Chapter 16

"Don't forget, you still owe me 100,000 Berries!" Facing Facing Nami laughed craftily. "If you count the interest, it's compounded to 5 million Berries now!"

"W-what?" Zoro was furious. "How can you compound interest like that?"

"If you help me take them out today, our debt will be wiped clean!" Facing Facing Nami declared boldly.

What could Zoro do?

Money made him bow; he could only grumble as he drew his sword and walked toward Mr. 5 and Miss Valentine.

Mr. 5 was clearly not the type to sit and wait for death. He immediately dug a large booger out of his nose, thinking that if he cleared it out, there would be no problem, and then prepared to flick it...

"Boom—"

Mr. 5's nose exploded; clearly, he hadn't cleared his nose out completely.

He had blown his own head up.

Although as an explosion-man he was immune to explosions, the shockwave inside his nasal cavity gave him a concussion, and he sat down on the ground, dazed.

Along with Miss Valentine, who also had no abilities, they were easily cut down by Zoro in two strikes.

This left Vivi with a strange expression.

The high-ranking agents who had been hunting her down just moments ago were solved so easily?

Her worldview was collapsing a little.

"Flap—flap—"

The sound of wings flapping came, and the previously seen sea otter riding a vulture combination appeared again, flapping its wings and flying into the distance.

"It's the Unluckies! They are intelligence agents for the Baroque Works, don't let them escape!" Vivi said hurriedly.

But they had already flown so far away that no one present seemed to have a way to stop them.

Facing Facing Nami could only cast a pitiful look at Lord Lord Sima Di.

Help me out!

"1 billion Berries, you aren't planning to keep it all for yourself, are you?" Lord Lord Sima Di said. "Based on the headcount, that's 100 million Berries each. The extra 200 million, we split it 100 million each, how about that?"

"Impossible!" Facing Facing Nami said, exasperated. "This is a job I negotiated!"

"But we are the ones providing the combat power, and besides Zoro, no one owes you money." Lord Lord Sima Di shrugged.

Facing Facing Nami wasn't his woman, so of course, he had to settle accounts clearly.

It made Facing Facing Nami so angry!

But the subsequent escort work did indeed rely on Lord Lord Sima Di and the others.

So she compromised: "100 million Berries of the 1 billion for you, you don't need to worry about the rest!"

Clearly,

she was planning to stiff the others.

But Lord Lord Sima Di didn't care about that.

Looking at the Unluckies who were about to disappear into the horizon, he first applied buffs to himself.

[Long-range Vision!]

[Lock-on!]

[Tracking!]

After adding the buffs,

Two beams of ghostly blue light shot from Lord Lord Sima Di's eyes. No matter how the vulture swayed left and right, under the cheat of Lock-on + Tracking, it was hit directly in the head.

The vulture and the sea otter petrified into statues on the spot and fell straight into the sea, disappearing from sight.

"Petrification Beam!"

This was a reward obtained from checking in at the Red Line earlier; he didn't expect it to be so useful.

It's been a day! The data hasn't moved at all!!!

Is no one reading anymore?

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17. Robin appears! Directly detained! Ultimate move activated!

"So amazing!"

"To think you can shoot lasers!"

"I want to learn too!!!"

Looking at Luffy, who had popped out from nowhere, Lord Lord Sima Di found it amusing.

"Didn't you just say I was ungrateful?" Lord Lord Sima Di asked back.

It left Luffy speechless.

"Uncle Crocus said they seemed to be a bounty hunter organization... I misunderstood you, I'm sorry!"

Watching Luffy bow at a perfect ninety-degree angle to apologize, Lord Lord Sima Di sighed helplessly.

Stubborn when convinced, and apologetic when wrong.

At least Luffy's attitude was flawless.

"This is my ability, you can't learn it." Lord Lord Sima Di explained casually.

This left Luffy quite disappointed.

He muttered, "Not fair! Why can you have my Gum-Gum Fruit ability, but I can't shoot lasers from my eyes?"

Why?

Because I'm using cheats!

However...

"By the way, who told you that your Devil Fruit is the Paramecia Gum-Gum Fruit?" Lord Lord Sima Di asked curiously.

"Eh? Shanks, of course."

Shanks, huh?

Strange...

This fruit was snatched by Shanks from CP9; he couldn't possibly not know that this Devil Fruit is a Mythical Zoan, right?

If he didn't know,

he wouldn't have risked offending the World Government to snatch it from CP9.

Shaking his head,

Lord Lord Sima Di didn't specifically go out of his way to remind Luffy about the Devil Fruit; after all, Zoan Devil Fruits only provide a significant boost after awakening, and Luffy was still far from that level.

You have to know...

Zoan Devil Fruits are the only ones among the three types that have side effects if "awakening fails."

"My lord, are you not coming out yet?" Crocus suddenly spoke, looking toward a dark corner.

This made everyone look in the direction of the sound.

"Old man, you aren't seeing things, are you?" Zoro said bluntly.

The next second,

The crisp sound of heels hitting the ground came, followed by a fair, long leg stepping out from the darkness, then a pear-shaped figure revealed, and finally that three-dimensional mature woman's face.

It was none other than Nico...

Which is to say...

"Miss Allsunday!" Vivi blurted out. "Vice President of Baroque Works! Why are you here? Are you here to hunt me down too?"

"Don't say it like that." Robin said lazily. "It was me who let you track me, so you would know of the existence of Baroque Works."

Hearing this,

it was Robin who gave Alabasta a chance to save itself.

"You were also the one who told Mr. 0 that his identity was exposed, right!" Vivi said bluntly.

"Of course." Robin admitted frankly.

Well!

You played both the good guy and the bad guy.