Tsugikuni Yoriichi stood beside Rage's corpse. Blood flowed to his feet, but he did not notice.
"I'll ask one question. Whoever answers me gets to live."
"Who sent you?!"
"Answer without worry. I always keep my promises to people."
Hearing Tsugikuni Yoriichi's question, the pirates on the deck trembled as they looked from the corpse on the ground to Tsugikuni Yoriichi standing beside it. Not one of them answered his question.
Seeing that no one spoke for a long while, Tsugikuni Yoriichi frowned slightly. Just as he was about to make a move, a young pirate rushed in front of Yoriichi, dropped to his knees with a slide, and began kowtowing as he shouted:
"It was the president! The president sent us!"
"I don't want to die! I want to live! I want to live!"
"Please, don't kill me! Don't kill me!"
Tsugikuni Yoriichi looked down at the pirate kneeling before him. The "president" the man mentioned was completely unfamiliar to him. "President?"
Muttering softly, Tsugikuni Yoriichi immediately thought of the Lolo Trading Company Santos had mentioned and quickly asked:
"Is it the president of the Lolo Trading Company?"
When the young pirate heard the name Lolo Trading Company from Tsugikuni Yoriichi, his body shuddered instinctively. Then a fawning smile appeared on his face as he hurriedly replied, "Yes! Yes, yes!"
"It's the Lolo Trading Company."
"Since you know about it, that makes things easy. Just go find the president of the Lolo Trading Company directly!"
"We were only following his orders."
"Spare me. I don't want to die!"
The young pirate's face was filled with pleading. Only then did the other pirates on the deck finally react, all dropping to their knees before Tsugikuni Yoriichi at once.
Faced with Tsugikuni Yoriichi, who had "flown" across a hundred meters of