Arceus in One Piece - Chapter 51

“Spandain, if this kind of thing happens again, you should stop contacting me and resign in pain yourself.”

“Yes, sorry, very sorry, please.”

Facing the snarling phone bug, Spandauin acted very lowly. This accident had made him use so many connections to get things straightened out.

Previously, he had wanted to take most of the credit for finding the Locus Treasure, so he had hidden some key people and contacted someone higher up.

He didn’t realize that the treasure hadn’t been found, but Follett and two CP0s had accidents. Follett’s side was fine, as he was originally in charge of CP9, and Follett wasn’t the strongest one, so backups could fill his vacancies.

At the back, the CP organization has a special island for nurturing talents.

However, CP0 is different; there are the best of the best, and most importantly, these people are very loyal to the government, so when such people lose their jobs for no reason, someone has to take the blame.

Before Spandam set fire to the office, the life card of “Prior” had been in perfect condition, so after the loss of the life card, Spandam completely lost control of the situation in the Kingdom of Netho.

The owner of the life card was also one of John’s men, and naturally, the life card disappeared after his death.

CP0 would not contact him, and Follett’s last report was that everything was fine.

The two CP0s might not be John’s match in a head-to-head confrontation, but logically, they would have no problem retreating.

Mary Joa’s life card had already confirmed their deaths, other hands had already gone to investigate the exact situation, and Spandauin could only tell all the information under the circumstances.

Given that his information was of some value, he sought out a number of connections, and the matter was put behind him.

However, in order to get rid of those people, it could be said that he had hemorrhaged money, and Spandam, who had caused the loss of information, was also warmly cared for by Spandauin, and until now, he was still lying on the bed and couldn’t get off.

After Spandam’s misinformation and the subsequent investigation of the Nathole Kingdom by his followers, they concluded that Priority was the culprit in all of this.

The man had tricked everyone into stealthily stealing the Locus treasure, which is why there was such a special reward.

The matter was not over yet, and the government agents investigated the area in more detail.

Then, the people who investigated the situation in the Netho Kingdom made a new discovery. Unless they knew the secret of Locus, no one would have thought that there was so much space under the island’s central lake.

They were able to find some clues thanks to John, whose awakened powers had caused a change in the topography of the Netho Kingdom, where a small earthquake had occurred after Kaido and the others had left.

A hole opened up in the underground cavern, which collapsed in an aftershock after some bodies and a small amount of treasure were swept out by the water.

These people are physically strong not only in life but also in death. After such a long time, the body has not decayed and can still recognize its original identity.

Eventually, they got their own judgment, those people, because of the reason for the treasure into the internal struggle, and finally died in the hands of unknown people.

The investigation continued with little success, and at the urging of the Netho Kingdom, they planned to end the investigation.

The Netho Kingdom has protested many times. They are in the gray business. A group of Marines and government personnel are here to investigate the situation. Coupled with the previous earthquake and the unusually high tide, recently, the national economy was seriously damaged.

If they were delayed for a few more days, they wouldn’t be able to pay their dues.

But among the evidence they have gathered is a small, rustic knife that Olga lost.

Only some of us know about ancient writing, and it’s a coincidence that Follett recognizes Alkaimi’s writing. The investigators had only collected the evidence, and the analysis would have to wait until they returned to the city, where other people would be responsible.

Follett’s body was found at the same time, and compared to the CP0, whose cause of death was unknown, Follett’s body had already been taken in by the Netho Kingdom.

Despite the rules of the Netho Kingdom, there were always pirates who died in armed combat on the island, and they were not surprised by such people.

“Severe burns, most of his body fractured, blunt force trauma to the head over a long period of time, he appears to have been tortured. What exactly did he find.”

“I don’t know. Let’s wait for the people up there to find out. We should get going. The King of Netho has already called Mary Joa several times.”

What followed was the so-called exploration of the recovered clues by a group of professionals, and the dagger that came from Alkemi caught their attention.

With Spandaine’s assurances under oath, the World Government managed to get the wrong idea that it was Privette who had planned it all.

Either Locus had found pure gold, or Prylt had discovered new clues to Alkemi, and eventually, a special reward was offered to Prylt.

This is the reason why Spandauin was able to run a successful operation without even being demoted and punished.

But in any case, they didn’t have what it takes to catch a dead man on the ocean, and for a while, those in charge of the matter were at an impasse, putting the finger on Alkemi based on a bunch of faulty intelligence.

They thought that if they could find the missing Alkaimi, they could discover Prithee.

A few months later, after a long voyage, the Beast’s ship arrived in the Chambord Islands.

The ship had become a meeting place for the minorities, so to speak.

The only two survivors of the Alkaimi, the two survivors of the Lunaria, and the serpent lizards, an extinct race long ago, were the only ones on board, but lately, the crew’s style was not quite normal.

Everyone is bruised and purple. No, to be exact, only Queen is bruised and purple.

Asier wasn’t in training, and he wasn’t even a fighter.

Olga had just finished her physical training and hadn’t even gotten to the beating part yet.

Asuka had wrapped herself up tightly, and Shaina had done the same, so even if there were injuries on her body, she couldn’t see them, but Queen was different. He was bigger than the outsiders, and under Kaido’s teaching, even with the animal’s power of recovery, he still had quite a few bruises on his body.

However, after this period of time, the level of dominance of several people on board the ship has significantly improved.

At the same time, Olga’s closet of clothes of the same style had been modified a bit, removing the prominent Alkemi writing on them.

She had learned from her last lesson that it was not good to expose this kind of information.

She’d never seen what Shaina and Asher’s faces actually looked like, and they had no intention of removing their masks or undoing their transformations in front of Olga, at least not yet.

But Asier did have a certain suspicion that, like Alkemi, it was something that wasn’t good to expose.

There were a lot more Lunarians a hundred years ago than there are now, and the government made a lot more arrests.

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