Corazon's Operation 2

Next, Corazon tied the rope to a tree and secured the boat. Then he said to Law, "Law, bear with it for a little while and stay here."

However, Trafalgar Law clutched tightly at his clothes. He refused to stay behind; he wanted to go with Corazon.

Corazon understood what Trafalgar Law meant. He did not stop him and brought him onto the island instead.

At the pirate base they had mentioned, the pirates were in the middle of a grand feast. A sleazy-looking pirate shouted, "Dori, hurry up with the drinks!"

The red-haired youth named Dori immediately replied, "Coming right up!"

As the people at the banquet drank and ate meat, they chatted among themselves. "Guess how much this single fruit can sell for?" One man took a Devil Fruit out of a safe. "Five billion!" he said.

Everyone happily kept eating, while the pirate leader added, "You'd never guess it, but those government people must have something wrong with their brains."

Another person said, "If we got that much money, we wouldn't have to be pirates anymore."

Everyone laughed. "Yeah, yeah, exactly!"

At that moment, the sleazy man held up the heart-shaped Devil Fruit and examined it closely. "But when you think about it, it makes sense. If a doctor ate this thing, they'd definitely become a famous physician sought after by patients all over the world. They say there really were doctors in history who ate it and used miraculous surgeries to cure difficult diseases one after another, eventually becoming legends. But for roughnecks like us, it doesn't mean a damn thing."

His companions immediately shouted, "Money is what really matters!"

"That's right!" Everyone was jubilant.

Corazon settled Trafalgar Law inside a house in town, then hurried toward the base by himself. Trafalgar Law opened the door