Bellamy’s Bounty at 55 million Berries

Mock Town is a small port on Jaya where pirates stop to drink, and Bellamy was the biggest name in it. That is the exact measure of this amount: enough to own a street, and no further. He spent it humiliating an old man looking for a city of gold and a boy who refused to raise a hand against him.

He thought he knew that boy by his number. Thirty million: that was what he had on Monkey D. Luffy when he smashed his head into the counter at Terry's bar, and it was still what he had in mind when he crossed the island to take Mont Blanc Cricket's gold. Then the town drunk came running in with the current notices — sixty million for Zoro, one hundred for Luffy. Nobody in Mock Town had ever met a hundred-million bounty. Bellamy called the posters forgeries and went outside to check.

The first encounter had already told him everything. Luffy let himself be hit without lifting a hand, got up and walked out without comment; what was meant as a show of strength had defined its author in the negative, the man who laughs at other people's dreams and gets nothing back for it. The second encounter lasted one punch, knuckles printed on the right side of the face, with Luffy never having to dodge anything at all.

The rest came from his own side. Bellamy had been granted permission to fly the Donquixote flag on one condition: never lose. Three days after Mock Town, Doflamingo came down to settle it in person, and settled it using Sarquiss' arms. Fifty-five million was worth something in that town — the Bane Bane no Mi turns his legs into springs and gave him mobility few opponents at that stage of the Grand Line could handle, and his crew held the port outright. The scale was wrong, not the valuation.