More than a month had passed since they had beaten up Kid and obtained the Tiger Fruit. During that time, Xie Wen had heard scattered bits of news about the Kid Pirates.
The Worst Generation certainly lived up to its name. Although Link Meow had thrashed him not long ago, Kid had still made quite a name for himself over the past month or so. Some people had even begun calling him "the strongest rookie in South Blue in nearly ten years."
On the latest Wanted Poster Xie Wen had obtained, his bounty had already reached thirty million Beli, while his first mate Killer's was fifteen million Beli...
Well, it looked like credit for Simmons's head had still gone to Xie Wen, who had turned him in for the bounty. Otherwise, those two should have had higher bounties.
Even so, the increase in Kid's bounty was already astonishing. Outside the Grand Line in particular, pirate bounty increases were extremely conservative. It felt as though the Navy did it deliberately, to get pirates who wanted to make a name for themselves to hurry off to the Grand Line and fight other pirates to the death.
Of course, it was also possible that local Navy branches did not want to shoulder the responsibility and concealed things in their reports, causing headquarters to make errors when "setting prices."
Based on Xie Wen's travels so far, he could not say about West Blue and South Blue, but that really did seem possible in East Blue...
Shaking his head, Xie Wen put down Kid's Wanted Poster. He could not be bothered to wonder what that bunch in the Navy were thinking. He looked up at the little tabby watching the wind from the mast and asked, "Huamei, where are we headed next?"
Hua Mei Meow