There were no pirate flags, no Marine insignias. Just who were these people?
Just as the pirates were wavering in uncertainty, a sneer came from one of Mock Town's buildings.
Bang! A gunshot rang out, accompanied by billowing smoke from atop a building in Mock Town.
A sniper who had somehow climbed onto the roof attacked them without hesitation.
"Hey, isn't that a bit too much?" Michael adjusted his top hat. At some point, he had already taken the rifle off his back and fired a shot.
Everyone clearly saw two iron pellets burst into sparks in midair, then alter their trajectories. One flew into the sky and vanished, while the other struck the dirt, leaving only a small hole.
"Ah, so that's how it is." Only then did Leo remember that Mock Town had quite a few capable pirates.
For example, "Mad Dog" Bellamy, the Spring-Spring Fruit user with a bounty of over fifty million Beli, used Mock Town as his base. He constantly recruited fresh blood for the Donquixote Family or hunted down wanted pirates to hone his strength and earn bounties, building a greater reputation so Doflamingo would regard him more highly.
And another group—the Blackbeard Pirates—had actually encountered the Straw Hat Pirates in Mock Town as well.
At this point, the Blackbeard Pirates definitely had not yet been formed. Teach was still bitterly waiting for the Dark-Dark Fruit, but that did not mean his companions were not in Mock Town.
Capable people would not mingle with Baroque Works at Whiskey Peak, nor would they stay in a will-crushing pleasure den like Carnival City. In the end, they would gather in places like Mock Town and find someone worth serving.
Of the Blackbeard Pirates' original five members, it would be perfectly normal for one or two of