Last year, he didn’t have the qualifications for this, but it was only after his promotion this year that he became eligible. So, he attached great importance to this event and spent a considerable amount of money preparing this gift.
Beasts Fruits is very friendly to talented high-ranking individuals. They enjoy shares in Beasts Fruits, and the more Beasts Pirates earn, the higher their positions can be.
Up to now, the position of Beasts Fruits’ general manager has always been part-time, rather than official appointment; the actual decision-maker is still Beasts Pirates. This is one of the reasons why Kojiro has gotten bald.
“I still don’t think a diamond is quite appropriate.”
“No, Stella, this is not just a gift; it’s also related to the proposal I’m about to make. Over the past two years, you’ve also noticed that the jewelry industry in the New World is quite lacking. Most jewelry businesses are regional and constantly competing against each other, with no one gaining an upper hand.”
“But Beasts Fruits has a vast network of trade channels and connections. With a little effort, transportation issues can also be resolved. As for raw materials, treasures, or minerals, as long as they can be found, their supply won’t be a problem.”
“Relying on this, we can undoubtedly topple them and become the dominant force in that region, and there’s no reason to let go of such a high-profit luxury item.”
The jewelry industry in the world of pirates has developed quite abnormally. There are many elements involved, such as some islands with gold everywhere. By occupying such islands, one can directly lower the prices of goods.
Meanwhile, with the rise of the Great Pirate Era, sea transport has become increasingly perilous. Jewelry isn’t a commodity like food that can be sold in bulk, and even a single shipment to a jewelry store is quite small. This leads to a situation where the earnings from one voyage might not even cover the cost of bodyguards.
Only on the safer Red Line are there jewelry chains; most other islands mainly have regional jewelry stores.
But none of this is a problem for Beasts Pirates. Wandering around everywhere is the current objective of Beasts Pirates. Originally, Beasts Pirates’ ships sail through various seas just to find the plates, so transporting jewelry is not an issue either.
As for the supply, with Beasts Fruits’ financial support or finding some special islands, these shouldn’t be difficult. Tesoro has no idea how well-off Beasts Pirates are in terms of gold, but it’s just his speculation.
As a regional manager, he has the authority to allocate some funds. So in this situation, he used this authority to promote his wife to stardom. He also participated in a few performances himself.
This way, he can save on endorsement fees, or in other words, endorsement fees become an extra income for his family.
Moreover, due to this, his dream of becoming a star has also not shattered. Beasts Fruits has only one requirement for him – to make money.
They don’t touch things like human trafficking and drugs, but other than that, they’re open to different ventures as long as they yield sufficient profits.
Since having capital support, Tesoro has seen more of those dirty things, so he doesn’t believe in those so-called financial companies.
But right now, he doesn’t have decision-making power, so he can only submit applications like this in hopes of gaining attention from higher-ups.
Having the power to allocate some funds doesn’t mean they can act recklessly. In a big world, there are all sorts of people, and even Beasts Fruits has had cases of corruption. However, as a New World pirate warlord’s business, the fate of doing corruption is obvious.
“You can decide for yourself; I don’t understand all this.”
“Meow~”
At this moment, Persian walked out of the room. Seeing it come out, Tesoro affectionately rubbed its cat head. Persian didn’t resist too much, accepting Tesoro.
Over the two years, it had also accepted these two people, but it hadn’t forgotten its duty.
As long as Tesoro didn’t have any evil intentions, Persian was just an adorable pet. Otherwise, it is also capable of killing, its claws already stained with blood.
That incident had occurred during one of Stella’s dinner parties. At the time, no one had expected a cat to kill two drunk adult men. However, after that incident, Tesoro grew even closer to Persian, and it made Stella develop a habit of bringing the cat everywhere she went.
Picking up the luggage Stella had packed, Tesoro boarded a ship with her which was headed towards Wano Country.
Meanwhile, Persian appeared to be even more excited than they were. It knew exactly what returning to Wano Country meant.
After some time, the ship docked on an island near Wano Country. Stella looked around when she got off but couldn’t see any signs of a party.
“Is this the place? It doesn’t look like it.”
The people around remained busy, with only the two of them standing there with their luggage, appearing slightly out of place. At this moment, an Ironman walked over, his metallic footsteps making clanging sounds.
“Giovanni.”
He didn’t call Tesoro by his name but used his internal codename.
“It’s me. And you are?”
Standing before him was Scotch, who had been stationed outside for many years and was now due for a rotation. Over the next two years, he would exchange positions with Holed’em.
Yamato’s birthday party was the time for his takeover. At the same time, he had a new task: to bring Tesoro and Stella back to Wano Country.
“Scotch. I’ll take you to the base.”
Scotch took out a metal plate and gestured for them to stand on it. Then, using magnetic force, he lifted the metal plate and began to fly slowly towards Wano Country.
After some time in the air, the distinctive rocky walls of Wano Country came into view.
Tesoro handed over the carefully prepared gift box to the Rotom at the entrance, and then, following the guidance of a few maids, proceeded to the venue. These people had come to Onigashima from Wano Country to work.
Since Kaido had solidified his position as the Wise King, it had become common for people to come work here on Onigashima. Beasts Pirates had only sent invitations to some of their subordinates outside; the internal members didn’t receive such invitations.
This led to one thing: even though Kozuki Hiyori, the current Shogun, didn’t have an invitation, she had no choice but to come to Yamato’s birthday party.
King certainly hadn’t forgotten about this trivial matter; he just wanted to see her attitude, which seemed fine for now.
Next came the familiar gift-unwrapping part. Nowadays, Yamato lacked nothing, and most of her desires could be fulfilled. So, it was more about the formality.
However, when she saw the diamond, just as Stella had mentioned, such things held no significance for Yamato.
“A shiny stone?”
Yamato casually played with it for a while before seemingly losing interest. However, the good news was that she didn’t disregard the letter Tesoro had left inside.
Tesoro had initially thought Yamato had some decision-making power, but it seems like he had got the wrong idea about some things.
“Dad, take a look at this. It’s quite hard to understand.”
Arceus took the development proposal and then retrieved a recently delivered development plan from the desk. As he looked at the diamond in Yamato’s hand, he had some new ideas.
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