A Gamble for Treasure

Under cover of night, they transported the Poneglyph out of the estate and placed it inside the ark.

"Have you deciphered it yet?"

The next morning, Rogge found Ham. Ham had only just woken up, and he nodded. "There was nothing much to find. It recorded a love story about a man named Joy Boy and the princess of Fish-Man Island. The two of them seemed to have made some sort of promise, but in the end, they never made it to the Holy Church. I really don't understand why a Poneglyph would record a story like that."

"I see." Rogge smiled. Ham probably hadn't seen the Poneglyph from Fish-Man Island, so he didn't know what the two of them represented.

Rogge didn't explain. After eating and drinking their fill, they headed for Fish-Man Island. They had to wait for the recording to be stored, and in the meantime, there was somewhere else they needed to go.

In an underground black market in St. Poplar, Carnival City, one of the catalysts during the Water 7 arc had been the Franky Family stealing two hundred million Beli from Usopp and taking it to the black market to buy Adam Wood.

This large black market could be called the biggest black market in the entire first half of the sea, and it was located in St. Poplar, Carnival City. They were only going there to look around and had no particular goal.

The last time they had visited Jaya Island, they had seen a traveling black market and found quite a few interesting things. Now that they had encountered a large, permanent black market, they naturally couldn't miss it. There might even be something Rogge and the others were interested in.

With Carl, a local expert, leading them, they entered the black