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Time goes back 10 minutes.

As the restaurant doors opened, a group of handsome men and beautiful women, consisting of one man and five women, entered the restaurant.

The man in the lead looked around the restaurant and then went straight to the largest table and sat down.

The five beautiful women with different styles who came with him also followed closely behind and sat down next to him.

Bitz looked around the restaurant's decor and patrons with great interest, and commented:

"The environment looks pretty good; it's no wonder it's a famous restaurant in Donghai."

My new book is launching, and I hope all my bosses and godfathers will give me some flowers, monthly tickets, encouragement to update, and rewards. I would be extremely grateful.

Chapter 37 The Little Thief Cat Takes the Bait As the guide, Karina secured the first spot on the left, right next to Bitz.

Upon hearing this, she raised her chin smugly.

"Of course, I know the East China Sea very well."

We just happened to come from a place near Barati, so it would be a shame not to take you there to try the local cuisine.

After Michita sat down, she put away the parasol that she always carried with her.

Hearing Karina say this, she was both satisfied and somewhat doubtful, and said:

"The environment here is nice and quite stylish."

But the prices here must be high. Were you able to afford it before?

Karina was momentarily speechless when asked the question, but the next second she blushed and retorted stubbornly:

"Of course I can afford it! Besides, I've been here so many times, I'm already tired of the food here!"

Michita glanced at her sideways, looking her up and down suspiciously, and drawled out:

"Eh—is that so?"

As she spoke, she curled her lips into a smile, raised her hand, and shouted:

"Waiter!"

The moment the words left his mouth, a chef with an extremely thick forearm, who didn't look like a good person, quickly ran down from the second-floor kitchen.

"Here it comes! Damn it, the waiter isn't here and I have to take the order for the customers."

Paddy, the restaurant's chef, grumbled as he quickly approached the table of Bitts and his group.

Upon seeing the guest, Paddy immediately put on a smile, professionally stopping his complaints, and rubbing his hands together with a fawning expression:

"I'm so sorry, gentlemen, all our waiters have run away."

"I'm Paddy, the chef here. I'll be serving you from now on."

"They've all run away? Your restaurant is really strange."

Michita muttered something under her breath, and Paddy smiled sheepishly without explaining.

These were all minor matters, and Michita didn't dwell on them. She simply looked at Karina, who had suddenly become tense, with a playful gaze and gestured with her chin:

"That lady says she's a regular customer here, let her take the order."

Paddy looked at Karina intently for a few seconds after hearing this.

"Really? I feel like this guest looks unfamiliar."

"However, my memory has always been bad, so maybe I've forgotten."

Without much hesitation, Paddy quickly took out a pen and notebook and prepared to start taking notes.

Karina roared inwardly as she met Michita's mocking gaze.

'Damn it, does Michita have to expose me?!'

Now that things have come to this, Karina can no longer keep up the act.

Amidst the snickers of Michita and Vivi, she blushed, flipped open the menu on the table, casually ordered a few dishes, and then tossed them to Tina beside her.

She then crossed her arms, turned her head away, and went off to sulk.

Tina took the menu without even looking at it and then handed it to Vivi.

"5 bottles of Gallimard red wine."

Paddy's eyes lit up immediately upon hearing this. He quickly jotted it down in his notebook and sincerely praised Paddy:

"You have excellent taste, sir. Only such an elegant wine is worthy of a lady as noble as you."

Vivi's lips twitched slightly when she received the menu. If she hadn't known that the wine cost 6 to 70 Berries a bottle, she would have actually believed it.

After the women ordered their respective dishes, the menu was handed to Bitz.

Like Tina, Beetz tossed the menu aside and said casually:

"Give me five servings of each dish on the menu. I'll order more if that's not enough."

"Eh? Eh!"

Paddy and the restaurant's customers, who had been drawn to them because of their good looks, all gasped in surprise upon hearing this.

The pen in his hand suddenly froze. Paddy tried his best to maintain a smile and kindly reminded him:

"Guest, we have over a hundred dishes to choose from, and the restaurant does not allow waste. Are you sure you want to order five of each?"

Bitz smiled and said, "Don't you believe in my appetite?"

"I really don't believe it," Paddy nodded honestly, but then added a sentence.

"Of course, I have even more doubts about your financial resources, sir."

You should know that the food at our restaurant isn't cheap.

After saying that, he grinned, revealing two neat rows of teeth, and waited for Bitts to give him a satisfactory answer.

"Bang~" Under the shocked and greedy gazes of Paddy and his guests, Bitz took a gold bar from his pocket and threw it on the table.

"Is this enough? If not, I have more."

Seeing the gleaming gold on the table, Paddy, drawing on his previous experience as a pirate, assured him that the gold was absolutely genuine.

Immediately, his already obsequious attitude became even more attentive.

"Understood, sir. Please wait a moment, I'll go and cook for you right away."

After saying that, he lifted his apron and gave an 'elegant' bow, then hurriedly ran back upstairs to tell his companions the good news.

"Hey, why are you running so fast? You could at least bring us a cup of tea first!"

Vivi called out to his retreating figure, but received no response whatsoever.

Everyone was speechless for a moment; the service at this restaurant was just too poor.

Karina, however, didn't care about that. With a pained expression, she snatched the gold bar from the table, carefully cradling it in her arms and rubbing her face against it repeatedly before glaring angrily at Bitz:

"Bitz! How many times have I told you not to spend money so recklessly?!"

Your appetite is too big; it's not worth it to eat at such a high-end restaurant.

There's clearly enough sea king meat in the hold for you to fill your stomach!

'Here we go again! You all really like reversing the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches, don't you?'

With a dark expression, Bitts tapped Karina on the head, and while she clutched her head and cried out in pain, he snatched the gold brick back.

"Don't talk like this money is yours. It's my own property, and I can spend it however I want."

As he spoke, Bitts tossed the gold bars in his hand, looking exactly like a nouveau riche with a lot of money.

Nami happened to see him tossing the gold brick.

Instantly, the orange-haired little thief's eyes turned into the shape of Bailey, and its feet involuntarily moved towards that direction.

As Bitts casually played with the gold brick, he suddenly felt as if two mountains were pressing down on his back, causing his mind to tremble.

The next second, a pair of fair, jade-like arms wrapped around his neck.

A refreshing scent, like that of a green tangerine, wafted into his nostrils, causing him to unconsciously take a breath.

"Hey handsome, can we be friends?"

Feeling the warm breath blowing against his ear, Bitts knew who it was without turning around.

This was exactly what Bitts intended when he brought out the gold bricks; he only wanted to try it out, but he never expected to actually catch this little thief.

My new book is launching, and I hope all my bosses and godfathers will give me some flowers, monthly tickets, encouragement to update, and rewards. I would be extremely grateful.

Nami At this moment, Nami's attention was completely drawn to the gold brick in Bits' hand.

Completely oblivious to the several women beside Mo Zhi who were looking at her with strange, angry, and surprised eyes.

Nami's bright brown eyes gleamed with gold as she thought to herself:

"Such a large piece of gold is worth at least tens of millions of peles."

If I can get it, I can easily raise the money to buy the village.

Thinking that her long-held goal was about to be achieved, Nami's eyes were filled with an air of determination.

While she was brimming with confidence and already considered the gold bricks hers for the taking, the other women at the table were not happy.

When Michita saw that someone dared to flirt with her BOSS so shamelessly, she was about to slam her hand on the table and stand up to reprimand them when she suddenly heard a loud bang from the other side.

"Oh!"

Karina slammed her hand on the table and jumped up so hard that she knocked the chair over.

She pointed a bewildered finger at Nami and exclaimed:

"It's you, Nami the Cat Thief?!"

Karina never expected that on her first day back in the East Sea, she would run into an old acquaintance from the past.

Upon hearing that familiar voice, Nami instantly looked up and turned away, revealing a surprised expression.

"Kalina? What are you doing here, you vixen?"

Only then did Nami have time to observe the other people at the table.

Then she was surprised to find that, apart from the man she was holding, the whole table was full of beautiful women who were just as good-looking as her.

In an instant, Nami figured out Beethoven's true nature as a pervert.

But because of this, she tightened her arms around Beetz, making Beetz feel the weight of the mountain even more fully.

The argument between Nami and Karina, these two old rivals, was only just beginning.

"Oh my god, who did I think it was? Isn't this Karina, the one who stole the treasure of a big merchant and is now being hunted down by the black market with a bounty on her head?"

"This handsome guy isn't your next target, is he?"

Nami sarcastically recounted Karina's dark past, while also subtly reminding Beetz that this woman was no good.

Karina, however, would not allow others to 'slander' her like that, and immediately retorted by reopening old wounds:

"Little thief, don't even think about ruining my relationship with Lord Bits."

And before you talk about me, don't forget that you yourself are just a thieving cat.

"We should be careful, but we should be careful of you."

With his identity as a thief exposed, his plan to steal the gold was likely doomed.

Nami was instantly enraged. She released her grip on Beetz, jumped off him, and stormed towards Karina.

Karina, not to be outdone, rolled up her sleeves and went to meet her.

Thus, the scene that Zoro and the others witnessed unfolded: the two women head-to-head, neither willing to give way.

Nami: "Every time I run into you, you vixen, nothing good ever comes of it! Can't you just get lost and stay out of my sight?!"

Karina: "Ha, I should be the one saying that."