Chapter 147: Fleet (13)
Chapter 146: Fleet
Nami had not been wrong. If nothing unexpected happened, they would have been able to eat at the 153rd Branch by evening.
Unfortunately, on the East Blue, weather was not the only limitation. Sometimes, pirates were as well.
To be honest, pirates in the East Blue had narrow horizons, which made them all the more arrogant.
People like Buggy, who had once sailed on the same ship as Red-Haired, were one thing. He was genuinely humble and knew his own limits. That was why he could throw his weight around in the East Blue without fearing even someone as powerful as Krieg. Basically, even if Buggy ran into Arlong in the East Blue, Arlong would not have posed much of a threat to him.
But apart from people like Buggy and Arlong, who had come from the Grand Line and knew their own limits, most pirates had no idea what they were worth.
In the East Blue, where even pirates with bounties over ten million were few and far between, a pirate worth a few million was enough to boast about. Yet after fighting their way across the sea, Luffy and his crew had somehow become the biggest pirates in the entire East Blue. A bounty of thirty million Beli was already the highest bounty in the East Blue.
That was absurd.
A pirate crew like East Blue Admiral Krieg's, with Krieg's seventeen-million bounty plus Ogre Akainu's twelve-million bounty, was enough to make them swell with unbearable arrogance.
And Krieg liked big ships, lots of men, and heavy firepower.
That could not be called wrong. At least in the East Blue, it was the most correct decision possible.
The East Blue Marines were not strong. On average, each Marine base had only two