The one in the black feather coat wore a cold, stern expression. That was Rossi; the one in the pink feather coat smiled. That was Doffy.
"Catch either one of them, and the Gold-Gold Fruit is yours."
"And the runner-up needn't lose heart. Two billion Beli will be waiting for him."
Gamenio held the microphone in one hand and scooped a handful of gold coins from the pile beside him with the other.
The coins slipped between his fingers, falling back with a bright clatter.
"I've put prices on the tails following that family, too... very generous prices."
The island instantly ignited.
"Charge-"
"Here's our chance to get rich!"
"Kill them-"
All they had to do was take those people's heads, and wealth, status, lavish feasts... everything they craved would be within reach.
The entire island roared.
"Get them!!!"
"One officer is worth over a hundred million..."
"That fruit that controls gold... is mine!"
There was never any shortage of desperadoes when enormous bounties were involved.
Besides, this was no longer an ordinary "generous reward"
but mountains of coins being hurled straight into everyone's faces.
Everyone understood that anyone who could make this place's ruler offer such an astronomical price would be no easy opponent.
But this was two billion.
Even among the legendary pirates of the New World, only a handful had bounties exceeding five or six hundred million.
And the ruler of this island, "Thousand Faces"
Gamenio, had a bounty of only three hundred million Beli himself.
Just what had those Donquixote brothers done to drive Gamenio almost mad with rage?
No one looked into it.
Finding them and exchanging their heads for the bounty was all that mattered now.
So when Rossi and his companions stepped ashore, they were greeted by "enthusiastic"
welcomes pouring in from