Confident Brother What-If

A quarter of an hour later, Dawn and his group arrived at the entrance to Rip-off Bar in the GR 13 mangrove zone.

The bar stood on a gentle slope surrounded by lush grass. A battered sign hung above its entrance. It looked utterly ordinary, yet it was the place with the most hidden masters in the entire Sabaody Archipelago.

Two figures lay prone in the grass on the slope, their entire bodies tense as they hardly dared to breathe.

They were bounty hunters from the Sabaody Archipelago, specializing in targeting passing pirates to earn a bit of bounty money.

And Dawn's bounty was the highest in the entire sea, enough to drive any bounty hunter mad.

One of them, a bounty hunter in a black top hat with a bushy beard, clenched the trigger of his Flintlock tightly. His eyes were locked on Dawn as he approached at a leisurely pace, and his throat bobbed.

"Damn... it's Dawn! The world's most wanted criminal! What if... what if I kill him? I'll become famous overnight! I'll never have to worry about food or drink for the rest of my life!"

His companion turned pale with fright and hurriedly grabbed him, lowering his voice.

"Are you crazy?! Stop dreaming! That's the world's most wanted criminal! He won't be that easy to deal with! We need to leave! Don't get yourself killed!"

"Get lost!"

The bushy-bearded bounty hunter had already been blinded by the enormous reward. He violently shook off his companion's hand, raised his Flintlock, aimed the barrel at Dawn's back, and pulled the trigger without hesitation!

"Boom!"

The instant the gunshot rang out.

Three overwhelmingly terrifying bursts of Conqueror's Haki erupted without warning from Dawn, Hancock, and Yamato like three exploding volcanoes!

Three bolts of black lightning intertwined in midair