"Brother Katakuri, there is a strange unregistered pirate ship coming over there."

At the port of Cake Island, Katakuri, who was seeing off guests, heard what his sister Smoothie said, raised his head and looked in the direction Smoothie pointed, and then looked behind him.

Behind him, Bucky was also acting like a master. He was chatting with the guests who were about to leave the cake island, talking about non-nutritious cliches about coming back when he had time and having the opportunity to cooperate.

Perhaps noticing Katakuri's gaze, Bucky stopped after saying goodbye to a guest. His tall and hollow body also walked towards Katakuri and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Krokdal is here, he should be looking for you."

Katakuri spoke calmly, but the moment he finished speaking, the facial features of Senryo Dao Baki shifted, as if he had heard the most unacceptable news.

Katakuri looked at the wonderful expression on his face, smiled, and said: "I am very curious. When you refused the money provided by Shanks, and I refused the loan, what channels did you rely on to get it?

Who has the money to open Bucky Express?”

Although it was a question, Katakuri's incomprehensible expression clearly meant that he already knew the truth of the matter. After all, the money required to establish Bucky Express was not a small amount.

During the war, Bucky recruited a large number of fugitives from Impel Down, saying that he wanted to establish a force that could influence the world and earn him enough money.

The red-haired man naturally chose to support his friend and offered to inject capital, but Bucky refused Shanks without hesitation. After all, this made him feel very humiliated.

The red-haired man was indeed a man known for his dominance and magnanimity. He was not angry with Bucky because of this. Instead, he withdrew the idea of ​​investing and instead offered to rent Bucky a piece of land.

That leased land is located in the sea area controlled by the Red-haired Pirates, and is called Kale Bali. Bucky also chose to express gratitude. With the relationship with the Red-haired Pirates, no one really

Dare to cause trouble for Bucky.

After all, Bucky has always been hiding in the red-haired pirates' waters. In the past two years, the red-haired pirates have been uncharacteristically stationed in their own waters for a long time and have not wandered around like before.

This was an important opportunity for the development of Bucky Express. With people and land, Bucky only needed a start-up capital. For this capital, Bucky contacted Katakuri more than once.

After all, there are only three kings of the sea now, Bucky has already rejected Shanks, and Kaido clearly can't afford the money, so Bucky can only pay attention to Katakuri.

Katakuri, who owns the Totland Shipyard, is said to have the largest deposits in the New World. Even the navy headquarters stationed at the beginning of the new world may not have as much cash reserves as Katakuri.

Katakuri is naturally capable of investing in Bucky, and even after taking out the money, Totland will not be too embarrassed. After all, they are deposits, not working capital.

But Katakuri just couldn't like the clown in front of him, so he rejected Bucky's application for reception without hesitation. However, Bucky still established Bucky Express.

Initially Katakuri didn't care, but with the rapid development of Bucky Express, Katakuri had to pay attention. By the way, Bucky's source of funds at the time was also missing.

During that period of time, Crocodile had just returned to the sea, and had visited the four seas, the first half of the Great Channel, and the places where he had developed his power.

With a simple guess, you can understand what Crocodile was doing. It was nothing more than getting back the results of his hard work over the past twenty years. Although his hard work for the past twenty years failed in the end, he also managed many fields.

And this amount of money is indeed enough to establish Bucky Express. After all, when there is no shortage of people, land, and markets, as long as Bucky takes the first step, orders will continue to flow, and it does not require too much money. .

Of course, this doesn't need to be much. From Katakuri's point of view, if it were someone else's reward, it would even be enough to reward a Sea Emperor.

Crocodile at that time was just in line, and even had a lot of surplus. After all, Crocodile after the war seemed to have done nothing, but it had already laid out a lot.

For example, her former intelligence resources were integrated by the Revolutionary Army, and it was recently reported that Crocodile chose to co-organize a pirate expo with her former "mortal enemy" Barrett.

And investing in Bucky, which seems to be a highly profitable project nowadays, is also very similar to what Crocodile would do.

But Bucky Express is not called Bucky Crocodile United Express. Crocodile did not participate in the stock. In other words, she most likely loaned Bucky a sum of money.

Loans need to be repaid.

Although they didn't have many interactions with each other, Katakuri always felt that Bucky was an unreliable person. If he lent money to him, he might come to ask for the debt at some point.

But his base camp was within the territory of the Red-haired Pirates. Looking back now, Katakuri even thought that if Shanks didn't wander around for two years, he might be escorting Bucky's development.

During this period of time, Crocodile was active at the junction of the Red-haired Sea and the Sea of ​​Beasts, and the reason why she did not go to Bucky was probably because Shanks was there.

Therefore, Katakuri still feels quite lucky. Although he is not afraid of Shanks, he does not want to cause any conflicts with Shanks because of some Baileys.

But he, Katakuri, was unwilling to give up even a pele that belonged to him, so if he lent money to Bucky, he would definitely come to ask for it.

Therefore, not lending money to Bucky was the best result. He did not need to enter the red-haired sea to cause trouble for Bucky, and he would not lose even one Bailey.

If Bucky continues to hide in the waters of the Red-haired Pirates, his creditors may be able to just watch him and not take practical measures. But Bucky, this idiot, chose to leave Bali and left. Red hair sea.

What made Katakuri think Bucky was even more stupid was that he had no intention of hiding his whereabouts at all, and even published some of what happened on Cake Island in his scratch-made Bucky News Studio.

This not only exposed his whereabouts, but also severely aroused a wave of hatred from his creditors.

Katakuri would be furious if he even put himself into Baki's creditor's perspective.

Think about it, you have saved a sum of money, whether it is trust or investment, and you lend this money to someone.

But when the deadline came, the person who owed him money not only refused to pay back the money, but also used the money that should have been paid back to him to buy some new luxuries.

For Bucky, this new luxury product is his newly founded Bucky News Studio.

If Crocodile was really Bucky's creditor, he would have been so angry that he wanted to kill Bucky.

But Bucky looked at the pirate ship that had grown from small to large in the distance. Under the wide and hollow clothes, the "short" and thin body was constantly trembling.

Because he recalled that Crocodile came to him to collect debts, but was blocked by the red-haired pirates and said harsh words to him.

That rich woman told herself bluntly that if she could, she would live in the shadow of Shanks for the rest of her life, otherwise she would slice herself into ham and eat it in the sea water.

However, both Bucky Express and Bucky News Studio have been too busy recently. In addition, Bucky has never been a person with a good memory, so he forgot about Crocodile's threat.

Not only did he boldly leave the waters controlled by the red-haired pirates, but he even published his participation in the Totlan tea party as news in his own newspaper.

Bucky didn't know what Crocodile was thinking at this time, but if the roles were reversed, he would let this person who owed money know what cruelty is.

After "comparing one's feelings with one's own", Bucky only had one thought at this time, and that was to run away quickly!

"Bang!"

But at this moment, there was a sudden loud noise. Katakuri spread his hands and said, "Baki, your ship seems to be broken down."

Bucky, who was about to run away, heard this and looked at his ship. He saw that there was suddenly a hole in the bow of his ship. Although it was above the water level, it could not sail.

Not to mention the potential safety hazards after the hull is damaged, but during the driving process, the washed waves will continue to pour into his boat, making it difficult for him to move.

Bucky's red nose was almost green with anger. He pointed at Katakuri and was about to curse, but he thought of something and quickly held back his anger. He looked at Katakuri with tears in his eyes.

said:

"Brother Katakuri, please do me a favor and lend me one billion beli?"

Katakuri asked with a smile: "One billion Baileys? You only owe Crocodile this much?"

One billion beli is indeed a lot. When Katakuri rebuilt the nations, his starting capital was only the two billion beli given to him by Whitebeard. The Ryugu Kingdom built a bridge across the sea between the Windless Belt and the New World. In the early days,

The investment was only 2 billion Baileys.

One billion Baileys is enough to do many things, but it definitely does not include establishing a huge organization like Bucky Express that radiates across six sea areas.

After hearing Katakuri's question, Bucky also became nervous, and then said: "Pay the interest first."

"I'll consider the interest of one billion Baileys."

Katakuri did not refuse immediately, but looked in the direction of the pirate ship, but there was no trace of thinking on his face, which made Bucky anxious.

After all, he has no money now, and he won't be able to cope with Crocodile's arrival. If Katakuri's billion beli and his reputation are the guarantee, then it may be possible to delay it for a while.

But Katakuri made it clear that he just wanted to watch the show, so he didn't refuse. But in this case, if he didn't agree immediately, he would be "killing" Bucky!

Bucky quickly took two steps closer to Katakuri. His originally tall figure had shrunk a bit now. His head, which was originally the same height as Katakuri, was now directly bigger than Katakuri's head.

He said pitifully:

"Brother Katakuri, you are also in business. You should know how difficult it is to run a business. I am still in the initial stage and have to burn money everywhere.

I will repay the billions of Baileys in full and give you 3% of the shares as dividends! As long as I turn over the money, you will make huge profits from your investment."

Katakuri turned his head and looked at Bucky, who still had tears in his eyes, and said with a smile: "One billion Baileys, I don't want interest, and I don't need you to return it."

Hearing this, Bucky's eyes became brighter and brighter. He wanted to hug Katakuri and kiss him twice. This was simply his rebirth.

But before Bucky could express his gratitude, Katakuri continued: "I want 20% of the shares of all the companies under your name, including your current companies and the companies you will establish in the future.

Remember, it’s 20% of the shares, not some bullshit share dividend.”

"???!!!"

Bucky's gratitude to Katakuri disappeared in an instant. How could Katakuri be helping? It was clearly robbing! No, even if it was robbing, it would only take away everything he had.

But Katakuri is even more greedy. He wants not only what Bucky has now, but also what he may have in the future. Katakuri wants to plunder it directly. This is really too much!

"Don't want to? Forget it if you don't want to."

When Katakuri saw Bucky's expression change, he didn't feel anxious. Instead, he shrugged and withdrew his proposal, as if he was just joking.

"Two percent!"

Bucky quickly said that his offer was not even as good as before, but the stock dividend was a worthless empty check, but the shares were real.

For things like stock dividends, as long as the company does not make any money, there is no need to pay dividends and you can manipulate it. But shares may affect the development of the company. Every share is precious and the value is much higher.

Therefore, 2% of the stock dividends are definitely much higher than those of 3% of the stocks before. With the current scale of Bucky Express, it can not only close the 1% gap, but also close the gap in the future.

One billion Baileys is also very likely.

It can be said that this is a quite reasonable offer.

But Katakuri never accepted such a reasonable offer, glanced at Bucky, and then continued to look at the increasingly approaching pirate ship without speaking again.

Bucky gritted his teeth and said, "Five percent."
To be continued...