Crocodile's Bounty Is 890 Million

They weren't fools. They could work it out. The only sticking point was whether Mu Chen could handle Bullet and Crocodile. Mu Chen had said he could, so for now, that was that.

In the end, Crocodile's bounty was set at 890 million Beli. That was quite a favor to Mu Chen. There was little choice but to trust him, since the whole plan had been his idea.

The next day, a Navy announcement shocked the entire sea. To protect peace and stability, the Navy would establish the Seven Warlords of the Sea. The announcement boiled down to this: it would select the seven strongest people from among pirates, Pirate Hunters, and other groups to help keep the seas under control.

Whether they were pirates or belonged to some other faction, those chosen as Shichibukai would all be reclassified as adventurers. The Navy would not interfere in their affairs. Plenty of powerful people were eager to try. The promise of being counted among the "seven strongest" was tempting enough, and the Navy's hands-off policy made it even better. They didn't care about being called adventurers. A pirate was still a pirate; "adventurer" was just a nicer label. The pirates knew it wasn't meant for them. It was meant for ordinary people and the Navy itself.

The Whitebeard Pirates, Big Mom Pirates, and Beasts Pirates scoffed at the news. As Four Emperors, they had no reason to care. Without the Navy as an opponent, they might even feel at a loss. They had territories the Navy didn't dare enter, so the "seven strongest" was nothing but an empty title to them.

Crocodile, meanwhile, read the announcement with an amused look. Adventurers, huh? Heh. Whatever. But Mu Chen had been right about the Shichibukai after all.

Crocodile didn't care what they called