Ace and Sabo's wait in Cocoyasi Village finally bore fruit.
Watching the three pirate ships speeding toward the island from the distant sea, Sabo, who had arrived at the shore, was the first to make a move.
His figure turned into a streak of lightning and vanished from Ace's side in an instant. In the blink of an eye, he had descended above the three pirate ships in the distance.
On the pirate ships, the pirates were watching the approaching island with excited faces, cruel smiles curling across their lips.
Pirates in the East Blue did not have it as easy as pirates elsewhere. Being able to cooperate with Captain Mouse meant that they lived like "people above others" within East Blue pirate circles.
The vast majority of East Blue pirates could only make small trouble. The moment they caused even a slight disturbance, the Marines would crack down on them.
In these seas, pirates with bounties exceeding ten million were exceedingly rare.
Meanwhile, pirates making their living in the other Four Blues, such as those in the West Blue, could have bounties that barely surpassed one hundred million.
A pirate's bounty was often directly related to both their strength and the harm they caused to the current social order.
Pirates with bounties of three or four million were not even a match for "Bandit King" Sig. His bounty was as high as eight million Beli.
But to ordinary civilians, pirates with large ships, cannons, and firearms were invincible heavenly soldiers. Even the weakest pirate crew was beyond the ability of ordinary people to resist.
The three pirate ships had three leaders, all of them old subordinates with close ties to Captain Mouse. At Captain Mouse's instruction, they intended to land on the island and teach the villagers of Cocoyasi