Pirate's Swordsman

but.

Although the Navy Headquarters was suspicious of Crocodile, Shano estimated that the information Sengoku received was still superficial. It was more likely that the Sand Crocodile was interested in the throne and dominance, not Pluto.

Otherwise, Sengoku would not have exposed it to his face like this, and Crocodile might not be able to sit safely and unharmed in the position of Shichibukai as he is now...

"All right!"

Looking at Crocodile with a gloomy expression, Warring States didn't want to say any more. Otherwise, if the sand crocodile was really irritated and the two sides turned against each other, it would be very difficult for the navy to handle it. He waved his hand suddenly and said coldly:

"That's all I've said to you. As for whether you want to help our headquarters capture that ghost bullet, you can figure it out after you go back!"

After leaving these words, Warring States went straight to the next topic, while Crocodile closed his eyes with a sullen face and leaned back on the chair. No one knew what he was planning in his mind. .

Although there is no such tit-for-tat situation in the next few topics, they are basically more or less related to the interests of several Shichibukai present.

Therefore, after some discussion, no one looked cold and indifferent anymore, but they were all listening carefully to what Warring States was saying.

……

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye it is more than two hours later.

"Next, is the last topic, and it is also the most important topic of this Shichibukai meeting."

Only the last piece of the thick stack of documents was left. After Zeng Guo picked it up, he looked around at everyone and said in a deep voice:

"Everyone present at the meeting must have heard about this topic a long time ago. Yes, it is about the replacement of the vacated Shichibukai position after Moonlight Moria was removed."

"There shouldn't be anything to discuss about this, right? Hasn't your navy already decided on the candidate?"

Crocodile, who had been closing his eyes in deep thought, suddenly opened his eyes at this time and said coldly: "Isn't he the kid named Fire Fist Ace? Let's start the voting process directly. This way we can end the meeting early and end this." Boring meeting.”

His attitude was very impatient, but what he said was correct. The other Shichibukai nodded slightly at the same time, obviously agreeing with Crocodile's point of view.

After all, in the recent Grand Line, apart from the popular Fire Fist Ace, there are no outstanding rising stars.

In addition, the expelled Moonlight Moria happened to be defeated by the latter himself. Naturally, the candidate for nomination could only fall on this guy.

"According to the plan we communicated with Mary Joa, this is indeed our plan."

Sengoku sighed softly: "But what no one expected was that things suddenly changed yesterday afternoon. The original Shichibukai nomination for Fire Fist Ace had to be cancelled."

"What happened, Marshal?"

Jinbei was a little curious about this and couldn't help but ask: "Could it be that that brat has actively rejected the Shichibukai's invitation?"

This is the most reasonable guess. Not only Jinbei, but Xia Nuo also thinks so.

In his impression, Ace in the original timeline, after receiving the invitation from the Shichibukai, chose to refuse directly and went to the new world to make a more famous name.

Of course, if he accepts it, Ace's fate will undoubtedly change dramatically. As a member of the Shichibukai, he will no longer be able to join the Whitebeard Pirates, and the war on top caused by him in the original work will also Basically the possibility of an outbreak is lost.

"No."

However, the next moment, to everyone's surprise, Sengoku shook his head and denied Jinbe's guess:

“The reason why we canceled the invitation to ‘Fire Fist’ Ace is very simple, because two days ago, he robbed a batch of sky gold near the long chain roundabout of the Grand Route.”

The so-called heavenly gold refers to the treasures that all the participating countries of the World Government must pay tribute to the Celestial Dragons every year. These treasures are usually escorted by naval warships along the way until they arrive at Mariejoia.

"what?"

As soon as Warring States said this, except for a few vice-admirals who were already aware of the situation, everyone else couldn't help but show a look of surprise.

The same was true for Xia Nuo, who was stunned in place and couldn't react for a moment - what kind of situation was this? Why was Ace suddenly connected with the Sky Gold Robbery?

"Robbing the heavenly gold..."

Jinbe was stunned for a moment, then suddenly remembered something, and couldn't help but murmured: "It feels so familiar. Isn't this what Doflamingo did before..."

"Yes, it's just because something like this happened before that the impact this time is even worse."

Sengoku nodded slightly, and while tapping the table rhythmically with his knuckles, he spoke in a low tone: "And the original Dover was just to use the gold in the sky as a threat to seek the position of the Shichibukai. After the goal was achieved, Return all the gold in heaven in full."

"As for Fire Fist Ace, he happened to bump into a fleet transporting heavenly gold even though he had already received the invitation. It was purely due to a temporary fever that he robbed these ships from his hometown of Goya. Kingdom, heavenly gold sent to Mary Joa.”

"The heavenly gold sent by the Kingdom of Goa..."

Crocodile's eyes widened and he pondered: "If I remember correctly, this country should be in the East China Sea, right? With the escort of your navy's warships, can't we just go directly to the windless zone? How can we go around to the long chain of islands?"

"no way."

Thinking of this, Warring States couldn't help showing a look of helplessness, and sighed: "The leader sent by the Kingdom of Goa this time is a count who is deeply trusted by the king. He is used to pampering himself. After sailing all the way, he felt that this job was too boring, and it happened to be... I heard that a grand carnival is being held over at the Long Chain Island.”

"So, he ignored the dissuasion of the navy responsible for escorting him and sailed the ship to that sea area, intending to stay for a day and have a good time before setting off."

"Ha, we're on the road? We're really on the road this time."

Hearing this, Crocodile couldn't help but sneered and said sarcastically: "It's really not surprising at all, old man from the Warring States Period, are these the nobles that your navy has been trying so hard to protect? Even stupid pigs are nothing more than that. Alright?"

"Crocodale!"

Warring States glared at Sand Crocodile with an ugly expression, but for a moment he couldn't find a rebuttal, so he could only snort and bring the topic back on track:

"In short, after committing such a heinous act, Fire Fist Ace has aroused the anger of the nobles of the Holy Land. Under such circumstances, it has become impossible to continue to invite him to become a member of the King's Shichibukai .”

"But Dover could have done it in the first place."

Crocodile sneered again, "Who makes the difference between their bloodlines? The Tianlong people will not be as polite to outsiders as before, right, old man from the Warring States Period?"

"Watch your words and attitude, Sand Crocodile. Even the Shichibukai should maintain respect for the world's nobles."

Warring States frowned, but he didn't make much use of the topic. Instead, he continued to face everyone at the table. After a pause, he said in a deep voice:

"So, after the emergency consultation meeting held by the headquarters last night, the Navy will increase its efforts to arrest Fire Fist Ace and increase his bounty from the original 200 million Baileys to 360 million Baileys!"

"The Holy Land Mariejoia has also issued a wanted order, announcing that anyone who can successfully capture Fire Fist Ace and hand over the Heavenly Gold will receive an additional 500 million Bailey bounty from the Celestial Dragons. !”