Chapter 223: The Enemy
“My ‘Phantom God Alloy·Red’…”
“That’s right, and the process isn’t as complicated as you think. It’s just like making a ‘Tailed Beast Ball’—as long as we get the energy ratio between Big Sister and you right.”
Obei continued to persuade patiently.
From her earlier observation, she discovered that the modified alloy had not only changed in physical properties but also seemed to have gained some special ‘ability’.
This was just like digital alloys of the Time series in different colors. Now Obei urgently wanted to get another different Phantom God Alloy for comparison to see exactly what factor caused this change.
In the end, after lowering her head and struggling for a long time, Aoxi couldn’t resist the temptation of the special weapon and chose to take the Golden Cube from Obei.
Thus, the last uninhabited island reef in the Fenrir Sea Area completely disappeared in a geographical sense.
……
“Hm? Where are Aoxi and Obei, those two brats? I just saw them come looking for you.”
In the meeting hall, Burufaruto looked at Ra, who was weaving the third saddlebag, and asked curiously.
“Those two went to the Red Line.”
“Ah? What are they going there for?”
Of course, it was because all the nearby places they could mess with had been messed with by the two of them.
Since they really couldn’t be bothered to look for another uninhabited island, Aoxi simply slapped her thigh, came back to ask Ra for another big bag of basic Golden Cubes, and then took Obei directly flying to the Red Line.
After all, it was vast and sparsely populated there, and it looked very durable to bombing—not much more comfortable than blowing sea breeze on palm-sized island reefs every day.
“They went to experiment with some material. When they come back, you guys should be able to go to Obei to get some handy weapons made.”
“Haha, I don’t need any. My Fish-Man Karate is enough with these two hands.”
“Jin and Boss Kaido could go try it though. Jin, didn’t you always want to install some mechanisms on your sword?”
“Mm.”
Jin nodded; he did indeed have ideas in that area.
Although the weapon was a sword, he was not a ‘swordsman’ in the traditional sense, and what he pursued was not kendo.
For him, the blade was merely a simple tool for killing. If installing some mechanisms on it could better ambush enemies, he was more than happy to do so.
“Speaking of which, it seems like you guys have some big moves lately. I’ve seen a lot of new faces coming and going in our factories recently.”
“Are we expanding again?”
Burufaruto, who had been out on fieldwork, didn’t yet know about the military-industrial complex. Seeing the arms factory on the island with frequent personnel traffic and various large machinery coming and going, he thought they were building a new factory again.
“That wouldn’t be wrong to say, but it’s not building new ones from scratch.”
Answering him was Wright. He and Jin were the ones from the Beasts Pirates specifically responsible for communicating, negotiating, and resolving issues with those underground arms families.
Among them, Wright mainly handled communication, while Jin handled resolution.
“We recently did some ‘cooperation’ with those arms dealers. I’m thinking of converting all the factories under them to be like ours, then everyone produces the same weapons and sells them uniformly.”
“After all, when there’s money to be made, everyone makes it.”
“Eh? Won’t that leak our technology? If they take the tech and then break the agreement, we’ll…”
“No need to worry about that. They wouldn’t dare.”
Wright said, glancing at Jin, then added:
“And even if they really leak the technology, it doesn’t matter. After all, we’re not relying on these things to make money, right?”
“At that point, we just upgrade the technology a bit and lower the price slightly, and those imitation factories won’t be able to hold out on their own.”
“Oh… oh, I see.”
After hearing Wright’s explanation, Burufaruto nodded as if he understood but not quite.
Concepts like supply and demand relationships or price wars in economics were really too much for his brain.
“Anyway, let’s talk about your matter, Burufaruto. Did you suddenly call us over because something happened in our sea area again?”
The sea area centered on Fenrir Island was actually very large in area, and the more than a dozen islands in the sea area were scattered here and there, so unexpected situations often arose.
For example, unlicensed strange merchant ships intruding, certain clueless pirate crews coming in to raid, or other miscellaneous factions coming to probe…
Burufaruto’s daily work was to head to the scene and handle it after receiving reports of these unexpected situations from the garrison pirates on nearby islands.
Of course, the cases that required his intervention were usually bigger incidents. Things like trash pirate crew invasions were generally handled by directly authorizing the island garrison executives over the Den Den Mushi.
“This time, there really is something even I can’t handle, and it needs Boss Kaido to deal with it.”
Burufaruto said with a serious expression.
“Hm? Looks like some pirate crew with decent strength came to cause us trouble.”
Jin immediately guessed the truth of this incident.
It wasn’t hard to guess, actually—Burufaruto only needed to find Kaido for events that might lead to open war with outsiders. Everything else was basically handled directly by Ra.
Kaido was only interested in fighting and external expansion.
“Tell us, which pirate crew is it? Whitebeard? Or Golden Lion?”
In the New World now, the factions that could threaten them were just those few, countable on one hand.
“Neither.”
“The opponent is that ‘World Destroyer’—Bondi Wald.”
“Hm? It’s him?”
Hearing this name, Wright and Jin both widened their eyes slightly.
To be honest, the title ‘World Destroyer’ alone showed that the other party was indeed a powerful great pirate, but for some reason, he was often subconsciously overlooked by everyone.
Perhaps because he didn’t have his own territory, just a pirate crew of pure adventure nature like Roger’s.
Or maybe because there were no other notable powerhouses on his ship besides the captain.
In any case, this neither-here-nor-there pirate crew was indeed often easy to ignore.
But one thing was beyond doubt: their captain Bondi Wald truly possessed power that even the Navy feared, just like Roger and Whitebeard.
……
“Wald, we shouldn’t provoke the Beasts Pirates.”
“Cough cough!”
On the outskirts of the Fenrir Sea Area, aboard a wildly shaped pirate ship, the skinny Bin Jack was anxiously advising his younger brother.
“Big Brother, don’t worry. The mere Beasts Pirates are no match for me.”
“What’s more, they provoked us first. They saw our flag but didn’t actively avoid us—shouldn’t we give them a lesson?”
Wald looked at the crates of spoils of war on the deck, took out a revolver pistol from one, and examined it carefully, his eyes full of satisfaction.
