Werther had just stood up when a small, fair-skinned hand caught his sleeve.
"What, you want to keep playing? I have somewhere to be. You can carry on without me."
Stussy, the Queen of the Pleasure District, looked at Werther through alluring eyes.
"Lord Werther, I lost five hundred million Beli. If I go back like this, my girls and I will have nothing to live on."
Stussy had lost not only the billion Beli Werther had given her, but five hundred million of her own as well.
At this point, she really was at a loss.
Werther considered it. He had invited Stussy, after all, and he had not expected her to lose so much. She was shrewd, but her gambling skills were nothing special.
"Take it. And don't gamble at Sun Paradise again. This game isn't for you."
Werther pushed the chips in front of him over to Stussy. They were worth around nine hundred million Beli.
"Thank you, Lord Werther. You must come visit the Pleasure District sometime. I'll find some beautiful women to keep you company—free of charge~"
Werther chuckled, shook his head, and left the private room.
Before long, the room behind him grew lively again. Doffy had taken his place.
Standing in the corridor, Werther took out a Den Den Mushi.
He picked up the receiver, but the Den Den Mushi in his hand did not react.
There were only two possibilities: either its paired Den Den Mushi had died, or its receiver had been removed and it had been released into the wild.
Werther had merely wanted to test whether Ferdinand was really in trouble. Ferdinand was his business partner, but he was also a merchant.
And Ferdinand had a merchant's eye for profit.
"Looks like he really is in trouble. The seas