"Buru buru buru..."
Some time after they left the battlefield, the Den Den Mushi Morgans had given Xie Wen began to ring.
As soon as the call connected, Morgans's wildly exuberant laughter came through the Den Den Mushi's mouth. "Hahahahaha! Xie Wen, you've really done something huge! This is big news worthy of the main edition's front page! If nothing else major happens soon, it might even make the lead headline!"
"Huh?" Xie Wen paused, then checked the pirates' bounties. "Aren't you exaggerating a little? Not one of those pirates had a bounty over a hundred million. That's enough to make the front-page headline?"
"..."
Morgans was speechless for quite a while before explaining to Xie Wen with mixed feelings, "Their highest bounty was only... pfft! No, I mean, it was over eighty million... that doesn't sound right either..."
After struggling with it for a moment, he simply skipped over that headache-inducing phrasing and continued, "Anyway, their bounties weren't low by Paradise standards, and more than a dozen pirate crews were wiped out at once, after all. Their combined bounties were a sizable sum, too. Of course it's enough for the front page. Whether it gets the lead headline depends on the circumstances."
When it came to the news, Morgans was always meticulous, and he stressed the matter of news placement once again.
"But didn't you take them out a little too quickly? By the time the people I sent arrived, all that was left was a pile of wreckage from their pirate ships." Morgans finally got to the reason for his call. "So, can you tell me how you finished them off in such a short time?"
For regularly held auctions like this, Morgans generally stationed reporters nearby to wait for the pirates' free-for-all afterward. After all, this sort