A three-masted sailing ship slowly pulled into port, with the pirates aboard standing side by side along the far side of the deck.
When Su Xiao had boarded earlier, the pirates aboard had not swarmed him. From their expressions at the time, if they had not been so far from land, they might all have jumped ship.
This had puzzled Su Xiao. He had been suppressing his blood aura at the time, so these desperadoes of the sea should not have been so cowardly. After asking around, he learned that the World Government had placed a bounty on him—a staggering 1.4 billion Beli, dead or alive. After all, he had killed a Celestial Dragon, so the bounty was not considered particularly high.
Charlotte Katakuri's bounty was 1.057 billion Beli. From this, one could see just how terrifying 1.4 billion Beli was. Su Xiao had experienced Katakuri's strength firsthand. When he had fought Katakuri at the fourth rank, he had only barely held out after joining forces with Donquixote Doflamingo. Things were different now. Su Xiao was confident he could take Katakuri one-on-one—and hammer him to death at that. Even against a Marine admiral, Su Xiao had nothing to fear.
The pirate crew Su Xiao had hijacked was called the Golden Shark Pirates. Their captain's bounty was 11 million Beli. In the first half of the Grand Line, that made him a ruthless character, but in the New World, he was nothing more than a small fry.
Su Xiao had no interest in dealing with these pirates. After advancing to the fifth rank, the rewards for killing pirates like them were extremely low, and he might not even receive any reward.
Leaping down from the ship, Su Xiao finally returned to the Sabaody Archipelago. Last time, he had been driven off