Pirate: This shooter is a bit fierce

Darrow seemed to feel at ease with poaching Rocks's people. After all, it was already May of 1484, and there were only less than two months left until the God's Valley incident broke out in July.

It's normal for the old man to drop some gold coins before he dies. What's more, Rocks specially sent Ski to kill him and even kidnapped Ginny. With such a big grudge, Darrow just wants to make trouble for him.

Darrow's proposal was very skillful. After all, he did not let Neptune leave the protection of the Rocks Pirates directly. He just asked him to join the Chamber of Commerce established by Darrow, Yumit and Sky Island.

At that time, the Chamber of Commerce can obtain huge profits by relying on the rich products on Fish-Man Island, and Fish-Man Island can also use the exchanged resources to enhance its own strength, and then be directly controlled by Daro through Herman.

A win-win situation means that Darrow wins twice.

As expected, after just a brief discussion, Neptune and Princess Otohime agreed, and were even willing to follow Daro's advice and postpone the payment of this period's protection fee to the Rocks Pirates.

Leave professional matters to professionals. Soon, Sophia, Neptune and Yumit, who was contacted through Den Den Mushi, finalized the subsequent transaction process.

When everything was settled, the depressing atmosphere in the palace was cleared up. The mermaids who had been dancing to liven up the atmosphere returned to the palace and began dancing again. The chefs also served all kinds of delicious dishes again.

"Oh, by the way, Princess Otohime, are you still lobbying the fishmen on the island to join the human world through speeches?" As if he remembered something, Darrow suddenly said as he stabbed a piece of steak with a dinner knife.

"Yes, Mr. Darrow, is there any problem?" Princess Otohime wiped the oil stains from the corners of her mouth with the napkin on her chest, and asked Darrow with blinking eyes.

"There is no problem, but please be careful and safe, Princess."

Although he had advised Princess Otohime and Neptune not to use the most violent method to fight against the fishmen who hated humans, Darrow could not guarantee that there would not be someone like Hodie Jones who dared to assassinate the princess in the future.

"Haha, Lord Daro, please don't worry. Otohime has an unimaginable perception, and she will be able to detect any risks around her." Neptune laughed when he heard this.

What a slow-witted man! Darrow glanced at the tall Neptune with a displeased look, and then continued to explain:

"I am actually aware of this, because to some extent, I, like the princess, am a person who possesses this rare gift, but because of this, I am more aware of the dangers involved."

"If one's emotions fluctuate violently, one's perception of the outside world will become dull. Moreover, Princess Otohime has been ignoring the risks she perceives and frequently goes to places like Fishman Street that are extremely hostile to humans. If someone takes advantage of the opportunity to enter, then even if the princess senses danger, she will not be able to react at all."

Darrow's words made Neptune break out in a cold sweat. He looked at Princess Otohime, who kept rubbing her sleeves with her hands crossed, and easily knew from her reaction as if her lie had been exposed that what Darrow said was true.

"That's ridiculous, Otohime. You said before that you have super perception and can detect danger in advance, so I asked you to lobby and give speeches everywhere, and I didn't even arrange for guards to protect you..."

Although he felt a little bit resentful towards Princess Otohime, Neptune was still very concerned about his wife. He immediately dispatched several elite soldiers from the Ryugu Castle Guard to specifically protect Princess Otohime's safety.

"Thank you, Mr. Darrow!" After finishing the work, Neptune walked up to Darrow with a glass of wine, expressed his gratitude to him, and drank the wine in his hand.

"Oh, by the way, Neptune, the jade box is still in Ryugu Castle, please ask someone to get it, I want to take it away this time." Just as the banquet was about to end, Hermann said to Neptune.

"Of course." Neptune nodded slightly. After all, the jade box was originally something that Hermann had entrusted to him for safekeeping, so he sent several soldiers to the treasury of Ryugu City to move the box.

Soon, a black box covered with golden gilt patterns was moved to the hall and placed in front of Hermann. This was the national treasure of Fishman Island - the Jade Box.

"Wow, treasure!" Elsa, who was a bit greedy, had her eyes turned into coins, emitting golden light as she stared at the treasure chest in front of her.

The others also gathered around, even Darrow was no exception. In the original work, the jade box was stolen about ten years before Luffy arrived at Fishman Island, so no one knew what was hidden inside.

Looking at the expectant eyes of the crowd, Hermann felt a little helpless. As a person of royal blood, he naturally knew that what was inside was not some treasure, but a medicine formula and a tube of azure blood.

The blood was from the megalodon, another royal family of mermen that became extinct eight hundred years ago, and the formula was a drug called "Energy Steroid", which also had another name that Darrow was more familiar with: the murder drug.

Eight hundred years ago, this drug was a banned drug used to enhance the combat effectiveness of the merfolk, and its main ingredient was the blood of the megalodon. If this component was not added, it would cause the user to age prematurely.

"Even the teacher has to seek external help. It seems that the incident back then had a great impact on you!" Seeing Hermann putting the formula and blood in his pocket, Neptune sighed.

As the king of the merfolk, Neptune was naturally one of the few people who knew about the incident. Seeing Daro's curious eyes looking at him, Neptune realized that he seemed to have said something wrong.

"Haha, didn't the teacher tell you?" Neptune scratched his head awkwardly, but looked at Hermann, as if asking his teacher "Can I tell you?"

Hermann did not give Neptune a chance to speak. He took the hookah back into his mouth, sat down in his seat, and spoke slowly:

"Nine years ago, I felt that my power had reached its peak. Out of anger at my people being enslaved, I decided to seek justice from the highest levels of the World Government."

"So, I climbed up Mary Geoise that night. Everything went smoothly at first, until I entered Pangu City and met those five bastard old guys..."

"I was defeated. I fought hard to escape from the holy land." Hermann smiled casually, as if he was relieved. Then he took a deep puff on his pipe and exhaled thick smoke.

“I never thought that the person sitting on the highest throne of the World Government would be…

Five demons."