One Piece: We already have the Four Gods, so my Six Paths Sage is reasonable, right?

Kaido's fingers tightened around the wanted poster, the paper creaking softly in his palm, and his expression grew increasingly grim.

Below the portrait, the number 4300000000 was clearly marked.

"Ron, Linlin," Kaido's voice was filled with resentment as he cursed, "You two bastards, you plotted something big without me, did you think I was too weak?!"

After cursing, Kaido crumpled the bounty poster into a ball, shoved it back into Annika's hand, and turned to run towards the newspaper that had been blown away by the wind.

He wanted to see what Ron and Lingling had done to cause Ron's bounty to skyrocket from 1.5 billion to 4.3 billion.

On the other side of the ship's railing, Gloriosa, observing Kaido's unusual behavior, casually asked, "What's he doing now?"

Stussy glanced at her out of the corner of his eye, his tone nonchalant, as if he'd never seen anything like it: "You haven't been here long enough to understand the Rocks Pirates. Here, nobody's normal. So, forget about yelling and screaming; even if he suddenly swung his spiked club at your face, that's normal too."

"You were hit by Kaido's club?" Gloriosa pressed.

Stussy chuckled softly: "Almost."

"........."

Looking at her somber expression, Stussy smiled faintly and added, "So, be careful. Sometimes, what kills you isn't necessarily an enemy, but rather your nominal 'partner' with whom you spend every day."

"Does this include you, Stussy?" Gloriosa asked again.

"Me? Not at all," Stussy patted her chest gently. "I'm a beautiful and kind woman."

"Hard to say~~~" Malone, who was passing by, casually tossed out a sentence, and then walked away as if nothing had happened.

Stussy stared at Malone's retreating figure with a gloomy look in his eyes. "Was that polite? Did I even speak to you?"

At the same time, Kaido had already picked up the newspaper that had been blown away by the wind, and his eyes quickly scanned the words on the page.

Then suddenly, with a loud "smack," Kaido slammed the newspaper onto the deck: "What do you mean 'My father is a Rear Admiral'? And what do you mean 'The eldest son of a Vice Admiral annihilates mountain bandits'? If you're going to publish it, then publish it! Why put this kind of garbage on the front page? Are you trying to show it to idiots?"

Annika slowly unfolded the crumpled wanted poster, her gaze falling on the string of numbers, her eyes filled with admiration.

She whispered something, her voice low, as if speaking to herself: "Lord Ron... is truly amazing..."

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A new world, a certain sea area.

Sunlight filtered through the gaps in the clouds, casting dappled patterns of light on the undulating waves.

The Euro Jackson was cutting through the waves, its bow slicing through the azure sea, with white spray churning on either side.

On deck, Rayleigh had just bought a newspaper from the Newsbird for 100 Berries.

As soon as I opened the newspaper, I saw a brand new wanted poster with a bounty. I froze for several seconds, completely still.

"Rayleigh, you don't look too good. Did something big happen at sea?" Jabba leaned closer, his eyes lingering on the bounty poster Rayleigh was holding.

Then, the familiar face on the wanted poster came into his view.

Suddenly, an unpleasant memory flashed through Jabba's mind.

"It's that bastard Ron... He really made me suffer a lot back then!" Jabba said expressionlessly.

Yes, when they first fought Ron, Ron injured him.

Then, back on the ship, Golden Lion and Lingling raided it again, and he... was like an incompetent husband, only able to watch helplessly as all the treasure on his ship was swept away.

What's even more infuriating is that bastard Golden Lion. Not only did he steal it, but he also provoked me, saying he was cosplaying as Bandaged Man.

Sooner or later, he'll make Golden Lion cosplay as Bandaged Man.

"Yes, we were indeed quite frustrated back then." Rayleigh chuckled. He was quite open-minded and didn't harbor too much hostility towards Ron.

He paused, then added, "Now it seems that the fact that the bounty has soared to 43 billion in such a short time can only mean one thing: the World Government has come to regard him as a threat that must be taken seriously. And the setbacks we suffered at his hands before are now justified, hahaha."

"Shuashua~~~~"

An arm stretched out from above the ship's roof, across the side, and precisely grabbed the bounty poster in Rayleigh's hand.

Then, the arm began to retract, and the paper was pulled in an arc in mid-air before finally landing in the palm of the figure on the ship's roof.

Rayleigh glanced down at the newspaper in his hand, then looked up at the ship's roof, his tone calm: "The newspaper didn't publish anything useful. However, for Ron to garner such attention from the World Government, he must have done something extraordinary."

"Hmm," Jabba nodded slightly, "Such an exaggerated increase is indeed frightening, even surpassing Roger's... and in such a short period of time."

"Hahaha~~~"

A loud laugh came from the top of the ship.

Roger sat there cross-legged, holding the wanted poster in his hand. Looking at the number, he wasn't nervous at all; instead, he laughed heartily: "Many people yearn for fame and fortune, but what I value is freedom and doing whatever I want."

Indeed, given the overall strength of the Roger Pirates, if they wanted to increase their bounty, they only needed to oppose the World Government in everything they did.

For example... attacking member states, stealing Celestial Gold, killing Celestial Dragons... as long as you do enough, the bounty will naturally skyrocket.

But the Roger Pirates were unimpressed.

In their eyes, the most important thing for pirates has never been that string of numbers.

"That's true, Roger."

Rayleigh's voice came up from below, "But I still think we need to take this guy named Ron seriously. If he hadn't severed the World Government's lifeline, his bounty wouldn't have skyrocketed to this level."

The sudden appearance of a pirate with such a high bounty on the high seas is not a good thing for the World Government, and may even further damage their credibility.

They will not make such a decision unless absolutely necessary.

"Hmm, that makes sense," Jabba agreed. "Besides, we've had some unpleasant experiences with Ron."

"Hahahaha~~~" Roger laughed loudly, "You guys are just too cautious. Even if he is really strong, can one person really turn the world upside down? When we clashed with Garp, Sengoku, and even Rocks, wasn't it always a near-death experience? But our unity has allowed us to pull through every time."

"But," Rayleigh's voice suddenly lowered, "what if the Rocks Pirates also unite?"

Roger's smile paused slightly.

But before he could reply, Jabba interrupted, "Rayleigh, I disagree with what you're saying. Others might not know the situation with the Rocks Pirates, but we... know it all!"

That makes sense, as most of the Rocks Pirates members were brought together through the One Piece game, and each of them had their own ulterior motives and schemes.

In that kind of environment, it wouldn't be surprising if news of "Rocks being betrayed" were to spread one day.

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(First update)