After giving it some thought, Klein understood why.
Wanted notices for pirates and Adventurers were not issued purely based on the losses they caused or how vicious they were. For example, although Gehrman Sparrow had also killed famous pirates like the Eloquent