Chapter 157: The Captain's Big Shopping Spree

Dengken spoke the truth—he really had run off to a store near the Cross District to buy a bicycle for Nina after parting ways with Sherry.

By the way, he was doing something he had planned long ago but had kept putting off until today due to various things: opening a bank account for himself.

Inside the Plunder City-State Bank, Dengken was waiting for a clerk to finish preparing the last form for him; the waiting process was boring, so he turned his attention to observing his surroundings.

Perhaps because it wasn't a day off, and there weren't many citizens from the Lower City District who needed to conduct bank business, this rather small bank lobby seemed quite tranquil. Three out of the five service windows were idle, with staff in black uniforms chatting behind them, while the bright lights shone on the counter glass, casting a lazily gleaming halo.