After a night of revelry.
The next day, Xia Luo woke up from the dining table. He raised his head and looked around groggily.
The tavern hall was filled with his pirate subordinates lying on the ground in all sorts of awkward positions.
Suddenly feeling an urgent need to pee, Xia Luo hurriedly walked to the toilet to relieve himself.
After a moment of relaxation, Xia Luo felt refreshed all over.
He went straight back to the hall.
"Lord Xia Luo, you're awake!"
The tavern owner with a flat haircut immediately stepped forward and asked with concern.
He wasn't really concerned. Instead, he was afraid of not entertaining this young master well and angering him.
Xia Luo grabbed the owner's hand.
"Bring me some grub and a bowl of hangover soup!"
Xia Luo looked at the tavern owner and ordered.
"Sure! I'll tell my staff to do it right away!"
Being grabbed by Xia Luo like this, the owner's heart skipped a beat again.
But Xia Luo just gave a faint smile and let go of his hand.
He walked over to a clean table and sat down.
In no time, a waiter carefully carried a bowl of hangover soup to Xia Luo's table and put it down, then quickly walked away.
Xia Luo curled his lips at the sight.
Xia Luo could do nothing about this situation, but it would change after more pirates emerged in about a decade, especially after Roger initiated the Great Age of Pirates.
By that time, five or six out of ten ships on the sea would be pirate ships, and these people would get used to it.
After drinking a bowl of hangover soup, Xia Luo became fully awake. Then, before long, waiters came one by one, each carrying a large plate of roasted meat and placing them in front of Xia Luo.
Looking at the roasted meat, Xia Luo's mouth was almost watering.
He grabbed a piece of roasted meat, not caring about the heat, and stuffed it directly into his mouth, swallowing it in one gulp.
The waiter next to him stared at him in disbelief, stunned.
"What are you standing there for? Serve the food!"
Xia Luo said to the stunned waiter with dissatisfaction.
He was just starting to enjoy his meal! How dare they stop, it was so annoying!
"Yes, yes, yes!"
The waiter was so startled by Xia Luo's shout that he scurried back in a panic.
Xia Luo swallowed the roasted meat without even chewing.
The tavern owner standing on the second floor watched all this in secret, shocked.
"What a monster!"
As Xia Luo was eating the roasted meat, some of his pirate subordinates woke up one after another.
"Boss!"
Paul plopped down in front of Xia Luo. Without being polite, he reached out his hand to grab some meat.
But Xia Luo immediately grabbed his hand.
Paul was stunned. Then he felt like the world was spinning.
Bang!
Xia Luo flung Paul out with a wave of his hand. Paul crashed heavily into the wall.
"You punk, trying to steal my meat!"
Xia Luo said and continued eating.
"Paul!"
The people next to him rushed over to check on Paul's sorry state.
Xia Luo didn't use much force.
The tavern owner gasped in shock.
Were pirates really this cruel to each other?
The tavern owner stood on the second floor, watching all this in shock.
"Cough, cough!"
Paul crawled out of the rubble and couldn't help coughing twice.
Then he bounced back up lively.
He quickly ran in front of Xia Luo.
"Boss!"
How could you do this?"
Paul looked at Xia Luo with a wronged expression and said,
"Humph!"
Xia Luo ignored Paul while eating his food.
Seeing that the boss ignored him, Paul shrugged and left.
"Hey, boss! Bring all the food right now! Do you wanna starve me to death?"
Paul vented his qi on the boss.
The boss, who was watching the show on the second floor, suddenly felt a cold sweat running down his back.
"Wait a sec! It'll be right up!"
The boss quickly told the cooks to hurry up.
He even gathered the cooks from the surrounding taverns and eateries.
"Burp!"
Xia Luo let out a burp. He was so full that his belly was sticking out.
Then, to the boss's great shock, Xia Luo's belly shrank back.
"This...!"
The boss was at a loss for words.
"What a monster!"
The boss could only utter such a sigh.
Suddenly, the boss had a flash of inspiration.
Could it be that all powerful people have a big appetite?
This thought suddenly popped into the boss's mind. Should he also eat more?
The more he thought about it, the more he believed it was right.
He decided that he had to eat more from now on.
Xia Luo had no idea about the boss's thoughts. He propped his feet up on the table and picked his teeth with a toothpick.
"Isaac, go get the money from the cabin and settle the bill! Boss, how much is it?"
Xia Luo said while picking his teeth.
"A total of 32.9 million berries, sir!"
Hearing about the money, the boss couldn't help but smile and quickly rushed downstairs. Standing beside Xia Luo, he said.
He thought he was going to lose money on this order. Unexpectedly, Mr. Xia Luo would pay. So, pirates do pay their bills!
Pfft!
The wine in Xia Luo's mouth sprayed out directly onto the boss's face.
He also put the wine glass down on the table.
"How much?"
Xia Luo asked in disbelief.
"A total of 32.9 million berries! Sir, I'll round it down to 30 million berries for you!"
The boss forced a smile while suppressing the urge to beat someone up.
In his life, since taking over this tavern from his deadbeat father, he had never been splashed with wine, let alone being sprayed in the face.
If he weren't a match for Xia Luo at all, he would have made Xia Luo experience the ten most brutal tortures on Chica Island.
"Why is it so much?"
Xia Luo stared at the boss. If the boss couldn't give a reasonable explanation, he'd teach this shady merchant a lesson.
"Sir! The wines you ordered yesterday were all top - notch in our tavern, collected from far and wide: the East Blue, the South Blue, the West Blue, the North Blue, the first half of the Grand Line, and the New World. We served you all the best wines, so it's a bit pricey!"
The boss said cautiously.
Looking at Xia Luo's expression, his heart sank. Could it be that he couldn't afford it?
A big-time pirate with a bounty of 950 million berries couldn't even fork out 30 million berries?
He couldn't believe it.
Xia Luo stared at the boss, grinding his teeth and saying,
"Isaac! Go get 30 million berries from the ship!"
Xia Luo almost gritted out the words.
He had never spent three million berries on a single meal!
The prices nowadays aren't as inflated as they will be thirty or forty years later.
After hearing what Xia Luo said, Isaac, with a rapier on his waist, put down the plate in his hand and walked out.
Hearing what Xia Luo said, the boss was overjoyed and couldn't help smiling broadly.
"Humph!"
A cold snort instantly made the boss wipe the smile off his face. He quickly stood beside Xia Luo in silence, fearing that his actions might make Xia Luo change his mind.
What a scheming merchant!
Xia Luo cursed in his heart.
Three million berries for a single meal was as much as Luffy's first bounty.
The more he thought about it, the angrier and more uncomfortable he felt.
Bang!
"Boss, bring me a few more plates of roast meat!"
Xia Luo slapped the table and roared loudly.
He wanted to channel his grief and anger into a big appetite.