Chapter 27
As Noruko watched his right arm being severed and his left arm almost completely broken, with gunshot wounds and several cuts on his body, he collapsed in a pool of blood, a low-ranking crew member.
Noruko still felt a lingering sense of fear after recovering slightly.
After a brief moment, a forced smile appeared on his face.
"Heh, hehe, now you know the cost of drawing your sword against me, you bastard!"
Noruko cursed while holstering his pistol and walked towards the low-ranking crew member.
Glancing at his four surviving subordinates, Noruko adjusted his emotions and spoke with a hint of sadness.
"Take our fallen brothers back!"
"We won't let this slide!"
"Go back and gather the rest of our brothers. These pirates killed two of our own, and I'll make their entire pirate crew pay with their lives!"
"Yes!" The four bandits responded and began to prepare their comrades' bodies.
As he left, Noruko delivered a harsh kick to the low-ranking crew member's body.
"Bang!"
However, it was at that moment.
In the streets and alleys where people had already scattered, figures reappeared.
The first to emerge was a man with a long sword at his waist.
He looked at the low-ranking crew member lying in a pool of blood and then at Noruko, who had just kicked the crew member. His expression was unusually cold.
Seeing the man's appearance, Noruko's expression froze, clearly showing fear as he took a step back and stammered.
"Y-You... Are you also with this guy?!"
The man remained silent, and the only response to Noruko was the sound of his sword being unsheathed.
"Clang!"
Then, even more figures appeared in the streets and alleys.
2, 4, 5, 7... their numbers kept increasing.
And without exception, they all had long swords at their waists.
They were all members of the "Gale Emperor Pirate Crew"!
When they saw the low-ranking crew member lying in a pool of blood and Noruko's group beside him, their faces turned cold.
Without a word, only the sound of unsheathing blades echoed through the streets and alleys.
"Clang!"
"Clang!"
"Clang!"
Noruko couldn't be more aware of the situation unfolding before his eyes.
The next second, he turned around and ran for his life, screaming in terror.
"Ugh, ahhh!"
The crew members swiftly drew their swords and chased after him.
"Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh..."
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On the other side, at a Navy headquarters, Marineford.
In a spacious studio.
Dozens of people were busy standing or sitting, holding one document after another, working at their desks.
However, amidst this busy atmosphere, one person seemed out of place.
He wore round-framed reading glasses and had a few age spots on his face.
Sitting at the back of the studio, at a large desk, he held a newspaper in one hand and a cigarette in the other.
Compared to the busy figures of the others, he appeared unusually leisurely.
"Old man, I've brought today's work for you."
At that moment, a girl entered with a stack of documents in her arms, wearing a cheerful smile.
Upon hearing the girl's voice, the old man put down the newspaper and looked up, a smile appearing on his face.
"Ah, it's Aya!"
Aya approached the old man's desk with a smile, placing the stack of documents on it.
"Smoke less, it's not good for your health."
The old man disregarded the comment and waved his hand with a smile.
"Oh, I don't have many years left anyway. If I can't smoke a bit, I might as well be dead."
"Tsk tsk, how can you say such unlucky words?" Aya clicked her tongue a few times, slightly reproaching him.
The old man smiled in response.
"Alright, alright, I won't say it anymore. So, how many people are there this time?"
With these words, the old man picked up the documents that Aya had placed nearby.
Aya began to speak.
"There are a total of 43 this time, including 2 potential high-ranking pirates. The rest have increasing bounties."
Upon hearing this, the old man's expression soured a bit.
"I see. Are there two more pirates with bounties exceeding 100 million berries today? These guys just keep popping up endlessly!"
Aya pouted her lips.
"We can't catch all these infamous guys!"
"How about the other bounty announcements?" the old man asked, raising his head.
Aya replied, "Following your instructions, the announcements are being reviewed and the increasing values will be ready to be issued tomorrow. If everything on your end is fine, we can send them out the day after tomorrow as usual."
The old man nodded, satisfied with Aya's response.
He was getting old, already seventy years old this year, and it was about time for him to retire.
But before that, he needed to make sure everything was in order here.
Adjusting his reading glasses, the old man began to look through the documents Aya had brought.
"I'll leave now and won't disturb you any longer," Aya said, bidding farewell and turning away from the old man's desk.
Just as she took a few steps, she suddenly remembered something and turned back.
"Oh, by the way, there's a pirate here. I checked the records, and this is his initial bounty! Although it's not over 100 million, the bounty application is set at 50 million berries. Take a look?"
With that, Aya handed an uncovered document to the old man.
The old man glanced at Aya but calmly said, "Put it aside for now. I'll finish going through these first."
"Oh," Aya responded and placed the document on the old man's desk.
The old man absentmindedly glanced at it before continuing to read the documents in his hands.
However, after reading a few lines, he suddenly felt that something was amiss with the document Aya had handed him.
This made him turn his head for another look.
On the first page of the document, there was a photo attached.
In the photo, there was a young man with a silver-white longsword hanging from his waist.
Looking at the young man's face, the old man blinked his eyes, feeling a sense of familiarity.
He took off his reading glasses and wiped them, somewhat doubtful.
Seeing the old man's unusual reaction, Aya asked in confusion, "What's wrong? Is something not, right?"
The old man shook his head, putting his cleaned reading glasses back on.
"It's nothing, just a strange feeling. I feel like I've seen this photo somewhere before."
"Let me take a closer look."
Saying that, the old man put down the documents in his hand and picked up the single document on the desk.
As he looked at the person in the photo, the more he looked, the more he felt a deep familiarity.
And when his gaze moved downward and saw the name written below the photo...
He suddenly stood up, causing a loud thud.
Aya, who was beside him, was startled by the old man's sudden action.
"What's wrong, old man? What happened?" she asked, surprised.
This time, the old man didn't respond to Aya's words.
His gaze was fixed on the photo and the name on the document, his eyes trembling like an earthquake, and his face filled with an expression of disbelief.
"C...Carnes?!"
"How... How is this possible?!"
"How could it be him?!"
The old man's voice trembled.
Even the hands holding the document were shaking slightly!
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Hello everyone hope you are doing well, here is the third update of today.
Currently I have been really busy so I have only been able to publish a chapter per day, but whenever I am free, I will increase update frequency.
With this I wanted to talk about something else, many of you guys have been complaining about these chapters having OC, calling it filler, slow and are asking me to make it fast paced and reach to main fights.
The thing about this novel is that it is a little bit slow paced where our mc makes his crew larger, increases his power and crew strength to fight his enemies most of whom are powerhouse both from Yonko and Marines side. So, he needs to increase his power.
Obviously, there will be fight and character interactions on later chapters with our main characters and some killings too, hope you guys will stay with story till then.