Just moments ago, also at the marketplace, a group of people had gotten into an argument with a shop owner.
They were pirates as well, having landed a day later than the Moonlight Pirates.
That was not the important part. After the conflict broke out, before the owner could even contact the island's guards, nearby patrol personnel had already noticed something was wrong.
"Meow!"
An orange cat nearby arched its back and hissed at the pirates with its fur standing on end, but the pirates paid it no attention.
It was just a cat, not a tiger. Was it supposed to tear them apart?
That was what the pirates truly thought, but they did not know that the cats here really could do that.
"Hey, we think your stuff is overpriced. Now we don't want to pay even a single beli. What are you going to do about it?"
The pirate at the head of the group wore a classic pirate outfit: a tricorn hat bearing a pirate flag, an eyepatch over his right eye, and an iron hook in place of his missing left hand.
He was standing in a prosthetic body shop. As the popularizer of prosthetic body technology across the seas, Oran's home base naturally had no shortage of related businesses.
However, the pirate was not looking at the basic models, but at a top-of-the-line luxury model priced at a staggering seventy million beli.
"Of course you don't have to pay. If you want, you can even empty out the entire shop."
The owner showed no fear at all and even gestured for the pirates to take whatever they wanted.
He was only an employee, after all. According to the shop's rules, if someone tried to rob the place, personal safety came first. The guards would deal