Pirate: It’s not a phantom beast, it’s a phantom god!

Chapter 218 Traitor
"We have a traitor in our midst."

At a round table, Willy rested his chin on his hands, his face gloomy.

In front of him, sitting on other seats at the round table were the patriarchs of several other underground arms families.

These people include men and women, old and young.

Some look sanctimonious, while others have shifty eyes.

But no matter what, after hearing Willy's words, the faces of everyone present immediately became gloomy, and they began to look at everyone except themselves with undisguised suspicion.

It seems that as long as you suspect others quickly enough, you will be innocent.

The flickering flames from the candlesticks reflected on Willy's gold-rimmed glasses, hiding his gaze perfectly and making it impossible to tell what he was really thinking.

"Kuge, it's you, woman!"

A thin man with obviously insufficient yang energy was the first to stand up and slam the table.

"Oh? Sen Doug, don't spit bloody words without evidence~"

The woman named Kuge looked at her newly done nails and said nonchalantly.

Although she looks only in her forties or fifties, she is actually the oldest among the people at the round table.

"Slander? Everyone knows you've been eyeing that pretty boy from the Mediah family lately. I'm afraid you've already used him to get in touch with the Beasts and sold us all out, right?"

"Heh~ What? Are you jealous that I'm looking for him? Or are you holding a grudge because I dumped you back then, and now you're trying to take revenge?"

"Bah! You old woman, you still dare to talk about the past! If it weren't for you..."

"Alright! Stop rambling!"

An elderly householder struck his cane, forcibly ending the emotional dispute.

"What's important now is not to discuss that brat from the Mediah family, but how we face the behemoth that is the Hundred Beasts!"

As the second and third arsenals were built on the side of Baishou, the large market share that was originally vacated by old Media was eaten up in an instant.

The other party obviously had no intention of stopping and was still expanding wantonly.

Everyone seemed to feel a pair of scarlet vertical pupils staring at them, as if a huge mouth of the abyss would swallow them whole, skin and flesh, in the next moment.

"Willie, you called us here. What do you say?"

Looking at Willy who had been silent above, the old man spoke.

"Ah~"

"What I mean is...we should put aside our previous disagreements for the time being and unite."

"By then, whether it's war or peace, a bigger company will have more bargaining chips."

"..."

"Well, that's all we can do for now."

"Seconded."

"Seconded."

"Seconded."

……

"Seconded."

With the nod of the last family leader, a huge underground military-industrial complex was born under strong external pressure.

No one mentioned the traitor again, as if the traitor had never existed in the first place.

"So what do we do next?"

"Let's test their attitude first. Go capture that kid from the Mediah family and send him to the Beasts."

Willy, who temporarily serves as the leader of the consortium, said so.

Now everyone in the underground world knows that Caspar caused trouble at Big Mom's ceremony, tried to tease the leaders of the Beasts, and then thoughtlessly exposed the shortcomings of all the big guys.

To be honest, the reason this kid can jump around until now is purely because the beasts haven't made a move yet, which makes others dare not move first. After all, no one has the courage to compete with that behemoth for the prey.

The reason why the beasts have not taken action yet is... they forgot.

To be more precise, they didn't even remember Caspar.

Because of what happened later, Ossi completely forgot about the little episode with Caspar.

Ou Bei didn't pay any attention to this person from beginning to end.

It was mentioned in the report, but Kaido didn't read it.

Caspar is now like a lucky mouse. The dragon above doesn't care, and the jackals below dare not move.

……

The music ended, the guests left, and the tea grew cold. After the group of family leaders who seemed to be united against a common enemy left, a weary Willie went to his study, where the mansion's butler was already standing by his side.

"master."

"Ah."

"Is Letty asleep?"

"The lady has already gone to bed."

"That's good."

When talking about his daughter, Willy always had an unstoppable smile on his face.

This is the most precious gift left to her by his late wife, and the only family member he must protect at any cost.

"Bring me a pen and paper. I need to write a letter. Please deliver it to Baishou at night."

“…Please.”

Willy bowed solemnly to his young butler as he spoke.

"master……"

Seeing this, the housekeeper hurriedly helped his master up.

"Don't worry, I will definitely deliver it! Even if it costs me my life!"

……

In fact, the process of delivering the letter was far less thrilling than the butler had imagined. In the evening of the next day, he delivered the letter safely to Fenrir Island.

Except for being checked when entering the waters of Fenrir Island, we didn't encounter even a slightly larger wave during the rest of the time.

The butler handed the letter over under the slightly subtle gaze of the Beasts Pirates' receptionist, and then returned to the mansion at the speed of light to report without even touching the small banquet.

"Ok?"

"Another one?"

“This should be the last one.”

In the small house next to the warehouse, Wright looked at the gold-stamped envelope in his hand, which was sealed with the Willy family's exquisite family crest, but he had no intention of opening it.

After all, he had read many letters with similar contents, so he knew what was written in them without even opening them.

"That's right, teacher."

"According to the intelligence sent by that guy named Media Caspar, the Willy family is probably the last of the several major families that control the underground arms trade in the New World."

Dent, who had somehow started wearing a pair of rimless glasses like Wright and whose temperament had become more gentle, calmly stated a shocking fact.

That's right, even though Willy wrote a letter immediately after the meeting to prepare to sell out the other families, he was still one step too late... no, it should be said that he was several steps too late.

In fact, not long after he asked the butler to send out the invitations to other families, the surrender letters from those families were placed on Baishou's desk.

The one who acted the fastest was the head of the Mediah family, Mediah Caspar.

After going to the toilet in the wild, this guy immediately went back and packed up all the confidential materials left by old Media and gave them to Baishou.

Here are the secrets of all the big bosses in the underground world collected by three generations of his father, grandfather, and grandfather.

Of course, the focus is on the interest network between the major arms families and the world government, special sales channels and hidden sources of raw materials.

It can only be said that Media spent nearly a hundred years stripping these competitors of their underwear.

The current leader of the Mediah family, the "lone wolf" Caspar, made the most correct decision decisively after being frightened by an old woman.

As long as he doesn't have to play steel wool with an old woman who is twice his age, he would be willing to lick the boots of some rude female kid every day.

……

"How slow! You're only sending the letter now. Are you still hoping for something?"

Wright wanted to throw the letter in his hand aside, but when he saw someone in the corner suddenly looking over here, he understood and stood up to hand over the letter.

"According to the information from the Mediah family head, this Willy is a cautious and steady person. He will think twice before making a decision, and the more important the decision, the longer he will think."

La, who was knitting in the corner, put down her work, took the envelope, and then used a golden knitting needle to pick up the sealing wax.

"And accordingly, once he makes a decision, he will arrange everything that follows."

After taking out the letter, La read it carefully and then handed it back to Wright.

"Look, like I was saying, this Mr. Willy has already started rolling out the red carpet for us."

"Red carpet...?"

Wright took the letter curiously and read it with Dante beside him under the small fusion energy desk lamp on the table.

(End of this chapter)