"He's probably after your bounty," Julio stated, informing the captain of the knight that attacked them once they were in the calm zone, days later. She was buying an issue from a bird, and she turned to him, "Probably. Gonna get those out here I guess." She smiled brightly as she inspected the paper, as growing up she learned to read, but the words had to be big. With these glasses Kagaku had, she could see way better, and could actually read the newspaper now. Kagaku chuckled, "It's not perfect, but the prescription is close enough." Harmony smiled, honestly unsure what prescriptions were.
She turned through the pages slowly, enjoying the words for once, before stopping at a page on the Four Emperor's. When they update the members, new posters are made. Anubis, his eyebrow cocked up for the picture; bounty cancelled by the government. The second showed a young lady with blue eyes and blond hair, waving with an innocent smile; Show Leader with a bounty of 985,000,000. Third slot had a Drakolos, but his face was remarkably human despite the grey and scales on his cheeks. His eyes were red, and hair long wity a dark turquoise color, and two horns bending around his forehead; labled as the Drakolos leader, his bounty is 1,250,000,000: dead only. Then the final slot had the girl with black hair and eyes like a black hole; Alejandra with a mere 300,000,000 bounty as she just took Blackhearts spot.
Continuing, Harmony turned to the bounties section on the next page. "Hey, we increased our bounties again! We're gonna be famous at this rate!" Harmony cried out excitedly, showing off the new posters. Harmony's had a picture of her just eating an apple again, but this time at Aluburna; her bounty jumping to 95,000,000. Julio's poster had him just after firing Victoria, the coin just passing to the left of the camera; bounty of 76,500,000. He smirked confidently, but then Kasai turned to his. "Ha Ha!" he showed his off, an image of him in his human form, smirking for the pic; a bounty of 80,000,000. Julio grumbled as Kasai posed confidently, "Oh yea, I took out a, what? Admiral! Hell yea!" Kasai started victory dancing as Minx turned to his, and his face went white. "Uh..."
"What's wrong Minx?" Julio peeked over his shoulder, and his face went blank. Kasai looked over as well, and he just coughed as he almost choked on air, exclaiming "W-What did you do in those caves!?" Minx's poster, a picture of him showing off his scissorblades looking happy and innocent with a bounty of 90,500,000; for murder. "I-I uh... accidentally... vaporized a guy?" he responded nervously. Julio patted his back, "It doesn't count then if it was an accident." Kasai snapped at him, "You just don't wanna be third best!" Harmony turned through more of the bounties till she got to Kagaku's poster, picture of him with his pinkie in his nose with some wood on his shoulder; bounty of 50,550,000. She looked more and more looking for someone specific, but sighed in relief when she couldn't find one for Kiwi, "Thank goodness..."
There was a news article she found about Aluburna, and how the Melody Pirates interfered with a mission to stop a pirate take over, not even mentioning Blackheart. "Aww they're making us out as the bad guys!" she exclaimed angrily. "Yep. Couldn't tarnish their perfect image by having the city they were protecting instead saved by the enemy," Kagaku stated as he carved some of his stolen wood into circle shapes. Harmony finally clicked something in her head, "Hey, what are you still doing here? I thought you only wanted a ride down?" she asked Kagaku, who just shrugged. "I could have gone with the resistance, but I don't know... something tells me hangin' with you guys might be where I'm needed," he said, giving her a thumbs up.
He fastened a pulley system to Nakama, one that let him lower off the side, able to now make repairs to her hull without docking first. "Wow, how'd you learn that?" Kasai asked, genuinely impressed by the ingenuity. Kagaku, currently patching a bit of chipped wood, just chuckled, "I spent my entire childhood figuring out everything I could. I crafted all kinds of things, and learned alot of mechanics." Julio scratched his chin, "Mechanics? Like robots in the comic section on the news?" Kagaku smirked, looking up at Julio, "Almost."
Minx, currently on watch up in the crows nest, spots an approaching ship. "We got incoming!" he announced, "Off the port!" The crew all got into position; Harmony at the wheel, Kasai in his hybrid form flying around Nakama, Minx and Julio on either side weapons at the ready, and Kagaku pulled out a thrown-together crossbow made of wood and rope. The incoming ship was a huge green galleon, the jolly roger one with smokey crossbones and a skull that has droopy eyes but a big grin. On board, a pretty big man with long unkempt hair of a forest-green shade chuckled as his bloodshot eyes gazed upon his target. He put a cooking pot on his head; his battlebody now ready for action.