Bounty: Pay Up or Not? [Third Update, Request for Full Subscription]

Fear rapidly spread among the fish-men. In the end, this guy was still doing it for money!!!

Below, Law had already started working. Uchiha Hiko turned to look at the merfolk behind him, only for his glance to be met with countless terrified screams. The merfolk scattered, leaping off the deck and diving into the sea.

"?" Hiko had no idea what had happened. He swept the area with his sensory ability and found nothing unusual. He simply could not understand why the merfolk had become even more frightened after all the Pirates had been dealt with.

In truth, Hiko did not know that his vaguely worded order for Law to round up the Pirates so they could be exchanged for bounties had led the fish-men to believe he intended to capture them and sell them again.

Heaven and earth bear witness, this was a colossal misunderstanding!

"What happened?" Even Law noticed the commotion aboard the ship. He thought some formidable figure had arrived again.

Hiko jumped down from the pirate ship, somewhat baffled. "No idea. Maybe these timid fish-men have gone crazy?"

"Oh!" Law had heard of the fish-men's sensitivity, so he did not pay it much mind and continued his work. As the first person to join Uchiha Hiko's side, Law had the self-awareness of a subordinate and felt no resistance toward Hiko assigning him work.

Hiko took all those details in, and his opinion of Law rose another notch.

After capturing all the Pirates, there turned out to be more than four hundred of them. Along with two massive pirate ships, there were countless supplies aboard. One glance was enough for Hiko to know that this was a highly professional pirate crew. They must have robbed and plundered countless times to amass so much treasure.

But now