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Chapter 9 Asking for a Gun
What Maude is missing now is the Lv.1 slime, not the lv.99 red dragon.
But before Maude went to find the former to have fun, the latter came to the door inexplicably.
Four emperors, Red-hair Shanks.
Even if Maude wanted to break his head, he couldn’t think of why the red-haired Shanks would come to such a broken shop.
He just wanted to grow up with wretchedness, how could he have thought that in less than two days, all kinds of ruthless corners came to the door in turn.
When he was caught off guard, he couldn’t control his emotions and let it show on his face.
Shocked and unbelievable.
He didn’t even reply to Shanks in the first time.
Shanks saw some clues from Maude’s reaction, but didn’t care. He turned to Sonny at the counter and raised his hand to say hello.
“Yo, Little Nini, it’s been a long time since I saw you.”
“Okay, long time no see.”
“How did you cut your hair?”
“That’s, um, Saul said my hair is too long and it costs water to wash it, so he let me cut it.”
Sonny’s eyes drooped, her heartbeat was a little faster, and she just found an excuse to stop her.
[At this time, Saul was walking slowly down the street carrying the leftovers, and suddenly he sneezed severely. He wiped his nose with his hand and thought about it, but in vain, he had an unknown premonition, and subconsciously speeded up his pace.]
Inside the shop, Shanks smiled helplessly and said, “Saul is really as good as ever… thrifty.”
“Uh, why are you here this time…?”
Sonny changed the subject in due course and asked Shanks what she was coming from.
“Still the same, come and buy some wine from the hometown.”
Shanks laughed, crossed Maude, and came to the counter.
It was also at this time that Maude finally recovered.
The curly-haired male Yasopp glanced at Maude without a trace, and immediately followed Shanks with Lucky Roo, who was holding a chicken leg.
Maude looked at their backs in silence, calmed his mind, and concealed the shop door easily, then stepped aside, watching Shanks and Sonny who were chatting.
Judging from the content of the conversation, Shanks seems to be a regular customer in the store.
What made Maude unable to complain most was that Shanks came to the store to buy wine, not weapons.
Is there any liquor in the store?
Maude suddenly thought of the basement entrance downstairs.
Couldn’t it be a wine cellar…
Behind the counter, Sonny seemed to be a little bit stage fright after she changed her routine.
However, when she talked about Shanks’s intention to drink wine, she remembered Saul’s decisive and heart-wrenching orders, and immediately confirmed her position as a member of Saul’s weapon shop.
She looked up at Shanks and said with a serious face: “After you emptied the wine last time, Saul told me to sell it to anyone, but I can’t sell you again.”
“what?”
Shanks was taken aback, turned his head to look at Lucky Roo, and asked in confusion, “Did we not pay the money last time?”
“There is payment, that is… When moving the goods, I took two barrels of wine specially left by the boss.”
“…”
Shanks was silent for a while, and sighed: “It turns out that something like this has happened.”
After sighing, he leaned towards Sonny, changed his focus, lowered his voice and asked, “Is Saul home?”
Sonny said straightforwardly: “He is not here.”
“Then it will be easier.”
Shanks looked serious.
“You….!”
Sonny opened her eyes wide.
Without waiting for Sonny’s next words, Lucky Roo, who knew what Shanks meant, put the wine money on the counter first, and then walked to the stairs with ease.
Seeing Lucky Roo walking towards the wine cellar, Sonny subconsciously stepped out of the counter to stop it.
Swishhh——
At this moment, there was a soft noise from the counter.
Sonny followed the sound, but it was the sound made by Yasopp who went to the shelf to take a smooth-bore flintlock and a short-handled flintlock between the conversation, and then lightly placed it on the counter.
“Little Nini, how do you sell these two guns?”
Yasopp leaned forward and put his hands on the table.
The timing was difficult to say, but his expression didn’t seem to be a joke, he was really planning to buy a gun.
Sonny looked at the back of Lucky Roo, and then at the two guns placed on the counter, gritted her teeth and sighed, her heart was ashamed and quoted the price: “Smoothbore 1.2 million Baileys, short handle 3.8 million Bailey.”
At this time, Lucky Roo had disappeared in the visible range, and he had already gone to the wine cellar.
“call out–”
Hearing the price reported by Sonny, Yasopp blew a whistle, did not object to the seemingly unreasonable price, and straightly took out the money.
Shanks glanced at the smooth-bore flintlock that Yasopp cloth was carrying on his back, and asked, “That’s it? Maybe Saul can fix it.”
Yasopp pursed his lips and said, “Boss, do you want to wait for Mr. Saul back in the shop?”
“Ha ha.”
Shanks smiled indifferently: “It’s okay, we can move the wine away and then come back.”
“…”
He was speechless for a while, and shook his head: “Forget it, let it stop here. As an old man, it has done its best.”
With that said, he unfastened the smoothbore flintlock behind him and put it on the counter.
This gun was the first old man he brought out from the village.
Even if you consciously use the [Armament Haki] to breed it, in the end it will only make up for it.
After all, he is a sniper, specializing in [Observation Haki] rather than [Armament Haki].
Furthermore, the acquisition of [Armament Haki] is a matter of years after going to sea, and by then you will realize that it is too late to use Haki to nurture your love gun.
Over time, the original old man can only be reduced to a spare gun.
Until now, it has become more and more aging, and it is a bit difficult to even become a spare gun.
This is something that Yasopp had already experienced during the regular maintenance.
In desperation, he can only move on to the last choice-to change the gun.
Sonny glanced at the old musket that Yasopp had placed on the counter, and said calmly: “Sorry, we don’t accept second-hand guns, especially broken guns!”
When she finally said the word “broken gun”, she said with a heavy tone.
“It’s not broken, it’s aged.”
Perceiving Sonny’s targeting, Yasopp felt helpless.
“Aging will not be accepted!”
“…”
“Ha ha.”
This is Shanks’ happy laugh.
Yasopp shook his head and said, “If you don’t sell the money, just tell Mr. Saul that I left it.”
“Can’t you just throw it away? It won’t work anyway.”
“That won’t work!”
With a serious face, Yasopp said, “Let Mr. Saul keep it. Maybe he will be interested someday and will change the old man’s “movement” to another gun. At that time, he will be able to use another gun. Keep going in this way.”
“Actually you have another choice.”
The speaker was Maude who had been watching.
Hearing Maude’s words, the few people present couldn’t help but look at him.
Facing the gazes of several people, Maude, who had calmed down, did not have stage fright at all, and his tone was solemn and serious.
“Give it to me, and I will take it for another ride.”