Chapter 309: The Tavern
Madara took the cat fairy and the Yama knife around the capital of the seven waters, got a full set of drawings for the sea train and the ancient weapon 'Hades', and finally came to the most prosperous commercial street on the island.
He didn't come here to shop, but to find the Devil Fruit powerhouse.
Madara walked all the way until he finally came to the door of a small bar.
"The Capable One is here?!"
Cat Xiaoxian raised her little head and looked at the light box of the bar curiously, she knew that the capital of the seven waters was to find the devil fruit, and it was impossible to have the leisure to drink, and when she was looking for the drawings just now, she didn't see the person with the ability, obviously the person with the ability was in the bar.
"Hmm!"
Madara scans the entire bar, confirms the target, sets up a small illusion in front of the bar's door, and pushes the door to enter the bar.
The bar at night is several times more lively than during the day, the round benches in front of the bar are almost full, and there are no empty seats at the few small round tables in the room.
Off-duty shipyard workers, travelers from out of town, and a variety of guests fill this small bar with a relaxed atmosphere.
Madara stepped on the wooden floor, walked through the empty passages on either side of the round table, and walked gently to the bar.
Everywhere he passed, he attracted everyone's attention, after all, his golden coat was too conspicuous.
Many of the drinkers forgot to talk for a while, and the originally noisy bar was much quieter.
A stout man was wiping his cup behind the bar, wearing a floral shirt and his hair combed like two horns.
Instead of focusing on Madara like the others, he continued to slowly wipe the cup in his hand.
This slow-reactive, cow-like man is Bruno, the owner of this bar, and his real identity is an elite agent of CP9, and the superman is the ability of the 'Door Fruit'.
As the owner of the bar, Bruno has been lurking in the City of Seven Waters for several years, and his mission is to find a way to capture the blueprints of the ancient weapon 'Hades', and he will be accompanied by Rob Lucci and Kaku, who are also CP9's elite agents.
Rob Lucci and Kaku did not choose to open a shop, but instead lurked as workers in a shipyard in the City of Seven Waters.
Among them, Rob Lucci is the boss of CP9 in the actual sense, and the animal is capable of the form of a cat and a cat and a leopard.
When he was on Justice Island, Spandam faced Madara's arrival, and the most wanted subordinate was Rob Lucci, which shows that he recognized Rob Lucci's strength.
Spandam, who had been dead for a long time, didn't know that even Rob Lucci couldn't save him even if he was on Justice Island.
Rob Luci, who is still lurking in the City of Seven Waters, doesn't know that the commander who gave him the task is already dead.
Bruno, who was still wiping the cup at this time, didn't know that from the moment he saw Madara, his mission would never be completed.
Madara didn't look at the drinkers around him who were looking at him, or the drinkers who were looking at his golden coat to be precise, and came to the bar and found an empty seat to sit down.
Cat Fairy jumped from his shoulder to the bar, looking around curiously.
"One glass of lemonade on the rocks, one glass of cherry juice on the rocks."
Instead of stripping Bruno of the Devil Fruit, Madara ordered two glasses of lemonade and cherry juice that he ordered almost every time he went to the bar.
When Madara was in the wizarding world, he barely drank alcohol in a bar, but he often drank lemonade, and cherry juice was naturally one of Cat Fairy's favorite drinks. After going there many times, Tom, the owner of the Leaky Cauldron, didn't wait for him to speak, and served lemonade and cherry juice directly.
"Is it okay to settle the gold bill without Bailey?"
Madara flipped over the palm of his hand on the bar, and a gold coin that shimmered with a charming glow lay quietly on the bar.
The appearance of the gold coin is somewhat similar to that of the wizarding world, but it is completely different and has no logo.
This gold coin was made by Madara himself from gold, and in addition to the gold coin, there were a number of large and small gold bars, which he also made himself and used as a currency for trading.
Ever since he came to the Pirate World, he hasn't used Bailey to buy things.
Originally, Madara was planning to follow the local customs and use the official currency of the pirate world, 'Bailey', so when he went to the Navy Headquarters, he deliberately took a box of Bailey, intending to use it as funds for future activities in the pirate world.
It didn't take long for the box to burn Madara.
Since then, Madara has completely let himself go, and he no longer needs any Bailey, no matter what he buys, it is all gold.
At first, Madara thought that someone would refuse to pay for it with gold, but he was ready to go to the exchange and exchange it for Bailey.
Who would have thought that the payment with gold was very smooth, and no one refused to accept it at all.
The reason for this is that the monetary system of the pirate world is very different from other worlds.
Due to the existence of pirates, the world has been constantly warned, and gold, as a rare precious metal, is a more reliable store of value than paper money Bailey. Some places may not accept Bailey, but they will definitely not accept gold.
Since gold can be unimpeded, what Bailey can be exchanged for, and it is more convenient to use gold directly.
As for the huge price difference in between, Madara didn't care about it at all.
For him, it doesn't make any difference whether it is gold or Bailey, it is all a currency symbol used to exchange for the materials needed, and other than that, gold is a metal, and Bailey is a pile of waste paper.
Madara didn't care about the gold coins, but the other guests in the bar couldn't help but care, many people saw the gold coins on the bar with greedy looks, and even a few people looked at Madara with flickering eyes, as if they had bad intentions.
Bruno looked up slowly, as if he had just noticed a new customer coming, and he glanced at the gold coins on the bar with a wooden expression, and then looked at Madara, "No cherry juice." The slow tone was a little rappy.
"Two glasses of lemonade on the rocks." Madara said.
Bruno stopped talking, put down the clean cup in his hand, took out an empty cup from under the bar and the first one side by side, then turned around and picked up a few ice cubes from the ice bucket and placed them in both cups, and finally poured in the lemonade.
Two glasses of lemonade with ice were placed in front of Madara, and Bruno reached out to pick up the gold coins on the bar, and without checking the authenticity, he directly put them in the cash box.
"The extra money will be used to refill the cup in a while."
I don't know if Bruno heard Madara's words, or if he didn't plan to change at all, but when his palm came out of the cash box, it was empty.
After a brief silence, the bar resumed its noise, except for a few people with ulterior motives who still looked at Madara from time to time, and the rest of the customers continued to drink and chat, so it was not lively.
Madara sat quietly at the bar drinking lemonade, and at some point there was an extra piece of paper material in his hand.
While drinking lemonade, he looked at the documents in his hand, drank the first glass of lemonade, and asked for two more glasses, one for himself and one for the cat fairy, who also drank it.
He didn't pay again this time, the gold coin he had just given to Bruno was enough to buy a few hundred glasses of lemonade.
About half an hour later, the guests in the bar finished their drinks and began to leave in twos and threes.
Madara was still sitting in place looking at the documents and materials in his hand, and when Madara took out the materials, Mao Xiaoxian was curious and looked at it for a while, but soon found that the content on it was boring and boring, and he couldn't read it at all, so he returned the materials to Madara.
After a while, the other customers in the bar were finally gone, leaving only Madara, Cat Fairy, and Yama Knife.
Madara put down the ingredients in his hand, took a sip of lemonade, and raised his eyelids to look at Bruno with a dangerous smile on his face.
In the early days, Madara's little illusion at the door of the bar had a simple effect - no entry was allowed, and when people saw Bruno's bar, they would think that the bar had long since closed.
A tavern with no new customers will be idle when all the existing customers leave.