One Piece: Adopting Akainu at the beginning, adopted son Barrett

Chapter 16 Fruit in hand, leaving

"Master Hydram Palace, you must apply to the Five Elders for this request. I'm sorry, but we are incompetent and cannot guarantee your safety during the arrest."

Trying hard to organize his words, a CP0 agent respectfully stated a fact, with a nervous expression as if he was afraid that the other party would get angry and do something irrational.

This is not impossible. Never overestimate the brains of ordinary celestial dragons. This is the first lesson as a CP0 agent.

But as dogs, they cannot contradict their masters and can only use some nice words mixed with facts to persuade them.

Haidram frowned, but she didn't say anything else. She just slowly called out her offer:
"Five hundred million Baileys!"

Anything that requires applying to the Five Elders is troublesome. Most Celestial Dragons hate trouble, and she is no exception.

So I can only wait until I get back and let my second husband, who has become a slave, comfort me. Speaking of which, that guy has a pretty sweet mouth.

On the other side, Ross had naturally heard all the conversations and felt somewhat relieved, thinking that it seemed that he should be able to get the fruit.

The Celestial Dragons were the last people he wanted to see right now, because it was very troublesome, and if the other party just insisted on making him the next toy, then he would have to run away.

But there is no way, the auction house and slave trade guild in Shambali, these things are essentially serving the Celestial Dragons.

It's simple, it's really easy to make money from a bunch of suckers, except for being a little dangerous, everything else is top-notch.

"Six hundred million!"

Ross's offer followed closely.

This time, the Tianlongren did not bid, as if he felt that the value of the toy was a bit too high and not worth spending his limited pocket money to buy it.

After a long while, the auctioneer on the stage seemed relieved and slowly shouted:

"Six hundred million Baileys once! Six hundred million Baileys twice! Six hundred million Baileys three times!"

"make a deal!"

As the hammer fell, the fruit was slowly lifted down, followed by the next item.

A mermaid imprisoned in a water tank, with a starting price more than twice that of a devil fruit blind box!
Ross had no interest in other things. There were a lot of beautiful mermaids in the Dragon Palace under the sea. It would not be too late to enjoy himself when he was old and had time.

Now, it’s better to fulfill my duties as a husband.

So, he slowly walked towards the inside of the auction house, ready to pay for the goods and leave.

Not far away, the group of CP agents who were on high alert all breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, they had saved their lives!

Serving beside the Celestial Dragons can be said to be second to none, but as they are well educated, they all understand one thing: what will be the consequences of fighting with a strong man who is much stronger than themselves?
There is only one answer: to be loyal to the Celestial Dragons!

But not all CP agents are completely loyal to the Celestial Dragons, except for the crazy ones in CP0.

After successfully obtaining the fruit and the third generation of Ashura, Ross hurried back to the hotel and took Sakaski away.

He didn't want to judge the thought process of the Celestial Dragons. It would be very troublesome if they suddenly attacked him.

At that time, I would have to move my family to Sky Island or even the New World. That would be too troublesome and not conducive to my development.

I was planning to develop myself in an all-round way as an official, soldier, and businessman. If I hadn't met Sakaski by chance, my original plan would have been to send military funds to the navy and let the children of my subordinates and my own children go there to gild themselves.

It is impossible for him to provide one-on-one tutoring to each of his children, so Zephyr from the Navy is a good choice.

Considering the original plan of 5 billion per year, you should at least give me a few places in the elite training camp, right?

That’s five billion in 1480!
"Let's go Sakaski, we should go back. We've been out for a little too long this time."

"Ah."

After closing the book, Sakaski, who had become full of scholarly temperament, stood up and nodded, and slowly took out the things he had packed. All the gifts to be given away were packed in a big box, except for the gunpowder for Mona, which was placed in a separate suitcase.

After settling the rent, Ross left with his bags and Sakaski in his hands, set off on the clouds, and headed towards the North Sea with Mokasi's life card in his hand.

.........

There was no conversation along the way. It was almost dusk when we arrived at the fleet of three large ships. Children could be seen on the ships, each doing their own job.

"Mr. Ross, Mrs. Golly and the others are enjoying dinner in the captain's room."

As soon as we boarded the ship, an armored guard came to report.

Ross nodded to show that he understood, then turned to Sakaski and said:

"Would you like to come with us, Sakaski? How about we give the others a surprise tomorrow with their gifts?"

"Row."

Sakaski nodded in agreement, his words brief.

The experiences of these days have brought him a significant transformation. Compared to the simple hatred and malice he had at the beginning, he has understood much more.

There are endless pirates to kill, not to mention that the guys who create pirates can basically not be killed.

There are not many pure pirates even if you look at the whole world. Most of them are probably escaped slaves, oppressed people, etc.

Although this cannot change the fact that they are pirates, after all, pirates simply deserve to die.

However, after seeing the Celestial Dragons and the places where slaves were sold wantonly, he slowly began to understand that simply killing pirates would not have any impact on the world.

Just like how Soldier 68 described the aftermath of the war in The Last Station:
[Tike Island is the island closest to the kingdom. After the war, it is no different from what I saw when I first went to the front line.

My superiors once told me that after victory in the war, the kingdom would gain a considerable fortune, and our group of soldiers would also receive generous rewards.

Yes, I was indeed commended because I had rendered a second-class merit, but all I received was 100,000 baileys, the price of a few blunt knives.

What about those comrades who didn't make any contributions? I asked a close friend of mine, and he said he only received a mere 2,000 Baileys as a reward, which was just enough for a few meals.

Along the way, the devastation and prosperity did not change much because of victory or failure in the war.

Perhaps failure will only make them worse, and the point of our fighting is just to keep them the same. 】

There are many scenes like this description, and "Soldier 68" makes a similar description almost every time he arrives at a new island.

But the more this happened, the more Sakaski could understand it.

Small miniatures are everywhere, they are like the sea, except that the two sides of the war have become the navy and pirates.

The kingdoms and nobles are the World Government and the Celestial Dragons.

"What are you thinking about, Sakaski?"

"Master, how can I protect more people?"

"It seems that you understand the purpose of my showing you these two books, Sakaski, but please forgive me, the answer can only be found slowly by you."

Ross smiled gently and touched Sakaski's head.

To be honest, he really wished Sakaski was his son. It would be much less troublesome than teaching his own son.

(End of this chapter)