Chapter 9.
The sea was silent, the cold moonlight radiated a strong chill. At this moment, on the deck of the Blood Hammer Pirate Ship, there were only four living people, the rest had become corpses.
His thirty-seven pirate subordinates plus the total number of the Blood Hammer Pirate Crew, which was twenty-three people, made a total of sixty, all wiped out.
Blood flowed across the ground, as if the moonlight had been stained with blood. Suzuki wiped the blood off his dagger, his expression becoming calm, and then quickly began to clear the spoils.
First, he dealt with the twenty-three members of the Blood Hammer Pirate Crew. Since he didn't know who had a high bounty and who didn't, he asked the women who had been captured. Although those women were unsure why this murderous man hadn't killed them, they cooperatively pointed out the wanted members of the Blood Hammer Pirate Crew in order to stay alive.
After learning that only the captain had a bounty, Suzuki threw the bodies without bounties into the sea to avoid taking up space. Then, looking at the pirate corpses he had brought over, he found himself in a dilemma.
Helpless, he asked the women if they recognized him, if they recognized these pirate corpses, or if they recognized the pirate ship next to them. This time, he received negative answers.
This... "I'm really sorry, I don't even know your names. And speaking of it, I don't even know the name of the pirate crew. It seems I really am not a qualified captain."
Suzuki looked at the piled-up bodies of his pirate subordinates and sighed helplessly. So, he decided to return to the original pirate ship to take a look, to search the cabin. After all, these pirates loved to show off; perhaps someone had kept their bounty notice as a keepsake? Just like in the original story of the Straw Hat Pirates, it seemed that almost every crew member's bounty notice had been collected, and Chopper's and Sanji's were often taken out for display.
Thinking this way, Suzuki felt there was a high possibility.
"Then let's go back and take a look, but before that..." He looked at the few women trembling in the corner of the Blood Hammer Pirate ship, pretended to be about to kill them, and approached, swiftly knocking them unconscious.
Back on the original pirate ship, in the cabin.
Suzuki was rummaging through the pirates' bounty notices.
Some rooms were simply unbearable, probably because many people lived there. Some rooms stored a lot of food, likely the kitchen. Some rooms were very small, with just a bed, which should be where the few important crew mates lived.
Soon, he found the bounty notice for this pirate group in what might be the first mate with dreadlocks' room.
Suzuki opened the newspaper.
"This is... the Crossbones Pirate Group, total bounty of twenty-one million. Captain Elkupe Landry, superhuman type Hasami Fruit ability user, bounty seventeen million; first mate Alpharack Davis, bounty four million."
Suzuki really didn't expect that this pirate group actually had two people with bounties. The captain, not to mention, was killed by him in a sneak attack, but judging by the bounty, their strength shouldn't be weak.
Moreover, the first mate actually had a bounty of four million, which surprised him a bit.
After all, during the battle, that dreadlocked first mate's strength was really not high, but perhaps he had been with the ship for a long time and had some brains, which caught the navy's attention, earning him a bit of a bounty.
Suzuki put away the bounty notice and first went to the captain's cabin of the Crossbones Pirate ship, moving the captain's corpse from the wardrobe to the cabin's lounge.
Then he returned to the Blood Hammer Pirate ship and brought back the dreadlocked first mate's corpse worth four million berries, as well as the corpse of the Blood Hammer Pirate group's captain.
He searched the Blood Hammer ship for any valuable treasures but ultimately found items worth less than one million berries.
He took back everything that could be sold, even weapons.
In the end, Suzuki had a bit of a headache looking at the three unconscious women, but he decided to take them back as well.
Once everything was cleaned up, Suzuki reluctantly looked at the Blood Hammer Pirate ship and had to suppress his heartache to give up this ship, which could at least be worth tens of millions of berries.
In the cabin lounge of the Crossbones Pirate ship, Suzuki silently calculated his gains:
The captain of the Crossbones Pirate group was worth seventeen million berries, the dreadlocked first mate was worth four million berries, and there were treasures in the captain's cabin worth about five million berries.
The captain of the Blood Hammer Pirate group was worth eight and a half million berries, and the treasures were worth less than one million berries. Adding in those weapons and items, it should be around one million berries.
Adding all these miscellaneous items together, it totaled thirty-six and a half million berries, and if this pirate ship were sold, it should be worth at least fifty million or more.
Calculating this, Suzuki calmly took out the fake Devil Fruit he had made and threw it onto the deck of the Blood Hammer Pirate ship. It had completed its mission.
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Alabasta, Nanohana Port.
Just as dawn broke, Suzuki also arrived at the port.
Seeing a pirate ship sailing towards the port, the guards immediately became serious, quickly sounding the alarm, calling for backup, and vigilantly surrounding the port with firearms.
Residents who were setting up stalls and enjoying themselves at the port also hurriedly packed their things to prepare to flee.
The pirate ship gradually sailed into the port, but strangely, no pirates appeared on the deck.
After a while, just as someone couldn't help but want to check the situation on the ship, Suzuki's figure appeared on the deck.
At this time, Suzuki's appearance had changed; it was not his original look, as he did not want to expose himself.
Moreover, his original appearance was too youthful, and showing up in this scene at such an age would be too conspicuous, so he opted for a more low-key look.
Now, he looked like a random passerby from the Naruto world, just to temporarily deal with the port's military and navy.
Suzuki stood on the deck of the pirate ship and shouted: "Don't panic, there are no pirates on this ship. I am a bounty hunter; the only ones on board are me and the women I rescued from the pirates."
Upon hearing this, the people at the port felt reassured. For them, bounty hunters were quite common near Alabasta, as long as they weren't pirates.
Suzuki got off the ship, bringing the three women with him. Under questioning of the port's soldiers, the three women explained what they knew.
They told the port's military that initially, they were kidnapped by the Blood Hammer Pirate group, and then another pirate group fought with the Blood Hammer Pirate group, with that pirate group's captain crazily killing everyone.
Just when they were about to be killed, the bounty hunter saved them, and after saying this, they gratefully thanked Suzuki.
Soon after, Suzuki successfully received the bounty, and along with selling the pirate ship and the items he brought back, he earned a total of 53.6 million berries.
After doing all this, he found a deserted place and transformed back into his youthful appearance.
With enough money to spend, he stayed in Alabasta for the next period, training while waiting to return to the world of Naruto.
Time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, two months had gone by; the return of the first clone was about to begin.
Tl|N : Guys; some powerstones would be really motivating and as always If you see any mistake 😔, let me know in the comments so I can edit them..