A Record Bounty! Is this The King of Connections? !
The news bird group of Morgans's News wants to deliberately spread a message that can fill newspapers all over the world in just one day.
For most people, they will only think it as some new group of pirates appearing, and the captain's bounty a little high.
But for a small group of people, the significance is completely different.
Grand Line, near the entrance sea area.
Hawk-Eye, who has just returned from East Blue, watched a news bird fly low over his head and dropped a newspaper.
He reached out and caught the two wanted posters that fell from the newspaper.
"Rewarded so quickly?"
Hawk-Eye looked at the face in the photo, the corners of his mouth lifted, revealing a meaningful smile.
Roronoa Zoro.
Dead or alive.
Bounty: 19,000,000 berries!
His gaze turned to another person.
"71 million? The Marines don't really understand his true strength at all."
What happened at the Baratie restaurant on the sea was a few days ago.
Being wanted, obviously not because of that incident, the Marines probably don't even know.
Just,
Hawk-Eye stared at Luffy's wanted poster, his expression showing a little confusion.
"The content on this is really interesting..."
...
Still Grand Line.
Near the Drum Kingdom.
Still a small boat.
No, it can't even be called a boat.
Just enough space for one person to move, besides an extremely crude sail, it also has a propulsion system.
Driven by flames, driving the paddles, the speed is extremely fast, like a fish shuttling on the sea.
On this crude but technologically advanced small boat,
A young man wearing an orange cowboy hat, bare-chested, with the tattoo "ASCE" on his left arm, with a cross on the letter S.
"Luffy... is he finally out in the sea?"
Ace grinned, "71 million? Not bad, Luffy. Don't worry, we'll meet soon!"
But the content on the wanted poster made him slightly puzzled.
...
Still Grand Line.
Baltigo.
Known as the "Island of White Soil," it is the headquarters of the Revolutionary Army led by the world's most vicious criminal, Monkey D. Dragon.
At this time, on a balcony in the base.
Wearing a green cloak, with a tattoo on his left face, Dragon held a wanted poster and looked out at the desolate scenery outside.
"Luffy... the tide of the times is rolling forward. Since you have chosen to set sail, don't stop. The world is waiting for our answer!"
While murmuring in his heart, he looked at the wanted poster again and saw something interesting.
...
East Blue, Windmill Village.
The small bar in the village is extremely lively today, with new wanted posters plastered all over the walls.
The landlady, Makino, looked helplessly at the men celebrating.
Everyone was drinking and their faces were filled with joy.
"Look, that's Luffy!"
"He has become a pirate with a bounty of 71 million. We should hang the wanted poster at the port!"
"Hahaha, that kid Luffy, in all these years in East Blue, it's the first time I've seen such a high bounty criminal. He's truly the pride of our Windmill Village!"
"But what does that sentence on the wanted poster mean?"
...
Nami's hometown, Cocoyasi Village.
Here, there is also singing and dancing, and a grand feast.
"It's Luffy Sama!"
"Amazing, much higher than that bastard Arlong!"
"Marine is really unreliable. Let's just hang Luffy-sama's pirate flag at the entrance of the village! I want to see which foolish pirate would dare to come here!"
Some people were still suggesting, but Officer Genzo had already done so.
He posted Luffy's wanted poster at the village entrance.
Looking at the numbers on the wanted poster, he couldn't help but laugh.
But upon closer inspection, he was stunned again.
After a while, he smiled knowingly.
"So that's how it is. It makes sense. Marine still knows how to do some things."
...
At the sea restaurant, Baratie.
"It's only been a few days and he's already wanted." Patty held the bounty poster and admired it. "Too bad I didn't get to see Sanji's idiotic face."
"Feeling lonely?" a chef teased.
"Who's feeling lonely! If that brat died out there, I'd be happy to clap my hands."
"Yeah, yeah. When he was here, you two kept fighting every day. Now that he's gone, you keep mentioning Sanji every day. My ears are already calloused."
At that moment, Zeff came down the spiral staircase and smiled. "What are you all standing around for? Put it up!"
"Oh!"
...
The Straw Hat Crew sailed smoothly, with clear skies and calm seas.
On the deck of the Sunny.
Nami brought over a table and chair, leisurely reading the newspaper.
Kaya was earnestly flipping through medical books, seemingly wanting to learn medicine.
Luffy lay on the figurehead of the Sunny, taking a nap.
Suddenly, a cry rang out.
"Luffy!"
"What's wrong?"
"Your... bounty poster. And Zoro's."
Two bounty posters fell from the folds of the newspaper, immediately attracting everyone's attention.
Nami put down the water pot and walked down from the stairs.
"Are we wanted?"
"It's Luffy and Zoro," Nami explained. "The amounts are quite high..."
"19 million, 71 million..." Kaya covered her mouth, extremely surprised.
Luffy jumped over to the others in one leap.
Looking down, he saw his own portrait and the corresponding bounty amount.
71 million berries.
Not high, not low.
Not high because if Marine knew what happened at Baratie, the bounty wouldn't be this low.
Not low because the average bounty in East Blue is only 3 million, and the highest before seemed to be Arlong's 20 million.
"Hmm? Wait a minute." Nami smiled as she admired Luffy's photo, but suddenly froze and pointed to a line above: "What does this mean?"
Everyone then realized something was off.
The two bounty posters had obvious differences.
Monkey D. Luffy.
Only alive.
Bounty: 71,000,000 berries!
"Only alive?"
Luffy raised an eyebrow and remained calm. "Oh, it's probably because of my grandpa's influence."
Nami: "..."
Nojiko: "..."
Kaya: "..."
"Maybe they want to capture me and then my grandpa will rescue me from prison, and finally force me to become a Marine."
The three girls were speechless once again.
Is this the benefits of having Background?!