Other pirate crews in the New World with bounties exceeding a hundred million!
"Jihihihi, the Summer Bounty Crew sure is arrogant!"
Gecko Moria, still roaming the New World as an independent pirate, cackled as he read the newspaper!
"What a chilling feeling, like we've been targeted!"
Great Whirlpool Spider Squard, currently an independent pirate, wore a defiant grin!
Iron Arm Pirates!
"Good. Summer Bounty Crew, I'll be claiming your heads!"
Iron Arm Kuga looked at Xia Zhiqing in the newspaper and crushed the paper with one hand!
Marine Headquarters!
"The seas are becoming more turbulent by the day. One of the Four Emperors, Whitebeard, is about to clash with Kaido!"
"World Destroyer Waldo is running rampant, while Gecko Moria has also come into conflict with Kaido!"
"And now, the Summer Bounty Crew has appeared!"
"Someone capable of easily hunting down a pirate with a bounty over a hundred million, yet still so young—he's practically comparable to Blood-Eyed Xia Zhiqing! He might become another scourge that throws the seas into chaos in the future!"
Sengoku rubbed his brow and muttered with a headache!
"Hahaha, Sengoku, the seas really are getting livelier! If you ask me, you never should have agreed to become Fleet Admiral. Look how busy you are now!"
"Now look at me. I'm so relaxed. Jealous?" Garp said from the side, crunching on rice crackers as he mocked Sengoku!
Sengoku's face immediately darkened. He roared, "Garp, how many times have I told you not to eat rice crackers in my office? Can't you finish them outside before coming in?!"
"Hahaha, don't sweat the small stuff!" Garp said with the air of an old hand, then left while clutching his rice crackers!
Watching him go, Sengoku could only shake his head helplessly and sigh. "Not one of them lets me rest easy!"
The next day!
"Heh, I killed so many pirates before this, yet I never made the papers!"
"But the moment I broke a hundred million, I was on the front page. The difference is really obvious!"
Xia Zhiqing looked at the flashy golden headlines in the newspaper, such as "100-Million Slash" and "Bounty Hunter Supernova," and shook his head helplessly!
As expected of entertainment news—the headlines were ridiculously exaggerated!
"But now that we have a reputation, all we need to do is wait for bigger jobs to come in!"
"Hehe, Iron Arm Kuga had better come right away. That way, I can make another fortune!"
Xia Zhiqing desperately needed money right now!
Eating cost money, and buying a ship cost money!
Upgrading Anna's equipment cost money, and buying himself a good sword cost money too!
Not to mention that building a force also cost money!
To strengthen the Whitebeard Pirates, he had to work even harder!
"Come on, we're going to Water 7. Now that we have money, we need to get a better ship!"
"Besides, there's a mission in the Dongping Kingdom. It's right on the way!"
"Though the mission is very mysterious, and we won't know the details until we reach the Dongping Kingdom, it's still a major job worth tens of millions of Beli. It'd be a real shame to pass it up!"
Xia Zhiqing said to Anna, but she showed absolutely no reaction!
Water 7!
After coating his ship on an island somewhere in the New World, Xia Zhiqing sailed through Fish-Man Island and the Sabaody Archipelago before finally arriving here!
The moment Xia Zhiqing and Anna appeared, they immediately drew the attention of Water 7's various factions!
"Isn't that the recently famous Summer Bounty Crew? They actually came to the Grand Line. Could they have accepted a mission from the Grand Line?"
Rob Lucci of the World Government's spy agency CP9 watched Xia Zhiqing and Anna at the harbor, thinking this to himself!
And just as Rob Lucci stared at Xia Zhiqing, Xia Zhiqing suddenly followed his gaze and looked over!
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