"How should we deal with these people?"
Nami stood by Jotaro's side, her gaze sweeping over the unconscious guerrilla squad members, and asked with furrowed brows.
These guys had attacked them several times out of nowhere. At this moment, Nami had a stomach full of fire with nowhere to vent.
Jotaro was more or less the same.
Gan Fall seemed to sense the anger radiating from the two of them and tactfully kept silent.
Nami's eyes slanted toward him.
"Old man, you seem pretty familiar with this tribe, don't you?"
Gan Fall glanced at Jotaro and shook his head.
"Not familiar! I don't know them!"
"Oh?" Nami revealed a sly smile. "But earlier you said something about sending that guy named Wyper back to Shandia."
"Old man, tell us where Shandia is."
In his eyes, Nami's smile looked somewhat sinister. Gan Fall asked, "What do you plan to do?"
"What else!" Nami said angrily. "Of course, make them compensate us. If they don't pay up, I'll just throw these people down into the White Sea below."
Jotaro didn't object to this approach. In his view, it was only natural.
They couldn't just let themselves be attacked for nothing.
"I don't think they'll refuse," he reasoned calmly. "Judging by their looks, these people are the warriors of this tribe."
"In Shandia, they should be considered a scarce resource. As the leader of this tribe, of course he wouldn't abandon them."
"To be able to exchange for their return, he'll definitely accept the conditions we propose."
Nami's eyes lit up, and she gave him a big thumbs up.
"Not only can we get the compensation we deserve, we can even make a big profit."
Not having to rack her brains herself really felt great. Nami didn't know why she suddenly felt such a sentiment.
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After the guerrilla squad departed, the Shandia chief stood waiting in front of the tribe's gate.
Unfortunately, he didn't see the guerrillas triumphantly return, only Jotaro's "black ship."
The chief's eyes went wide. "Gan Fall? Why are you here? Wyper, and the guerrilla squad?"
"Well…" Gan Fall coughed lightly. "The guerrilla squad has already been wiped out."
"How could that be…" The chief's thin, bony body suddenly trembled. "Gan Fall, could it be that your past hopes and appearance were all just a disguise?!"
"Calm down, calm down," Gan Fall quickly explained. "I wasn't the one who wiped them out. I'm just a messenger now, a messenger to promote peace talks."
Ignoring the chief's astonishment, Gan Fall pointed toward the ship behind him.
"All right, chief, time is short. If we drag on too long, he'll probably get impatient again."
"Are you going to go straight onto the ship to talk, or choose another place?"
The chief pressed his lips tightly. He was old, but not stupid.
Ten minutes later, in front of the Shandia tribe stood warriors holding weapons. They lined up in two rows, faces full of vigilance as they looked at Jotaro.
"Mr. Jotaro, Nami, please be careful," Butterfly Shinobu reminded them as always before leaving.
Jotaro turned his head and nodded. "We'll leave this place to you."
For negotiations, he and Nami alone were enough to enter Shandia's heartland.
"Foolish pirates!" the chief thought silently.
During the negotiation process, the Shandia warriors at the gate would launch a lightning-quick ambush, rescue Wyper and the others, and wipe out the few guys left on the ship in one swoop.
At that time, the roles of attacker and defender would be reversed.
He secretly made a hand gesture toward the warriors at the gate.
"Act according to plan!"
The warriors responded with reassuring looks.
"Sorry, chief!"
'Conqueror's Haki!'
Jotaro suddenly released his aura.
The surging willpower made the warriors at the gate foam at the mouth and collapse one after another.
He wasn't stupid. Naturally, he wouldn't leave a threat at his back.
"Let's go in." Jotaro walked past the chief and said faintly.
At this moment, the chief's soul had already flown out of his body. His eyes bulged, and a long string of snot hung below his nostril.
Gan Fall walked past him as well, kindly patting his shoulder.
"Better accept your fate. I can tell he isn't an ordinary man!"
The chief said bitterly, "My old eyes aren't that blind yet."
The place for negotiations was a yurt-like structure.
The chief sat down trembling, forcing himself to stay calm.
"What do you want?"
Nami smiled brightly. "Your people attacked us out of nowhere. As the chief, shouldn't you at least show some sincerity?"
The chief gritted his teeth. "Fine, I get it. How much money do you want?"
"One billion Extols." Nami raised a single finger.
"One billion?"
The chief's expression was still relatively steady.
Though their ancestral lands had been seized by others, every year by raiding passing pirate crews and looting wealth, they had saved up quite a bit.
If just one billion could make Jotaro and the others leave, while getting back Shandia's main force, thinking about it, it wasn't such a loss.
The chief immediately ordered his tribesmen to fetch the money.
After Jotaro quickly counted the sum with Star Platinum, he directly stored it into the system space, ignoring the shocked looks around him.
Nami clapped her hands and smiled. "All right, chief, we've received your compensation. Now let's begin our negotiation."
The chief glared with wide eyes.
"Negotiation? Isn't it already settled?"
"Who said so?" Nami replied with slight dissatisfaction. "We were attacked by your warriors, both body and mind injured. Our ship has also been wrecked by you, with a big hole in the bottom."
Gan Fall thought to himself, Wasn't that hole made by your own pet?
"In short, that money was only the basic compensation fee." Nami put her hands on her hips. "Now comes the main topic of today's negotiation."
The chief fumed. "You're pushing us too far!"
"Yare yare daze…" Jotaro looked at him coldly. "We made things clear from the start. You're the one who misunderstood, old man!"
"If you want to get your warriors back, then obediently do as I say!"
The chief instantly deflated.
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