I'm a big pirate, and you said I just went out to sea?

Chapter 65 Bounty: 560 million!

On the broken reef.

Monge and Rona sat facing each other, only a few meters apart.

"I didn't expect you to actually dare to come here alone."

"Why don't you dare?"

Compared to when there were only two of them in front of the navy and the pirates, Rona's attitude was obviously much more unrestrained. She even stretched, as if she was not afraid at all that Monger would suddenly attack.

"Although you are a pirate, your bottom line is higher than many marines. Besides, your strength is not much stronger than mine. If you suddenly attack us, there will be no benefit except angering us."

"Speak of it."

"This is the first time we've had a face-to-face conversation like this without coming to blows, right?"

Rona looked at Monge with a dazed look in her eyes.

She originally thought that she could have such a conversation with Monge, which must have been in the big prison in Impel Down. She personally captured Monge and brought him to Impel Down.

However, no one expected that Munger could use his strength to force the entire navy to bow down.

Hearing Rona's words, Monger also laughed.

"Yeah, I didn't expect that the little girl has grown up and is almost becoming an aunt now."

click!
As soon as Monger finished speaking, he felt the atmosphere around him change, and a murderous intent came over him, making Monger suspect that Rona would ignore her status as a navy admiral and force a breakup with him in the next second.

"Just kidding, just kidding."

Monger waved his hands quickly. In fact, he didn't hate Rona, just like he admired Kong. He always respected the navy who did their duty and never bullied ordinary people.

"For girls, this kind of joke shouldn't be made casually."

Girl.
Monger thought about it. Although Rona was a generation younger than him, they first met more than 20 years ago. Rona was at least in her early 40s, probably almost 50.

Is this considered a middle-aged girl?

"Old man, I always feel that you are thinking about something very rude."

As a navy admiral, Rona's observation Haki was so sharp that she almost noticed Mung's malicious yet non-malicious thoughts as soon as they emerged.

"I'm still in my prime. I ranked first in the last Navy popularity poll. Don't be so ungrateful, you old bastard!"

Rona admits that she is getting older, but compared to herself 20 years ago, she is at most a little more mature now.

The basic salary of the navy is not high, but there are performance bonuses!
As long as they catch pirates, they will get a portion of the pirate bounty as commission. Relying on this, Rona has never been stingy in taking care of her skin.

Although they had always been enemies in the past, when they actually sat down to talk, Rona found that she did not have much resentment towards Monge.

Sebastian, a navy admiral, died at the hands of Monger.

Logically, she should be angry.

But actually.

She wasn't as sad as she thought.

Although they are both navy, in Rona's heart, Sebastian's past actions are not as good as those of Monger, a pirate.

As for the achievements in capturing pirates?
Isn't it natural for their navy to catch pirates?

But Monger is just a pirate after all.

The casualties he caused to the navy this time were really too great.

"Go ahead."

Rona stopped joking with Monger and her expression became serious.

"what do you want?"

To put it bluntly, if a large number of naval soldiers had not been lost in the Sphinx, even if their navy had suffered a defeat, Mung would not have been in a position to negotiate with them.

However, the fall of 7,000 naval soldiers forced her, the naval admiral, to travel thousands of miles to the Sphinx.

Because the problem is too big, even if he has the strength, Kong, who is still a lieutenant general, has no way to take on this responsibility.

Only she can come!

"It's very simple."

Monger smiled and held up two fingers.

"I can give you two choices."

Rona frowned at Munger's words, but she didn't interrupt him directly.

"The first option is to pay a ransom of one million berries per sailor, double that for officers and double it again for generals, and then pay the Sphinx five billion berries as a compensation for reconstruction costs."

"impossible!"

Before Monger could finish his words, Rona interrupted him. "Seven thousand soldiers, even if all were below the rank of colonel, would cost seven billion berries, plus the five billion berries at the end."

"Monger, 12 billion Baileys, do you think that's possible?"

The navy's annual financial expenditure is already tight, and the responsibility for the robbery of the sky gold must be attributed to the navy. If these 12 billion berries are given.

Will they get their navy’s salaries for the second half of the year?
So Rona was sure that Monger's so-called first choice was actually prepared for his second choice.

"The Sphinx doesn't have 7,000 sailors right now. Without enough medicine, a large number of wounded soldiers could die at any moment."

"What's the second option?"

Interrupting Monge's words, Rona's face was gloomy. She took back her previous thoughts. Monge was an out-and-out villain!
"The second option is easy."

Seeing Rona's expression, Monger smiled and said, "I want Sphinx to join the World Government and become a member of the government. And for the next hundred years, it will not need to hand over the Heavenly Gold!"

This is Monger's real purpose!
If they had simply fought off the navy, it would have been impossible to force them to this point. However, with the help of his former crew, Monger had a card in his hand that the navy could not ignore.

Two thousand lightly wounded naval soldiers and three thousand seriously wounded naval soldiers.

Unless the navy doesn't want its soldiers to risk their lives anymore.

Otherwise, these more than 5,000 naval soldiers must be redeemed.

Yes, not seven thousand, but five thousand.

Mung was not joking. The Sphinx had a limited supply of medicines. In addition to some naval soldiers who had died in battle long ago, a considerable number of naval soldiers were in imminent danger due to worsening wounds.

If it weren't for the strong vitality of the average person in this world, if it were ordinary people, in the absence of medicine, many seriously injured patients would not be able to survive even the next day.

Rona's expression was one of struggle.

Obviously, no matter which condition it was, she would not agree easily.

But Rona knew better.

Compared with the first condition, the possibility of our department agreeing to the second condition is much higher. It is nothing more than continuing to bargain on the basis of the conditions.

It's just a title of a government member state.

You know, in order to collect the gold from heaven, the World Government is constantly threatening and bribing those non-governmental member states.

Furthermore, Sphinx became a member of the government.

Then the navy would have a legitimate reason to invade the Sphinx, and with some further operations, the impact of the failure of this operation could be minimized.

But if this title is really given out.

In other words, the navy must protect the safety of civilians living on the Sphinx.

That's all.

The problem is that the entire Sphinx is now under the control of Monger.

As long as he wants.

He could even issue residency certificates and merchant licenses to a group of pirates.

Outside, he is a pirate.

Inside are traveling merchants.

The entire Sphinx will become a natural shelter for pirates.

Just enter the island.

There is no way the navy would intrude into the territory of a member state just to catch pirates.

But, this may be the best option.

The navy does not have to pay a high ransom, the World Government gains a new member country, Monger gets a piece of land where he does not have to worry about being attacked by the navy, and the pirates have their own habitat.

A world where no one gets hurt is complete!
Corona was sure of it.

Munger must have some conspiracy that she doesn't know about.

April.

A large amount of emergency medicines were imported from the navy, which alleviated the injuries of the seriously injured navy and even many pirates.

The Navy did not immediately agree to Munger's request.

Even faster than the Navy's response was the new bounty issued by the Navy Headquarters.

Captain of the White Wolf Pirates, Knowles Monger.

bounty.

Five hundred and sixty million!!

(End of this chapter)