Chapter 25: The Collector
Raglan was killed by a bullet that came out of nowhere.
After that incident, the wolf rat was trying to break his head while the grass and trees were all soldiers, and he couldn't figure out why the weapon shop wanted to kill the navigator of the Sharp Ox Pirate Ship, which caused a series of questions later.
As far as he knew, there was little overlap between the two sides.
If anything, one of the deceased lived not far from the weapons shop.
Of course, none of this matters at this point.
Because the greatest lord has come to the door.
The wolf and mouse looked at Kazt, who prided himself on not liking to beat around the bush.
His steady expression like an old dog, and his inadvertent gesture of fiddling with the wine glass but faintly revealing the killing intention, all reveal the demeanor of a master.
It seems that in the middle of this, the number 30 people led by Gatzt are all local chickens and dogs in front of him.
Listen to the wolf's understatement answer, and feel the momentum of the wolf's seemingly turbulent surface beneath the calm surface.
Gatsit's eyes, who had secretly finished making up for himself, were on guard, and his fighting spirit began to appear.
The atmosphere was suddenly solemn.
"Captain of the Sharp Bull Pirates, Kazt, right?"
Seeing that Kazit was speechless for a while, the wolf rat felt helpless while calming down, thinking to himself how you would take advantage of the identity of the murderer if you didn't answer Lao Tzu.
"It seems ......"
Kazt's gaze was cold, slowly driving the Devil Fruit's ability.
The black beard on his mouth spread like a frenzied branch to his cheeks and forehead.
In an instant, the black and thick hair covered the entire face, and a pair of yellow beast eyes were like lights in the dark night in the hair, dyed with a layer of obvious murderous intent.
The wolf mouse suddenly said quickly: "Captain Gatzt you want to know, I must know everything, I will not even take your money." ”
“……?”
The style of painting took a sharp turn, and the killing intent that had been brewing in Kazt suddenly stopped.
Ten minutes later, Gatzt and his group, who had "complete" information, left the bar.
After Kazit and the others left, the wolf mouse slowly withdrew his smile, turned to a gloomy face, looked at the door and said coldly: "I only provide free services to the dead." ”
Tatam glanced at the wolf rat and said calmly, "It was dangerous just now. ”
"It's okay, I'm not a stinky fish and shrimp to deal with, and aren't you still there?"
“……”
Tatam was tempted to say that if there was a fight, he would find a way to run away first.
The wolf rat did not know this, and continued:
"With the strength of the two of us, we can't escape, but we can barely kill them, and although Kazt looks like a cow, he knows how to act in a measured manner, and he will not be as reckless as a cow."
"So as long as I'm honest and cooperative, I'm sure he won't mess around at this time when the auction is about to start."
Turning the glass upside down, the wolf rat watched the remaining liquor in the glass slowly flow down the wall of the glass, and the corners of his mouth showed a hint of coldness.
"As for the future, I just hope they don't die too badly."
Tatam was always silent, as if the wolf mouse was talking to himself.
The wolf rat has long been accustomed to getting along with Tatam, and knows that the other party can't speak if he can't talk because of his voice problem.
"Tatam, it's going to be lively tonight, aren't you interested at all?"
The wolf rat flipped his glass back and motioned for Tatam to have another one.
Tatam shook his head, indicating that he was not interested, and quickly refilled the wolf rat with a glass of wine.
"I really want to go."
The wolf rat tilted its head.
"But I don't dare!!"
...........
The Sharp Bull Pirates walked out of the alleyway and headed for the Mad Hatter Auction House on Cape Street.
Wells, one of the cadres of the regiment, walked beside Kazt and said in a deep voice: "Only the information from torture has weight, and that rat is too cooperative, should we believe the information he gave?" ”
He was a cadre of the same rank as Raglan, but unlike Raglan, he was proficient in swordsmanship, but specialized in firearms.
Kazt looked ahead and said indifferently: "The auction is coming, I don't want to cause trouble, these bad things, I will deal with them after the auction is over." ”
"Understood."
Wells said no more.
The group of them rushed back to Mad Hat almost in time.
When they returned, they heard that Raglan had been sniped in the tavern, and immediately realized that there was hard stubble targeting them.
Otherwise, they wouldn't have killed their navigators first, and then Raglan who had stayed behind to deal with the matter.
Although Kazt advocates steady development and does not cause trouble, it does not mean that he is afraid of things.
However, he took a fancy to several items in the auction, one of which was the Fishman Slave, which was one of the guarantees for successfully passing the upside-down mountain and sea currents.
In order to compete for the goods he likes, he uses the news of the sale as a bridge to cooperate with two other pirates of similar strength to swallow Platinum's fleet in order to obtain enough auction funds.
With such effort and effort, how can the plan be messed up because of other things?
Moreover, it is already a race against time to find the wolf mouse after a few understandings, and if it is delayed in the future, you may miss the auction.
The Sharp Bull Pirates walked extremely fast, and the group soon arrived at the gate of the Mad Hatter Auction House.
There was still about half an hour before the auction began, but most potential buyers had already entered early.
Despite this, there was a lot of people at the entrance of the auction hall.
Due to the rules of the auction house, Gatzt only brought two cadres with him.
He didn't choose to hand over the money he brought to the collector of the auction partner, but walked directly into the house with the money.
The so-called concealer can be roughly understood as the profession of keeping something for others, and the customer group he faces is naturally mainly pirates.
In this world, there are tens of millions of islands, large and small, including many uninhabited desert islands.
Many of these desert islands were used by pirates to hide treasures, spirits, and other things that were extremely valuable to them.
On the other hand, the problem with this is that there is no guarantee in terms of property security, and the hard-won treasure may be hidden on the front foot, and the back foot will be accidentally hit and fished away by other peers.
Under this normal situation, the Cacher came into being, charging a certain amount of reasonable fees, and providing paid custody services to the majority of pirates, just like banks.
The main job of the collector who works with the auction at this time is to keep the funds for the buyer.
Once the buyer chooses to entrust the cacher to keep the auction funds temporarily, the buyer will not have to go through some slightly cumbersome handover procedures after successfully bidding for the product, and can directly pick up the product on the spot.
If the auction is for a product like a Devil Fruit......
Of course, it is safer to eat it on the spot.
All in all, according to the respective buyers' own considerations, some choose to entrust a cacher, and some choose to enter the auction house with funds.
Kazit is the latter.
Located in the tavern near the Mad Hatter Auction House.
"Concealer, there are so many professions here."
The masked Maud occupies a table to herself, silently listening to the information provided by the "enthusiastic citizens" around her as they chat, and learns a lot about Mad Hatter.
As for his ability to monopolize a table, it wasn't made with his fists like Kidd.
The root cause lies in his funeral director dress.
In the eyes of the Mad Hat Town Pirates, the mortician said that the best thing is to collect the corpse, the middle one is a scavenger, and the worst one is the cleaner.
With such an unfortunate profession, naturally no pirate wants to sit at the table with Maude.
In this phenomenon, Maude is happy to be quiet.
He ordered wine and food but didn't move, but whenever he heard a chat about a name, he would quickly look at it, and then take it back without a trace.
Every pirate who is quickly "scratched" by him will always be inexplicably excited.
Strange and confused, I don't know what is going on.
Time passed little by little.
There are pirates who occasionally get up to leave, and there are also pirates who occasionally push the door in.
Every time the tavern door was pushed open, Maud would glance at it without a trace.
Crunch –
The door was pushed open again.
A blonde teenager in a black top hat walks into the tavern.
He stood in front of the door and glanced at the seating in the tavern, and in an instant he locked on to the location of Maude, who was relatively empty.