In the West Blue, the Oro Jackson was heading toward Ohara.
They were not the only ones going there. Not long ago, a large Marine fleet had also set out from the West Blue's Red Port and was rushing toward Ohara at top speed.
Spencer leaned against the railing with a cigarette in his mouth, holding a newspaper.
"As expected, you wrote the first two books too, didn't you?"
Not far away, under the mast, Valthior had started creating again. He was thinking while writing and drawing in his notebook.
"As the captain, of course I have to think about how to feed my brothers. You think my money just falls from the sky? Now you know how hard I work to earn money in places you cannot see!" Valthior said with a righteous expression.
Your money might as well have fallen from the sky. I have never seen you treat money like money.
However, Spencer did not say that. Instead, he looked at Valthior and asked, "I do not think this is about money at all. You are clearly doing it because you enjoy it… How does that saying go? When people are doing bad things, they never feel tired. You have been acting possessed lately, writing every day. I am starting to wonder if Roger offended you somehow."
"Hahaha, my relationship with him is so close. What is wrong with borrowing his name a little? It is not like I never gave him money. Did you forget? When he left the ship, I paid out of my own pocket and made up the more than sixty billion he left behind," Valthior said with a loud laugh.
Spencer sighed. "Sure enough, what goes around comes around. I do not know if Roger was lucky or unlucky to know you… Come on, let me see who you are writing about this time."
As he spoke, he leaned closer to Valthior and looked down.
"Kaido's Legend: Beast Blood Boiling? You are not harming the Marines this time?"
"I did not expect this stuff to sell so well at first, or spread this far. Now the Marine high command probably wants to eat Roger alive. So I cannot just keep targeting the Marines, right?" Valthior said with a shy smile.
"So now that you are done harming the Marines, you are going to harm pirates?" Spencer said, completely speechless.
"Of course. Compared to them, pirates are easier to bully. Besides, I am helping them become famous. Kaido used to get captured by the Marines all the time, and people on the sea looked down on him. I will write him a biography, and he will surely become a household name!" Valthior said with great confidence.
"So you are turning his bad name into an even worse name?" Spencer could not help mocking him.
"Next, I am planning to write Young Wife Linlin. That one will not need much planning. Linlin's open style is already known across the sea. In this Kaido book I am writing now, she is even the female lead. A blue-skinned beauty and a rough beast. What a hook, right? Of course, the next book can completely follow her actual situation in a more realistic style. But what about Shiki? Does he have any romantic scandals? And Whitebeard too. You are the intelligence expert. Give me some inspiration, and I will share more of the manuscript fees with you later…" Valthior looked at Spencer with some expectation.
Spencer felt his scalp go numb as he listened.
Roger must have suffered eight lifetimes of bad luck when he let Valthior board his ship in the West Blue.
After all these things Valthior mentioned were published across the sea, would Roger still dare show his face?
At that point, everyone might want to beat him, and both the legal and underworld sides might join together to put out a kill order on him.
His reputation in retirement would be completely ruined.
But when Spencer imagined that scene, he suddenly felt a little excited. He had not been interested a moment ago, but now he immediately felt motivated to take part.
After blowing out a mouthful of smoke, he touched his chin and said, "I am not too sure about Shiki, but Whitebeard has material. Write about him and that Bakkin. There is already some rumor basis for that…"
"Oh, oh, Whitebeard and his clingy girlfriend, right? Then we can make up a story about an illegitimate son and call him Whitebeard Jr. or something. Ah, good, good. You really are wicked!" Valthior slapped his thigh and said.
Honestly, if this story were written, Bakkin might even thank Valthior.
She spread rumors about Whitebeard, and he would write a book to support her.
"Shiki cannot be left out either. Even if you do not know, think of something. Hurry up! I am writing down all this inspiration!" Valthior urged.
"Ahem… Shiki…" Spencer frowned. For a moment, he really could not think of anything.
To be fair, although Shiki was a shameless and evil bastard, he really did not have any romantic rumors on the sea.
The only thing was that back then, he had chased after Shakky rather wildly.
But that was just the trend on the sea. Among the older generation of great pirates, who had not chased after Shakky?
Besides, Valthior could write about Linlin without holding back because Linlin had no shame to begin with. Her lifestyle was more than just open.
Writing about her brought no moral burden.
But Valthior would never write about Staff Officer Tsuru. That would be too much. He could not bring himself to do it. The same went for Shakky, that big sister figure.
If he wrote about Shakky, how would he face Rayleigh in the future?
What? Did he still have the face to meet Roger after writing these things now?
Of course he did.
In fact, once the members of the Roger Pirates learned about this in the future, they would surely be proud of Valthior, just like Spencer.
As for Roger's feelings?
Those were not important.
Roger had a tough life. He could handle it.
"Are you talking about Shiki? What happened to Shiki? Are you talking about how he recently got a black gorilla as a crew member?" Sphinx slid down from the mast and asked curiously.
"A black gorilla?" Valthior froze, then said in surprise, "That bastard calls himself the Golden Lion, and I thought it was because he thought it sounded cool. So it turns out he likes animals?"
Sure enough, when people started spreading rumors, their imagination had no limits.
If Shiki knew about this, he would probably cough up blood in anger.
"Gaban likes giants, so what is wrong with Shiki liking Minks? Why are you still standing there? Hurry and write down this idea. Shiki's book will follow this direction!" Spencer urged.
A gorilla Mink and Golden Lion Shiki.
That was too shocking.
It would definitely become a huge hit.
Spencer had clearly misunderstood, so Sphinx quickly explained, "Not a Mink. A real gorilla. A wild one. The kind that cannot talk and only beats its chest while roaring."
"Huh?" Spencer was truly stunned this time.
Wait.
What was going on?
"Is that true?" Rengar, who had been lifting weights nearby, quickly came over and asked.
"It is true. I heard Shiki loves that gorilla so much that he keeps it by his side every day and never lets it leave him," Sphinx said with complete certainty.
After coming back to his senses, Spencer slapped Valthior's shoulder hard. "Isn't that even better? Hurry, write it down! Let's really give Shiki a good story. He is always so arrogant. Let's make him furious!"
"Will he really go around the world looking for Roger to take revenge?" Valthior asked with some hesitation.
Writing Kaido as a beast and a man was one thing. After all, Kaido really liked that sort of thing, and he was most likely secretly in love with Linlin. Valthior was almost certain that once that book came out, Kaido would definitely buy a collector's edition and secretly read it at night.
But Shiki and a gorilla was honestly a little too much.
With Shiki's temper, when he lost his head, he even dared to challenge Marine Headquarters alone. What would he not do?
Valthior was truly afraid that if he angered Shiki too much, Shiki would fly all over the world searching for Roger to get revenge.
"What are you afraid of? Roger's life is tough. He can handle it," Spencer said without hesitation.
"Hey, hey, hey, all of you saw this. He is the one insisting that I write it. This was not my own idea!" Valthior said as he looked at the people around him.
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Holy Land, Mary Geoise.
Saint Nusjuro happened to be inspecting the Finance Department today. As he walked, he suddenly remembered the suggestion he had made not long ago and looked at the attendant beside him.
"The matter I asked you to push in the newspapers last time, has it been carried out?"
"It has already been done, Lord Nusjuro!" the attendant immediately replied.
The so-called "push" was about spreading rumors and discussion around things like Pirate Emperors, building up the mood first, then later turning it into a full wave of public opinion.
Saint Nusjuro nodded with satisfaction, then asked, "Then in the past two days, has this matter caused any stir?"
He felt that this topic should be very attractive. Many people across the sea should already be discussing it.
But the attendant's expression became extremely awkward, making Saint Nusjuro frown.
"There has been no discussion? That should not be…"
"My lord, in truth, the current public opinion on the sea is all about Roger…" the attendant said nervously.
"Huh?" Saint Nusjuro's expression froze, and he said in surprise, "What did Roger do now? Did he not already retire?"
"He is writing dirty novels in the newspaper and has drawn everyone's attention away. The Pirate Emperor topic we promoted has almost no one discussing it. Everyone on the sea is talking about his dirty novels…" the attendant said bitterly, wearing an expression that showed he did not even know how to explain it.
Saint Nusjuro froze.
Am I so old that I can no longer keep up with the times?
I heard every word you said, but why can I not understand the meaning at all?
What did it mean that Pirate King Roger, after retiring, was writing dirty novels in the newspaper?
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