/
“Vegapunk said he would make an arm for Zephyr, and until he does, Zephyr is better off training with his students in peace.”
In the end, Sengoku did not agree with Zephyr’s application to participate in the war. The day after the refusal, Sengoku also personally boarded a battleship and went to the Water 7, where the fortifications were being intensively set up.
Before leaving Marineford, Sengoku let the marine forces cruising around Arabasta, ready to convince Wexford to join the Seven Warlords of the Sea to retreat. But now, Sengoku knew that the other party did not want to join the Seven Warlords of the Sea.
Sengoku didn’t only let the marine get out of contact with Wexford and his group but also gave permission to the World Economy Newspaper’s Morgans to publish the portraits of Garp and Shanks in the newspaper.


.
Located in the New World, after receiving the news from the Marine Department, Morgans immediately reformatted the picture of Garp and others that had been stored before to the latest newspaper.


..
At this time, the marine and Morgans were making big moves, while Wexford and others in the Buggy Pirate ship had just sailed from the dock of Arabasta to the next island of this route they were on – Jaya Island.
“Captain Wexford, your bounty has increased again!” Shanks rushed into the cabin from the deck and shouted to Wexford, who was sitting in the cabin canteen.
Wexford was very concerned about his bounty. After all, his bounty also affected the time for each Pirates King to be copied to the main world.
So after hearing Shanks’ shout, Wexford beckoned him over and said, “Let me take a look.”
Under the greeting of Wexford, Shanks, who ran in, reached out and handed over the newspaper in his hand directly, “Captain, there is still me this time.”
This time, Shanks was so excited to come to Wexford, mainly because he saw his headshot in the newspaper. Although he was in the very back of the line, and the bounty was not high, this still made Shanks very happy.
“Is that so?”
Wexford listened to Shanks urging aside while opening the newspaper and browsing this latest newspaper.
‘Wexford sea pirate group members exposed! Marine heroes, the Seven Warlords of the Sea, and the Four Emperors are among them. What kind of organization is this pirate group?’
The first time he saw the headline, he laughed. Wasn’t this the typical headline party?
After reading the bolded and blacked-out headline, Wexford moved his gaze to the bottom. On top of this home page, there was only a bounty list for Wexford alone. The marines’ bounty for Wexford was also directly raised by 200 million, coming to a high bounty position of 700 million belly.
“Seven hundred million belly, another two days can be reduced.”
For the increase of his bounty, Wexford was still quite satisfied. Every hundred million bounty was able to reduce the countdown of the copied person.
After his bounty list on the first page, the second page was the bounty list of Garp, Doflamingo, and others. However, compared to the previous silhouette, this time, the World Economy Newspaper directly put up the photos of everyone.
‘Fake Garp, life or death, bounty of 1.2 billion belly!
“Fake Doflamingo, live or die, bounty 300 million belly!”
‘Unknown person, life or death, bounty of 350 million belly!
”Wexford Pirates trainee, live or die, 5 million belly!
”Buggy, life or death, bounty of 40 million belly!
After looking over the bounties of all his men, Wexford pointed to the intern and said, “Not bad, Shanks, you have five million bounties.”
Although his bounty was the lowest of all, having a bounty and no bounty were very different. So when Shanks was praised by Wexford, he laughed and said, “Haha, I am also a pirate with five million bounty.”
Followed by Shanks walked into the cabin, Buggy was so happy to see Shanks. He reached out and squeezed Shanks’ head and said, “What is there to be happy about? I already have 40 million!”
Previously, Buggy had been mixed in the East Blue for more than ten years, and he only had about ten million bounty. However, after following Wexford for only a few months, his bounty was skyrocketing, climbing directly to the point of forty million.
Although Buggy cared far more about the treasure than the bounty, the elevated bounty still made Buggy very satisfied.
“The marine put all of us on the picture. It seems that the marine has changed.” Katakuri, who was sitting in the lunchroom drinking with Wexford, glanced at those photos in the newspaper. After determining that the photos of Garp, Doflamingo, and others were put on it, Katakuri sensed some of the marines’ thoughts.
Wexford agreed with Katakuri, “It is very likely that the marine has not put up the pictures of Garp and the others before. After we entered the Grand Line, the marine also let the navy contact us to join the Seven Warlords of the Sea. All these actions are to keep the appearance of Garp and others from giving a bad influence to the marine. Now that they have released all the photos, it is likely that they have changed their decision.”
Katakuri took over Wexford’s words and continued, “That is to say, we will probably have a big battle with the marine.”
“Very likely. Maybe the marine is already mobilizing its men.” Wexford placed the newspaper he had finished reading on the table, picked up his glass again, “With Sengoku’s nature, he should already be preparing a battle plan.”
As soon as Buggy heard that another battle with the marine was going to happen, he immediately panicked, “Another battle?”
For Buggy, he very much did not want to have a head-on conflict with the marine. Once it happened, his life would be greatly threatened. After all, compared with Garp and others, his strength was a little too weak.
In order to confront Wexford, Garp, and others, the marine sent out by the personnel would certainly not be very weak. They were at least led by the Admiral, and these people could be able to carry out ranged damage.
When teenage Shanks saw Buggy’s face in difficulty, he quickly smiled and said, “Buggy, don’t be afraid, I will protect you.”
Buggy didn’t believe in the words of Shanks. He couldn’t even beat him with this strength. If it was the real Shanks in the New World, he would have been more or less the same.



..
At the time when Buggy recalled Shanks, the Four Emperor of the New World was also pinching a newspaper at this time, looking at the head portrait of Buggy.
“Haha, Buggy has forty million belly.” Shanks was still very happy to see his former comrade in the newspaper.
Next to Shanks, Yasopp, who was leaning on him, had a somewhat different focus than he did. The sniper didn’t bother to look at Buggy’s picture but pointed to the teenage Shanks’ bounty list, “Huh, how does this guy look a bit like
 me?”
Become a Patron to read chapters a head public release and support me
Chapter 73 available on Patreon! \n