The land Nami discovered was a place called Mock Town.
Mock Town was a town that belonged to pirates, and the town's economy was completely driven by passing pirates.
So the public security here was extremely bad.
Provocations and brawls could be seen everywhere.
"Hmm…" Through the telescope, Nami took in all the incidents happening in Mock Town, "Jotaro-san, better if you come ashore with me."
She didn't have the courage to go to this kind of place alone.
"Yare yare…"
Under Nami's constant pleading, in the end Jotaro and Vivi decided to accompany her ashore, while the others stayed behind to guard the Ark Maxim.
The Ark Maxim was simply too enormous. If it rashly docked, it would definitely cause panic, creating unnecessary trouble.
So the Ark Maxim was anchored in the middle of the sea, far away from land.
Jotaro then pulled out a small boat from his space, and with Nami and Vivi, headed toward Mock Town.
'I wonder how much Berries these gold and jewels can be exchanged for…' Nami silently thought.
Gold and jewels also looked nice, but only after being exchanged into Berries could her heart feel at ease.
Jotaro suddenly reached out and pressed down on Nami's fragrant shoulder, strongly pushing her body down.
At the same time, he also lowered his own body as much as possible.
"Jotaro? What do you want to do!"
"Don't talk!" Jotaro's face was grave, while his other hand pulled Vivi behind him, "We've been targeted!"
He sensed killing intent. But the opponent hid very well, and for the moment he hadn't yet found their position.
"Star Platinum!"
Star Platinum's piercing eyes rapidly scanned across Mock Town, yet the feeling just now of being targeted had already disappeared.
"An illusion?"
Mock Town was full of murderous aura everywhere, and since the killing intent had only appeared for a moment, Jotaro now wasn't certain if that killing intent had truly been directed at him.
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In Mock Town, above a private house, two figures hid behind the tiles.
"So this is fate? Captain, what do you mean by this, why didn't you let me kill him."
Blackbeard Pirates' sniper, Van Augur, looked at Blackbeard who stopped him, and asked in confusion.
"Hahahahaha…" Blackbeard threw his head back in laughter, "Augur, I saved your life!"
"Our Blackbeard Pirates are about to step onto the stage of history. At such an important moment, I don't want to see my sniper die in the first half of the Grand Line."
"Hmph!" Van Augur refuted discontentedly, "You think he can kill me?"
"No!" Blackbeard's face sank, "It's us!"
"What!" Van Augur looked completely shocked.
Blackbeard was an arrogant ambitious man. For him to give such an answer, even Van Augur was surprised.
At the same time, it was exactly because of this that Van Augur didn't feel like he was lying.
He put away his sniper rifle.
'Could it be he really is that man with a bounty as high as one billion, praised as the number one man of this era?'
After Jotaro was wanted by the government, his bounty rose and rose again, its rise almost unprecedented, so now he could be said to be famous far and wide.
Even if some people looked down on him, Berrieseving him to be only an empty name, it still didn't stop him from gathering countless fanatical fans.
Every day across the whole world there were innumerable people imitating his looks and clothing.
Although this was very dangerous, if discovered by the Navy, they would definitely, without a word, reward them with bullets to eat, the benefits it brought were also enormous.
After all, fox borrows tiger's might, borrowing Jotaro's momentum, they could reap an extremely large number of benefits from ordinary people.
"He's real." Blackbeard carelessly sat cross-legged on the rooftop, "The moment you aimed at him, he had already discovered you."
"He absolutely isn't those cowards below wearing black coats and black hats."
He pointed at the Jotaro imitators on the street as he spoke.
"Now isn't the time to clash with him. His Haki is no less than that man's."
Van Augur knew who that man Blackbeard was talking about.
Red-Haired Shanks.
"He's only twenty years old, how could he possibly have such grand Haki!"
"I don't know." Blackbeard said grimly, "But he will definitely become a roadblock in my path. My era does not permit a person like him to exist."
"Let's go, find other pirates with bounties over a hundred million. Our target is not on this island."
"Now is not the time to clash with him. Our main purpose is that… fruit…"
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After a long while, Jotaro never again sensed killing intent, and he also relaxed from his state of vigilance.
"Was there really danger?" Nami looked around, then suspiciously glanced at Jotaro, "You weren't just making an excuse to take advantage of us, were you?"
"Jotaro-san shouldn't be that kind of person, right."
Vivi gave a glance at Jotaro's indifferent face and defended him.
There was still a faint blush on her face that hadn't faded.
Just now, pressed close together with Jotaro, that feeling had truly been very reassuring.
Seeing Jotaro's face darken, Nami also knew to stop at the right time, stuck out her tongue.
"Hehe, I was just joking."
"Let's go ashore."
The small boat reached the shore. Jotaro ignored her, voice indifferent, passed by Nami and was the first to step onto the land of Mock Town.
Although he hadn't again sensed that strange killing intent, Jotaro's nerves were only slightly more relaxed than before, yet he was still vigilant of his surroundings.
As his gaze swept across the street, Jotaro suddenly felt the impulse to beat up every person here.
"Wow!" Vivi exclaimed after stepping ashore, "So many Jotaro-sans."
Looking out, in their field of vision there were at least ten people dressed similarly to Jotaro.
The clothes on their bodies, their hats were not exactly the same, but it could be seen that they were all imitating the same person.
Especially their walking posture, all uniformly with both hands in their pockets, eyes looking down on everyone.
Only compared to Jotaro's natural aura, they seemed far too contrived and pretentious.
Although these people were somewhat of an eyesore, precisely because of their existence, even though the real Jotaro was here, he didn't attract too much attention.
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"I can only give you 200 million Berries."
The pawnshop boss examined the gold and jewels Nami had brought and gave his offer.
"Only 200 million?" Nami shouted, "Too little! Give us 300 million, then I'll sell these treasures to you."
The pawnshop boss looked troubled.
"300 million… Fine, seeing you're my first customer today, I'll give you some discount."
As he spoke, he was already impatiently reaching out, wanting to sweep the jewels on the table into his hands.
Jotaro suddenly pressed down on his hand, hawk-like eyes staring into him.
"800 million! That's the price another pawnshop we just passed offered. Less than that, we'll have to find another."
"Impossible!" The pawnshop boss jumped to his feet angrily, "Who dares ruin the market! These treasures are worth at most 500 million!"
"Oh?" A touch of Jotaro's Conqueror's Haki spilled out, "Then let's settle it at that price."
The boss realized he had let something slip. It was already too late to regret. Wanting to go back on his words, but once he felt the terrifying pressure emanating from Jotaro, the words reached his mouth then got swallowed back down.
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