"Y-you, who are you?! Where are my men?!"
When Xie Wen jumped down from Explorer One, the burly, bizarre-looking bald man leading the pirates who surrounded him shouted his questions.
Xie Wen ignored his pointless questions and simply took out a stack of wanted posters, finding the one with the man's photograph...
"Linde Suwak, nicknamed 'Greatsword Strongman,' bounty: fifty-three million Beli... You're worth a fair bit."
The average bounty for pirate captains in West Blue was around thirty million Beli. Suwak's was nearly twice that, making him the pirate with the highest bounty Xie Wen had encountered so far...
Of course, that was without counting Chinjao and Bege, who had yet to come into his own.
Next, Xie Wen looked at the two-handed sword on Suwak's back. Since its hilt was wrapped in strips of cloth, he could not confirm whether it was Kentaur, one of the Twenty-One Great Grade Swords. But according to the information Morgans had provided, Suwak often used this sword to cut his opponents' weapons in half during battle, something a Famous Sword of Skillful Grade Sword quality certainly could not easily accomplish...
Unless he was also a swordsman who had mastered "cutting steel," but no matter how Xie Wen looked at Suwak, he did not seem like someone who would seriously study swordsmanship.
"So you're a Bounty Hunter?" Hearing Xie Wen mutter to himself, Suwak gave a cruel smile, pointed at him, and asked, "Boys, another fool who doesn't know his limits has delivered himself to our doorstep. Who wants to take him down?"
Although Xie Wen seemed to have just dealt with a dozen or so of his men, they had only been weak lackeys to begin with. Naturally, Suwak did not think Xie Wen was particularly strong. Besides...
There were far too many