"Damn it, the Bluejam Pirates are going too far."
"They actually cleared out the restaurant just for themselves."
"So overbearing."
After eating his fill, Tang An prepared to leave Central Street and head to the Terminal, planning to join the Bluejam Pirates first as he had arranged.
Then, he would bide his time and wait to reap the benefits.
Although there were risks, the one hundred thousand Berries inside the convenience store bag should make for a very good greeting gift.
To ensure foolproof success, he was putting everything on the line.
Coming toward him were three bruised and battered thugs who were limping along. Judging by their angry voices, they must have been bullied by the Bluejam Pirates.
"Excuse me, where are the Bluejam Pirates?"
Tang An stepped forward, looking extremely angry.
"Which brat are you? Get lost."
The three thugs were already fuming, their faces distorted as they glared fiercely while clutching their sore cheeks.
"I'm a victim too, and I'm going to find the Bluejam Pirates to get my revenge."
Tang An gritted his teeth so hard that even his eyes turned red.
With acting skills like this, winning a newcomer award would be effortless.
"Just you? Haha..."
The three thugs burst into laughter, accidentally pulling on their wounds and groaning in pain.
With this brat's physique? They could easily knock him out with a single slap.
"They're at the noodle shop over there. Hope you make it out alive."
The three thugs weren't kind-hearted at all; they were eager for Tang An to go cause trouble for the Bluejam Pirates and ideally get himself killed.
This was a deeply twisted mentality.
Parting ways with the three thugs, Tang An walked through a street to its very end, where he could hear the crude and noisy commotion spilling out from the noodle shop from afar.
Tugging slightly on the convenience store bag, Tang An walked toward the noodle shop.
Whether this would succeed depended entirely on these one hundred thousand Berries.
Actually, joining the Bluejam Pirates was extremely perilous, and Tang An ran a high risk of losing both his money and his life.
He could have chosen not to join the Bluejam Pirates at all, but doing so would have made things even more troublesome.
Without joining the Bluejam Pirates, his success rate would probably be only twenty or thirty percent, but after joining, it would rise to eighty or ninety percent.
The most important thing was that the Bluejam Pirates possessed a pirate ship, which provided an escape route.
However, this backup plan was also quite dangerous and could potentially end with him buried at the bottom of the ocean.
If he successfully hunted down Luffy, Ace, and Sabo, he would have to leave the Goa Kingdom.
Otherwise, death was the only outcome.
Sabo's noble father alone could have him killed.
Not to mention those mountain bandits and Dragon, who might possibly appear.
As for failing to complete the continuous quest of his trash cheat, that was no different from waiting to die.
His cancer was already in its terminal stage, and he could draw his last breath at any moment.
Therefore, his ultimate hope still rested on this trash cheat.
If he could actually beat Ace and the other two, why would he go through so much elaborate trouble?
A handgun?
Even with a handgun, he couldn't win, so after thinking it through, this was the only way.
"This place has been entirely booked by the Bluejam Pirates."
At the entrance of the noodle shop, Tang An was blocked.
"I am here to pay my respects to Lord Bluejam."
Tang An very directly pulled open the convenience store bag, revealing neatly stacked piles of one hundred thousand Berries.
He naturally kept the remaining five thousand Berries for himself.
The pirate at the entrance clearly lit up, and after a moment of hesitation, he let Tang An wait as he stepped inside the noodle shop.
"Come in!"
About a minute later, the pirate from before came back out.
Following behind the pirate, Tang An entered the noodle shop. There were about five tables and sets of chairs in the main room, but they were completely occupied by pirates.
All gazes instantly converged on Tang An, creating an overwhelming amount of pressure.
"You want to see me?"
A man with a high hairline, a receding slicked-back hairstyle, a wide jaw with a beard, and a black coat draped over his shoulders sat on a chair with his legs crossed, looking down at Tang An from above.
This was Bluejam, the captain of the Bluejam Pirates.
He was the most powerful pirate and brute in the Terminal and the Town.
"Please allow me to join your crew."
Tang An bent down and handed the convenience store bag over with both hands.
His voice carried a hint of worship. "I want to become as strong as Lord Bluejam, and I want to become a pirate. This is all of my savings."
"Haha... Brat, you think you can join us with that physique of yours?"
A pirate laughed out loud. Their pirate crew was filled with physically imposing individuals, and they completely looked down on someone as thin and short as Tang An.
"Lord Bluejam is my idol. In the entire Terminal and Town, who doesn't fear Lord Bluejam? Even the nobles wouldn't dare provoke Lord Bluejam. Please let me join the Bluejam Pirates, I'm begging you."
Tang An looked deeply excited, and after speaking, he bowed to Bluejam again.
"Haha... Bring it here."
Bluejam laughed heartily; Tang An's flattery hit all the right notes.
He hadn't expected to have such a fanatical fan.
"One hundred thousand Berries--though it's just small change, considering how sincere you are, from now on you are a member of the Bluejam Pirates."
Upon seeing that the convenience store bag genuinely contained one hundred thousand Berries, Bluejam became even happier.
He didn't care about this small amount of money at all; what he valued was Tang An's adoration and flattery.
"Thank you, Lord Bluejam."
Tang An maintained his excited expression, though he let out a sigh of relief inwardly.
It went even smoother than he had imagined.
It seemed that money and flattery remained effective as always.
At the bay, as dusk approached, Tang An returned here along with all the pirates of the Bluejam Pirates.
Bluejam had left halfway through the journey.
Standing on the sandy beach and looking at the massive pirate ship before him, it looked almost like a mobile villa.
It seemed that all the pirates of the Bluejam Pirates lived inside it.
He just didn't know why they hadn't left the Goa Kingdom yet.
Tang An remembered from the plot that Bluejam apparently wanted to become a noble, making a deal with the king of Goa when the Celestial Dragons arrived.
That deal was to use explosives and fire oil to burn down the Terminal, after which the Goa King would make Bluejam a noble, though he was ultimately double-crossed by the king, who ordered the gates of the Terminal and the Town to be sealed shut.
Bluejam's dream of nobility was thus shattered.
This meant that Bluejam currently had no desire to live a drifting life as a pirate; instead, he wanted to go ashore and become a noble.
"Tang An, this is your room. Tomorrow, come with us to the Terminal to collect goods."
"Yes."
Following the pirates onto the ship, Tang An was assigned to the innermost cabin. It contained only a single bed, styled as bunk beds.
However, it looked like he would have the place entirely to himself.
He would be living here for quite some time.
Perhaps the one hundred thousand Berries had worked their magic, or perhaps Tang An's fanatical worship of Bluejam had sufficiently satisfied the latter's vanity.
As a result, Tang An wasn't assigned to do miscellaneous chores or anything of the sort.
While that wasn't the case right now, it might not hold true in a few days.
Being summoned and dismissed at a moment's notice was something Tang An had already mentally prepared himself for.
"Hah..."
It had been a full day since his transmigration, and he could finally catch a slight breather.
Tang An lay down on the wooden board bed, the heart that had been hanging in suspense finally settling down a bit.
Immediately afterward, he began to ponder things once more.
He needed to walk on thin ice for this period until the opportunity arrived, and he also had to figure out how to pilot a pirate ship.
Storing various food supplies and water--this pirate ship should have reserves.
He needed to figure out where everything was.
He also had to guard against all sorts of unexpected accidents that might occur.
After re-sorting and supplementing his various plans, Tang An began to study the trash cheat.
With a thought, the light screen appeared before his eyes.
It remained simple and easy to understand, devoid of any hidden features.
Mist swirled around the distant, indistinct blank squares, with a model airplane landed on the previous dice roll space.
Rules: Gain one dice roll opportunity each natural month. Each blank space can yield unexpected items, but can also cause the player to lose items they already possess.
Continuous Quest: Hunt down a Child of Destiny, Destined Villain, Transmigrator, Reincarnator, or Reborn Individual to be rewarded with +4 dice rolls. Important supporting characters or villainous supporting characters will reward varying numbers of dice rolls based on circumstances.
Randomized Luck Bonus.
"Is there a novice gift pack?"
This trash cheat seemed to be a combination of a system and a flying chess mini-game. According to typical system-genre web novels, there should be an artificial intelligence and a novice gift pack.
Clearly, Tang An's cheat was extremely rudimentary.
It wasn't one of those high-and-mighty intelligent systems; it couldn't even really be considered a system at all.
It seemed too lazy even to issue quests, leaving only a single continuous quest hanging there.
Tang An tried numerous methods, but in the end, there were no surprise discoveries.
This proved once again that this was a trash cheat, and fully relying on it was completely unrealistic.
He still had to depend on himself.
Moreover, this cheat was a double-edged sword, and it was entirely impossible to guess what it might pull out!