"So it's you, 'Magician' Hawkins, what a pity, have you still not left there? Hey, do you want to join my family?"
"'Gang' Capone Bege."
Hawkins drew a Tarot card and said, "Today, you don't have a sign of death, but if you want, I can twist it a bit, make you die here right now."
At these words, the guards around Bege all looked over with unfriendly expressions.
"Hmm..."
At the same moment, Renedia looked at Bonney, who was gobbling down food, her fur color just like Renedia's, with a look full of curiosity.
"Hurry up with the food, why is it not coming, not enough, totally not enough!"
Bonney kicked over the plates stacked on the table, shouted, then noticed the gaze and looked over at Renedia too; with just one glance, it was as if there were sparks flashing between them.
"What are you staring at! Never seen an old lady before?" Bonney shouted first.
"You dare call yourself an old lady in front of me?!"
Renedia pulled out her Mechanical Hammer and said viciously, "Do you believe I'll knock you dead, you fellow, being good at makeup doesn't make you special!"
Behind her, Pearl looked confused.
Where is there any makeup?
The Big Appetite King just has a strange heart-shaped lipstick dabbed on her lip bead, not even thoroughly applied around the mouth, everything else is perfectly clean.
"This is a sign of maturity!"
Bonney confidently smiled and said, "Small kids will never learn!"
"You damn fellow, are you picking a fight?!" Renedia gritted her teeth and said, "It's just lipstick, Sage will buy it for me!"
"Needing adults to buy it, I can apply it myself!" Bonney shouted.
The two did not physically fight, just stared at each other, both with a fire in their eyes.
Renedia didn't know why, but this woman always seemed off to her.
Clearly looking like a young girl, yet she always felt unsatisfied!
It's like...
It's like she's deliberately pretending to be mature just like someone Renedia's age!
Damn, she wanted that feeling too!
Bang!
And at that face-off between Hawkins and Bege, a loud noise has already arisen.
Bege's right eye inexplicably appeared with some holes, upon closer inspection, transformed into a window shape, from which a very tiny sniper rifle was set up, firing a shot that exited from Bege's eye, instantly changing into a normal-sized spindle-shaped bullet, shot right onto Hawkins's forehead, making his head tilt back.
Bang!
And at that moment, amongst the guards around Bege, one person's head suddenly had an extra bullet hole and fiercely tilted back, falling down.
Hawkins slowly righted his head, from his arm a straw doll with a bullet hole in its head fell down.
Pulling out the sword at his waist, "Seems like, today, you're looking to experience death."
Earlier, if he knew the opponent had no sign of death today, he wouldn't have acted rashly, because he abided by the choices of fate.
But now...
Since joining the Disaster Pirates and realizing some things in the Golden Country, as well as some related training Sage had done with him some time ago, it completely broke his reverence and submission to fate.
The training was a program called 'Blood Calamity.'
Sage just let him divine, asking Hawkins whether he would get injured today.
If yes...
Sage ensured he wouldn't.
If not...
Sage ensured he definitely would!
Even divination could never predict the real 100% probability, where's the real fate.
Such a thing could inherently be changed!
Though Hawkins still acts according to divination, from then on, he's changed from worshiping fate to resisting it.
Turning someone without a sign of death into someone full of it, that's equally interesting!
...
Outside the restaurant, in the same position at 24, a tavern wall was violently broken open.
A guy dressed in an ancient attire, with a long braid, and the word 'sound' in the clothes on his chest was the first to jump out, two limbs unlike normal humans, with two elbow joints of the Long-armed Race, shouting:
"If you want to fight, come out and fight, hey, don't you know the great me's amazing skill."
This person, even his teeth were designed like piano keys.
Born on the Grand Line, 'Sea Sound' Scratchmen Apoo, bounty 198 million Belly.
And from that hole, a red-haired guy slowly walked out too, with a fierce expression, "Then don't stare at me crazily."
He licked his lips, drew a short sword positioned at his waist and belly area, and sneered viciously, "You really seem like an off-putting fellow!"
Meanwhile, on island 21.
Marika was strolling through the nearby stalls, picking some fruits.
The ingredients around here align well with the Shampodi Island's specialties, especially being abundant in fruits, worth Marika's selection.
Boom!
Just as she was choosing, a large figure crashed into the stall in front of Marika, flipping over the fruits.
A character with small wings on the back, holding a huge diamond-shaped pencil, wearing a big bead necklace on the neck, paused on the ground, then floated up with a strange laugh, charging towards a masked figure holding two scythes opposite.
Marika watched the shattered fruits on the ground, her gentle smile barely halting.
"Marika-sama..."
Bellamy, who followed from behind, said: "It's 'Strange Monk' Urouge and 'Slaughter Samurai' Killer."
As those two proceeded with their attack, a man with a Swordsman Hat and an eye mask swiftly rushed out, sword in the left hand, ax in the right, blocking both the pencil column and the scythes.
"If you want to fight, do it in the New World, this isn't the place for your antics."
The man stopped their assault, glanced at both, then carried on taking his people away.
"Yo, Captain Drake, you're stopping a good show in its prime right now."
On a box beside him, a man wearing a spotted winter hat raised his head and smiled, "And you seem like you didn't stop it at all."
Drake glanced at him, feeling something, turned his head, and saw a two-meter-tall woman with long black hair walking up to Urouge smilingly, saying, "Could you please apologize then, it's inappropriate to ruin food."
...
"Bounty 220 million, fallen Rear Admiral, 'Red Flag' X Drake."
"Bounty 200 million, 'Death Surgeon,' Trafalgar Law."
"These people are all well-known pirates."
Shakky reignited a cigarette, "Among them, the 310.5 million bounty of 'Captain' Eustass Kid exceeds your bounty, small Monkey. But the difference is, his bounty resulted from massacring many civilians."
"But these people, along with you, comparing to the Disaster Pirates, are still somewhat different. At best amongst you, a pirate crew might have two Super Rookies, but the Disaster Pirates..."
Shakky held out her hand, saying, "Have five."
"Five, five?" Chopper widened his eyes, "Are there really so many?"
"Hmm? Aren't you guys acquainted?" Shakky said, giving them a curious glance.
"I think I've heard..." Luffy scratched his chin, pondering hard.
He doesn't read newspapers, nor pay attention to information like this. Though he heard the bounty of that white-haired man's subordinates is high, he never asked, apart from Nami occasionally expressing gratitude for the Belly Sage provided earlier, the crew doesn't overly discuss it.
Regarding bounty size, Luffy himself never cared.
He only knew the white-haired guy was truly strong.
Shakky smiled without minding it and said, "'Magician' Basil Hawkins, 'Blast Hammer' Renedia, 'Wet Crow' Marika, 'Sword Princess' Bienta Lily...especially Hawkins, was previously himself a Pirate Captain, don't know why he joined the Disaster Pirates."
"From the quantity, their Super Rookie count occupies one-third of the people landing this time. Also, their Captain's bounty is double that of small Monkey."
Shakky's voice grew deep, "The bounty of 600 million Belly, 'Disaster' Sage, claimed as the highest bounty for a newcomer pirate in the 'Paradise' in the past eight hundred years. If you suppose a breakout from Impel Down, perhaps he'd be the strongest."
...
22 Island.
At the doorway of a building with a plaque reading 'Men's Place,' Mute shoved the door open, stepping aside as footsteps echoed outside, a man wearing a black-with-red-tipped cape walked in with a real golden-haired woman.
Sage scanned the bounded humans in the glass cabinet, smiled, "Indeed, they sell here too."