The white anti-eavesdropping Den Den Mushi soon arrived in Xie Wen's hands.
He did not feel much about it, but Klee Meow loved these little creatures. She usually took care of feeding the Den Den Mushi, and having another one delighted Little Plushie.
Along with the anti-eavesdropping Den Den Mushi came a special correspondent's press pass, which clearly carried more "prestige" than the one Xie Wen had been given before.
After putting away his new press pass, Xie Wen connected the wiretapping Den Den Mushi, and then...
He traded Uncle Cody's identity for the location of another Famous Sword.
He did not feel particularly guilty about it. Although Uncle Cody had indeed taken good care of him during their time together, he was a CP Agent, after all. Who knew how much of it had been an act? Besides, Xie Wen did not think Morgans would go around spreading Cody's identity, so all he had done was trade a piece of information that affected practically no one for... well... some essentially useless intelligence...
Who knew whether that birdman Morgans had done it on purpose.
The Famous Sword was in the possession of a major at a West Blue branch, so unless Xie Wen wanted a bounty on his head, that sword was basically out of reach.
Morgans also told Xie Wen that this was the last Famous Sword in West Blue with a confirmed location. Everything else was unverified Schrödinger's information, or outdated information about swords whose exact whereabouts had once been known but which had since been taken by someone else.
There was nothing to be done about it, though. There were only eighty-three swords on the Famous Sword list in total, and that included the twelve Supreme Grade Swords, which were rarer than Devil Fruits and almost never