Love You, Old Davy!

Houka saw that Davy Jones did not seem to be lying and gave up on asking him how to attain God-level Conqueror's Haki.

In the end, he was just a loser.

Asking him would be less useful than fighting Imu.

Imu was now rounding up people who had awakened Conqueror's Haki and powerful fighters of every kind throughout the East Blue, South Blue, and Grand Line.

It seemed the deity wanted another round of devouring to advance.

People were creatures of habit.

Once a path had worked, they would keep following it!

Until failure and death.

But Imu's madness was precisely what had thrown the World Government's territories into chaos, allowing the Revolutionary Army that Presley had established ahead of time to flourish.

Most importantly, it had frightened those powerful fighters into fleeing.

Over the past two years, Golden Lion Shiki's three flying passenger fleets had raked in a fortune.

Golden Lion Shiki had become the second-richest man in both the New World Alliance and the Rocks Pirates, behind only Houka.

Even Rocks, their captain, had to concede defeat. His wealth was less than a tenth of Golden Lion Shiki's.

Even Ganzi, who traded with the World Alliance and smuggled goods into World Government territory, actually earned less than Golden Lion Shiki.

Of course, while Golden Lion Shiki's flying fleets carried passengers, they also ran all kinds of smuggling operations.

The World Government's blockade of the Sabaody Archipelago–Fish-Man Island route and the Holy Land route had instead given Golden Lion Shiki several more years of exorbitant profits.

"I heard you have a huge treasure stash at the bottom of the sea?"

Seeing that he could get no information about attaining God-level Conqueror's Haki, Houka casually tossed out a seemingly offhand question.

According to legend, every gold coin that fell