Becoming Famous!

Mark's name had shaken the seas. From Marines to even pirate ships were looking everywhere for the whereabouts of the Z Pirates.

The reason is that their new bounties had just been released!

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Mark Z. Matheus "The Mad Man!" Bounty 1.5 billion berries! Wanted Only Dead!

Satyr "The Golem" Jr. Bounty 850 million berries! Wanted Alive Or Dead!

Capone Bege 630 million berries! Wanted Alive Or Dead!

Yuri "The Esper" 440 million berries! Wanted Alive Or Dead!

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After the bounties had been it took seas by a storm, some even began to call Mark "The Rookie Emperor" which actually sounded a bit comical. He was being praised as an emperor while at the same time being called a rookie, it was actually controversial.

The funny thing was that the Z pirates everyone was looking for were actually floating above Marineford higher than the clouds.

Of course, they couldn't leave right now! They had to exchange their men for Smoker and Tashigi!

"So what's the plan!" Mark asked Capone Bege who was currently drawing some plans on a piece of paper.

"I'm still trying to calculate the most beneficial option for us!" Capone answered in a serious matter as he kept concentrating on the piece of paper in front of him, a couple of Z pirates was sitting next to him while trying to help adjust his plans.

Yuri could be spotted sitting beside Mark and playing on some kind of an instrument.

Satyr Jr had made an arena on the ship for the Z pirates to fight against each other. He loved to gamble on them while they fought and sometimes he even joined in himself.

"What do you say we go back and pick up Flint?" Mark said with a gentle smile as he was playing with his wine to the beautiful girl dressed in all white sitting beside him.

"Really!?" Yuri asked in a sweet but serious voice.

"Of course, we don't have anything better to do! Right?" Answered Mark with a serious face.

"Thank you!" Yuri said happily as she jumped into the arms of Mark and hugged him.

"Haha, no problem!" Mark laughed with a genuinely happy smile of his own.

Mark had actually begun to develop some feelings for Yuri a while back but he didn't really notice it, he kept on agreeing with anything she said without even knowing why and he would always pick her side when she fought with anyone from the ship.

Mark didn't really pay any attention to his own actions but the rest of the crew had actually already noticed this.

They already treated Yuri as Mark's woman, way back.

Capone Bege was the first one to mention this to the Z pirates, but he didn't want Mark to know what he told them so he kept on reminding them that no one was to talk about this! Ever!

And this had never been mentioned before so it was quite understandable that Mark didn't have any knowledge of this.

Of course, Mark wasn't stupid! He had already noticed the guys sending him strange looks whenever he was with Yuri and this made him a bit embarrassed.

Why couldn't he talk with one of his crew members? Why was it necessary to shoot him strange looks whenever he did that?

Mark threw these thoughts to the back of his head as he asked one of the men to give him a report of the items they robbed from the Marineford vault.

"Captain, we looted 5.5 billion berries, some gold artifacts which we don't know what it is. Some architectural drawings. And a couple of devil fruits." The man answered in an excited voice.

5.5 billion berries!! Our captain is only worth 1.5 billion berries! The man thought in excitement! Not that he considers binding Mark and sending him with the first ship to the marines.

That would be ridiculous! And wishful thinking.