HxH in One Piece World - Chapter 162
Chapter 162: Freedom
What it means to be a pirate is freedom.
But enough freedom also means unfettered.
And once human nature is unfettered, it will naturally spawn countless pirates who can only burn, kill and loot.
Most of Jaya’s knowledge of pirates comes from those pirates who only want to loot Mengmeng Island.
Therefore, it is impossible for her to understand that [Freedom] is the most precious thing a pirate possesses.
As long as they are free, pirates can do evil and do good.
Therefore, no one can dictate what pirates can only do and what they can’t do.
As a veteran pirate who has retired for a long time, Gaban has an extremely deep understanding of these issues.
Even so, he never instilled these things in Jaya.
In his opinion, if there is no suitable opportunity, Jaya will guard those ancient ruins that have been precipitated by time on Mengmeng Island in his life.
Since he has a relatively stable future, Gaban will naturally not be like Saul, thinking about bragging about the glorious years of the past with his juniors all day long.
The content of the newspaper had some impact on Jaya’s cognition, and inadvertently squeezed the newspaper into a large wrinkle.
“Sister, the newspaper…”
Sonny called out a few times softly, making Jaya come back to her senses.
“Ah, sorry.”
Jaya narrowed her eyes, returned the almost disfigured newspaper to Sonny, and then smiled apologetically.
“You don’t need to apologize for such a trivial matter.”
Sonny took the newspaper and glanced at Jaya in confusion.
She felt Jaya was a little weird.
Jaya smiled and remained silent.
Sonny didn’t think much, smoothed the paper, and looked at Maud’s photos a few more times.
Seeing this, a small smile appeared on his face again.
Koala stretched his hand around Sonny’s shoulders and said with a teasing: “I counted it for you, just one photo, you looked at it nine times.”
Sonny didn’t care about Koala’s teasing.
It has always been her habit to read a newspaper over and over several times.
Seeing that Sonny didn’t respond, Koala lost her joking thoughts, and turned to business.
“Sonny, have you decided yet?”
“Well, you can leave anytime.”
Sonny nodded slowly and folded the newspaper properly.
Let Saul retire in Mengmeng Island, and there is Gaban to accompany her, she will have no worries.
Right now, Maud has been out at sea for a while, so she has to join the Revolutionary Army as soon as possible.
Only then can she and Maud establish a “cooperative” relationship as soon as possible.
Koala smiled and said, “That’s great, just come with us…”
Halfway through the sentence, Koala glanced at Jaya out of the corner of her eye, and stopped the conversation at the right time.
Sonny didn’t know the content of the second half of Koala’s sentence, but she could guess that it was something related to the mission.
Sabo watched quietly from the side, suddenly felt something, and couldn’t help looking in one direction.
On the hillside at the end of the field of vision, Saul and Gaban were revealed.
The arrival of Sabo and Koala naturally did not hide the eyes of the two old men.
“It’s the Revolutionary Army.”
Gaban took a sip of his cigarette and turned his head to look at Saul.
The arrival of the Revolutionary army means that it is time for Sonny to set off.
Saul heard the words and didn’t react at all.
In his old face, there was no sign of reluctance to part with it.
Gaban pouted, thinking that the old dwarf just likes to pretend.
The two old men walked side by side.
“Give me the newspaper.”
Saul saw the newspaper folded in Sonny’s hand at a glance.
Sonny handed over the newspaper.
Saul took the newspaper and spread it out to read.
“Oh?”
Saul smiled knowingly after seeing Maud’s photos and reports.
Gaban squeezed in and looked at the newspaper with Saul.
In a relatively backward place like Mengmeng Island, if you want to know the news from the outside world, you can only go through the newspapers.
Seeing that Maud has made so many troubles in less than a month, Gaban sighed: “This kid is messy enough, but… I like it.”
Jaya heard the words and glanced at Gaban without a trace . .
Gaban didn’t notice Jaya’s small movements, and his attention was still on the content of the newspaper.
“If you dare to attack the royal family of the joining countries, you will inevitably be settled by Warlord.”
“So what? Just run fast enough.”
Saul closed the newspaper and smiled contemptuously.
Gaban was silent, and he couldn’t refute Saul on this point.
God knows how Saul’s short legs turned into scuds in the back.
Saul returns the paper to Sonny, his head full of reports about Maud.
“I used to think that a person’s life only needs to be exciting enough. Now, I just want to live longer.”
“Idiot, who doesn’t want to live longer?”
Saul raised his crutches and walked past.
Watching the two old people start fighting again, Sonny and Jaya were quite helpless.
“Saul, I’ll go with Koala and the others later.”
Sonny put the newspaper in her pocket and mentioned the matter of officially joining the Revolutionary Army.
Saul stopped waving his cane, turned his back to Sonny, and said lightly, “Oh, go.”
“Yeah.”
Sonny nodded slowly.
After half an hour.
The ships of the Revolutionary Army slowly left Mengmeng Island.
On the beach, Saul, Gaban, and Jaya watched the boat go away.
After the ship turned into a small black dot on the distant sea horizon, Saul sighed in a low voice, his old face full of reluctance.
Gaban glanced at Saul’s expression at the moment and shook his head.
Jaya looked up at the sky and said softly, “It’s time to go back.”
“Oh, what’s good for dinner?”
Saul switched his mood for a second, looking forward to looking at Jaya.
“…”
Gaban and Jaya were speechless.
On the way back to the Ring Valley Residence.
Gaban suddenly said: “Jaya, the outside world is very exciting.”
The thoughtless sentence made Jaya startled.
“When it comes to being exciting, I have to mention my memories, Jaya, when we eat later, I will tell you as much as you want.”
Sonny’s heartbreak.
Gaban looked at Saul, who was not serious.
He knew that Saul was just hiding his emotions in his heart.
“Haha.”
Jaya smiled slightly, and then stopped.
Facing the orange-red twilight of the sunset, a group of three walked towards the Residence.
………..
East Blue Sea, a tavern in a small town.
The business of the tavern is not bad, and the occupancy rate is almost 90%.
A rectangular board was nailed to one wall in the bar, with more than a dozen pirates’ bounties posted on it.
Among these reward orders, the lowest is only 3 million, and the highest is only 17 million.
At this time, a man with a beard walked into the tavern from the back door and handed a brand new reward to the bartender at the bar.
“Post it.”
The man was the owner of the tavern, motioning the bartender to post the newly updated reward order on the board.
The bartender did as he said, and did not read the reward order, but posted it skillfully.
After the post, the bartender had the mind to look at the bounty.
“10.2 million, it’s quite high.”
After speaking, the bartender felt that something was wrong. He was still quite sensitive to numbers, so he counted them carefully.
At this time, the men sitting around the bar also noticed the newly posted reward order.
“Someone’s making a fortune again.”
A man sighed, first looking at the handsome young man on the reward order, and then looking at the amount of the reward.
Then he was stupid.
A few seconds later, a few men next to him followed in the footsteps, and they were also stupid.
“One, one hundred million???”
Bartender’s eyes almost popped out, and he shouted out the amount on the reward order.
In front of this board, he has handled countless East Blue Sea bounty orders, but this is the first time he has seen such a high bounty.
“Bacardi Maud… Where did this big man come from?”
A group of men stared blankly at the bounty order on the wooden board with a bounty of 100 million, and then compared with the surrounding 3 million to 1700 beri reward.
It’s like…
a dad with a bunch of sons.