Behind the scenes of One Piece

The three people put away their luggage, left the hotel, and stood at the door covered with irises.

"Where to go?" Guli asked.

"I'm going to go check out the previous tavern. Blackbeard likes to drink cheap wine. Maybe he's been here before," Ace said.

"My contact person is said to be working at the dock. I'll go check out the situation first." Gardello's first concern was his own mission.

Guli wanted to visit the casino in the distance.

His goal is to figure out the three major local forces. With Crocodile as an example, he always feels that everyone who opens a casino has a big backend.

"Okay, let's go separate ways and exchange news when we return to the hotel in the evening."

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Ace pushed open the wooden door of the pub, walked straight to the counter at the end, and asked the boss for a beer.

"Hey, boss, the hotel you recommended is not bad."

"Of course! The Iris Hotel is a time-honored brand and has been here for more than 50 years!"

"50 years?" Ace took a sip of wine.

For people like pirates who wear their lives on their waistbands, one year is a long time. In 50 years, the names of the most powerful pirates have changed so many times.

"I'm afraid it's not easy for the owner of this hotel to be able to operate a place like this for 50 years, right?" Ace asked seriously.

"That's right! The hotel belongs to old Charlie. It is said that he used to be an exiled nobleman, but he has stayed here for 50 years and is already a veteran figure in Magic Valley Town!"

While the two were talking, a young pirate sitting by the window of the tavern suddenly shouted:

"Boss! Give me another beer and a plate of grilled oysters!"

The boss glanced at the young pirate, rubbed his garlic nose, and curled his lips:

"This guest, I have already given you a wine and food, you have to pay for any more!"

"What? I just don't have money! Who says you can't eat without money?"

The young pirate stood up and took out a musket from his body:

"Hurry up and give me something to eat, or I'll shoot..."

Before he could finish speaking, he suddenly received a sap on the back of his head and immediately fell to the ground and passed out.

Behind him stood a middle-aged pirate with parted hair, big earrings, and an iron rod in his hand.

"Brie, thank you very much. You don't have to pay for today's drinks." The boss smiled behind the young pirate.

After hearing what the boss said, Bree thanked him. He held the iron rod in one hand and the young pirate's collar with the other, dragging him out of the tavern.

"Rely on pirates to solve the troubles caused by pirates?" Ace looked at the middle-aged pirate's back and asked curiously: "Young pirates can solve it this way. What if there is trouble caused by a powerful pirate group?"

"A powerful pirate group will naturally be dealt with by a powerful pirate group."

Before the boss finished speaking, the door of the tavern opened with a creak, and a strong man with braided hair walked in, followed by seven or eight sailors, each of them dragging a tied pirate. .

"Hey, Mr. Rossio, where are you coming back from?"

The boss obviously recognized the braided man and immediately greeted him familiarly.

"There is a group of pirates who don't understand the rules and are causing trouble on the east side of the street. Haven't they been caught? We will send them to old Charlie later."

Rossio said as he sat down at the largest table in the middle of the tavern.

"Boss, bring some beer to my brothers, fry five plates of seafood, two hundred skewers of barbecue, and a plate of fried rice for each of them!"

"Okay!" The boss agreed and quickly wrote down what the other party ordered in a small book: "How do you settle the bill? Do you still have to charge it to old Charlie's account?"

"Yes, the same old rules." Rossio replied and continued chatting with his men.

The boss turned his head and whispered to Ace: "The Rossio Pirates are very powerful. They will often help old Charlie maintain order in the town. The captain with the braided hair has a bounty of up to 200 million Bei. profit!"

"Oh," Ace looked at the guy named Rosio carefully: "Is he the most powerful pirate under old Charlie?"

"No, no, there are two more powerful ones. One is called Jinola, who is good at assassination; the other is called Marman, who is an extremely strong guy." The boss whispered: "It is said that the bounty for these two people exceeds 6000 Wan Bailey is old Charlie’s right-hand man!”

After saying this, the boss was about to stand up and leave, but Ace quickly stopped him: "I also want to ask you about someone. He should be from Demon Valley Town who just arrived recently."

He then described Blackbeard's appearance and habits.

"A strong man who likes thieves to laugh? I've never seen him before." The boss shook his head, then turned around and went to the kitchen.

Ace finished his beer, walked out of this pub, turned around and went into another pub across the street, and after 10 minutes, he moved to a third one.

In this way, I visited seven or eight taverns one after another, and the results were similar.

Blackbeard really didn't seem to appear here, and Ace felt that Guli might have made a mistake in his judgment.

As for the three major forces mentioned by Guli, this old Charlie from the Iris Hotel can definitely be one of them.

Almost all the pubs and hotels in the entire street were protected by Old Charlie, and at the same time, they were also paying protection fees to Old Charlie in disguise.

Considering that there are so many pirates coming and going here, and being able to maintain order here, it is obvious that old Charlie has more energy than imagined.

He thought as he walked, and unknowingly he had reached the end of the street.

A slightly chaotic scene suddenly appeared in front of him.

At the hotel at the end of the street, the owner and his family were thrown into the street, surrounded by messy furniture and debris.

A pirate with a mushroom head strode up to the hotel owner, holding a thick account book in his hand.

"Boss, since you don't give me face, don't blame me for being rude to you."

As he spoke, he lit the account book on fire with a lighter and threw it in front of the boss.

"You guy, you don't pay me for staying in the hotel and you burn my account book!" the boss yelled, "You are so unreasonable!"

"Reasonable? Of course I am reasonable." The mushroom-headed pirate raised his head and smiled: "You said I owe you a debt? Where is the evidence? Is it in the burned ashes? Hahahaha!"

While he was smiling, more than 20 pirates with the same mushroom heads walked out of the hotel. They walked behind the leader and whispered: "Captain, the boss only has less than [-] beli in the cash box. No other money was found.”

"Huh?" The leader's face immediately darkened.

He grabbed the hotel owner by the collar: "Where did you put all your money? Tell me! If you don't tell me, I will break your neck!"

When he was viciously scaring the hotel owner, everyone onlookers suddenly said "Eh" in unison.

Because a strong man with a height of two and a half meters suddenly stood behind the man.

Then, the mushroom-headed captain only felt his collar tighten, and his whole body had been lifted up. At the same time, a deep voice sounded behind him:

"The Mushroom Head Pirates? The captain has a bounty of 800 million Baileys. Are they such low-class characters?"

"Who is your Excellency? Why are you meddling in our business?" The mushroom-headed captain was lifted up in the air and yelled angrily while kicking his limbs wildly.

"You bully the store owners in Magic Valley Town. This is no small matter. Come with me." The strong man said.

Captain Mushroom Head immediately became anxious and shouted loudly: "Brothers, why are you standing there in a daze? Come up together and defeat this guy!"

More than 20 mushroom-headed pirates reacted immediately, took out weapons from their bodies, and swarmed forward.

When the strong man saw these people rushing forward, he looked calm. He held the captain in his left hand, clenched his fist in his right hand, and shouted in a low voice: "Star Fist in the Sky!"

He swung his right fist forward, and immediately there was a "bang bang bang bang" sound. More than 20 pirates who rushed up were punched at the same time, and they all fell back and lay on the ground unable to move.