Belo Betty’s Bounty at 457 million Berries

The Kobu Kobu no Mi hits nobody. Betty speaks, and whoever listens walks away with more resolve and more physical strength than they had a minute earlier. Two days before the Levely, in the Lulusia Kingdom, she handed the terrified townspeople the choice herself — die, or fight, and pick which — and then let an entire town drive the Peachbeard Pirates off with sticks. The commanders left the beaten crew lying where it fell so the locals could turn them in and collect the captain's bounty for themselves.

The effect outlasts the fight. Long afterwards Lulusia was still full of people standing up on their own, and when nothing was left of the kingdom at all, Betty was the one who met the survivors on Momoiro Island and signed them into the army. Morley calls her the flag bearer of freedom, and she carries both Armament and Observation Haki, which the speeches tend to overshadow.

The post itself is inherited. Twenty-two years ago, aged twelve, she was already with the Freedom Fighters and helped free Bartholomew Kuma and Ginny. The East Army was Ginny's; the seat stayed empty after her death, and Betty went to ask Kuma for his blessing, which he granted because she bullies the people she rescues in precisely the way her predecessor used to.

When the 457,000,000 was set, the story never says, and it covers a great deal more than the few years she has led that army: it is the highest figure among the five army commanders. Read it as a price on what she leaves behind rather than on what she personally knocks down — towns that go on fighting after she has sailed.