Luffy rubbed his ears which were buzzing from the shock and hesitantly reduced the number a little.
"A little less, 90 billion?"
"Okay, sure.", Sengoku agreed loudly, contrary to his usual behavior.
Then he walked a few steps to the table and took out a delicately decorated Den Den Mushi from the drawer.
Then he returned to Luffy, handed him a hand, and said fiercely through gritted teeth:
"Here, you talk to the Five Elders yourself. As long as they allow, I will give you not only 100 billion, but even 1 trillion!"
"Okay, I'll try."
Luffy stretched out his hand and was about to take it.
Sengoku quickly retracted his hand and slapped Luffy on the back of his head.
"You really dare to call them!"
Rubbing his head speechlessly, Luffy joked:
"Isn't this what you want me to do?"
"If I order you, you follow it? I also want you to go back to the recruit camp, are you going or not?
If you don't go, I will fire you and kick you back to the East Blue to pick up trash!"
Sengoku yelled and cursed loudly, spitting saliva wildly, so that Luffy had to block it with the sofa pillow in front of him to avoid being sprayed with saliva.
After he finished cursing, Luffy carefully poked half of his head out and said with a smile:
"Hehe, Grandpa, don't be impatient. Everything can be discussed. I'm just wanting some negotiation."
"Negotiation?!" Sengoku pointed at his nose in disbelief and asked:
"Do I look like a vegetable vendor?
You want to find a bargain and came to the Fleet Admiral's office?
Fine, fine, I'll bargain and give you one Berry. Take the money and get out of here!"
As he said that, he actually took out a 1 Berry coin from his Fleet Admiral's uniform and threw it into Luffy's hand.
Luffy almost laughed out loud when he received the small coin.
But thinking that Sengoku was still in front of him, he could only suppress it and try to ease the tense atmosphere.
"No, this is all for the marine and the world government anyway, I think a good ship will make things more efficient."
Hearing this, Sengoku laughed.
He turned around and sat back in his office chair, crossed his arms, raised his chin slightly and said:
"Okay, tell me what is this modification you wanted to make, and let me see what kind of ship would cost 100 billion berries, so I can broaden my horizons."
Luffy was immediately excited when he heard it, and he actually counted on his fingers.
"First of all, the power system of my ship is not ordinary.
My basic requirement for it is to run purely by electricity, which can make my Rumble-Rumble Fruit as it main power.
And it must be able to fly in the sky and have air superiority that ordinary warships do not have."
Hearing him say this, Sengoku frowned and became a little more serious.
"Secondly, a powerful attack system is a must. I need to spend money to research electromagnetic guns and make this kind of shooting power that can accurately strike at ultra-distances.
Finally, if a ship wants to be used for a long time, the basic materials can't be bad.
Apart from anything else, all of it part must be made from the adam tree, or a new alloy material from the world government's research to be qualified.
Of course, these are all the most basic. I still have a lot of ideas I want to try, but I just don't have the money now."
As he said, he looked at Sengoku pitifully, hoping that the Fleet Admiral would allocate a lot of funds and directly use money to aid him.
Sengoku blinked his eyes and looked confused.
'It must be able to fly, and it must be equipped with electromagnetic guns, and the final material must be high-end goods like Adam tree.
You really dare to think about it!'
Sengoku took a deep breath and gradually came back to his senses from his confusion.
Looking at Luffy who was looking at him expectantly, he thought for a while and said:
"Hmph, I can only give you 1 billion, no more, you have to find a way to get it yourself"
"Tsk, what can this little money do?" Luffy curled his lips in disdain. Sengoku frowned and glanced at him, raising his voice and scolding:
"You little brat, don't think I don't know that you have been hiding a lot of money in the East Blue for more than a year.
I am the only one who doesn't want to care about you, you really think I am a fool."
Luffy's heart skipped a beat when he heard this, but he remained calm on the surface, and even looked at him a little aggrieved, trying to pretend.
But Sengoku didn't see the nature of his performance, waved his hand and continued:
"Anyway, this is the only money I can give you for the ship fund, you can take it or not
For the rest, I can help you apply for the Treasure Tree Adam or other suitable materials from the world government.
I will have people send these things to the Water 7, and you can go there to arrange them after the Seven Warlords of the Sea meeting is over."
Luffy's eyes lit up and he nodded repeatedly.
Berry can always be obtained by thinking of a way, but these rare materials are really hard to get without some connections.
Even if you go to the black market to buy them like in the original book, you still have to see if there are so many stocks in the black market.
Only the world government is rich and powerful, and has a large reserve of these things.
And as the Fleet Admiral of the Marine Sengoku, he can apply for them for free, and the quantity will not be small.
Just when Luffy thought that this was the limit of what he could get from Sengoku.
Sengoku pondered for a while and spoke again.
"You said you wanted to build a purely electric, flying warship.
With the marine's technical reserves, the requirement of pure electricity should be integrateable, but if you want the ship to fly, it may be more difficult."
He tapped the table lightly with his fingers.
Speaking of flying in the sky, the figure of an old rival immediately popped up in his mind.
The former member of the Rocks Pirates, the Golden Lion Shiki, one of the three legendary pirates.
That guy once relied on the air supremacy brought by his devil fruit ability to play their marine around, and they had no way to deal with him. The reason why he changed his attitude drastically and was willing to provide Luffy with funds and materials was to take this opportunity to see if he could really build a flying battleship.
If possible, can it be mass-produced in the future and then equipped with Marine forces.
When Sengoku thought about the marine (air force?) being able to fly in the sky to catch pirates in the future, he was so excited that he almost jumped up with excitement.
"Fleet Admiral?" Luffy tilted his head in confusion.
"Cough, cough, cough." Sengoku coughed a few times, looked at Luffy seriously, and gave orders.
"Rear Admiral Luffy, I will allocate another 2 billion to you, a total of 3 billion Berries.
I will also provide all the materials needed for shipbuilding.
After that, I will contact Vegapunk and ask him to design the blueprints of the ship.
Your mission is very important. I need you to give us feedback on the use of the warship after it is built.
Analyze whether it is worth mass production. Do you understand what I mean?"
'Luffy was confused. What the hell? Why did you take the initiative to give me more money?
Oh, you want to use me as a guinea pig? Then you have found the right person!'
"Vegapunk! Grandpa, you want Dr. Vegapunk to design it?!
That's great, I just want to add some more powerful weapons, please tell Vegapunk to add all the high-end goods in his laboratory to me.
I will help him experiment with them!"
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