Fear rapidly spread among the fish-men. In the end, this guy was actually doing it all for money!!!
Law had already started working below. Uchiha Hikaru turned to look at the merfolk behind him, only for the movement to be met with countless terrified screams. The merfolk scattered, leaping off the deck and diving into the sea.
"?" Hikaru had no idea what had happened. He swept the area with his senses and found nothing unusual. He simply could not understand why the merfolk had become even more terrified after all the pirates had been dealt with.
In truth, Hikaru did not know that his vaguely worded order for Law to round up the pirates so they could be exchanged for bounties had made the fish-men think he wanted to capture them and sell them again.
Heaven and earth bear witness, this was a huge misunderstanding!
"What's going on?" Even Law had noticed the commotion aboard the ship. He thought some formidable figure had arrived again.
Hikaru jumped down from the pirate ship, somewhat baffled. "No idea. Maybe those timid fish-men suddenly lost their minds?"
"Oh!" Law had heard that fish-men were sensitive, so he did not pay it much mind and continued with his work. As the first person to join Uchiha Hikaru's side, Law had the self-awareness of a subordinate and felt no resistance toward Hikaru assigning him tasks.
Hikaru took in all these details and raised his evaluation of Law another notch.
After rounding up all the pirates, there were more than four hundred of them. Along with two enormous pirate ships loaded with countless supplies, one look was enough for Hikaru to know that this was a very professional pirate crew. They must have robbed and plundered countless times to amass so much treasure.
But since