Seeing that Uchiha Kazama still showed no reaction, Arlong broke out in a cold sweat.
Why hadn't I agreed sooner?!
Now this guy clearly wasn't going to give me another chance...
"Patriarch, we've searched the entire area."
"We've brought everything over, too."
"Oh, and I found someone in one of the rooms in the back."
Uchiha Nagasawa appeared just then.
He was carrying a girl in one hand.
"Hmm?!"
Uchiha Kazama froze at the sight of her.
That was right. This girl was Nami!
"All right."
"For now, I'll agree to let you join our pirate crew."
"You'll stay here."
"We have some other business to handle. We'll come for you before we leave the East Blue."
After a moment's thought, Uchiha Kazama left those instructions and departed with the five Uchiha.
From the destruction of the base's front gate to Momoo being dragged out of the sea and beaten up,
and then to Uchiha Kazama leaving with his men,
the whole thing hadn't even taken ten minutes.
Nearly two hours after Uchiha Kazama and his men had left, Arlong still felt as though he'd stepped into another world.
It was like... he'd had an utterly ridiculous dream.
If not for Momoo lying on the ground with bumps all over his head, if not for his treasure vault having been stripped bare, if not for the lingering chill against his neck...
"Gulp..."
Arlong swallowed, finally recalling what Uchiha Kazama had said.
He put everything else aside for now.
The Buggy Pirates had actually grown into such a terrifying force.
And Buggy clearly hadn't been leading the group that came this time.
Then what about Buggy himself, their captain?!
At that thought, even Arlong, a fish-man, felt a chill run down his back!
He immediately jolted everyone awake by force, then