"Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang-!"
Sent flying by Xie Wen's slash, Cracker smashed through an entire row of buildings beside the harbor before finally crashing into a construction site piled with stone, where he was buried beneath the rocks.
Fortunately, before the two had started fighting, the nearby residents had already sensed trouble and evacuated. Only a few reporters willing to risk their lives for news and information remained, hiding off to the side and cautiously snapping away with their cameras.
Xie Wen ignored those "colleagues" and followed the "passage" Cracker had smashed open to reach him.
After picking up Pretzel from where it had fallen nearby, Xie Wen used it to push aside the rubble, revealing the already unconscious Cracker...
Although this guy had said at the start that whoever beat him could turn him in for the bounty...
The photo on Cracker's Wanted Poster showed his biscuit soldier form. Whether the Marines would recognize his real body was another matter.
Besides, doing that would thoroughly offend Big Mom. Xie Wen still wanted to visit Totto Land someday to see the rare and exotic creatures she had collected and expand the monster encyclopedia in his Hunter's Notes.
But simply letting him go felt like a bit of a loss... If the Hunter's Knife were guaranteed to yield loot, he would have stabbed him with it straight away. The problem was that its drop rate was far too low...
Oh, right. That birdman Morgans was on pretty good terms with Big Mom.
Xie Wen rubbed his chin and thought for quite a while before deciding to call his "boss" first and discuss it with him.
So he returned Fresh Knife: White Calm to his back, then headed back aboard the Toot Toot Forward, carrying Pretzel in one hand and