The Laughing Clown in Pirate

Due to the ban on illegal coating, most of the coating factories in Shampoo have been closed.

Fortunately, trade in the "Paradise" in the first half of the Grand Line and the "New World" in the second half of the Grand Line was still prosperous, and large coating factories still relied on coating merchant ships to survive.

The profits from coating for merchants are not as high as those from coating pirate ships!

The businessman is shrewd and cares about every profit. He is completely different from the passionate pirates who have rich savings and yearn to be in the new world and are easy to deal with.

Even so, those large coating factories still dare not illegally coat pirate ships privately.

That group of young marines called the Storm Pickets are like mad dogs with a keen sense of smell. They will pounce on them at the slightest hint of suspicious smell, and their sharp teeth are sharp!

The coating factory does not accept the coating business of pirate ships. Pirate ships cannot be coated, and pirates cannot enter the new world through the huge hole under the red earth continent!

This resulted in a large number of pirates being stranded in the Chambord Islands, the terminal of the paradise and the first intersection of the seven routes of the Grand Line.

Unwilling to return, they have fun on this island, sharpen their claws, and look for opportunities to start again!

Island No. 13 of the Shampoo Islands, Xia Qi's rip-off bar.

The atmosphere in the bar was lively, with the men drinking heavily, eating meat, chatting about their experiences on the sea, and bragging loudly about their glorious deeds.

The pirates who ignored the law and believed in violence and freedom brought chaos to the island.

But people cannot live in chaos all the time. People need a sense of security!

Pirates are people too, so they also need a place where they can enjoy delicious food, drink freely, and not get shot in the head when they get drunk.

Xia Qi's rip-off bar is just such a place, no one knows what is behind it!

All I know is that in this increasingly chaotic island, as long as you enter Xia Qi's rip-off bar, you must abide by the bar rules.

Otherwise, it will become a being that never needs to follow the rules - a corpse.

The atmosphere at Xia Qi's rip-off bar was still lively today. The drinkers, most of them pirates, were mingling with each other, and the atmosphere was lively. The short-haired bar owner Xia Qi was behind the bar, wiping glasses.

She was not in a happy mood. Although the business during this period was very good and might continue to be good due to the chaos, Xia Qi did not like the current situation in the Shampoo Islands.

Although the Champagne Islands were chaotic in the past, there was a dark order beneath the chaos. But now the dark order has collapsed, and the chaos has become more serious. The entire Champaody Islands is like a ship that has lost control in a storm. I don’t know where it is.

Sometimes you will hit the rocks and be shattered to pieces!

Worry about the Chambord Islands was one of the reasons why Xia Qi was in a bad mood, and the other reason was more direct. Old boy Reilly hadn't been to Xia Qi's rip-off bar for a drink in a week.

A week ago, Reilly, who came to the bar for a drink, told Xia Qi that he suspected that there was a person or a force that caused the current chaos in the Chambord Islands. He was going to investigate and find out what ulterior purpose that person wanted to use this chaos to achieve.

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When he said this, Rayleigh's eyes were shining behind his round glasses, but Xia Qi just felt that he was not worried.

Just when Xia Qi was lost in her thoughts about Rayleigh, a muscular man with a flat head, about 3 meters tall, opened the door and entered the bar.

He wears a red shirt on his upper body and white pants on his lower body.

Through the collar of his shirt, you can see the bright red rose tattooed on his chest.

The strong man had a serious look on his face, walked towards the bar, and then sat down on the chair in the center of the bar.

From the moment this strong man entered the door, Xia Qi's nerves and cells in her body began to tremble involuntarily.

A tiger entered this bar... and sat down in front of the bar.

If divided by era, Xia Qi was from a previous era compared to the strong man in front of her.

When he first showed his prominence on the sea, she had already given up being a pirate.

But...as an intelligence agent, Xia Qi knows the man in front of her!

His name is too loud in this sea!

Admiral—Akainu Sakaski!

"What do you want to drink?" Xia Qi's glass-wiping hand paused, trembling slightly and then regained her composure.

"Hmm...sake."

The sake produced in Wano was a rare thing in the first half of the Grand Line. The pirates did not like this unique flavor of wine. They preferred the simple and affordable rum that was large and filling.

There is sake in Xia Qi's shop, just inside the bar counter. So Xia Qi turned around and took out the sake sealed in a cyan porcelain bottle from the wine cabinet, put it on the bar counter, and then took out the sake from the wine cabinet.

Take out a set of drinking utensils specially designed for drinking sake.

"Please use it!" Xia Qi stretched out her hand and said.

The way Akainu drank didn't look like he was in a bar, but like he was drinking in his own yard with roses.

The wine bottle was tilted slightly, and the clear water-like wine was poured from the bottle into the green wine glass. Akainu squinted at it first, then took a slight whiff of the steaming wine, then raised his head and drank from the wine glass.

His movements are crisp and neat, but people can feel his leisurely mood when drinking.

This wine has a refreshing taste, with an aroma and sweetness. After swallowing, it burns in the stomach, but the mouth is filled with the aroma of the wine, and the aftertaste is long.

"This is the rare wine of peace!" Akainu closed his eyes and said after opening them.

After the Great Pirate Age began, Wano was also impacted by the wave of the Great Pirate Age.

The market is difficult, and sake with limited production capacity has been squeezed by foreign wine.

Wine merchants in Wano country add a large amount of edible alcohol to sake to increase the volume of brewing and make huge profits, which makes the unique flavor of sake disappear and eclipse it!

Therefore, the inferior sake brewed after the great pirate era began was called the "wine of troubled times."

The high-quality sake brewed before the Great Pirate Age was also called the "Taiping Sake"

Before the Age of Great Pirates began, the country of Wano was completely closed off from the outside world, and the "Wine of Peace" was very rare.

"Boss, please bring some more snacks!" Akainu said.

Such behavior made Xia Qi relieved that he was not looking for trouble. Maybe... he was looking for trouble, but he didn't find the person he wanted to cause trouble for.

That old boy is so lucky!

With this sigh, Xia Qi served Akainu some snacks, including a plate of peanuts, a plate of sashimi, and a plate of barbecue.

Akainu was eating quietly at the seat in front of the bar, while Xia Qi, who was relaxed, lit a cigarette and started smoking after walking a few steps away from Akainu.

"Will he come back here?" Akainu said in a deep voice after swallowing the last piece of meat.

"I haven't seen him for a long time, probably not..."

"Even if he is coming, I will inform him in advance to avoid you."

Holding a cigarette in one hand, Xia Qi leaned on the bar table and said.

"Hmph, I know you, Xia Qi. You were also a great pirate more than thirty years ago!"

"What, are you going to arrest me?" Xia Qi took a puff of cigarette and said with a smile.

"I don't know what deal Garp and the World Government made with you!"

"I'm not interested in knowing either!"

"However, that man crossed that tacit understanding line some time ago, and the World Government tolerated it once."

"I don't want this to happen again!"

"You remnants of the old era should be grateful for your luck and live the lives of ordinary people honestly."

"Instead of suddenly jumping out one day to stir up trouble and protect the growth of the next generation of pirates."

"That's ridiculous! Do you still want to pass on the evil legacy?"

"Tell that man, if he jumps out, he will die miserably, I guarantee it!"

After saying that, Akainu stood up, slapped his hand on the table, and paid for the drink.

Xia Qi watched the man in the red shirt leave with an ugly expression, and angrily threw the precious sake utensils used by Akainu directly into the trash can.

"Just pretend, you were still sucking milk when I was a pirate, you bastard!"