The Great Voyage: The Props Master on the Straw Hat Ship

He sat there calmly, leaning on a wooden sword that looked like a cane.

Even when he was sitting there, his tall stature was still noticeable.

"Snapped!"

The elderly man with gray hair, holding the certificate, threw the dice out of his hand.

After the dice spun around a few times...

A bright red dot is displayed at the top.

"Hahaha, another one! These two old guys are amazing!!"

"It's always the same score. He's clearly terrible at gambling, but he just can't resist it."

"Aren't these two evenly matched? Putting them together would be a perfect match!!"

The people around them were mercilessly mocking the two of them, and the old man with gray hair who had thrown the dice couldn't help but scratch his head.

"It seems we can't determine a winner or loser."

He smacked his lips, sounding rather regretful.

He instinctively reached for the bottle to drink some more, only to find that it was already empty.

"Oh dear, before I knew it, we'd already finished all the wine?"

The gray-haired old man shook the bottle to make sure there wasn't much left, then took out some money to check.

"Is it only possible to buy one more can of wine?"

He sighed, "I never imagined that I'd already spent all my money and this is all I have left."

"Thanks to you playing a couple of rounds with me, otherwise I might not even have had the money to buy this last bit of alcohol."

He smiled and looked at the man in front of him who had his eyes closed, was leaning on a cane, and had a chivalrous air about him.

"Me too..."

The wandering swordsman slowly opened his tightly closed eyes, revealing pale pupils. "To encounter an opponent of the same level is a rare and precious thing," he said meaningfully.

"Haha, who says otherwise?"

The elderly man with gray hair stood up, patted his head with a smile, and said, "I've been out playing for long enough; it's time to plan a trip home."

"But before going home, I have to return the money I stole from my home?"

Seeing that the gambling tables had been cleared up and the crowd around them had lost their excitement, they immediately dispersed.

"This money isn't enough..."

The elderly man with gray hair tossed the coins in his hand; clearly, these were only enough to buy alcohol, far from enough to repay the stolen money.

"It's time to think of some ways to make money..."

He yawned there, clearly having already figured out how to make money.

It's nothing more than the same old method~

"Are you planning to go to a human auction, sell yourself as a slave, and then make money off your employer?"

A flash of red light appeared in the empty, pale pupils of the wandering swordsman, and he couldn't help but laugh as he spoke.

"Yes, I'm particularly experienced in this area."

The elderly man with gray hair smiled and said, "If you ever need money, come to me. I can introduce you to some connections." "Such connections...maybe I should forget about them?"

The blind swordsman shook his head. "I closed my eyes precisely because I couldn't bear to witness that hellish scene. I've always kept my distance from such scenes of humanity's darkest depths."

He paused for a moment, then added, "But this time, I might as well go and support you."

"Oh?"

The gray-haired man raised an eyebrow with slight interest. "How so?"

"Because there, very interesting people will come, and very interesting things will happen?" He used "very interesting" twice in a row, which aroused the old man's curiosity.

"Then I'll be watching closely!!"

He laughed heartily and walked out of the casino.

The blind swordsman, leaning on his cane, got up from his seat and left.

The two of them headed towards the same place, one after the other.

Meanwhile, in lawless areas and other regions, a message was also spreading rapidly.

"The strongest of the Supernovas, the Straw Hat Pirates, Captain [Straw Hat Boy] Monkey D. Luffy, and his crew have arrived on this island!!" Instantly, the entire pirate community on the island was in an uproar.

Inside a restaurant in area 26.

"Huh? The guy in the straw hat is here?!"

Kidd, with his spiky red hair, threw the bloody steak he was holding onto the table. "You've kept me waiting for ages!!"

A bloodthirsty smile spread across his face, and his fingers were excitedly rubbing together.

He had been looking forward to meeting the strongest of this so-called "supernova" for quite some time now.

"Yes, according to witnesses, they are a group of people heading to the human auction venue in Zone One."

Kira, who was slurping Italian noodles nearby, said in a low voice.

With his mask full of holes, he can only eat this kind of noodle food.

"A human auction venue? It's not as close as ours..."

Kidd licked his lips, a flickering light in his eyes. "So, they're also quite interested in slaves?"

"Men, let's go ahead and wait there to see what those people look like!"

The movements of the various supernovas in Chapter 273 are too chaotic! Their ideas are insane and audacious to the extreme!

With that, Kidd flicked his robe and walked out of the restaurant.

He was followed by a group of his supporters.

And in another corner inside this restaurant.

"Godfather, the Straw Hat Pirates have arrived on this island and are heading to the human auction house. Should we...?"

The tall, bald man, Gotti, the "assassin" of the Flame Tank Pirates and Lola's future husband, asked Capone Bege for his opinion while he was dining there.

"Wouldn't it be good if someone scouted out the way for us first?"

Capone Becky elegantly cut off a piece of steak and put it in his mouth, "A head worth over 550 million Berries, especially since there are two of them."

"A pirate crew of this caliber, even with other special factors, is definitely not weak."

"It would be perfect to send that redhead to test the waters. If they could just clash and both sides suffer heavy losses, that would be ideal!"

Becky smirked. "The ultimate victor isn't always the one who first started the conflict!"

Just when Becky was planning to let the two sides fight and she reap the benefits...

On the other side, within area eighteen.

Near a beautiful fountain, a person with a very calm, even expressionless, face sat at the front of a small table.

"If we were to go and fight the Straw Hat Pirates..."

[The Magician] Hawkins flips over a tarot card drawn during a divination.

"Winning chance: 0%, Escape chance: 0%, Death chance: 50%..."

Looking at the divination results, Hawkins fell silent for a moment.

Is the gap really that big?

He was muttering to himself there.

Both of them were newcomers who had just set sail this year, and the straw hat guy was even much younger than him.

As it turned out, the opponent seemed to be several levels stronger than him in terms of bounty amount, personal strength, and crew.

It's truly infuriating to compare yourself to others.

Hawkins didn't seem to have many feelings about it, or perhaps he had simply become somewhat numb to it after experiencing so many different divinations.

"It's best not to join in the Straw Hat Pirates' antics."

Having initially harbored some intentions, he gave up completely, put away the tarot cards in his hand, and planned to head in a direction further away from area one.

Stay away from those troublemakers.

The area of ​​mangrove No. 22.

"Hey, the Straw Hat Pirates are here?!"

Sculachman Ap, perched on the rooftop, also looked on with interest. "Another show to watch?!"

"captain?"

Behind him were the crew members and others with distressed expressions.

Why are we crouching on the roof?!

A group of people looked down at the bustling streets below, and couldn't help but feel a sense of longing and yearning.

"You guys don't know anything! Don't you know that the rooftop offers the best view and is the easiest place to move out and escape?!"

With that, he dusted off his clothes and stood up. "Let's go, to Zone One, see if there's anything else to watch!"

"Yes, Captain."

A weak voice came.

"Get your act together, you bastards!!"

Below where Ap and the others left, inside a restaurant on the street.

"Hurry up and bring the food, I want more!!"

With long, straight red hair, wearing denim overalls, a white short-sleeved shirt, brown knee-high boots, and heart-shaped lipstick, Joelle Bonney was holding a chicken leg in one hand and a pizza in the other.

Its two legs kept flailing on the table, and it was shouting at the shopkeeper.

"The Straw Hat Pirates?"

As she tore at the food in her mouth, she glanced sideways at the crew member who was reporting the news to her.

"What does that have to do with me?!"

Bonnie said nonchalantly, "Let them do whatever they want, as long as they don't disturb my meal!!"

She rudely stuffed the entire chicken leg pizza into it:

"I told you, hurry up and serve me the food!!!"

Bonnie's eyes were only on the food, while in the other nineteenth area...

"The Straw Hat Pirates?"

He has an "X" mark on his chin and chest, a distinctive hooked nose, an eyepatch over his left eye, a medieval swordsman's hat, and a black mask resembling that of the swordsman Zoro. He is holding information about the Straw Hat Pirates.

"Is it said that even the generals at headquarters couldn't do anything about this group?"

[Red Flag] X? Drake held a four-bladed axe in his right hand and a sword in his left, his eyes gleaming as he pondered.

"Should we also report this news to the Navy...?"

On the surface, he is a "fallen rear admiral" who defected from the Navy, but in reality, he is the captain of the Navy's special forces, the secret special unit "SWORD." He came to the sea as a pirate to infiltrate among the Four Emperors and gather intelligence!

Now, on this Sabaody Archipelago, Drake's first thought was whether to pass the message on to the Navy.

As for whether or not to join the fray and deal with the Straw Hat Pirates...

Knowing full well the meaning of "causing trouble," he wouldn't go out of his way to invite trouble.

Moreover, as a Navy spy, he also knew some information that the pirates were unaware of.

For example, this group stormed Enies Lobby and defeated Rob Lucci, the strongest member of CP9. Also, it seems that Marine Admiral Aokiji also tried to intercept them, but in the end, nothing came of it.

Especially after hearing that Gecko Moria, one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, was covered in blood when he was sent to the World Government.

Although he was sent here by Kuma, who was also a member of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, he was definitely not injured by Kuma to this extent.

The Straw Hat Pirates' route happened to pass through the Devil's Triangle, so it's obvious who defeated Moria.