In a bar in Water 7.
Gilas was standing behind the counter, wiping a wet glass with a clean cloth. He was currently a waiter in this bar. Blueno, the boss of the target bar, was wearing a chef's outfit. His hair was braided into two ox-like horns.
At this moment, he was sitting in a booth holding a huge glass. The glass was filled with cola mixed with alcohol. He pushed the glass to a man who looked like a steel monster and said in a weird voice, "Franky, you look unhappy. This drink is on me."
He was wearing a checkered shirt, and there were obvious sewing scars on his chest. His majestic torso had metal prosthetics embedded in his limbs, but strangely, he could move as nimbly as a normal human. Franky took the glass and looked at Blueno. He wanted to say something, but in the end, he let out a long sigh and gulped down the whole glass of cola before burping.
Seeing that Franky didn't want to say anything, Blueno frowned. Then, the curtain of the bar shook, and Luffy, who was wearing a straw hat, came in. He said something to Franky, and then the group left in a hurry.
Blueno squinted his eyes and quietly glanced at the straw hat group. Gilas, who was standing behind the bar, also carefully observed Blueno's performance.
In the beginning, he thought that Faulkner's information was wrong, and that Bruno was just an ordinary bar owner who did not display any extraordinary abilities. However, after getting closer and observing for a period of time, he finally noticed that something was amiss.
Blueno didn't care about the bar's business at all. He wasn't enthusiastic about most of the customers, but he showed great concern for Franky. It was as if the purpose of opening this bar was to get close to this customer. Just like how he became a waiter in this bar, he also wanted to get close to Blueno.
Jarras had a strange feeling in his heart. He felt that Bruno might also be an espionage-related worker. He caught a whiff of a familiar aura from Bruno, even though the other party hid it very well.
"Take these glasses to the kitchen and wash them clean!"
Bruno turned his head and instructed Gilas. Then he saw a long-nosed man dressed as a boatman coming in and ordering a glass of wine.
Gilas walked to the kitchen with a glass of wine in his hand. He quietly glanced at the two of them from the corner of his eye. The two of them were leaning against the bar counter with furtive expressions and extremely low voices.
"Iceberg seems to have noticed something, and he's almost done collecting information. All the suspicious targets have been locked down. Boss has decided to take action tomorrow night."
"It's finally time!"
Gilas didn't dare to get close. He couldn't hear clearly from too far away, but he could read the words "iceberg" and "tomorrow night" from the long-nosed man's lips.
Walking into the kitchen and looking through the open door curtain, the boatman didn't stay for too long. He quickly finished the wine and left. Blueno grabbed the wine glass with a very excited expression on his face, as if he had been planning for a long time and was finally about to reap the harvest.
The bar was still open until the wee hours of the morning. After sending off the last customer, Bruno said to Gilas, "That's all for today. We're closed for the day tomorrow!"
"Okay!" Gilas took off his waiter's uniform and rolled it up on his arm. He replied flawlessly, "Then I'll go back and wash these clothes. I'll come back the day after tomorrow morning to open the bar!"
Walking along the dark street, Gilas didn't straighten his slightly hunched body until he felt the gaze behind him disappear completely. He quickened his pace and hurried back to his residence.
It was a rented house. The room was very cramped, filled with wine bottles and cardboard boxes. There was only a simple wooden bed placed in the corner. After Gilas entered the door, he glanced at the dim stairs and confirmed that no one was following him. He quickly closed the door, lifted the bed board, and reached into the pile of clothes to search for a special encrypted Den Den Mushi.
He dialed a number …
The call was quickly connected, and Faulkner's voice came through. "Have you checked it out?"
Gilas sat on the edge of the bed. The low-wattage yellow light reflected his silhouette on the wall behind the bed. The wall was slightly yellowed and cracked. At this moment, a strange vertical crack was silently splitting open. Some fine wall dust stuck to the wall and fell onto the bed.
Gilas didn't notice the strangeness behind him. He said to the Den Den Mushi, "Blueno hides too well. I have no way to confirm his ability for the time being. However, he is indeed not as he appears on the surface. He is just the owner of a bar. It is likely that this identity is his disguise."
"So?" Faulkner's tone was a little impatient. "This is not the answer I want to confirm."
"I overheard something today. Blueno may take action tomorrow night. Perhaps, I will be able to see the scene of him using his ability!" Gilas recalled the two key words he overheard in the bar, and his eyes flashed.
The wall was peeling off. Although it was almost silent, the smell of falling wall dust slowly drifted into Gilas' nose from behind. His hand holding the Den Den Mushi suddenly stiffened, and his neck stiffly turned back inch by inch. In his field of vision, the originally closed wall had strangely cracked into a spacious hole, as if a door had opened in the wall that allowed creatures to pass through.
Blueno, whose face was extremely gloomy and cold, walked in through the door. His pair of bell-like eyes stared straight at him. His mouth was no longer cracking jokes. Instead, he bared his teeth and said in a ferocious voice, "You heard something you shouldn't have. Who are you? Iceberg, or some anti-government organization? "
Gilas' pupils shrank sharply, his scalp was tingling, and a chill ran from the bed board straight to his head. He looked at the strangely cracked wall behind Blueno, and now he could confirm that Blueno's ability was the "Door Door Fruit" that Faulkner wanted to confirm.
"I've been found out, his ability …"
Gilas jumped out of bed in shock, trying to pull away from Blueno, and at the same time, subconsciously asked Faulkner for help on the other end of the Den Den Mushi.
"Boom!"
The sound of the air being crushed covered Gilas' voice. Blueno's strong body carried a terrible roar, like an angry bull, and his broad palm smashed heavily at Gilas.
Gilas was horrified, and he rolled on the bed board to the ground. The bed board and the box next to him were all smashed. The violent wind tore the cramped room, and the broken boards tore the hanging curtains and shattered the windows.
On the opposite side, in a house not too far away, two blurry figures happened to be looking in this direction through the window …
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