Claude Strife

"Xie Wen! Look, look~ There's a bounty on you too, meow!"

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Klee Meow held up a Wanted Poster of a heavily bearded version of Xie Wen, hopping back and forth in front of him.

"Thank you, Klee~" Xie Wen took the Wanted Poster and patted Little Plushie on the head as a reward. "Go play with Bonney and the others."

After sending Klee Meow off, Xie Wen picked up the Wanted Poster and took a look...

"Manticore" Claude Strife. Bounty: 120 million. Dead or alive.

It looked like the World Government's people had recognized Manticore as a renowned weapon from many years ago. Otherwise, they would not have given "Claude" that epithet.

That made sense. They were a power that had ruled this world for eight hundred years, after all. They must have kept records of these once-famous swords.

As for the name Claude Strife, Xie Wen had naturally told Bulldog to give it to the World Government. He was supposedly a guard Xie Wen had hired, after all.

In other words, the World Government had ultimately accepted the story Xie Wen and King Bulldog had agreed on beforehand...

Of course, they certainly still had their suspicions. But as long as Xie Wen did not bring out Manticore and Bonney's ability remained unexposed, the World Government would not put out a bounty on him, even if they were suspicious.

What was more...

Xie Wen had provided the photograph on the Wanted Poster himself.

This was something Hua Mei Meow had suddenly thought of afterward. Xie Wen was a Special Correspondent for the World Economy News Paper, after all. With something this big happening right around him, how could he pretend he knew nothing about it?

So, at Hua Mei Meow's suggestion, Xie Wen had Link Meow take a photograph