"I advise you to honestly open the treasury."
The gang boss directly freed one hand and personally drew his gun, pointing it at the king.
"Do you want the money in the treasury, or those two treasures?"
Two treasures? Could it be two Devil Fruits?
Meowth's eyes lit up, but it still had to pretend to be an ordinary cat.
Perhaps afraid that Capone Bege would misunderstand, the gang boss hurriedly said,
"I want the Devil Fruit. As for the other one… you'd better keep it yourself, a sword that harms its owner."
The king's expression struggled a little. A Devil Fruit was worth at least a hundred million Belly, and after opening the treasury, these people might not only take the Devil Fruit.
But with so many dark gun barrels aimed at him, if he didn't open the treasury door today, he'd be finished right here.
Thinking of the Marine and World Government ships that were already close, it wouldn't be long before he would become a king of a World Government member nation. The future still held endless splendor—he couldn't just die in the hands of the gang.
"I can take you in, but you can only take the Devil Fruit. You're not allowed to touch anything else."
"Old thing, you're still so stingy even at a time like this."
"I am the new member-nation king. The price of killing me is something you can't afford either. Take the Devil Fruit and leave. Otherwise, I will never open the treasury door."
Capone Bege frowned. If the other party was truly about to be appointed as the new member-nation king, then killing him really wouldn't be a good thing for him right now.
Bege: "I'll only take the Devil Fruit. I won't do anything else."
The king nodded, pressed a button on the throne, and the wall behind the throne slowly opened. Behind the wall was a massive iron door that looked extremely thick and heavy.
Then the king took off his crown and twisted the gem on it. Beneath that gem was a key connected to it.
"Hand it over."
The gang boss's eyes lit up. He didn't even hold the cat anymore and threw it aside, striding forward to snatch the key into his hand.
Everyone's attention was on the king and the gang boss. Meowth, thrown onto the ground, was ignored.
"The position of king should have belonged to me in the first place. You, this stingy fellow, are just a bit older than me. This treasury should be opened by me today."
The gang boss, a bit crazed, used the key to open the iron door.
Ka-ka—
The gang boss strained to push the iron door open. It was really heavy. Just opening a crack had him sweating all over. At this time, members of the Gunfire Gang came up to help push, and only then did they finally push the treasury door open.
The moment the door was pushed open, it also triggered some mechanism. One by one, sources of fire lit up on the walls of the originally pitch-black space.
...
On the high wall, six men in black lay on the ground, all shot through the forehead.
Lena was reloading bullets into her firearm. This new gun that Meowth had made was equivalent to a sniper rifle and could load eight rounds at a time.
"This… what exactly happened?"
The Rose Princess was a bit confused. A group of people she didn't recognize suddenly appeared and tried to kill her. As a result, Lena came out of nowhere and quickly fired, directly dropping them.
Along with Lena came Bonez. Bonez, Lena, and Meowth—their mission was to find the Devil Fruit.
After dealing with the six people, Bonez pretended they had passed along false information, then picked up a Den Den Mushi. Meowth had a small Den Den Mushi hidden on its body. The two Den Den Mushi were connected, but theirs only had a receiving function.
That is, a wiretapping Den Den Mushi. What happened on Meowth's side was broadcast live through the Den Den Mushi.
Martha had a completely baffled look on her face. How could there be so many things she didn't know about?
The gang had always been handled by an uncle she had never heard of. The mysterious treasury—since she was little, she had been told that only someone who became king could enter the treasury.
"Now it's clear. The Thorn Treasure is the treasury of the Thorn Rose Kingdom."
"There are two treasures inside. One is a Devil Fruit. The other sounds like a problematic sword."
Bonez looked at Martha and said, "Now there are two choices. One is to charge in from the front. That way, your father will most likely die."
"Two is you point out the location of the treasury for me. I'll forcibly open a passage and catch the people inside off guard. That way, the probability of your father dying will be a bit lower."
Bonez was an assassin. He couldn't say comforting words. Right now, everyone inside was from the gang. No matter how they rushed in, the king's death rate was unavoidable.
"The walls of the treasury are all made of hard stone. The thickness is at least three or four meters. There's nowhere to get in except the front."
"You just need to take me to the location. Leave the rest to me… however, in the end, whether your father survives or not, we will take the Devil Fruit and the mentioned sword as payment."
"The Devil Fruit is our boss's target… the boss also wants a good sword."
...
"Shigan!"
Jane Erkoya's two middle fingers turned into machine-gun speed, stabbing out streaks of finger afterimages in the air. Each strike could punch a deep hole into stone.
Vane's hands followed just as quickly, pushing aside the opponent's Shigan so the attacks fell on empty air, and at the same time, the final punch landed squarely in the opponent's chest.
Thud!
It was a hard, solid feeling—Tekkai again. This guy's activation speed was really fast.
Jane Erkoya maintained a posture as he was knocked flying. The defense of Tekkai meant he actually didn't take much damage.
Although many people were overly confident in their Tekkai and got themselves killed by standing still, the defensive power of this move was indeed useful in many situations. Otherwise, those who had Tekkai wouldn't be so confident.
Vane glanced at his own arm. His clothes were almost completely torn at this point, and on the exposed forearm there was a rather deep bloody gash.
This somewhat ferocious wound was now rapidly healing at a speed visible to the naked eye. The energy of that feather had raised the level of his blood.
But the current recovery speed was only stronger than when he had just come to this world. To truly recover in the blink of an eye, there was still a long way to go.
"Soru, Tekkai, Shigan, Rankyaku… there should be some other moves, right?"
Vane's gaze burned as he stared at Jane Erkoya.
Jane Erkoya's mood wasn't great. Vane's eyes reminded him of himself. When he faced weaker opponents, he would also reveal that kind of look—the look of toying with prey.
"So I've been underestimated."
Jane Erkoya's body, his limbs, contracted slightly. At this moment, it was as if a few vital portions of moisture had been drawn out of him. His whole person became sharper and more cutting.
"Seimei Kikan."
The aura on Jane Erkoya's body condensed a lot, becoming like a spearhead.
"Geppo!"
Puff! Puff!
He stepped on the air and just like that, thump-thump, rose into the sky.
"Rankyaku."
Another Rankyaku was kicked out, but this time the Rankyaku wasn't a slash—it was a conical impact.