Rumbling...
Kahn, who was floating in the air, raised his right hand, emitting a blue light.
The ruins in front of him suddenly shook violently.
Pieces of gravel, large and small, were wrapped in a layer of blue light and then floated up, defying gravity.
After a while, several men, their entire bodies protected by blue masks, floated out of the ruins.
When their feet touched the ground, the blue masks on their bodies disappeared.
These men in suits were Capone Bege, his godson, and his personal guard.
"BOSS."
Approaching the floating Kahn, Capone Bege bowed his head respectfully and greeted him.
"Thank you, Bege."
With his hands in his pockets, Kahn said to Capone Bege, "Those three old foxes are dead, and their family will be leaderless in the future. This is the best time to take action against them, and it is also my final test for you."
"I'll be leaving the West Blue soon, and hopefully, next time I come back, you've unified the West Blue gangs."
"...I won't let you down, BOSS." Capone Bege looked up at Kahn with determination in his eyes.
"Good."
Kahn nodded, then took out an envelope and threw it to Capone Bege, continuing, "Our relationship is unknown, and there are a large number of undercover agents in the territories where I've planted flags. Among them are many CP agents from the World Government. They can't get onto my ship, so they pretend to be weak on those sites and collect information about me while paying the protection fee."
"The list in this envelope contains the names and identities of those undercover agents."
"I will announce my entry into the Grand Line when I get back. After you lead the Capone family to take over the territory where the Cross family left off, if you find these undercover agents still there, you can keep an eye on them."
"Try not to expose our relationship. If you encounter unsolvable problems, you can use the Den Den Mushi to contact me."
Capone Bege nodded seriously, "Yes, BOSS!"
"Be careful, don't die."
After leaving those final words, the blue light on Kahn's body suddenly became dazzling.
Then, a blue streak rose into the sky, and Kahn flew away from the island.
Capone Bege, a member of the original "Worst Generation."
Kahn recruited him when he was six years old.
That year was Sea Circle Calendar 1494, and Capone Bege was still a fourteen-year-old boy.
To ensure someone would protect his parents after he left West Blue, Kahn decided to raise Capone Bege secretly.
After his parents were killed, Kahn did not stop training Capone Bege.
However, the subsequent training was different from before.
Initially, the training was to make Capone Bege the bodyguard for his parents.
Later, the training aimed to make Capone Bege his money-making machine.
Apart from Kahn's personal maid, only Capone Bege's godson and two personal guards knew of their relationship.
Kahn, who can read people's hearts, also knew that Capone Bege, his godson, and his personal guards were trustworthy.
Even if Capone Bege's loyalty deteriorates in the future, Kahn can get rid of him as easily as a sigh of relief.
Since the death of his parents, he had no ties to this sea area.
When he reached the Grand Line, Kahn planned to develop the Cross family to a level far beyond the "Donquixote Family."
After flying dozens of nautical miles from Twar Royal Island, Kahn saw a sailboat on the sea and landed immediately.
This sailboat was blue and white, with a blue dragon head on the bow, and was a medium-sized two-masted vessel with a Tianlong flag.
This sailing ship was the main ship of the Cross family - the Grantigne.
It was also the headquarters of the Cross family.
Since the death of his parents, Kahn had left the island where he grew up and embarked on a journey of planting flags everywhere.
Since there were only two people on the ship, those agents who wanted to go undercover into the Cross family couldn't get on the ship.
This is why five warships were wiped out last year.
Unable to go undercover to Kahn's side, they had no choice but to use violence to achieve their goals.
"Master, has the matter over there been resolved?"
When Kahn landed on the deck, a pleasant female voice immediately greeted him.
A girl sitting on a sun lounger under a sun umbrella near the starboard side of the boat got up and walked towards him.
The girl was petite and looked only eleven or twelve years old. She had long black hair, beautiful blue and black eyes, and wore a black and white maid outfit.
She was picked up by Kahn two years ago and is now his personal maid. At the age of eight, she was offered a reward of 79 million berries - "Devil Child" Nico Robin.
Robin was eleven years old and met Kahn when she was nine.
After a year of betrayal and hunting, Robin was wary of everyone, including Kahn.
However, after being picked up by Kahn and kept by his side, training her for a while, and seeing Kahn's immense strength and wealth, Robin, whose heart was not completely closed, quickly let down her guard.
After Kahn destroyed five warships for her (himself) last year, Robin, like Monet with Doflamingo, completely devoted herself to Kahn.
Robin firmly believes that Kahn is, as Saul said, willing to protect his partner!
"Ah... everything has been resolved."
Kahn nodded and said with a smile, "You can call now and tell those rats that we are leaving West Blue soon."
"I see."
Robin nodded slightly, then took out the Den Den Mushi she was carrying and informed a newspaper in West Blue that the Cross family was heading into the Grand Line and that the flags could be taken down from those sites.
By tomorrow, people from West Blue and even some forces in the Grand Line who have been watching Kahn will know that the super rookie with a bounty of 300 million is about to enter the Grand Line.
The property of the Cross family was extensive, ruling over 275 towns, which was even more exaggerated than Bartolomeo's 150 towns.
Just collecting protection fees from these 275 towns allowed Kahn to earn a lot of money every year.
The protection of the West Blue overlord has led more and more towns, whether in the territory of the World Government or without its protection, to actively send money to Kahn.
But in fact, the Cross family's annual income wasn't just from protection fees.
The Cross family was the only gangster family among the five major families that did not engage in the arms business.
Of course, this is what others knew about the Cross family on the surface.
In reality, after the death of Kahn's parents, he handed the original base camp to the family's elders and destroyed the munitions base. Secretly, he had Capone Bege evacuate the Cross family's munitions.
Destroying the base was just to deceive those undercover agents.
It was also due to taking over the arms business of the Cross family that the Capone family, with Kahn's secret support, quickly became one of the five major families of West Blue.
Kahn, who didn't want to be bothered by those undercover agents, had already transferred all the most valuable things to the Capone family.
The cash was stored on the side of the ship.
After Kahn leaves West Blue, the towns under his protection will automatically take down his flag.
Kahn actually lost nothing except the huge annual protection fee.
Once the Capones grow, unite the West Blue gangs, and replant flags on those turfs, what Kahn lost will come back.
Kahn has long since had no attachment to West Blue.
All he wanted was to enter the Grand Line and become one of the overlords of that great sea.
As Robin was on the phone, Kahn's body emitted a dazzling blue light again.
As he raised his hands, the ship was wrapped in a telekinetic shield, floated into the air, defying gravity, and flew towards the entrance of West Blue's Grand Line.
To increase the speed, Kahn also used telekinesis to control the wind and speed up the sailboat.
As a traveller, Kahn knew that Sea Circle Calendar 1503 was a significant year.
If time allows, Kahn might recruit his deputy this year.
To become one of the overlords in the Grand Line, in addition to having top-level strength, you also need top-level influence.
Top personal strength combined with top forces is the so-called overlord.
If Kahn wants to develop the "Cross Family" to a level far beyond the "Donquixote Family," he must recruit a large number of family members and have many affiliated forces like the Capone Family.
This way, he could snatch a piece of the pie from the three monsters in the strongest sea in the second half of the Grand Line.
In order not to let his deputy be snatched, Kahn must race against the clock.
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