Pirates on Rocks' Ship 996

"Slap! Slap! Slap! Slap!" Reina raised her hand and slapped away several ghosts. Hogback, who was standing to the side, was really surprised. No one had ever been able to touch Perona's ghosts before.

"Tch~ Don't embarrass yourself by showing off something like this. If Moria doesn't come out soon, don't blame me for being impolite!" Reina glanced at Hogback and said softly.

"Please wait a moment, sir. I will go and inform Lord Moria right away!" Hogback said after a moment's thought.

The other party's origins are unknown, and even Perona can't do anything about them, so he'd better go and inform them.

On the second floor of the castle, on a Gothic-style princess bed, Perona slowly opened her eyes, then immediately pouted and said, "What a jerk~ What an annoying guy!"

He got out of bed and walked outside.

"Absalom~~Absalom~~Where the hell have you been? You're not cute at all!" Perona shouted as she walked around.

After a while, not far from Perona, a person slowly emerged from stealth.

"What? I knew you'd be here!" Perona pouted as she approached Absalom, who was slowly appearing.

"What? What do you want? I have something very important to do!" Absalom asked impatiently.

"Hmph~ What else can you do besides spying? There's a weird, annoying guy down there! Let's go teach him a lesson!" Perona said, slightly annoyed.

"Oh? A new person has arrived?" Absalom raised an eyebrow, saying with a hint of curiosity, "Then we really should go and check it out!"

So Absalom followed Perona and they walked together toward the hall.

But just as the two entered the hall, Absalom saw Reina sitting there leisurely drinking red wine. Just as he was about to reprimand him, Reina turned around.

Upon seeing Reina's appearance, Absalom was immediately stunned, sweat involuntarily soaking his back.

"Hey... what are you doing? You're not cute at all!" Perona, who was walking in front, didn't notice Absalom's strange behavior behind her and stormed towards Reina.

"Ah~ you're the one who used the ghost earlier, right? You're so cute!" Reina smiled slightly, raising his wine glass as he spoke.

"Hehehehehe... What's that~ Although you're not cute, you still have a sweet tongue! In that case, when I teach you a lesson later, I'll tell Absalom to go easy on you!" Perona said with a smile, holding a wine-red umbrella in one hand and covering her mouth with the other.

“Absalom? You mean that guy?” Reina then looked at the man who was standing still. The man had not yet undergone modification, so he still looked human, which made Reina not recognize him at first.

"You... how did you get here!" Absalom took a deep breath, trying to calm himself down before asking, his voice trembling slightly.

"Huh? You know him?" Before Reina could speak, Perona asked first.

"How could I not recognize you! The famous Akame, the great pirate with a bounty of 1.3 billion Berries, the vice-captain of the Whitebeard Pirates... Benedict D. Reyna! Why are you here?" Absalom asked with a stern face.

"1.3 billion Berries?" Perona's eyes widened in disbelief. She never expected that this seemingly ordinary man was actually a super pirate with a bounty of 1.3 billion Berries.

"Wait... what did you say? The vice-captain of the Whitebeard Pirates? Him? Are you sure you're not mistaken? How could someone like that be here? Did Lord Moria steal Whitebeard's man?" Pero finally realized what was happening and looked at Absalom in disbelief, asking.

“I can’t be wrong, he must be that Akame! That’s why I asked him… why he’s here!” Absalom shook his head and said.

Absalom is now the strongest henchman under Moonlight Moria. Although Perona's abilities are somewhat peculiar, she is not strong in direct combat.

But if Reina really joins in, let alone him, even Lord Gecko Moria might not be able to suppress him! After all, this person in front of us is no small fry!

"Ah~ don't be nervous, I was just passing by. This place seemed interesting, so I came to take a look!" Reina said with a smile, taking a sip of red wine.

"Hehehe... I really didn't expect you to come here! Tell me, what's the purpose of your visit?"

Just then, a tall man with a spiky, onion-like hairstyle, a devilish face with two horns on his forehead, and wearing a bat-collar shirt and Gothic-style clothing walked over. This man was none other than Moonlight Moria, the owner of the Thriller Bark, and behind him was Hogback, who had previously received Reina.

"Ah~ this really is your territory! I heard you disappeared after failing to challenge Kaido. I thought Kaido had already killed you!" Reina poured himself another glass of red wine, looked at Moria, and said with a smile.

Including Gecko Moria and Crocodile, they were all outstanding pirate supernovas in previous years. However, after entering the New World, they challenged some of the more powerful pirates in the New World, but failed and then disappeared.

Unlike them, Shanks, despite his own challenges, never failed and has now risen to prominence in the New World, becoming a powerful figure in his own right.

"Kaido..." Moria gritted his teeth as soon as he heard Reina mention Kaido. All of his crew members had died in the battle with Kaido, and only he himself had escaped.

After escaping, Moria realized the power of the pirates in the New World, so he left the New World and came to the first half of the Grand Line, a place known as Paradise in the New World.

"Hehehehe... Kaido... I'll go back one day, and then I'll show him what real pain is!" Moria said with a wicked laugh.

"With these scrawny bastards?" Reina tilted his head, glanced at Absalom and Hogback standing behind Moria, and said with a light laugh.

"Hehehehe... You would never understand what I'm about to do! Because to live is to lose..." Moria replied with an air of profound understanding.

Reina was speechless. Those zombies were no match for the strong. Only by becoming strong oneself could one gain a foothold in this world. Clearly, Moria didn't understand this at all, but Reina was too lazy to explain it to him.

“Since your target is Kaido… then I don’t mind cooperating with you!” Reina said after thinking for a moment.

This idea came to him after he met Moria. Since Moria was in the first half of the Grand Line and had no conflict with the Whitebeard Pirates, and since Moria hated Kaido, Reina didn't mind causing Kaido some trouble.

"Cooperate? Cooperate with you or with the Whitebeard Pirates?" As expected, Moria showed great interest as soon as Reina asked.

“Right now, you’re not only unqualified to cooperate with the Whitebeard Pirates, you’re even a bit short of cooperating with me! How about this… I’ll give you some free information first: the World Government is planning to establish the Seven Warlords of the Sea. You should become one of the Seven Warlords first! If you really have the ability to counterattack the Beasts Pirates, then I wouldn’t mind representing the Whitebeard Pirates and cooperating with you!” Reina chuckled and replied.

"The Seven Warlords of the Sea?" Moria was taken aback; he had never heard of this before.

Reina explained the matter of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, and Moria's eyes immediately lit up. If he had the identity of a Warlord of the Sea, it would indeed provide a good cover for what he was going to do next.

"So what do you need me to do?" Moria was an old pirate, so he naturally knew that there was no such thing as a free lunch, especially since the other party was the Whitebeard Pirates.

“Right now you don’t need to do anything… because you’re too weak! So focus on developing your own power! When you’re capable of attacking the Beasts Pirates again, we’ll talk about cooperation!” Reina slowly stood up and said.

"Hmph... Don't look down on me, Lord Moria is very powerful!" Perona retorted immediately upon hearing Reina's words.

Looking at Perona's haughty demeanor, Reina suddenly said to Moria, "To show our sincerity in cooperating, let your subordinate stay by my side!"

Moria was taken aback. He didn't understand why Reina would suddenly make such a condition. Did Perona have some talent that he hadn't yet discovered?

Perona was taken aback, then immediately retorted angrily, "Who do you think you are? You think you can get me to follow you? Don't even dream about it! Lord Moria will never agree to that!"

“Don’t worry, I’m not a strange person. It’s just that if we’re going to cooperate… we need someone to pass on messages… right? But apart from this little girl, your other subordinates are simply unbearable to look at, so I reluctantly let her stay by my side!” Reina said with a smile.

"Hehehehe... Since that's the case... Perona! You can stay by his side from now on! You'll be in charge of any intelligence that needs to be relayed back!" Moria said with a glint in his eyes and a strange laugh.

Chapter 235 Princess Mononoke Perona

As Reina disembarked from the dire glint in the sky, Perona followed reluctantly behind him, muttering something under her breath.

"This is your ship? It's too small!" Perona said immediately after Reina climbed onto the hard hull.

"You can go anywhere on the ship except for that room! That's my daughter's room, so don't mess it up, or... I'll sink you into the sea!" After showing Perona around for a bit, Reina pointed to Robin's room and said to Perona.

"What? If you don't want to go, you don't have to go. Why make it sound so scary?" Perona glanced at Robin's room and muttered under her breath.

"You'd better not go in out of curiosity... because I really don't want to kill you and then have to ask Moria for someone else, that would be too much trouble!" Seeing Perona's expression, Reina knew that the little girl was probably curious about Robin's room, so he reminded her again.

"Tch~ I didn't expect someone as annoying as you to have a daughter. She must not be a very cute person!" Perona immediately retorted.

But as soon as she finished speaking, Reina grabbed her by the neck, lifted her up, and said in a deep voice, "I hope this is the last time I hear you speak ill of her... If there's a next time... die!"

After saying that, Reina put Perona down and turned to leave.

"Cough cough cough...Wh-what is it!" Perona hadn't even figured out what was going on when she was faced with an angry Reina. The terrifying pressure made her tears flow.

"Lord Moriah... I miss you, please let me go back!"

However, it was clear that Moria couldn't hear Perona's request.

However, after Perona spent some time with Reina, she found that Reina was a very easy person to get along with as long as his daughter wasn't mentioned. Moreover, the food Reina made was also very delicious.

The two continued their journey towards Alabasta in this manner.

"Ugh, it's so hot here! Is this our destination?" Perona disliked the desert climate when the two arrived at Rape Flower, a port city in Alabasta.

"This is it. Let's go buy some supplies first. You eat so much! You've almost finished all the food!" Reina nodded, looking disgusted, and said.

"Ugh... You're the one who eats the most, I only eat a little each time!" Perona immediately retorted.

Through my interactions with Reina over this period of time, I've learned that Reina generally doesn't get angry, even if I talk back to him. However, there's a condition: it can't involve his daughter, the woman named Robin.

Otherwise, no matter the reason, Reina would become extremely terrifying.

Along the way, she had already witnessed Reina's strength. Although she didn't know if it was Reina's full strength, it was already terrifying.

“No matter how much I eat, I pay for it myself, but you… seem to be eating and staying for free…” Reina glanced at Perona and said.

"Wh...what? Didn't you tell me to come with you? Otherwise, why would I want to come here! I want to stay in the castle and be my princess! You bastard!" Perona was stunned for a moment, then puffed out her cheeks and said angrily.

Seeing Perona's angry expression, Reina smiled slightly. He found that teasing the little ghost every day made him feel better!

“Let’s go! There’s still some cargo on that merchant ship we encountered last time that we need to get rid of, otherwise we won’t even have enough for food! I’m leaving this to you, otherwise you’ll really be a freeloader!” Reina pointed to the cargo that they had just unloaded from the hard shell, which was what they had obtained from robbing a merchant ship.

Perona was stunned, then looked at Reina with disbelief, as if she couldn't believe that Reina would ask her to do such a thing.

"I'm a girl!" Perona said angrily, "Besides, wasn't it me who handled that merchant ship last time? You just stood there watching the whole time! Even the cargo was unloaded by the people on the ship!"

"Oh, really? But... I was the one who did it! So the finances should all be mine! How about this, since you also contributed something, after this batch of finances is done, you take 30%... how about that?" Reina raised an eyebrow and said.

"Hehehehe... That's more like it!" Perona nodded in satisfaction and said with a smile.

But after Reina left, Perona realized that she had been tricked by Reina again. She was the one who did the work and the one who bought the things, so why should she only get 30%?

After parting ways with Perona, Reina went straight to the tavern. It was a crowded place, the best place to gather information. Moreover, he hadn't concealed himself along the way, so both Crocodile and the Alabasta royal family should know that he had arrived in Alabasta.

After sitting in the tavern for a while without finding any useful information, Reina left with the drinks he had bought. However, when he returned to the port, he found that the little ghost Perona had not returned.

Reina smiled slightly, knowing exactly what Perona was thinking.

It must be because he only gave her 30%, which made Perona unhappy. So he simply went shopping and had fun after selling all the goods, and then lied and said that he only made that little money when he came back.

Fortunately, Reina doesn't care much about money; he only said that to tease Perona.

So after understanding Perona's intentions, he didn't take it too seriously and just treated it as a joke.

Meanwhile, in the Alabasta Royal Palace, King Cobra and his captain of the guard, Icarum, were secretly hiding in a corner, watching a group of children playing there. Among them was a girl with long, light blue hair, who was none other than Cobra's daughter, Princess Neferutari Vivi.

At that moment, a dark shadow slowly approached from the sky.

“Hmm? It’s Bell!” Icarus turned around and said softly.

Upon seeing this, the king immediately retreated some distance with Icarus, waiting for Bell to descend from the sky.

"Your Majesty!" Bell, who had just landed and returned to human form, bowed to Cobra.

“It’s Bell! Why are you in such a hurry? Did something happen?” Cobra asked with a smile.

Bell nodded and said, "The vice-captain of the Whitebeard Pirates, Akame Reina, has already landed at the rapeseed flower field!"

"What?" Cobra and Icarus, who was standing next to him, were taken aback and asked in surprise, "Is the information accurate?"

“There shouldn’t be any mistake. The other party didn’t try to hide anything. This time, he brought a little girl with him!” Bell nodded and replied.

"Go, return to the palace immediately!" Kobra said solemnly, his expression turning serious.

Meanwhile, at the headquarters of Baroque Works, Crocodile looked at the intelligence report in his hand and remained silent for a long time.