One Piece: The Shadow Mastermind
Chapter 96

Tremor-Tremor Fruit

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Hades sat alone inside the tavern.

He quietly sipped his wine while Titan stood guard outside.

The Rocks Pirate Army from the Four Seas and the first half of the Grand Line was still on its way back.

A grand banquet was a must, but it would have to wait until they returned.

The spoils were already being divided. Pirates poured into the Exchange House, trading their share of the treasure for Beli.

Gold, jewels, antiques, and even Famous Swords and Devil Fruits passed through the Exchange House into the Kronos Kingdom.

On Hachinosu Island, only the Exchange House under Hades's control could handle that much treasure.

After all, the Kronos Kingdom stood behind it.

The Kronos Kingdom had prepared in advance, supplying thirty billion Beli in cash.

Dove personally guarded that enormous sum.

He kept it in the space within his body.

No one could take it from him.

This time, the Rocks Pirates' haul came from no fewer than eleven World Government Member States.

Thirty billion Beli alone might not be enough.

The Kingdom was now gathering as much money as it could, transferring over the Beli earned through trade across the Four Seas.

Some of the treasures and antiques held little value to pirates, but nobles, wealthy buyers, and collectors would see them as rare finds.

Sold to the right buyers, they could fetch unimaginable prices.

The Kronos Kingdom had the connections to send them to auctions across the Four Seas and turn an even greater profit.

As the Exchange House settled into its operations, professionals arrived to run it.

Such a well-organized Exchange House looked out of place somewhere as chaotic as Hachinosu.

Yet pirates welcomed it more than the Exchange Houses that had belonged to the Underground Forces.

Had the times left Kosa behind?

No.

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