Chapter 45: The Shrewd Miss Valentine, Ace, and Lu Yu!
Chapter 45: The Shrewd Miss Valentine, Ace, and Lu Yu!
As the Evil Battleship made its way toward the Grand Line, another ship appeared in the surrounding sea—this one belonging to Mr. 5 Gem, a member of Baroque Works.
"So the Dragon Hunter Pirates are actually connected to the Whitebeard Pirates?" Gem muttered, brows furrowed. He turned to the girl beside him. "Miss Valentine, report this to boss."
"If these guys were sent by Whitebeard, then the Navy's just trying to use us as cannon fodder," he added with a sigh.
Even with Crocodile's backing—one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea—and their own solid combat strength, Gem knew the harsh reality.
Compared to a giant like the Whitebeard Pirates, they were ants. Worse, the intel they'd gathered said the captain of the Dragon Hunter Pirates, Lu Yu, already carried a bounty worth of 100 million.
Baroque Works agents like them were only worth a little over 10 million each. They weren't even in the same league.
And now? They had Fire Fist Ace on the Dragon Hunter Pirates' ship—a man with a staggering bounty of 550 million.
Gem sighed. "We're not fighting them. That'd just be asking to die."
"I know," Mikita—aka Miss Valentine —nodded and immediately contacted Crocodile.
At that moment in Alabasta, Crocodile was still buried in his investigation of the ancient weapon, Pluto.