Evening, Grand Line, Water Seven Island, Gally-La Company, Leader's Office.
"Iceburg-san, these are the documents that you must review tonight." Kalifa who is currently serving as the secretary of Iceburg immediately handed a large number of documents to Iceburg who was currently sitting at her desk with a look full of fear.
"Then also, I just got a phone call from the Navy side. They wanted to place an order for 20 large warships. They hope that the ships can be finished by mid-February because they will be used at this time," Kalifa said calmly.
Iceburg's face that was previously full of fear became even sadder because the task he currently had was quite a lot.
"Ma…What about the amount of wood we currently have? Is it still enough to build the ship ordered by the Navy?" Iceburg asked calmly but his face didn't say so.
"We currently have only a small amount of wood in stock and we need to place an order again. There have been quite a number of ship orders in the past few days and the previously stored wood has been used to build the ships." Kalifa said calmly and then continued, "Iceburg-san, my work day is over for today. I have to go immediately"
"Maa… Kalifa, can't you stay for a while? For example helping me in managing this document?"
"That can't be done, Iceburg-san" Kalifa said with a serious look, "The document must be reviewed directly by you and must also get your signature directly. I don't have the right or authority to decide that."
Iceburg couldn't help but sigh sadly at the large number of documents currently in front of him that had to be reviewed and finalized tonight.
"Regarding the wood issue, I will try to contact the supplier."
"I understand" Kalifa nodded, "Then I will go first. See you tomorrow, Iceburg-san"
Kalifa immediately walked out of Iceburg's office.
Watching Kalifa leave, Iceburg felt a sense of pressure as he stared at the collection of documents he had to review one by one.
Simultaneously, the den-den mushi on his desk rang. Iceburg immediately raised the den-den mushi.
"Hello, Iceburg is here"
"Hello, Iceburg-san. Introduce my name is Ars. I am the King of the Fortis Kingdom"
"Fortis Kingdom?" Iceburg was quite confused because this was the first time he had heard the name of this kingdom, "If I may know. What is the purpose of His Highness Fortis contacting me?"
"My goal is to contact you because I want to build a cooperative relationship with the Gally-La Company"
"Cooperation?" Iceburg asked back.
"Yes. Cooperation. The Gally-La Company itself is very well known throughout the world for its shipbuilding business. Every day there are certainly many orders that come into your company for shipbuilding. This is also what causes your company to definitely need a large amount of wood to fulfill the ship's orders. Incidentally, our kingdom currently has a very large amount of wood and we also want to sell it to be able to get funds to help support our kingdom building program. The quality of our own wood is very good. Although the quality cannot compete with the quality of wood from the adam tree. However, our wood is only slightly worse than the quality of the wood from Adam's treasure tree."
"Is what Your Majesty said true?" Iceburg asked seriously.
"Everything said by me is the truth, Iceburg-san. We have very good quality wood."
"If indeed the quality of the wood that His Majesty's kingdom has is indeed comparable to what is said. We can build a cooperative relationship. However, I still need to assess the quality." Iceburg said seriously and dignifiedly since the one talking to him right now was not an ordinary person but a King of a kingdom.
"No problem. I will send my men to come bring the wood which will be judged directly by Iceburg-san. Does Iceburg-san have free time tomorrow? I will send my men to meet with Iceburg-san tomorrow if possible"
"Well. I can tomorrow. Incidentally, at this time our company is in need of wood in very large quantities."
"That's very good news. Ok, tomorrow my man will come to see you. His name is Hashirama Senju. There is a chance that person will arrive in the morning around 10 am."
"I see. Please request a person from His Excellency Fortis to come directly to our corporate headquarters. I will wait for him here."
"Well"
The communication line stopped while Iceburg's gaze was still staring at his den-den mushi.
"Fortis Kingdom? Is this the kingdom that was just built?" Iceburg muttered under his breath then shook his head, "If the quality of the wood they have is up to par, I think our company will have a new supplier. Besides… I need to set the price back for each shipbuilding. With good quality, the asking price should also be quite high"
New World, Fortis Kingdom, Ars Chamber.
"You have work to do tomorrow, Hashirama" Ars said as he looked at Hashirama who was now standing in front of his desk, "Your task tomorrow is to go to Water Seven Island and meet someone named Iceburg in person. That person is the Mayor of Water Seven City as well as the leader of the largest shipbuilding company in the world today, the Gally-La Company. You will go there to bring the wood we have for them to judge. You will meet him directly at their company's main office on Water Seven Island."
"I see." Hashirama nodded seriously.
Ars then took out some things from his desk and pushed towards Hashirama. The first item Ars pushed was a storage bracelet.
"This storage bracelet has a size of 100 cubic meters as storage space. You use this to store wood which will be brought by you along with the money that we will get through the transaction."
Hashirama immediately put the storage bracelet into his hand.
The second item that Ars pushed was a 10-unit storage capsule.
"You use this storage capsule to store wood that you will take there later. Each of these storage capsules can hold 50,000 wood. You can fully fill these 2 storage capsules with wood. Because we can't be sure how much wood they want to buy from us. As for the other 8 capsules, you hold them empty"
Hashirama nodded and immediately put the storage capsule into his storage bracelet.
Ars then pushed 2 eternal poses towards Hashirama.
"These two eternal poses will help you. Eternal Pose that has the inscription "Kingdom of Fortis". It is the Eternal Pose that will help you to return to our kingdom. Don't you lose. Otherwise, it will be difficult for you to return to our kingdom since the electromagnetic wave field on this island has been set by me and there will be no way for a normal Log Pose or Eternal Pose to catch the electromagnetic waves. Only the Special Eternal Pose purchased by the system could capture this island's electromagnetic waves. While for the Eternal Pose that reads "Water Seven Island". This Eternal Pose will help you as a signpost to the island."
Hashirama nodded and immediately put the two items into his storage bracelet.
Ars then pushed the den-den mushi together with a small piece of paper.
"Use this to communicate with me as well as contact the Gally-La Company when you get there. I've written my den-den mushi number there along with Iceburg's den-den mushi number."
Hashirama nodded back and immediately put the paper into his storage bracelet while the den-den mushi was tucked away in his clothes pocket.
"If this conversation goes well. We will start to build a cooperative relationship. It is possible that you will stay for some time there. Because in a matter of negotiation with their side. I will ask for a 50:50 payment"
"50:50 payout?" Hashirama asked in confusion as this was the first time he had heard of this kind of payment method.
"The 50:50 payout is a half-pay. This usually happens in a contract agreement or in other cases. This type of payment usually only pays half using money while the other half is in other forms. In our own case, I would ask Iceburg to pay half the money and the other half the materials used to build the buildings and infrastructure of our kingdom. Iceburg is the Mayor of Water Seven Island. He has many connections to the people who own the material company. It would be very easy to ask him to collect the materials compared to us having to do it ourselves especially our kingdom is currently only known to the people of Fish-Man Island. However, you cannot depend on them right now."
Hashirama nodded, "What about the material request? Have you planned the materials that will be requested by us if this cooperation occurs?"
"Already" Ars nodded, "However, I still can't determine the price of each material that we will request since at the moment we still don't know how much wood they will buy us. I have hope that they buy a lot from us especially now that they are out of wood stock. If they buy a lot, we can earn huge profits while also gathering a large amount of materials needed to build our various infrastructures."
Hashirama nodded.
"Your task this time is to meet with agents of the World Government. Regarding the capsule problem you are currently holding. Don't you ever say this is the technology we have. However, say that the capsule or bracelet you use is part of your devil fruit ability. Right now our kingdom should not be seen as conspicuous especially getting the attention of the World Government. If you say it's your devil fruit ability. They will not be interested in it. However, if you say this is our technology. They will use all their abilities to track our kingdom's whereabouts. Even if they can't get it. Their actions will only disturb us in the future, especially when recruiting workers later."
Ars paused for a moment and continued, "However, there is a possibility that we will definitely be noticed by the World Government, especially our timber problem. If the World Government finds out about this. They will definitely investigate the whereabouts of our kingdom. However, this is not a problem for us. Because, they will definitely only send their agents to track our whereabouts and their movement will definitely not be carried out in full. As long as they only do those moves, we can still move freely."
Ars then stopped back and his gaze grew cold, "However, Hashirama. If there are agents from the World Government who dare to take care of our kingdom's problems or in other words they dare to try to take actions that have a negative impact on our kingdom. You don't have to hold back. You can immediately kill them and even destroy the entire army sent. If possible, go directly to the headquarters they have. Even though those people have no faults with us. However, they have wronged many people. People like that don't deserve to be in this world anymore."
"I see." Hashirama nodded seriously.
"You can already go back to rest. You can start your mission when you finish breakfast tomorrow. Also, there is a possibility that when you leave I will call some of our other friends to come here."
"New friends?" Hashirama's eyes immediately showed excitement, "I can't wait for that"
Hashirama immediately turned around and left Ars' room excitedly because he was about to make a new friend. While Ars sighed and turned to stare at the starry sky through his bedroom window, "World Government… You better not mess with me. I'll never take care of the business you guys do. What you do is none of my business. However… If you dare to try to get into my kingdom's affairs and dare to do anything that harms my kingdom… Get ready you have to restrain my anger!" Ars muttered with cold eyes.
Ars then got off his chair then walked out of his room towards the royal palace library on the first floor. Arriving there, Ars began to exchange a large number of books needed later such as information books about devil fruits, electricity network books, water network books, modern building construction books, food ingredients books, and various other types of books.
Without the slightest worry. Ars immediately took out his 200 thousand points to exchange a large number of useful books and placed directly in the library.