The turmoil caused by the Impel Down incident had yet to die down, but the latest Bounty Posters updated by Marine Headquarters sent another shock across the world.
With the efforts of the carrier gulls and Den Den Mushi fax machines, Maud's new bounty had spread to every corner of the world in less than a day.
Whether they were pirates from the Grand Line or pirates from the New World,
in their eyes, Maud, with a bounty of 4.48 billion, was already a bona fide Emperor of the Sea.
And an extremely young one at that.
Within just a few days, countless gazes once again focused on Maud.
In the dark underworld, Maud's head had always been worth a great deal. Added together, the bounties placed on him amounted to at least two billion.
With the Marines' update this time, the organization responsible for consolidating and issuing underworld bounties not only failed to withdraw Maud's bounty, but instead, as if playing a prank, forcibly raised it to 4.5 billion.
That amount was twenty million more than the official bounty issued by the Marines.
The bounty was tempting.
But the vast majority of bounty hunters had no intention of provoking Maud.
So what if it was nine billion?
How was that any different from a pavilion suspended in midair?
Most people were quite rational.
But, by contrast, there were also people who lacked reason.
Though there were not many of them, there truly was a group of people foolishly dreaming of claiming Maud's bounty.
Greed and desire
were simply part of the world's ordinary state.
The New World.
Wano Country, Onigashima.
Yamato held Maud's latest Bounty Poster, secretly astounded.
The handsome man in the bounty photograph, who was even younger than she was, had actually reached the same level as