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After returning to the bar, "White Shark" Hamilton pointed at one of his men. "You, contact Mr. Mike and tell him the Blood Shark has been wiped out. Every member, including the captain, has been hunted down."

"Report that guy's name too. Have Mr. Mike come collect the bodies as soon as possible, confirm them or go through whatever other procedures are needed, then pay out the bounty quickly."

With that, the tall, fat man strode toward the stairs leading to the second floor.

Behind the bar, the bartender said blankly, "It was actually true? That guy not only hunted down the captain, first mate, and second mate, but killed every pirate on the whole ship?"

"What a terrifying man."

"What?"

"Who did you say hunted down an entire ship's worth of pirates?" The freckled girl with twin ponytails pushed herself upright, staring drunkenly at the bartender.

In his room on the second floor of the bar, Hamilton walked over to a gray-white safe and crouched down. He pried up the floorboards in front of it and turned some kind of mechanism, causing a hidden door to appear in the wall.

Hamilton opened the secret door. Behind it were three concealed compartments. The top held documents and receipts, the middle contained weapons such as revolvers and new-style half-arm guns, while the bottom was stuffed with a complicated black machine.

He took out the black machine, carried it to the table, found a codebook, and used the machine to send a telegram far away.

"Blood Shark Quinte has been taken out. It was done by a man named Rayleigh!"

After having "White Shark" Hamilton collect the bounty for him, Sifa returned to the inn, collapsed onto the bed, and fell asleep.

He did not wake until around noon.

After washing up,