"Leave it here. I'll look at it later." Kizaru waved a hand and spoke to his adjutant.
Kizaru's adjutant nodded, placed the documents on the desk, then added:
"One more thing. Someone claiming to represent the bounty hunters flew over from Reverse Mountain just now. He hopes we'll let these bounty hunters through Reverse Mountain and into the East Blue to deal with the pirates."
"Oh?" His adjutant's words piqued Kizaru's interest, and he said:
"If they want to go to the East Blue, let them. It's already chaotic enough there anyway. Adding them won't make it much worse, as long as the patrol fleets don't kill them by mistake."
The pirates who had broken through the blockade and entered the East Blue yesterday were no pushovers. Kizaru had reservations about whether these bounty hunters could handle them.
Ever since the world's top powers had risen, bounty hunting as a profession had declined many times over. After all, every power handled public security within its own territory.
Just as in Lind's past life, only places chaotic enough offered mercenaries room to survive.
Now, leaving aside powers like the Oran Empire that already maintained strict control, even the World Government and the Marines, whose management had originally been very loose, had tightened security considerably within their jurisdictions.
Although countless pirates still set sail every year, most could hardly make any waves and had no choice but to go into hiding.
The dwindling number of jobs and the growing difficulty of finding targets had also made earning a living much harder for pirate hunters around the world.
Many pirate hunters had retired from the trade and sought other livelihoods as a result. Some had directly joined major powers like the Oran Empire, some had become military commanders in various kingdoms, and others