Chapter 13: The Weapon Shop That Extorts
Looking at his masterpiece in the shop, Huang Ke Yin's face was filled with a proud smile.
“吱~”
Suddenly, the shop door, which had been closed, was opened, and three pirates, who looked like pirates, walked into the forging shop.
“Boss, are the weapons here really good?”
“Yeah, boss, the shop outside is called the Extortion Weapon Shop, are we going to be extorted if we buy weapons here?”
“Shut up, this is the Sabaody Archipelago, not those weak islands from before!”
The middle one was short, about four feet tall. If you didn't look closely, he looked like a young boy, but if you looked closely, his face was full of scars.
“Yes, yes, we know, Boss!”
Under the guard of his two subordinates, the pirate boss went to the weapons rack.
Due to his childhood experiences, his eyesight was surprisingly sharp.
Looking at the few weapons there, he could tell at a glance that although they were few, every single one of them could be compared to a Fine-Grade Sword!
Apart from those ordinary swords and blades, the pile of daggers and short swords were not good.
The good ones were good, and the bad ones were bad.
They looked like they were made for practice.
The two subordinates were a little puzzled, seeing that their boss, who had been silent, suddenly stopped talking.
Their boss usually wouldn't hesitate to fight anyone he disliked, but why was he so subdued after arriving at the Sabaody Archipelago?
After looking at the weapons for a while, the pirate boss, who looked like a child, chose a five-meter-long sword that Huang Ke Yin had specially crafted.
He easily grabbed the hilt, then exerted force, but he couldn't lift it!
Seeing this, the two subordinates behind him felt a little awkward and looked around.
Seeing the large number of daggers nearby, the two subordinates exchanged glances.
“Er Nan, there seems to be some treasure over there with the daggers!”
“Yes, yes, let's go take a look!”
They rushed to the dagger area as if they had discovered a treasure.
The pirate boss finally stopped looking at his two subordinates.
Looking at the five-meter-long sword, the pirate boss, who looked like a child, began to grow larger.
Soon, the pirate boss, who had been four feet tall, turned into a ten-foot-tall giant!
Although he had grown bigger, his appearance hadn't changed at all.
This time, he grabbed the five-meter-long sword again.
With a forceful lift, the five-meter-long sword was lifted.
After wielding the five-meter-long sword and feeling its weight, the pirate boss's eyes lit up!
“This weapon is already a Fine-Grade Sword level weapon!”
Suppressing his desire to simply take the sword, the pirate boss put the weapon down, returned to his original size, and approached Huang Ke Yin with trepidation.
“Hello, beautiful sister, how much is that weapon?”
As a pirate boss who originally came from the Sabaody Archipelago and then went out to sea, he knew that the Sabaody Archipelago was full of hidden dragons and crouching tigers!
Moreover, being able to open a weapon shop in area 13, this lawless area, or rather, being able to open a shop in a lawless area, unless they were new and inexperienced, most of them had a powerful backing!
Besides, he hadn't seen any signs of a fight in the weapon shop.
This meant that anyone who came to rob this shop had been instantly killed!
Don't doubt that no one would come to rob the place. There was no shortage of fools in the Sabaody Archipelago!
So, either this shop was run by a powerful person who was tired of the pirate life and wanted to live a peaceful life, or this woman who forged weapons was incredibly strong!
Besides, they were openly displaying the words "Extortion" at the entrance, and there were two shops doing so.
The fact that no one had come to cause trouble meant that this place wasn't easy to mess with.
So, he, a small fry who had only been through the first half of the Grand Line, should be obedient and pay for it.
Back then, twenty years ago, when he was still a child, he had learned a lot from an old man in the neighborhood of the Sabaody Archipelago, like Haki, and various observations.
However, his physical skills were lacking, which angered the old man to the point of smashing up the Marine Headquarters.
Of course, he didn't succeed, being defeated by the current Fleet Admiral, the former Admiral Sengoku, and eventually dying at the Marine Headquarters.
After that, he learned from the newspaper that the old man he had always called grandpa was actually a pirate with a bounty of 100 million Berries!
When he was sorting through his belongings, he found something that his grandpa had left for him.
A Devil Fruit!
And a farewell letter.
The meaning of the letter was basically that he didn't want to die an unremarkable death, so he wanted to go crazy!
This made him realize that in the Sabaody Archipelago, besides those fools, there were also old monsters who didn't want to continue their journey on the sea.
Having opened his eyes at a young age, he became unusually attentive to details that might be overlooked.
Looking at the "young boy" in front of her, who was probably older than him, Huang Ke Yin twitched her lips.
“I’m only sixteen years old!”
“Okay, sis, cough, cough, little sister!”
“Bang!”
She put down the hammer she had raised, and looked at the pirate boss, who looked like a young boy, with disdain.
“Five-meter-long sword, two million Berries.”
Although he was curious that the other party was only sixteen years old, the pirate boss didn't care about the other party's "I" self-introduction.
After all, this kind of thing happened a lot here.
However, hearing the price of the long sword, the pirate boss twitched his lips.
Sure enough!
As expected of an extortionist shop!
Fine-Grade Swords that were famous usually only cost hundreds of thousands or tens of thousands of Berries.
But they were directly asking for two million Berries!
However, being able to find a weapon that suited him was worth it, even if it cost a lot of money!
“Alright! I'll bring two million Berries tomorrow.”
“No, it's three million Berries now.”
“What?!”
Hearing Huang Ke Yin's sudden price increase, the pirate captain, who looked like a young boy, looked at her with unkind eyes.
“I don't want to cause trouble in the Sabaody Archipelago, but I'm a pirate with a bounty of three million Berries, the Bloated Kosa who ate the Bloating Fruit! Are you being too outrageous in raising the price? Or are you trying to get three million Berries from the Marines for my head?”
In response, Huang Ke Yin simply said a single sentence.
“The extra million Berries is the price of the dagger and short sword that your two subordinates took, and the price of damaging three of my short blades.”
Instantly, Bloated Kosa turned his fierce gaze to his two subordinates who were trembling behind him.
No wonder!
It was you two who got me into trouble!
Seeing his boss's gaze, the two subordinates knew that they had angered their boss!
“Sorry, I'll try my best to prepare the money.”
After apologizing to Huang Ke Yin, Bloated Kosa was about to go and reprimand his two disobedient subordinates when the shop door was opened again.
This time, it was also a group of pirates wearing pirate clothes, but they were clearly just small fry.
Their demeanor was too easy to recognize.
As soon as they entered the shop, the two small fry looked at the shop with only a few swords with a look of disgust.
Then, they began to insult the shop.