Shocking News of a Broken Keel at the Harbor, Secret Contact and Dark Bird Shadows in a Hidden Room! (Part Two)

Iceburg sat in his chair and let out a long breath. His shoulders, tense for five years, finally relaxed a little. He opened a drawer, took out a handgun hidden inside, and tucked it behind his waist.

Tonight was destined to be a sleepless night.

At the harbor's official currency exchange, Nami looked at the figures in the ledger, her eyes shining like glowing Beli.

Sure enough, the exchange marked in the handbook took no cut and charged no fees. Its exchange rate was a full thirty percent higher than the black market's, and after exchanging the Beli left over from Alabasta, they actually had nearly two million more.

"Oh my god! This handbook is so useful!" Nami bounced up with the ledger in her arms and securely locked the exchanged Beli in her backpack. "If I'd known something this good existed, we wouldn't have had to get ripped off by those crooks on the other islands!"

Sanji leaned beside the counter and smiled as he handed Nami a glass of freshly bought juice. "As long as you're happy, Miss Nami. I just asked the market's shopkeepers. The ingredient shops marked in the handbook really do have the freshest, cheapest goods in all of Water 7. Even the prices match the handbook exactly."

Luffy lay against the glass counter, staring at the candy inside, drool almost spilling from his mouth, only for Nami to drive him back with a glare.

Zoro stood at the exchange's entrance, his gaze sweeping over two men across the street. They wore ordinary shipwrights' clothes, but their strides and the way they held their hands at their waists clearly marked them as professionally trained killers. Their eyes remained on Luffy's group without the slightest attempt to hide it.

Zoro silently gripped Wado Ichimonji's hilt. Just