On Island No. 40 of the Sabaody Archipelago, there was a commercial street.
In front of a store selling gold and jewelry.
A two - meter - tall burly man with short blue hair, covered in a dazzling golden light and wearing a full set of golden armor, strode in.
"Robbery! Hand over all the gold to this boss!"
Hearing this, four clerks in black suits inside the jewelry store simultaneously pulled out a machine gun from under the counter. Then they pointed the guns at the intruder.
"Sir, our shop is a small business, and we don't have much gold. Please go somewhere else!
If you want gold, you can go to Island No. 69. There's the biggest gold exchange in the Sabaody Archipelago, and they have a large stock of gold.
Of course, if you've got a good deal, we can also sit down and talk about it..."
The one speaking was a fat store owner in a purple suit with a beard on his face. He placed his hands on the counter, holding a grenade in his left hand and a revolver in his right.
His words were polite, but the threat in them was quite obvious.
The fat store owner, who dared to run a jewelry business on this island, was no ordinary person.
He was a member of the underworld, specializing in handling stolen goods. He'd dealt with hooligans, pirates... these kinds of groups quite a lot. Opening the store was just a way to attract more business.
"Hahaha! Do you think I'm stupid?
I'm Hunter, the Golden Warrior, a pirate supernova with a bounty of 150 million!
Island No. 69 is so close to the naval base. Before I even reach the gold exchange, the navy will probably come after me." The blue - haired man scoffed.
"Well, it seems there's no room for negotiation..."
The fat store owner's eyes showed a fierce light. His body rapidly swelled, and black boar bristles grew all over him. Two huge fangs protruded from his mouth.
In the blink of an eye, he turned into a wild - boar man.
"Take him down!"
At the fat store owner's order, the four clerks in black suits raised their machine guns and frantically sprayed bullets at Hunter.
Rat - tat - tat...!
Amid the dense rain of bullets, Hunter manipulated the golden armor on his body, which instantly covered every part of him.
He left only a slit at the eyes to observe the outside world, and there were no flaws anywhere else.
The machine - gun bullets hit the golden armor like a heavy rain, only sparking large splashes, but they couldn't harm him at all.
"Hahaha! It's useless! It's useless!
The golden armor I made with my ability is even harder than steel!"
Hunter laughed wildly. He completely ignored the attacks of the five people and rushed towards the nearby counter. He punched through the glass on it, and his right hand covered with the golden armor immediately swept over the gold ornaments on the counter.
However...
Something that surprised Hunter happened. The gold ornaments he touched only shed a layer of golden coating, which stuck to his gauntlet, and those ornaments turned into a pile of white metal...
"Damn it! You're actually selling counterfeit stuff!!!"
Seeing this situation, Hunt blurted out a curse.
He caused trouble on the Sabaody Archipelago, risking being captured by the Navy. Wasn't it just to replenish his gold supply, a crucial combat resource, before entering the New World, the second half of the Grand Line?
The power of the Gold-Gold Fruit was indeed amazing, but unfortunately, it cost a fortune in berries during battles!
During a fight, if he wasn't careful and couldn't retrieve the gold, it could easily result in a consumption of hundreds of thousands or even millions of berries.
On his way to the Sabaody Archipelago, he encountered several powerful enemies, which exhausted a large amount of his gold. So, he had to come here to replenish it.
But...
Who would have thought that he would run into a complete swindler!
"Are you kidding me? Do you think that cheap stuff is pure gold? Are you out of your mind?"
The wild boar man sneered and threw a grenade in his hand. It landed at the feet of the blue-haired man.
"Boom!"
The deafening sound, accompanied by a fierce burst of fire, made everyone's ears ring.
However...
Hunt, who was at the center of the explosion, remained unscathed. There wasn't even a single scratch on his golden armor.
"I've already said it's useless!"
The blue-haired man let out a ferocious grin and immediately charged towards the four people still firing machine guns.
The golden armor covering his arms quickly transformed, forming two blades on his forearms.
"Thud! Thud!..."
Hunt waved his hands in quick succession. In an instant, he hacked the four machine-gun-wielding men to the ground, their chests spurting blood.
"You bastard!"
After emptying the bullets in his revolver, the fat boss roared. He pushed off with his legs and charged towards Hunt. He swung his fist and landed a blow on Hunt's chest, but Hunt didn't even budge.
"How many times do I have to tell you to understand?
It's useless!!!"
Hunt grinned menacingly and raised his left hand to grab the fat boss's right wrist.
The next moment.
He activated the power of the Gold-Gold Fruit, controlling the gold on his body to quickly wrap around the wild boar man's entire right arm, sticking the two of them tightly together.
"Die!"
"Stab!"
Hunt smelted the golden armor on his right hand into a sharp dagger and instantly pierced through the other man's chest.
"Thud!"
After waiting for a moment, when the fat boss completely reverted from his beast form and lost his breath, the blue-haired man retracted the gold from his body. The man's corpse slumped to the ground powerlessly.
"What a waste of my precious time, damn it!"
Hunt shook the blood off the golden dagger in his right hand and then restored the gold to its original state. He walked towards the other counters in the store and started rummaging through the gold on them.
However, to his pleasant surprise, he found a large box of gold treasures in the warehouse behind the store. Just by refining the gold from it, he obtained more than forty kilograms.
This trip had been worth it after all!
Those treasures were originally stolen goods that the fat boss had acquired but hadn't had time to deal with...
"Squeak! Squeak!..."
Hunt looked in the direction of the sound and found that at the warehouse entrance, a group of black bats quickly formed a man wearing a black robe and a ghost - smile mask.
"Pirate Hunter Roronoa Zoro!"
"Oops! Didn't expect you'd know me..."
"Of course. You've been frequently hunting pirates with bounties under 100 million berries on the Sabaody Archipelago. This has even been reported in the World Economic News... So? Do you want to take on a pirate supernova like me whose bounty has exceeded 100 million berries?"
Hunt sneered. He gathered in his right hand the gold smelted in the warehouse, forming a golden great - sword. Then he casually twirled it in the air.
"Well! Actually, I didn't want to fight you pirate supernovas so soon... But your Golden - Golden Fruit ability makes me have to give it a try to see if I can take your head."
Let this hunt for the Devil Fruit succeed! Sephiroth murmured to himself.
With the current rapid development of the Umbrella Corporation, there are quite a few jealous people. Who knows when they'll take out Tazolo, the mediocre boss of the company.
Therefore, helping Tazolo improve his strength has become extremely urgent.
There are many ways to become stronger, but eating a powerful Devil Fruit is the fastest way.
The main reason Sephiroth was able to become so strong so quickly was the Mythical Zoan - type Vampire Fruit.
Thanks to the Vampire Fruit, he could ignore and repair all physical injuries. In just half a year, he reached a level that others would take years or even over a decade to achieve.
If Tazolo has no chance with the Golden - Golden Fruit, Sephiroth will have to let him eat the Inu Inu no Mi, Model: Wolf.
"Humph! If you want to take my head for the bounty, let's see if you have the ability!"
Hunt sneered and waved the golden great - sword in his hand, slashing at Sephiroth...