Codex Pirates

Chapter 93 Zefa

William didn't care to be surprised by the word "Admiral", and asked strangely, "Why did he submit his resignation letter?"

Ajin twitched the corners of his mouth and showed a sneer: "He had a pirate enemy, and for revenge, he killed his wife and children. A general can't even protect his own family. Maybe he is disheartened."

William was silent, and after a while, Ajin continued: "After Zefa handed in his resignation, he was retained by the high-level officials and served as an instructor for the navy. He has taught many famous navies. How long does it take to study, but I’m not sure, but I know a few classmates who hold important positions.”

William heard this, frowned, and fell into deep thought.

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After resting in Red Leaf Village, William led the pirates to do a few more "businesses". According to the information about competitors provided by Sherlock, he robbed a few ships and boarded them to train the crew.

After that, he set off for Kalmar City to meet Arcadio and Roy.

At the Chancellor’s House, everything changed in a blink of an eye. Arcadio’s meeting place remained the same. The only thing that changed was the people. Frederick came to this meeting room again, in a different place. The reason is that this time his head was put in a box and brought here by William.

Arcadio opened the lid of the wooden box with a small gap, glanced inside, closed it with a look of disgust and pushed it away, then took out a handkerchief and kept wiping his hands, as if there was an infectious disease on it.

Colonel Roy, who was sitting next to him, was not as hypocritical as Arcadio. After taking the box in front of him and opening it, he directly took Barbarossa's head out of the box.

After many days of bumps, although some embalming treatments had been done, Barbarossa's head still had a stench, and his appearance could only be barely recognized through the somewhat deformed facial features.

Roy looked at Barbarossa's face with interest as if he couldn't smell the rotten smell, as if he was studying his expression before he died.

"You killed Barbarossa?" Roy asked softly as if he didn't even look at William, his eyes fixed on Barbarossa's head.

"No," William shook his head, which made Arcadio frown, but then William's words made his eyebrows relax again, "It was the officers and soldiers of the Sixteenth Division of the Navy who killed him."

Roy smiled lowly, and his eyes finally fell on William: "You are a smart man, different from the idiot in my hands."

Roy casually threw Barbarossa's head back into the wooden box. He didn't mind getting his hands dirty. He lit a cigar and put it in his mouth. He looked at William through the smoke and said, "Look at the way it is now, the red bearded pirate. Is the regiment now in your hands?"

"Of course." William smiled.

Arcadio heard the words and looked across to Crowe, who was sitting next to William, and Crowe nodded secretly.

"Then you came here specifically to maintain our previous alliance with Barbarossa?" Arcadio asked after receiving confirmation from "his own people" before he believed William's statement that he had mastered the whole regiment.

William deliberately lowered his head and let out a bitter laugh: "When I got rid of Barbarossa, I actually took a chance. Now that Barbarossa, Reis, and Hayreddin are all dead, the strength of the pirate group has been greatly reduced. Now the strength of the whole group, it is difficult to maintain the original status and momentum, but although the strength of the current pirate group is much weaker than before, but one thing is stronger than before, that is, my new captain can underestimate the form, Barbaro Sa will make his own decisions, often trample on the covenant, and cause trouble for the allies, but I will not."

William raised his head again and looked at the two people who were looking at him: "You two know my pirates well, and I won't be as reckless as Barbarossa. You can rest assured that I will be your ally."

Arcadio and Colonel Roy looked at each other. After a while, Arcadio stirred the coffee and asked slowly, "What cargo did you bring on board when you docked this time?"

"Wine, a lot of wine, I know you need this." William smiled.

Arcadio has almost monopolized the underground alcohol smuggling market in the Kingdom of Navia, and needs a large number of alcoholic drinks to fill the market demand. William cut off competitors for the Red Leaf Village winery, just in time to grab a lot of wine, and at this time It was used to borrow flowers to offer Buddha.

Arcadio nodded in satisfaction: "I will ask the people from the trading company to pick up the goods. If you have any supplies on board, you can also tell them."

Roy didn't speak just now, but after seeing that Arcadio actually agreed to maintain the alliance, he asked William seemingly unintentionally, "I heard that you went to the windless zone?"

When the Tequila Wolfe attack happened, Roy had investigated the news of the Redbeard Pirates and knew their whereabouts.

William was holding a cup of coffee at first, and he paused when he heard the words, but quickly recovered, and organized his thoughts by lowering his head to drink the coffee, and then said: "Barbarossa wants to try his luck in the windless zone, take a look Can you find the devil fruit..."

"Found it?" interrupted Colonel Roy, who was only concerned with the question.

"I found it," William said with joy on his face, revealing just the right amount of complacency that seemed irrepressible, "but he didn't want to take it!"

Arcadio looked William up and down, frowned and asked: "You ate it?"

Seeing William nodding generously, Arcadio said with some dissatisfaction: "If you give it to my auction house to be in charge of the auction, I can raise it to 400 million Berries or even more."

"I can't trust my crew. It takes so long to return, it's too unsafe." William grinned.

Arcadio didn't say anything else, while Roy leaned forward and approached William, asking with interest, "You're really lucky, I'm curious, what is your fruit ability?"

"Superhuman," William grabbed the cup of coffee showing off, gestured to the two of them, and saw the coffee in the cup boiling quickly, "My body can release heat."

Roy kept staring at William's expression. After hearing him say the word "Superhuman", his eyes fell on the boiling coffee in his hand, and he said insincerely, "Not bad ability, great potential."

William stayed in the reception room for a while, and then got up to leave, but Crowe did not go with him, and stayed behind at Arcadio's gesture.

Arcadio asked Crowe, "Is this kid really in control of the entire pirate group?"

"Barbarossa, and the vice-captain that Barbarossa later promoted, were all killed by him, and now he really has the final say on the ship." Crowe replied.

Roy, who was on the side, looked at the steaming coffee thoughtfully, and asked without raising his head, "Is what he ate really a superhuman devil fruit?"

Crowe was stunned: "I'm not sure, he hasn't shown his ability in front of the crew, and it's the first time I've heard him mention it today."

Colonel Roy didn't care that Crowe was actually Arcadio's man in a strict sense, and directly said in a commanding tone: "You observe carefully on the boat to see if he is really a superhuman, and his ability is only" Heat release' this one, if you find out that he is an ability user of the fruit of nature, you must tell me as soon as possible!"

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(About Zefa's experience, there is a setting set called "The Thousandth Volume", which seems to be a physical book that will only be given away after watching the theater version. There is a scanned version on the Internet. I will post the pictures to the WeChat public account later .)