This pirate crew certainly lived up to their "Head-Hunting" name. Skull-shaped decorations were everywhere on the ship, and... some of them were probably made from the real thing.
The figurehead, on the other hand, was surprisingly not a skull, but a creature with a wolf's head and a fish's body... probably some kind of sea beast from the West Blue.
"Let's leave the looting to those two little guys," Xie Wen said to Ottilia after looking around. "We'll find some rope first and tie these pirates up."
Actually, the quickest method would have been to finish these pirates off directly, but with Klee Meow around, Xie Wen didn't want to make the scene too bloody. Although Klee Meow herself might not have cared much, Xie Wen still consciously kept it in check.
Of course, that didn't mean Xie Wen intended to let these people go. There were indeed a few "adventurers" like Luffy among pirates, but the Head-Hunting Pirates certainly weren't among them. So he planned to pick out everyone worth a bounty later, then sink the rest along with their ship to feed the fish at the bottom of the sea.
After he had tied up a few pirates, one of them actually showed signs of waking up, probably because Xie Wen had moved him a little too roughly...
It was probably because Klee Meow's earlier messing around had wasted some time. Otherwise, never mind Xie Wen moving them a little roughly-even slapping them hard across the face wouldn't have woken these pirates so easily.
Don't ask how Xie Wen knew. If you did, the answer was that he had participated in the entire development process of the Whoosh-Whoosh Bombs.
He shook his head hard a few times to drive those awful memories out of his mind. As he