Chapter 130: CP0 Takes Action! Olvia Notices
Toki never imagined.
That the pirate with the highest bounty on these seas right now was her cheap captain whom she had only met recently. No wonder he had been so calm and composed from the very beginning.
"C-Captain… you really are that Lotte?"
She couldn't help asking the masked young man beside her.
Lotte raised an eyebrow upon hearing this. Looking at Toki, the corner of his mouth curled into a smile.
"What, don't you believe it?"
"But this is something you can't tell anyone else. I've been completely missing from these seas for a full ten years. If I reveal my identity too easily, all my plans will fall apart."
"Just keep calling me Captain."
Lotte didn't hide it too much.
In order to confront Imu next, Toki's power was also essential.
At the very least, even if he were discovered, he could still escape unharmed using Toki's Time-Time Fruit ability.
As a partner and subordinate, letting Toki know this much was fine.
Toki felt a bit puzzled upon hearing this.
She had seen those high-bounty pirates stirring up trouble across the seas, and even the official force of the Navy couldn't do much against those major pirate crews.
So why was her captain—the one with the highest bounty—
Acting so cautious?
"Captain, is it really necessary to be this careful? With your strength, even the Navy…"
"Shouldn't be able to stop you easily, right?"
Toki asked curiously.
Lotte rolled his eyes at her and raised an eyebrow in annoyance.
"This world isn't as simple as it looks on the surface. Besides, your captain is still injured right now—my strength hasn't fully recovered yet."
"Stop talking nonsense. Just listen to your captain and you'll be fine."
Toki obediently shut her mouth upon hearing this. She couldn't help muttering softly in her heart.
He's still injured and this strong? What a real monster.
At that moment.
Lotte looked Toki up and down, eyeing her graceful figure.
"I'm just saying—don't you really need to wash up and change clothes first? Or is this how things were done eight hundred years ago?"
"We're about to start the next round of training."
At this.
Toki subconsciously looked down at herself. Her pretty face immediately flushed red, and she puffed out her cheeks in embarrassment.
She quickly turned and left the deck.
Watching her retreating figure, Lotte calmly sat back in his chair.
From the current intelligence he had gathered, hiding his identity from the start had indeed been the right choice. The World Government was still watching him closely.
Until he had the strength to face Imu head-on.
Lotte had no intention of exposing himself easily—this didn't fit his plans at all.
In his planned crew.
The closest candidates right now were probably the Red Count (Red-Haired Shanks) and Kozuki Oden.
But convincing the Red Count to join his pirate crew would be extremely difficult. After ten years, the other party's strength had surely reached its peak.
With Lotte's current power.
Persuading the Red Count to join would be an incredibly tough task. He would have to take it slow and plan carefully.
Lotte pondered slowly.
He drew the dual swords at his waist and began wiping them carefully.
...
West Blue. As the birthplace of the Shadow organization that had now become famous even in the New World, the West Blue's reputation among the four seas was quite considerable—even faintly overshadowing the local mafia.
In truth, the West Blue mafia
Had not refrained from targeting Shadow. After all, the intelligence trade Shadow was involved in was extremely important to them.
If they could replace Shadow.
The mafia could obtain all the accumulated intelligence for free and gain a new source of funds.
But when they learned who was backing Shadow, they immediately gave up without hesitation.
Are you kidding?!
That was an intelligence organization backed by both the Roger Pirates and the Whitebeard Pirates together—far beyond what these West Blue guys could afford to provoke!
Everyone currently believed Shadow had been established and supported by Roger and Newgate
To counter Charlotte Linlin's intelligence network.
But no one had ever imagined that everything behind it stemmed from nothing more than a promise.
In a wooden cabin on a remote island, Olvia—whose figure had developed far beyond her past self—sat with her legs crossed, flipping through a book on history.
Though she was now the leader of the Shadow organization,
Her daily work mainly consisted of gathering intelligence and strengthening her own power.
But in her free time,
Out of her love for history, she would occasionally read through these books.
At that moment.
A Den Den Mushi on the wooden table suddenly rang.
She glanced at it calmly, reached out, and picked it up.
Using her complete mastery of the Gaia Foundation, she easily altered her voice.
"What is it? Don't tell me BIG MOM's people are causing trouble again?"
"For now, it's best not to clash with them head-on."
When it came to the biggest obstacle for Shadow's growth in the New World, it was undoubtedly Charlotte Linlin's BIG MOM Pirates.
They had created considerable resistance to Shadow's current development.
This didn't surprise Olvia.
After all, even though Shadow had the backing of the Roger Pirates and Whitebeard Pirates, backing was still just backing.
There was still a large gap compared to their own strength.
Even Whitebeard and Roger wouldn't go to war with another top-tier pirate crew like BIG MOM just over something this minor.
So Olvia had no intention of confronting them directly.
Before that person returned,
She had to develop Shadow's influence as much as possible.
"Boss! It's not about that. The World Government's CP0 seems to have started moving because of something!"
"We don't know the exact reason behind it yet."
As the words came through.
Toki immediately frowned.
In the ten years since Mr. Lotte disappeared, the group that reacted the most strongly was the World Government.
Whether it was the continuous increase in bounties or the reorganization of CP0.
All of it pointed to one thing.
Mr. Lotte's disappearance was definitely related to those World Government people.
That's why she had specially focused a great deal of effort over these ten years
On gathering intelligence about CP0.
"I understand. Keep being careful—don't let surveillance ships spot you."
Olvia took a deep breath.
She carefully took out a familiar box from the nearby safe.
Slowly opening it.
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