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Chapter 404 Your warships have been requisitioned by our Baroque Works!

Aokiji is overthinking it.

What Uehara Naraku did next was really not dangerous at all. On the contrary, it was even quite leisurely. What danger could there be in wandering around a beginner's village?

After they parted ways, each continued on their own path to their destination. Uehara Naraku also checked his reward for defeating Aokiji.

Side Quest: Defeat Marine Admiral Aokiji (1/1). Quest complete. Rewards: 150000 Life Energy, 150000 Armament Haki, and 150000 Observation Haki.

Side Quest: Recruit a subordinate of general rank (1/1). Quest completed. Reward: 100000 Life Energy, 100000 Armament Haki, and 100000 Observation Haki.

It feels really good to have a cheat code.

Uehara Naraku slowly glanced at his doubled stats before turning his attention to the next somewhat peculiar task.

Hidden Quest: Bring warmth to the coldest people in the world (1/1). Quest complete. Fixed reward: Spirit Contract Ice Phoenix Anivia.

Summoning Contract Ice Crystal Phoenix: Summons Anivia to participate in the battle, consuming 10000 life energy points.

This system is pretty good.

They can even come up with things like fixed rewards.

Uehara Naraku couldn't help but want to praise his system a little. Was it because Aokiji was a bird that he was rewarded with this ice bird summoning contract?

Anyway, he didn't lose out.

Uehara Naraku's gaze fell on Nico Robin, who seemed to be preoccupied and had no idea what she had brought to her boss.

Thanks to the presence of Uehara Naraku as their navigator, they didn't need to avoid any adverse weather conditions and quickly reached the end of their voyage.

Whiskey Peak.

This place used to be home to many bounty hunters, most of whom worked under the control of Baroque Works. However, they were recently attacked by a powerful pirate, and many of them were driven away.

However, after that pirate left, the bounty hunters returned to the area and continued their previous work, which was to swindle rookie pirates who were just entering the Grand Line.

"Deceiving those pirates..."

Looking at the town below Whiskey Mountain, Uehara Naraku couldn't help but feel a sense of wistful longing: "Speaking of which, we're all the same kind of people! I also enjoy deceiving pirates... With so many like-minded people here, life in the future will definitely be very interesting."

"..."

Nico Robin's eyes twitched.

No, you are different from them.

These guys are only fooling pirates with bounties of a few million or tens of millions of Berries at most, but you're directly fooling a Shichibukai...

Furthermore, these bounty hunters deceived the pirates simply because they wanted to kill them cleanly and efficiently; Uehara Naraku deceived Crocodile purely because he was afraid Crocodile would die too easily…

"From now on, this will be where we make a living."

Uehara Naraku's eyes darkened again, and he continued in a low voice, "If we want to leave here in the future, we'll probably have to wait until Mr. Crocodile transfers us back."

These words sounded somewhat resentful.

Kisame Hoshigaki and Nico Robin couldn't help but want to write down a tragic word for Crocodile in advance.

"that…"

Nico Robin tossed her hair and said softly, "Mr. Naraku and Mr. Kisame are also free to move around, because I'm basically in charge of Baroque Works' affairs, and Crocodile rarely gets involved..."

Before she could finish speaking, Nicole Robin regretted it.

Why not just get those two to stay peacefully at Whiskey Peak?

Whiskey Peak is so small, what trouble could Uehara Naraku possibly cause here? If we let the two of them roam freely, who knows what kind of chaos they could create on the high seas!

"Then why are we still stopping here?"

Upon hearing that he didn't need to stay there to gain Crocodile's trust, Uehara Naraku's expression immediately changed: "These bounty hunters are so unskilled at lying. I can't be bothered with them. Let's set sail for Reverse Mountain immediately! We're going to the East Blue!"

"How ruthless of them to turn their backs on you..."

Nicole Robin couldn't help but rub her forehead.

Weren't we just supposed to be getting along well with these bounty hunters?

Nico Robin looked at Uehara Naraku and couldn't help but sigh, saying, "Mr. Naraku, you don't go through Reverse Mountain to reach the Four Seas from the Grand Line."

Because of ocean currents, if one wants to return to the seas from the Grand Line, besides abandoning the ship and climbing the Red Line, one must find a way to cross the dangerous Calm Belt…

This danger is relative.

The most dangerous creatures in the Calm Belt are the Sea Kings, monsters that are hundreds or even thousands of meters long and can easily tear any ship apart.

For Uehara Naraku and Kisame Hoshigaki, encountering a Sea King wasn't really a big problem.

Unless they encounter a sea king several kilometers in size, other sea kings are really not a threat to them...

Of course, even a sea king several thousand meters long is just another dish to Uehara Naraku, who possesses the complete Susanoo.

They stopped at Whiskey Peak for a day.

Nicole Robin dealt with the situation here, reassigned a few former employees of Baroque Works, and then the three of them left for the Calm Belt.

Calm zone.

A naval warship was moving slowly, as there was no sea breeze in the doldrums and it could only move forward by its own power.

For the navy, crossing the doldrums is not dangerous.

This is because the naval warship has Seastone placed beneath it, which allows the entire warship to blend in with the sea and avoid attracting the attention of sea kings.

The navy personnel on these warships dared not be careless in the slightest. After all, the existence of Seastone might not attract the attention of Sea Kings, but that did not mean they would not happen to encounter wandering Sea Kings. Therefore, a naval sentry was on the ship keeping watch and observing, vigilant for the appearance of Sea Kings.

Just as it was getting hot, the naval soldier suddenly felt a gentle breeze brush against his cheek from behind. He couldn't help but exclaim in surprise, "Hey, is there a breeze?"

The next moment, he suddenly realized!

This is a doldrums, how could there be any wind here!

When the naval soldier turned his head sharply, he saw a small boat sailing with its sails billowing, moving very fast with the wind!

"Colonel Tina, the wind is picking up!"

"Colonel Tina, there's a ship!"

The naval soldiers on the entire warship sprang into action, standing on the deck and watching the small boat speed up and eventually get closer to them.

The highest-ranking officer on this warship is a Marine Headquarters Captain named Tina, who is also a Paramecia-type Devil Fruit user with the Cage-Cage Fruit ability.

A sexy woman with long pink hair stepped out; she was Colonel Tina, the commander of the warship.

The beautiful colonel pushed up her sunglasses, somewhat surprised as she felt the sea breeze: "A calm zone... how can there be wind... Tina has never seen anything like this before..."

"Perhaps it was the people on that small boat who were behind it!"

A naval soldier stood beside her, pointing intently at the small boat that was getting closer and closer to the warship: "Captain Tina, what kind of Devil Fruit power is that?"

"Tina... doesn't know."

The beautiful colonel hesitated and shook her head. Her gaze slowly fell on the small boat, where she saw the three people on board.

a woman.

A man.

A fish-man.

"Colonel Tina!"

The person next to him also saw the three people, and he immediately recalled the wanted posters issued not long ago: "Nico Robin, the Devil's Child, with a bounty of 80 million Berries; Kisame Hoshigaki, the Shark Man, with a bounty of 15 million Berries; and that pirate with a bounty of 8 million Berries!"

"..."

When Tina saw the weakest pirate on the small boat waving and smiling at her with narrowed eyes, a look of anger suddenly appeared on the beautiful colonel's face!

Tina immediately gave the order to attack the small boat: "Grab them! They don't seem like bad people, but they have indeed broken the law!"

This Captain Tina certainly doesn't know that Admiral Aokiji was recently beaten to a pulp by someone she considers the weakest... Even if Captain Tina did know, she would still launch an attack without hesitation!

On the small boat.

Nico Robin sat in a chair reading a book, while Naraku Uehara and Kisame Hoshigaki leisurely sipped juice. It was the gale he created that propelled the small boat forward in the calm zone.

When passing by naval warships.

Uehara Naraku also saw the sexy female colonel with long pink hair on the warship, and he even gave her a bright and cheerful smile.

Just when they thought the chance encounter was about to end, a series of black spears suddenly attacked the small boat!

That was created by the power of the Paramecia-type Cage-Cage Fruit!

These black spears were all as hard as steel and were fired from cannons, making them easy to pierce through the small boat!

Kisame Hoshigaki immediately put down his juice, clasped his hands together, and quickly formed hand seals, trying to stop their small boat from being destroyed!

"Oh well, never mind!"

Uehara Naraku grabbed Kisame's arm, shook his head, and said, "It's not worth it for this little boat. Since they're offering to give us a boat, let's get another one!"

Uehara Naraku was also preparing a large ship to raid the East Blue, but the ship was indeed too small; it might not even be able to fit Nami's orange tree!

Upon hearing Uehara Naraku speak, Nico Robin instinctively looked up, a series of question marks on her face. What kind of inhuman words were these?

next moment.

The small boat was instantly pierced by a series of black iron spears!

The warships chasing the small boat took this opportunity to catch up. Marine Headquarters Captain Tina, a cigarette dangling from her lips, was about to announce the arrest of Uehara Naraku and his crew: "Tina announces that you pirates are…"

"Your warships have been requisitioned by our Baroque Works."

On the small boat, Uehara Naraku interrupted Tina, taking a deep gulp of his juice and glaring at the naval captain with a dark expression: "I never expected anyone to dare attack someone from Baroque Works on this high seas!"

and also…

(End of this chapter)