#SBS111 Oda explains how Cross Guild is profitable
R: I don't understand very well how Cross Guild operates. It's referred to as operating like a company and business, but are they really profitable? If they give money to any civilians who take the heads of Marine soldiers, I feel like they'd go bankrupt really quickly. - P.N. Yuutan
O: Cross Guild's very existance is a big problem for the Marines. The fear of being attacked by anyone anywhere has tanked their morale quite a lot. This slows down Marine operations, making it easier for the "dark companies" of the underworld to operate, meaning they make more money. Cross Guild serves as a public front, with the dark companies paying for the bounty sums.
Furthermore, there's a dark side of this world that gambles on "which Marine will be killed?". which results in even more money from society contributing to this fund. So in reality, they're actually making quite a lot of profit.
Something a lot of people seem to miss about Cross Guild is that everything about them is a distraction. Crocodile chooses Mihawk to join him because of his FORMER “Marine Hunter” epithet. Emphasis on former. Whatever Mihawk was up to in his youth, he no longer gives a shit about it.
Crocodile knows Mihawk doesn’t care about the marines. He nonetheless wants to team up with him FOR THE APPEARANCE that Cross Guild has a political agenda of some kind using Mihawk’s former escapades as “proof” that they have an agenda against the Marines.
Same with Buggy being installed as Yonko so that the marines don’t realize that Crocodile and Mihawk have other business going on. Buggy can yap about wanting to find the one piece but he can’t make Crocodile and Mihawk do anything so until plot gags give buggy a Free ride to Laugh tale, even Buggy’s proclamation that they are after One Piece doesn’t mean anything. Plot nonsense will get Cross guild to Laugh tale, not them actually trying to actually go there since Crocodile and Mihawk don’t care.
Everything about Cross guild’s public persona is a lie. Their leader is a lie. Their goals are a lie. The only true thing about them is what Crocodile and Mihawk say. Crocodile wants money. Mihawk wants peace. Nothing else about them is true.
R: I don't understand very well how Cross Guild operates. It's referred to as operating like a company and business, but are they really profitable? If they give money to any civilians who take the heads of Marine soldiers, I feel like they'd go bankrupt really quickly. - P.N. Yuutan
O: Cross Guild's very existance is a big problem for the Marines. The fear of being attacked by anyone anywhere has tanked their morale quite a lot. This slows down Marine operations, making it easier for the "dark companies" of the underworld to operate, meaning they make more money. Cross Guild serves as a public front, with the dark companies paying for the bounty sums.
Furthermore, there's a dark side of this world that gambles on "which Marine will be killed?". which results in even more money from society contributing to this fund. So in reality, they're actually making quite a lot of profit.
Something a lot of people seem to miss about Cross Guild is that everything about them is a distraction. Crocodile chooses Mihawk to join him because of his FORMER “Marine Hunter” epithet. Emphasis on former. Whatever Mihawk was up to in his youth, he no longer gives a shit about it.
Crocodile knows Mihawk doesn’t care about the marines. He nonetheless wants to team up with him FOR THE APPEARANCE that Cross Guild has a political agenda of some kind using Mihawk’s former escapades as “proof” that they have an agenda against the Marines.
Same with Buggy being installed as Yonko so that the marines don’t realize that Crocodile and Mihawk have other business going on. Buggy can yap about wanting to find the one piece but he can’t make Crocodile and Mihawk do anything so until plot gags give buggy a Free ride to Laugh tale, even Buggy’s proclamation that they are after One Piece doesn’t mean anything. Plot nonsense will get Cross guild to Laugh tale, not them actually trying to actually go there since Crocodile and Mihawk don’t care.
Everything about Cross guild’s public persona is a lie. Their leader is a lie. Their goals are a lie. The only true thing about them is what Crocodile and Mihawk say. Crocodile wants money. Mihawk wants peace. Nothing else about them is true.
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