Soon, another round of exclamations rang out aboard the ship.
"Wow! That's our Hayes for you. Your very first bounty, and it's already over a hundred million!"
"Too low, way too low. Hayes is worth more than that. The Marines must be deliberately keeping his bounty down again."
"Good thing we're already in the New World. If we were in the Four Blues or the first half of the Grand Line, Hayes's first bounty could never have topped a hundred million Beli."
Hayes waved a hand, a faint smile on his face, and said modestly, "It's not bad. There's nothing really wrong with the bounty the Marines gave me. I'm only a little stronger when I'm in the sea."
Hayes had a clear understanding of his own strength. Without the sea boosting him, he really was only worth a little over a hundred million Beli, not much different from the Supernovas of previous years.
Just then, Shiryu spotted his own wanted poster and fumed, "Damn it! Why did my bounty only go up by five million Beli?!"
"Count yourself lucky. Look at me! I'm the worst off here. My bounty is still only eighty thousand Beli!"
"They're looking down on me! I'm really strong too! Boo-hoo..."
Thinking of how her head was worth only eighty thousand Beli, a certain navigator shed tears of envy, jealousy, and resentment.
Everyone looked at her skinny arms and legs and found her claim that she was "really strong too" rather questionable.
It wasn't that they looked down on Lina. With that little frame of hers, she probably couldn't even beat an elite Marine. The Marines had only raised her bounty to eighty thousand Beli out of respect for the Devil Pirates.
Ahem. Of course, Captain Bullet was already planning a training program to make