Because the dozen pirates lying on the ground were a warning.
At this moment, a man wearing a blue mask walked into the tavern, looked around, and then walked straight to the table where Kidd was sitting.
Arriving at the table where Kidd was sitting, the masked man sat down directly.
Kidd looked up at the masked man and said, "Here he comes."
The masked man nodded and asked, "Did you buy a gun?"
"No."
Kidd shook his head.
"Bought by someone?"
"No, it's because the boss doesn't want to sell me."
"I won't sell you? What's going on?"
"have no idea."
Kidd drank up the wine in the bottle with some irritation.
But the masked man probably guessed what was going on and said, "Then give me the money and I'll buy it."
"The money is almost gone."
“…”
The masked man was speechless.
Kidd looked indifferent.
In his opinion, money can be easily obtained by grabbing it.
Chapter 9 Asking for a Gun
Red-haired Shanks…
One of the Four Emperors who reigns over the New World like an emperor.
No matter how hard Maude tried, she couldn't think of a reason why such a big shot would come to such a shabby shop.
So much so that he couldn't reply to Shanks' words for a while.
Shanks was used to reactions like Mod's, so he didn't care. He turned to look at Sunny at the counter and raised his hand to say hello.
"Hey, little Nini, long time no see."
"Well, long time no see."
"Why did you cut your hair?"
"That's, well, Sol said that my hair was too long and would waste water when washing, so he asked me to cut it."
Sunny's eyes drooped, her heart beat a little faster, and she found an excuse to excuse herself.
[At this time, Sol was walking slowly on the street with the leftovers packed away. Suddenly he sneezed hard. He wiped his nose with his hand and thought for a while. In vain, he had an unknown premonition and subconsciously quickened his pace. .]
In the shop, Shanks smiled helplessly and said, "Thor is really as diligent and thrifty as ever."
"Uh, why are you here this time...?"
Sunny changed the subject at the right time and asked Shanks the reason for his visit.
"Still the same, come here and buy some wine from your hometown."
Shanks laughed, passed Mod, and came to the counter.
Mod then belatedly looked at Shanks's back.
I accidentally neglected it.
Fortunately, Shanks' personality is different from other Yonko...
The curly-haired man Jesus glanced at Maud without leaving any trace, and immediately followed Shanks with Lucky Lu holding the chicken leg.
Mod looked at their backs silently, calmed down her mood, closed the door of the shop, and then stepped aside, watching Shanks and Sunny who were chatting.
Judging from the conversation, Shanks seems to be a regular customer of the store.
What made Mod unable to complain the most was that Shanks came to the store to buy wine, not weapons.
By the way, does the store sell alcohol
Maud suddenly thought of the basement entrance downstairs.
Could it be a wine cellar inside
Behind the counter, Sunny changed from her normal state and seemed to have some stage fright.
However, when she mentioned that Shanks was here for wine, she remembered Thor's firm and heartbreaking instructions before, and immediately strengthened her position as a member of Thor's weapons shop.
She raised her head and looked directly at Shanks, and said sternly: "After you emptied the wine last time, Thor gave the order. You can sell it to anyone, but I can't sell it to you again."
"What?"
Shanks was startled, turned his head to look at Lucky Lu, and asked doubtfully: "Didn't we pay for it last time?"
"I paid, that is... when I moved the goods, I took away two barrels of wine that the boss specially left behind."
“…”
Shanks was silent for a while and sighed: "So something like this has happened before."
After sighing, he leaned towards Sunny, changed his focus, and asked in a low voice: "Is Sol at home?"
Sunny said bluntly: "Not here."
"That'll be easy."
Shanks looked serious.
"you… !"
Sunny's eyes widened.
Without waiting for Sunny's next words, Lucky Lu, who realized what Shanks meant, put the drink money on the counter and then walked to the stairs with ease.
Watching Lucky Lu walking towards the wine cellar, Sunny subconsciously wanted to step out of the counter and follow him to stop him.
Boom—
At this moment, there was a soft sound from the counter.
Sunny followed the sound, but it was the sound made by Jesus Bu going to the shelf during the conversation to get a smooth-bore flintlock gun and a short-handled flintlock gun, and then placing them lightly on the counter.
"Xiao Nini, how can you sell these two guns?"
Jesus Bu leaned forward and folded his hands on the table.
The timing was so good that it was hard to describe, but his expression didn't look like he was joking, he was really planning to buy a gun.
Sunny looked at Lackey Lu's back, and then at the two guns placed on the counter. She gritted her teeth and sighed in her heart, and reported the price with despair: "Smoothbore 1.2 million Bailey, short handle 3.8 million. Bailey.”
At this time, Lucky Lu had disappeared from view, and he must have gone down to the wine cellar.
"call out-"
Hearing the price quoted by Sunny, Jesus Bu whistled, without raising any objection to the seemingly unreasonable price, and simply took out the money.
Shanks glanced at the smooth-bore flintlock gun Jesus had slung behind his back and asked, "Is this the decision? Maybe Thor can fix it."
Jesus Bu curled his lips and said: "Boss, do you want to wait in the store for Mr. Saul to come back?"
"Ha ha."
Shanks smiled nonchalantly and said, "It's okay again. We can move the wine away first and then come back."
“…”
Jesus was speechless for a while, then shook his head and said: "Forget it, let it end here. As an old friend, it has done its best."
As he spoke, he unhooked the smoothbore flintlock gun behind him and placed it on the counter.
This gun was the first old man he brought out from the village. After all, it could not withstand the hardships of the years.
Even if you consciously use [Armed Haki] to cultivate it, in the end it will just be a waste of time.
After all, he is a sniper, specializing in [Informed Haki] rather than [Armed Haki].
Furthermore, the acquisition of [Armed Haki] was only a few years after going to sea. By then, it was too late to realize that the love of guns was cultivated with Haki.
Over time, the original old buddy can only be reduced to a backup gun.
Until now, it is aging more and more seriously, and it is difficult to even serve as a backup gun.
This is something Jesus Bu has already fully realized during his daily maintenance.
With no other choice, he had no choice but to move to the last option - to change guns.
Sunny glanced at the old musket that Jesus put on the counter, and said calmly: "Sorry, our store does not accept second-hand guns, especially broken guns!"
When she finally said the word "bad gun", she spoke in a serious tone.
"It's not broken, it's just old."
Aware of Sunny's targeting, Jesus felt helpless.
“I won’t accept it even if it’s old!”
“…”
"Ha ha."
This is Shanks's happy laughter.
Jesus Bu shook his head and said, "If you don't want to sell it for money, just tell Mr. Saul that I kept it."
"Can't you just throw it away? It won't be useful anyway."
"That's not okay!"
With a serious look on his face, Jesus said: "Let Mr. Saul keep it. Maybe one day he will get interested and change the old man's 'trick' to another gun. At that time, at least he can use another gun." Way to keep going."
"Actually, you have another option."
The person who spoke was Maud, who had been watching from the side.
After hearing Mod's words, several people present couldn't help but look at him.
Facing the gazes of several people, Maude, who had calmed down, showed no stage fright at all, and her tone was solemn and serious.
"Give it to me, and I will take it for another journey."
Chapter 10 Proof
The arrival of red-haired Shanks was unexpected by Maud.
Although the other party seemed very kind from the moment he entered the door, Maude only planned to watch silently until the other party left.
But after listening to the conversation between Jesus Bu and Sunny, he could no longer wait and see calmly.
Firearms are the upgrade tools he is most in need of right now.
Originally, I wanted to get it from Saul, but he was new here, how could he possibly get a gun in a short time
Then Jesus came along and threw an opportunity.
At this time, how could Maud continue to wait and see, and directly asked Jesus for the aging smoothbore flintlock gun.
No loss in being rejected.
You have to make money with gun blood.
This was his thought before he decided to step forward to make his presence felt.
"he is?"
Shanks turned his head and looked at Sunny, who was frowning slightly at the counter, and asked with interest.
When they met before, the boy's reaction made Shanks realize that the other party knew about him.
But this kind of thing doesn't matter.
But before that, who would have thought that the young man who consciously reduced his sense of existence would suddenly take the initiative to ask Jesus for a gun
The contrast between before and after is so great, which is interesting.