Alabasta Kingdom, Rainy Oasis.
Rain Dinners Casino, first-floor lobby.
Sephiroth waited beside the gambling table for a while before the white-haired lobby manager hurried over to him. The old man gave a slight bow before speaking.
"Sir, our boss wishes to see you. Please come with me!"
"Heh! And who exactly is your boss? He actually expects me to go see him in person?" Sephiroth feigned confusion.
"Our boss is none other than Sir Crocodile, one of the Shichibukai!"
The lobby manager's tone was brimming with pride, as though working under Crocodile was an immense honor.
"If he wants to see me, then tell him to get his ass out here and see me!" Sephiroth sneered coldly.
"This..."
The lobby manager hesitated, looking rather troubled.
Seeing this, Sephiroth had no intention of letting it go. He pressed the man further.
"Could it be that your casino thinks I won 300 million Belly here and made a fortune, so now you're planning to throw me out and stop me from playing?
Fine! So your casino only allows customers to lose until they're broke, but won't allow anyone to strike it rich overnight and walk away loaded, is that it?"
The lobby manager's face turned slightly pale as he hurriedly shook his head and waved his hands.
"No! Everyone who enters our casino wins or loses based entirely on luck. We do not restrict customers from winning money."
If the label of allowing losses but forbidding wins got slapped on them and spread around with embellishments, the casino's reputation would be utterly ruined. Who would still come here to gamble...?
"Then why aren't you getting the dealer over here to start another round?" Sephiroth countered.
As soon as he said that, the gamblers watching the commotion began clamoring as well.
"Start the