"Oh, right!!"
Her clever Cat Burglar brain instantly started whirring, "So if I let other people write the amount and sign their names, can I just use it directly?"
As she spoke, her eyes kept darting towards Luffy and Usopp, her intention clearly self-evident.
"Don't even think about it."
Link knew what she was planning and stopped her.
"A check can only be used by the person who wrote it; others cannot use it directly."
"Then..."
"If you're going to say, let Luffy write a check for 100 million berries to buy a shell from you, so you can get the check and achieve your goal, is that it?"
Before Nami could finish, Link preemptively stated her thoughts.
"Yes, yes, exactly!!"
Nami's eyes lit up, and she nodded repeatedly.
Meanwhile, Luffy and Usopp, watching Nami, looked terrified.
Although Luffy didn't understand what this meant, he had a feeling Nami was going to use him as a test subject.
He and Usopp both took a step back. This woman, is she a devil?!!
"Unfortunately, that method won't work either. As I said before, a check can only be used by the signatory. Even if it gets into your hands, it's a fortune, but it's not possible to use it that easily."
Link casually took out a bottle of wine and took a swig, "So you might as well give up on that idea."
"What a pain..."
After all feasible plans were rejected, Nami's initially high spirits immediately deflated.
She complained, "Isn't there any other tool/item that others can use to earn money?"
Nami just complained casually, but she didn't expect:
"There is."
Link took another sip of wine, "Here, for example, this."
In his palm, a pen reappeared, a seemingly ordinary pen.
"This is the Money Pen. As long as you write a number on paper, you can use it directly as money."
tool/item: [Money Pen].
Introduction: The number written with this pen can be regarded as an amount of money of that face value, and can be used directly. However, these amounts will be converted into equivalent work that needs to be completed by the user.
What does that mean? It means, if I want to spend 10,000 berries, I use the Money Pen to write 10,000 berries and spend it.
Then afterwards, you will have to put in 10,000 berries worth of labor to complete it.
In short, it's also equivalent to a kind of advance spending, exchanging future hard work for current consumption.
"What's the difference between this and the checkbook from before?"
After hearing the explanation, Nami was completely speechless.
Although this Money Pen could also let Luffy and Usopp write numbers for her to spend.
But afterwards, she would still have to repay the money with work and labor... what was the point?!
"So, do you have any tool/item that allows people to get berries for free, without paying any price?!" Nami simply laid out all the conditions she wanted.
"Without paying any price, huh..."
As a matter of fact, such a tool/item does exist, but Link hasn't drawn it yet.
The tool that could bring people enormous wealth and money, the "Interest-Compounding Bank," which is also the "Value-Adding Bank"... "Such a tool might exist, but I haven't acquired it yet..."
Seeing Nami looking dejected and without any hope, Link smiled instead: "You don't need to look like that; I have another tool here."
"Although it's a bit different from what you asked for, it's still pretty close and can barely achieve what you want."
After speaking, Link clapped his hands, and a rather large machine appeared on the going merry's deck.
"Ah..."
Nami had already given up on any hope, but hearing Link say that, her desire for money subconsciously made her look over.
She saw a square-shaped object, like a small house, appear in front of Link.
"What is this?!"
As soon as they saw Link pull out something new, Luffy and Usopp, the two clowns, immediately crowded around.
Even Zoro, who was resting with his eyes closed, opened them and looked over, and Sanji also got up from the small puddle of tears on the ground, approaching with a hint of curiosity.
Link's various tools always made them feel novel and interesting.
Every time Link's tool appeared, it became their new focus of attention.
"A little house?"
Luffy even wanted to knock on it, but he was quickly stopped by his two subordinates, Joseph and Johnny.
The tool Link took out looked like a miniature house.
In the upper-middle part, there were four small circular lights in red, blue, yellow, and green.
Below the lights was a square opening, seemingly for receiving items.
And at the bottom, there was also a small opening, but in front of it hung two curtain-like pieces of fabric.
On the curtains was written a large traditional Chinese character:
"This is called..."
Meeting everyone's puzzled gazes, Link slowly began to speak.