The Marines still hadn't revealed Garp's defeat. Something like that would have dealt too heavy a blow to morale, and it made many pirates who didn't know how Gato and the others had earned their bounties look down on them.
If Gato and the others hadn't done anything major in the first half of the Grand Line, they would surely have received a warm welcome from the pirates of the New World.
"Ha ha ha... 410 million. So this is my bounty." After learning his bounty, Crocodile happily lit a cigar in celebration.
"Gahahaha, not bad at all. Isn't that almost catching up to me?"
"Damn it, why doesn't this god have a bounty?" Enel watched Gato and Crocodile laugh with equal parts excitement and smugness, feeling deeply annoyed.
Compared to Skypiea's currency, which was often counted in units of billions, Beli was far more valuable. Through the explanations those two had given him, Enel had learned just how frightening a unit "hundred million" was in the seas below.
"Don't be angry, Enel. You just haven't shown your face in front of the Marines. Go take out a few senior officers of the Four Emperors, and I guarantee your bounty will rise faster than either of ours." Gato shamelessly egged on the rookie Enel.
"Damn it, do you take this god for an idiot?!"
Enel now clearly understood how vast and powerful the Blue Sea was, and he had also realized his greatest weakness: his physique wasn't strong enough.
Over the past few days, Crocodile had beaten him senseless. Unless Enel went all out, he could barely break through Crocodile's defenses. Yet there wasn't enough room aboard the ship for them to properly fight, so the two could only engage in close combat.
The result was obvious. Enel had been