"Bonus mode?"
I opened the system panel and immediately understood. From now on, besides completing missions, I could also earn Mission Points by killing pirates. The exchange rate was one point for every 100,000 Berries, so even 100 million Berries was only worth a mere 1,000 points.
Seeing this, Rodney was overjoyed. This meant he could earn far more Mission Points.
Wait, before Crocodile became a Shichibukai, he had a 70-million-Berry bounty. That was 700 Mission Points of mine!
System, you cheated me!
System: "..."
He took out a fruit. Crocodile was dead, so he wondered whether he could obtain his Sand-Sand Fruit.
One second passed, then two, then three...
All right, the apple in his hand hadn't changed at all. It seemed it was useless. The Sand-Sand Fruit had already appeared somewhere else in this world.
Tch, that was a little irritating...
Biting into the apple, he dragged Crocodile's corpse back into Rainbase...
Three days later, the World Economic Report published news that a Shichibukai had been hunted down by a pirate hunter who had only recently set out to sea. An investigation had revealed that Crocodile had established the assassin organization Baroque Works, secretly used Dancing Powder, and framed King Cobra. There was an audio recording as evidence, so Crocodile couldn't escape his crimes.
That's right. Rodney had borrowed a Den Den Mushi capable of recording from Princess Vivi. He had carried it on him the day he met Crocodile and obtained what he wanted from the overly confident Crocodile. Of course, he had edited that conversation. Otherwise, no one knew what might happen if a taboo-like word such as "Pluton" appeared.
Rodney's killing of Crocodile made him famous throughout the first half of the Grand Line. The Shichibukai were pirates recognized by the World Government. They represented