One Piece: Roar of Justice

Leaving William's residence, Kakulista returned to his residence inside the walls of St. Innocent with a gloomy face. His residence had just been repaired, and it had been set on fire by the unlucky Bishop Grandet before and had been refurbished. The residence is much more gorgeous than before.

Dolceton had been taken by Kakulista to St. Peter's Wall, and another butler stayed here. Kakulista returned to his room, called the man in the heavy noble clothes, and ordered road.

"Come on, Sebastian calls."

"Yes, Master."

The butler bowed and left, while Kakulista waited in his room for a long time, and when he got impatient, his only son, Sebastian, came here reeking of alcohol.

Seeing Sebastian who was smelling of alcohol, Kakulista's face was very ugly, and he was in a bad mood, so he reprimanded Sebastian.

Sebastian is already in his 30s. Although he smells of alcohol, he still wears the aristocratic clothes on his body very rigidly, but he still looks like a child in front of Kakulista, not daring to speak back. , Just bow your head and be scolded.

After a while, maybe because Kakulista had been reprimanded for a long time, Kakulista felt a little thirsty, poured himself a glass of red wine, and said to Sebastian.

"You find time to meet Sheriff Durant."

Sebastian asked with a puzzled face when he heard his father's words.

"Father, that's a famous gambler. Don't you allow me to get in touch with this kind of person?"

Although Sebastian is not as wealthy as Kakulista, and even in his thirties, he is not mature at all, but there is one thing he does very well. He listens to Kakulista very much. Strictly implement Kakulista's words as an order, which is why Kakulista left the business to him after leaving the St. Innocent's Wall.

"I want you to talk about work."

Kakulista said with a cold face, although Sebastian is very obedient, Kakulista still doesn't like him very much because he is useless, but he has no other way, according to his current age, even if If he wants to have another child, he may not be able to, and he may not be able to live until his second son grows up. After his death, everything he has now can only be left to Sebastian.

"Tell him to investigate the case of Isuzak well, and..."

Having said that, Kakulista paused for a moment, doubts flashed across a pair of cloudy eyes, and continued.

"Tell him to watch out for William."

Sebastian left with his father's orders, but Kakulista kept pacing in his room, frowning, thinking about the ins and outs of the whole case, and William's behavior all the time, but he really Couldn't find any problems.

The matter of inviting William to join the Kingdom's army was proposed by Kakulista, and the serious security problems in the outlying towns were not formed recently. Originally, such things should not be suspected of William, but Kakulista Kulista just had a premonition, a feeling that William had escaped his control, because the person who died in this case was none other than Isuzak, who had had conflicts with William.

For this series of things, William has been pushing the boat smoothly from the beginning. The only doubtful thing may be that the dead person is Isuzak, but he has no evidence, which makes Kakulista feel headache. I can only convince myself that his instinctive reactions are because he is too caring.

Kakulista feels that his current reaction is only because William began to use his need for him to improve the conditions again and again, which made him wary, but thinking again, William, as his ally, is right It is normal to have some interest demands.

Since he couldn't figure it out, he simply gave up this headache. Kakulista fell on the bed and fell asleep.

And just as Kakulista fell asleep, on the other side of Antruth Town, Zebra returned here.

"Why are you back so late?"

Lafitte had already fallen asleep, and came out of the room wearing a coat. It is necessary to mention that Lafitte's skin is not only pale and terrible, but actually his skin is this color, wearing pajamas The exposed chest and arms were equally pale.

"Sorry for disturbing your rest. There is something I need to tell you. What I will say tomorrow may delay some things, so I will come back."

"Shall I call Astrod?"

"Call him, I just have something to ask him."

"Well, wait a minute, he went to bed earlier than me, it may take a while."

"It's ok."

Lafitte returned to his room to call Astrod, while Zebra stayed outside, leaning on the chair, frowning.

Astrod, who received the news from Lafitte, rushed over quickly. He was wearing a coat, but he only had a pair of slippers on his feet. It seemed that he came in a hurry.

"Sorry for calling you here so late."

Zebra first apologized and said.

But Astrod smiled and said.

"It's okay, I'm used to it. There are always things going on at the Universal Chamber of Commerce, and I can't sleep well at night. Why did you come back alone this time, where is William?"

"He's still in the St. Innocent's Wall."

"Okay, let's talk about the matter directly. I don't want Astrotod. After a busy night, you still come to disturb my slumber. I have a lot of opinions."

Lafitte yawned and said.

"Haha, I'm sorry, sorry, I'm just talking about business."

Zebra said.

"Alexander III and the nobles living in St. Peter's Wall already knew about Isuzak. They decided to close the gates of St. Innocent's Wall and began to tax the common people."

Hearing Zebula's words, Astrod frowned, bit his finger and said.

"That's not good news."

"In this case, our business will become very troublesome."

Zebra shook his head and said.

"It's just an additional process. William is working inside the walls of St. Innocent. Our business will not be greatly impacted, but the taxation of civilians is a troublesome matter."

Lafitte stopped yawning at this time, nodded and said.

"That's right, the economy of the outlying towns is very unstable, and now it has barely reached a balance. If the Kingdom of Balegon starts to tax the common people, this balance will be broken, and there may be chaos at that time."

"It's not possible, there will definitely be trouble, but the nobles have already expected this, so they chose to push us ahead."

"What are they going to do?"

Lafitte asked.

"In the evening, Kakulista came to St. Innocent's Wall once and told William about it. They planned to let us be responsible for the security of the outer towns. William took the opportunity to raise conditions with Kakulista. , allowing us to expand our military and build a school to train professionals in law and order."

"It's easy to talk about the expansion of the army, but this school is a good thing. If it is used well, the strength of our troops will be greatly improved."

"That's right, I also thought of this, and I asked William to tell Kakulista."

Zebra nodded and said.

At this time, Astrod frowned and said.

"It does sound like a good thing, but now we have financial problems and are already a bit stretched."

"How come? Isn't your Universal Chamber of Commerce developing well?"

Astodd did not tell anyone else about this matter, so after hearing what Astodd said, Lafitte seemed very surprised.

And Zebra seemed to have thought of this, looked at Astrod, and asked.

"What's the situation now?"

The Four Seas Chamber of Commerce, this is no different from a gold-swallowing behemoth. Long before the sea ban was opened, the town of Antruth had already started to sell wine from the West Sea to the inside of the wall. At that time, it almost monopolized the wine market inside the wall. Coupled with William's so-called "private guards" escorting it and engaging in unfair competition, the Universal Chamber of Commerce has developed very rapidly. Moreover, the outer towns are now under the control of Zebra and the others, except for some In addition to the protection fee, these places are the exclusive markets of the Universal Chamber of Commerce, where products are dumped, and they are not worried about sales at all, so Astord has been thinking about other businesses recently. Overall, the development is still good.

The income is considerable, but the expenses of Zebra and the others are also terrible. First of all, it is the research expenses of their old buddy Wallon. Weapons can not be developed just because they are developed, they need a lot of research, which means a lot of money. Expenses, as well as the maintenance cost of Lafitte's troops, are also a huge number, and now this army is still facing military expansion, and the cost will increase again by then, Zebra is still in Antrus A shipyard was built in the town, plus the house bought for Kakulista and the others within the walls of St. Innocent, and the usual public relations expenses on William's side, are now somewhat beyond their means.

After Astrod's statistics, Zebra realized that he had spent so much money before, and he needed more funds, especially since they were likely to have a new army to support soon, so this need changed. more urgent.

William's militia troops are all self-financed, and they cannot rely on looting to maintain themselves as Zebra did when he was in the Don Quixote family. This militia has no source of income.

Zebra frowned and thought for a long time before saying.

"Now the pirates in the waters around the Kingdom of Balegon have passed through our encirclement and suppression, and the outlying towns are all under our command, including the three largest ports. In fact, a monopoly has already been created, so we need to enter the next It's a part."

"The next link?"

Lafitte and Astrod asked in unison.

"Yes, charge."

Zebra nodded and said.