Time passed, and by noon the next day,
Lucci and Kaku, who had gone to solidify relations with the underground forces within the Ilusia Kingdom and on several surrounding islands, finally returned, weary from travel.
Lucci still wore that cold expression as he concisely recounted the process and results. After finishing his report, he seemed to remember something, pulled a folded sheet of paper from his pocket, and casually tossed it toward Dawn.
The paper spun through Kong, only to be caught by an invisible force. It then unfolded smoothly and hovered before Dawn.
It was a bounty poster.
A black-and-white photograph took up most of the page. It was Dawn himself, seemingly caught in a candid shot during one of his appearances at the harbor, from a tricky angle.
Beneath the photograph was a striking line of capital letters:
DEAD OR ALIVE
HERMAN
฿70,000,000
"My first bounty is seventy million Beli?"
"Heh. The same starting price as Teacher Kaido. Not bad."
"It seems the World Government's vast intelligence machine isn't omnipotent either. Even the esteemed Lord Imu, no matter how deeply he hates the David Clan, probably can't remember every face carrying that bloodline."
From the name and bounty amount on the poster, he could infer two things:
First, his true name had not been exposed. The World Government had only traced the name he used as a cover. In their current assessment, he was merely a rising pirate overlord who posed a considerable threat within the Four Seas.
Second, his dual Devil Fruit abilities had not been exposed. He was certain that if the World Government knew he possessed two Devil Fruit abilities, the bounty could never have been the modestly friendly sum of seventy million Beli.
Before gaining sufficient strength, he had no intention of revealing that