Evening!
The bonfire party was held as scheduled!
Only, the bonfire party that the villagers of Cocoyasi Village held to thank Roy was somewhat simple.
However, even these seemingly plain and ordinary foods had been gathered bit by bit by the villagers from their own homes.
“Benefactor Roy, I’m sorry.
Our village has been exploited and oppressed by the Arlong Pirates for all these years, so we’ve become somewhat poor and backward.
We don’t have any grand feast to Host you with.”
After clinking cups with Roy, Genzo, the village policeman, spoke somewhat apologetically.
“It’s fine.”
Roy shook his head.
What he liked was the atmosphere of a bonfire party.
After hearing that Roy did not mind the food, all the villagers of Cocoyasi Village, including Genzo, let out a breath of relief and continued singing and dancing around the bonfire.
The next day.
Nami gathered the villagers of Cocoyasi Village and announced the matter of dividing the Arlong Pirates’ treasure.
Because Roy did not need any of the treasure.
After hearing Nami say that Roy did not want the treasure of the Arlong Pirates and was willing to distribute it to them…
The villagers of Cocoyasi Village, including Genzo, all cheered one after another and became even more grateful to Roy.
Before long, the news that Roy had completely wiped out the Arlong Pirates spread out from Cocoyasi Village.
After all, something like this could not be concealed.
Moreover, there was no need to hide it.
After the other villages that had been occupied by the Arlong Pirates confirmed this news, they could not help shedding tears of gratitude.
They even carved Roy’s name onto stone tablets and erected them at the entrances of their villages to express their thanks.
The butterfly wings of Roy, the transmigrator…
Had finally stirred up a wave.
…
On a certain island in East Blue, after Alvida, captain of the Alvida Pirates, learned that the Arlong Pirates had been destroyed, she found it somewhat hard to believe.
Alvida currently only had a bounty of five million berries.
She had not eaten the Smooth-Smooth Fruit yet, and she still looked like a fat woman with a face full of freckles.
…
In a town in East Blue that had just been occupied by the Krieg Pirates.
Krieg, who had a bounty of seventeen million berries, held a villager’s head in his hand as he gazed in the direction of Cocoyasi Village.
“That guy Arlong was actually killed by a traveler!?
Since when did such an impressive traveler appear in East Blue?”
“Boss Krieg, the residents of this village have all been gathered on the street in the center of town.
Should we kill them all?”
A subordinate ran over from not far away and asked Krieg, who seemed somewhat lost in thought.
“Mm.
Kill them all.
Don’t leave a single one alive!”
Krieg nodded and gave the order.
“Krieg, you’ll die a miserable death!
A pirate who commits every evil like you will face retribution sooner or later!
You’ll die without a place to be buried!”
In the center of the street, after the villagers heard Krieg give the order to massacre them, an old man began cursing loudly.
The younger ones directly tried to flee from the gathered crowd.
However, before they could run more than a few steps, they all died under the bullets fired at them.
“East Blue is still too weak.
It isn’t suitable for me to fully display my abilities either.
Gin, Pearl, in a few years, we’ll go to the Grand Line together and plunder there!”
Krieg looked at the villagers who had all been slaughtered, and not a single ripple stirred in his heart.
Then he turned to his capable subordinates, Gin the Man-Demon, the battle commander of the pirate crew, and Pearl, the captain of the second unit, and spoke.
“No matter where you go, Captain, I’ll follow you to the death!”
Gin the Man-Demon said with a firm gaze.
In a certain cherry blossom town in East Blue.
After Buggy, the clown with a red nose, learned that the Arlong Pirates had been taken down by a traveler, he could not help laughing arrogantly.
“Baka!
The Arlong Pirates are really useless.
They were actually taken down by a traveler.
If that traveler runs into me, I’ll definitely make him kneel and beg for mercy!”
Buggy the Clown, captain of the Buggy Pirates, was still the same as ever.
His strength was not much, but he was extremely arrogant and conceited.
“Boss Buggy, I seized several barrels of excellent rum from the cellar of a bar here!”
Buggy’s trusted officer and vice captain, Mohji the Beast Tamer, sat on his trained lion and spoke to Buggy.
“You seized several barrels of excellent rum?
Very good, Mohji.
Continue searching for ingredients so we can hold a bonfire party tonight!”
Captain Buggy grinned at his vice captain, Mohji.
Back when Buggy had been an apprentice on the Pirate King Roger’s ship, he had fallen in love with banquets like bonfire parties.
So now that he had formed his own pirate crew, he still continued the habit of holding bonfire parties.
As for the matter of the Arlong Pirates, he had already thrown it to the back of his mind.
…
Loguetown!
After Colonel Smoker learned that the Arlong Pirates had been destroyed by a traveler, he fell into a brief silence.
The main reason for his silence was that the information he had received showed that the Arlong Pirates had enslaved more than twenty villages, including Cocoyasi Village, for for all these years.
“I remember that the area around Cocoyasi Village is under Captain Nezumi’s responsibility, right?”
Smoker looked at Tashigi, his adjutant beside him, and spoke in a low voice.
Such a large pirate crew had actually existed right under the Marines’ noses!
…
They had enslaved and exploited more than twenty villages, including Cocoyasi Village, for for all these years.
This meant that someone within the Marines had been covering for the Arlong Pirates.