"I understand."
Kong nodded, then lowered his head to look at the wanted posters on the desk. He turned to Sengoku and the others. "You can't trust a pirate to keep his word, especially when he's a pirate!"
"The Gold Emperor still needs to be under our control!"
Kong wasn't about to change his mind just because a pirate had kept his word once.
A thief was a thief!
"Should we raise the bounties on the Gold Emperor and the other two?"
Tsuru looked at Kong.
"Whether we raise them or not won't make much difference."
A bounty was of little use against the Gold Emperor. He already represented wealth.
Even without a bounty, people would still want to enslave him.
So even if the Marines raised the bounty to three billion, five billion, or a hundred billion, the pirates and bounty hunters who captured the Gold Emperor wouldn't hand him over to the Marines.
No one would give up the wealth of the whole world for a mere hundred billion.
The Goddess of the Heavens controlled by the Gold Emperor alone was worth more than a hundred billion berries.
But one thing was certain: the Gold Emperor was dangerous!
If that man used the power of money, he could build a huge organization with ease. Yet so far, the Gold Emperor had only used gold to fight. He hadn't considered using money to build an organization or control the world.
Holy Land Mary Geoise.
The Five Elders' office!
"Has it been confirmed?"
The Five Elder with a birthmark on his forehead looked at the reporting CPO, his eyes smoldering with anger.
"We've confirmed that Stussy betrayed us!"
The masked CPO spoke calmly. The deaths of the Octopus and the other CPOs wouldn't withstand an investigation.
All the evidence pointed