Watching the pirate ship sail out of the port, the seven people were abandoned.
"Damn it! They just kicked us off the ship like that."
"It's fine. Doko never listens to advice; he definitely won't end well."
"Then what do we do?"
"For now, let's stop being pirates. I learned shipwright skills. If everyone's willing, come work with me at a shipyard for a while. Once you've learned the craft, whether you keep working or want to go back to sea, it won't be so easy to get abandoned."
The seven abandoned crew members decided to go together to the shipyard to look for work.
After walking for a while, they finally arrived at the shipyard on Bliss Island. The shipyard here was also under the control of certain forces.
Not only did it build ships, it also accepted secondhand ones.
They wandered around the yard somewhat aimlessly, wanting to see if any teams were hiring.
"Look, isn't that the Black Fish?"
The Black Fish was the pirate ship of Three Hands Doko. It had just sailed away in front of their eyes not long ago—how did it suddenly circle around and come to the shipyard here, and it even looked a bit damaged?
"Coming to the shipyard for repairs? Do they have money?"
The Black Fish slowly docked in a slip. The shipyard staff went up to ask about the situation. Very soon, a bunch of battered pirates were driven off the ship with their hands bound behind their backs.
Three Hands Doko was dragged down unconscious by a masked person.
The people at the shipyard were experienced hands and understood what was going on at a glance.
The seven who had been kicked off the pirate ship were dumbfounded. Did they run into a pirate hunter? They'd just left the pier and ran into a pirate hunter?? And then got wiped out in one go??
They watched the whole thing from the side. The "pirate hunter" had a very intense negotiation with the person in charge of the shipyard, and then the person in charge brought out two large chests for the pirate hunter.
Obviously, the pirate hunter and the shipyard head had reached a deal: the Black Fish, the pirate Doko, and the other pirate crew all became merchandise.
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"Pirate ship, discounted to 8 million Belly; pirate bounty 28 million, can only take 24 million; other pirates discounted to 6 million; total 38 million Belly… a bit shady."
Vane was definitely taking a loss, but it was simple and fast, and the shipyard people wouldn't ask questions.
Lost more than a hundred thousand Belly at the casino, then followed pirates out and made 38 million—Vane felt this kind of business could keep going.
The pirates of Bliss Island were about to fall into panic.
Vane completely turned into a regular at the casino. If he ran into pirates with bounties, he'd follow them out to see if there was a chance to make a move.
If he didn't, then there was nothing he could do—he'd train his Observation Haki in the casino.
Killing two birds with one stone. And he was also considering developing the possibility of combining Observation Haki with the Transparent World; he had that feeling that Observation Haki and the Transparent World could be combined.
Just like that, more than ten days passed. Meowth and the others finished building the ship's keel—the progress could be said to be quite slow. Vane didn't rush them and continued to linger in the casino looking for his prey.
...
"This is my capital. Check it."
The masked Vane threw a large sack to the casino staff.
After wandering around for so many days, his Observation Haki was already completely mastered and could be released at any time, so he had no reason to keep lingering at these low-level tables.
He decided to enter the high-end gambling area. After watching for so long, he'd figured it out: to enter the high-end area you had to verify your funds. He'd seen those people carrying box after box of money to have it checked with the casino, and then someone would naturally take them into a small room.
So he followed suit and brought a sack of money to be verified.
"Capital… 40 million Belly. One VIP!"
When the casino staff saw that much money, their eyes lit up. Vane immediately felt he'd brought a bit too much. This was money he'd just gotten from dealing with a batch of pirates; the ship was big, so he'd earned a bit more.
He didn't take the money back—he just stuffed it into a sack and rushed to the casino.
Vane was not only taken to a more advanced casino, he was also given a VIP tag to wear on his chest.
50 million Belly was exchanged for 50 chips, each chip worth 1 million Belly. Of course, there were also 500,000 and 100,000 Belly chips. Vane found it troublesome and didn't exchange those; anyway, he could exchange them later down there.
Just as Vane had guessed, the high-end casino was underground—but beyond imagination, the place was very, very big.
This was absolutely not something a single casino could pull off! The so-called underground high-end casino occupied the entire gambling street, and even seized the underground space of the neighboring flower district.
"Honored VIP, this is Baccarat. If you have any questions in the casino, you can ask her… If you need her for other services, ten million Belly and from then on she will be yours, honored VIP."
Just as they came down into the casino, the casino people directly sent a woman to Vane's side.
Fiery red hair, wheat-colored skin, and a rather impressive figure—purely sexy and alluring.
The person who led Vane down even stated Baccarat's price to him directly. It was no different from slave trading—just more titillating and more expensive.
But ten million Belly… too expensive.
And this person, Baccarat… looking at her now, she seemed only about sixteen. Although she was already sexy and beautiful enough, compared to her eighteen years later, she was still a bit lacking.
At first sight of Baccarat, combined with her name, Vane remembered who she was. Baccarat wasn't a character from the main line of the pirate story, but a character from the movie Golden Emperor.
In the movie, she was one of the Golden Emperor's three cadres—Lucky Baccarat, the lucky person who had eaten the Luck-Luck Fruit.
The Luck-Luck Fruit was quite an outrageous fruit. It could steal the luck of anyone it touched and add it to itself. Others would become unlucky, while you would become incredibly lucky.
Any attack aimed at you would be blocked by some off-field factor, and when you wanted to attack others, as long as you tossed a coin, some other off-field factor would make that tiny coin produce an indirect attack.
To fully use this fruit's power, some prerequisites were needed—you needed people whose luck you could steal, and the more chaotic the environment, the better.
However, this fruit's power was only strong against ordinary people; against the strong, it was somewhat insufficient.
In the Haki version, the influence of such fruit abilities would be erased by Haki.
"Honored VIP, next I will guide you."
Baccarat took the initiative to hug one of Vane's arms, and Vane immediately felt his arm being pressed between two soft places.
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