Kokurus

Just as Sengoku was preparing for the worst in the coming incident at the Sabaody Archipelago...

The scene shifted to the Sabaody Archipelago.

The Slave Auction House.

Kuta pulled aside the curtain before him. A wave of heat, cheers, and greed so thick in the air that it was impossible to miss struck him head-on. He paused slightly and glanced at the distant stage, a flicker of murderous intent appearing in his Azure Eyes, too subtle for ordinary people to notice. Then he led the way inside.

As far as he knew, this Slave Auction House belonged to Doflamingo, one of the Shichibukai.

Of course, its earnings were nothing compared to what he made selling arms.

But this place allowed him to make contact with the Celestial Dragons. Even though he had once been one himself, and even though he was now a Shichibukai, he had to admit that dealing with the Celestial Dragons could sometimes make his arms business much easier.

Because not all Celestial Dragons were useless.

Many Celestial Dragon families actually had businesses of their own, and he could use this place to develop further partnerships with them.

The World Government collected enormous sums from affiliated nations around the world every year, but most of that money actually went toward military expenses and various research projects. Very little of it ended up in the Celestial Dragons' hands.

Well!

"Very little" was only relative to them. If that money fell into an ordinary person's hands, it would be a staggering fortune they might never spend in an entire lifetime.

If they wanted to laze around, live in luxury, or buy and sell slaves, that money was certainly enough.

But if they had ambitions and wanted to gain greater power even among the Celestial Dragons, things were not so