Bounty

"Knock! Knock!!"

"Enter!"

Sengoku looked up to see Tsuru had returned.

"You're finally back, Tsuru!" Looking at the several extra stacks of documents on his desk compared to usual, Sengoku looked as if he had just seen a savior.

"Stop acting up. Tell me the specific situation in the New World instead!" Tsuru cut off Sengoku's attempt to complain about the agony of reading files again.

"Ahem!" Coughing twice to hide his embarrassment, Sengoku pulled a document from his drawer and handed it to Tsuru: "Take a look at this first!"

Taking the document, Tsuru scanned it with a glance that took in ten lines at once. In just two minutes, she had grasped the ins and outs of the situation.

"I see. It's not just a typical death wish, but a display of muscle?" The reason Kaido was coming to trouble the Navy this time was that the fierce competition in the New World had reached a new level.

To make a name for himself and recruit more Zoan-type ability users, Kaido had temporarily planned this small-scale war.

Once he recruited more ability users later, he could expand his territory further and start more wars.

For Kaido, war was his greatest motivation.

And this time, Kaido's goal was to completely destroy the Navy's G6 Branch in the New World. If he could drive the Navy out of the New World entirely, Kaido would certainly be happy to do so.

Unfortunately, he couldn't achieve that on his own. So, he had to settle for the next best thing: completely destroying one branch, which would also count as fulfilling Kaido's goal.

"So, Sengoku, what do you intend to do?"

"Are you going to start an all-out war to protect the branch, or will you resist for a bit and then let Kaido achieve his goal?" Tsuru didn't mention wiping out the Beasts Pirates because she knew it wasn't realistic.

In the New World, the Navy's power was still too weak; they could only influence the first half of the New World, while the second half was entirely the domain of pirates.

If they tried to wipe out the Beasts Pirates this time, the other two Emperors of the Sea would never sit idly by.

Even Charlotte Linlin understood the principle that if the lips are gone, the teeth will be cold.

The reason the Navy was blocked in the first half was that whenever they tried to eliminate one of them, the others would unite to resist the Navy.

With the Navy's current strength, they could not contend with the alliance of three Emperors.

"Sigh!" Rubbing his aching temples, Sengoku said helplessly: "With our current naval strength, we are not yet prepared for a war against all the pirate Emperors."

"Let Akainu and Aokiji clash with the Beasts Pirates this time!"

"Afterward, we will abandon the G6 Branch and consolidate our defenses at G1 through G5. Although we are forced to give up one branch, it will be good to increase the defense and strengthen the troops at the remaining five."

"Then let it be so!" Tsuru nodded, agreeing with Sengoku's point of view: "Akainu and Aokiji alone, plus the three Vice Admirals at the G6 Branch, is not quite safe enough."

"If we lose too many elites, that is not something we want. Transfer Gion and Tokikake over to support; it is time for them to become Vice Admirals anyway!"

"That works!"

"Letting them gain experience and accumulate merit is good, and hopefully, their strength will improve after a battle with the Beasts Pirates."

After discussing the major matters, they began to handle less urgent issues.

For example: confirming the candidates for the Seven Warlords of the Sea.

And the bounties for the members of the Donquixote Family in the North Blue.

However, these two matters did not need the two top Navy leaders to handle personally; they would leave it to the "Meeting King" Brannew and confirm the results at the end.

That day, after finishing her training, baby-5 waited at the port for the arrival of the News Coo as usual.

Right at ten o'clock in the morning, the News Coo arrived with the day's newspaper. Baby-5 hurriedly took out some Beli and waved them: "One newspaper, please!"

She handed the Beli to the News Coo, and after the bird handed over the newspaper from the small parcel on its chest, it spread its wings and flew toward a distant island.

On this side, as soon as baby-5 took the newspaper, several bounty posters fluttered out.

Baby-5 quickly picked them up, and as soon as her eyes scanned them, her pupils dilated instantly: "Oh no!"

Holding the newspaper, baby-5 ran quickly toward the family base, shouting as she ran: "Young Master, Gray-sama, everyone—it's bad!"

"What's wrong, baby-5?" The people in the training ground stopped their training immediately and ran toward baby-5 in confusion.

"Are there enemies?"

"Where is the enemy?"

"No, everyone, look at this!" baby-5 took out the bounty posters from her arms.

"Ho! So that's it!"

"Hahaha! Don't worry, baby-5! This is a good thing!"

"Na na na, Doffy, hurry and see how much bounty the Navy set for you the first time!"

When the group saw their own bounty posters, their first reaction was joy.

Because in this world, a Navy bounty poster didn't make people afraid; on the contrary, it was a recognition of their own strength.

"Fufufu..." Looking at his own bounty poster, Doflamingo let out a joyful laugh.

And on the bounty poster in his hand, it was clearly written: Bounty of 90 million Beli.

Gray scanned the area and discovered that everyone who had taken action last time now had a bounty poster.

"Everyone, quickly say what your bounties are!"

"Na na na, sixty million Beli, a bit higher than before!"

Gray: ...

So weak. You're supposed to be back from the New World, yet it's this low. After silently complaining, Gray looked toward Diamante and Pica.

Pica: "Eighty million Beli!"

Diamante: "Seventy-eight million Beli!"

Lao G: "Fifty million Beli! G!"

Senor: "Forty-five million Beli!"

Gladius: "Thirty-one million Beli!"

Machvise: "Eleven million Beli!"

Machvise: "This bounty is completely unreasonable. I didn't even get to show my strength last time!"

"G! This old man's martial arts weren't displayed either!"

"Hahaha! That can't be helped. Since most of you are Devil Fruit users and can't fly, you couldn't even reach the enemy. You had the strength but nowhere to use it!" The smile curling at the corners of Gray's mouth was harder to suppress than an AK.

"Hey! Little brat Gray, seeing you laugh so happily, tell us what your bounty is?"

"Good! Perfect!" Gray had been waiting a long time for this question. After cheering inwardly, he put on a serious face: "Ahem!"

"Since you've asked with such sincerity, I'll tell you out of the kindness of my heart!" As he spoke, Gray displayed his bounty poster in front of everyone.

"Open your eyes wide and look closely!"

The group ignored Gray's antics, treating them as wind passing by their ears, their gazes fixed entirely on the Beli column.

"Eighty million Beli!!!" Gray's bounty shocked them all.

"Hmph, hmph!" Gray crossed his arms and deliberately stood up from his wheelchair, trying to make his small frame appear as tall as possible: "Heh, heh, heh."

"Doffy! Stand up!"

Doflamingo was stunned and looked at Gray in confusion.

"Hey! Don't worry about it, just stand up!"

Although he didn't know what was going on, thinking of how Gray had helped him before, he reluctantly stood up.

The other executives looked at the two in confusion, unable to figure out what Gray was up to.

"Ahem!" Once Doflamingo was standing, Gray grinned, his eyes sweeping across the room with disdain: "Hmph, hmph, I just want to say~ everyone here is trash!"

"Hey, hey, little brat Gray, I can't just pretend I didn't hear that!"

"Brat, do you want to spar with this old man too? G!"

"Little brat, taste the power of my explosions!"

"Brat!!!"

After showing off, Gray naturally knew he had provoked everyone's anger, so he immediately sat back in his wheelchair and flew away.

Gray completely ignored the angry roars of the people behind him.

I really couldn't find the first bounties of the Donquixote Family on Baidu, so I performed some creative writing.

Later, between the Op-Op Fruit incident and the point where Doflamingo becomes one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, I will restore their original bounty amounts or increase them according to the situation.