Rock and Scotch’s Bounty at 40,000,000 Berries

Neither Yeti Cool brother ever sailed under a pirate flag. Rock and Scotch, giant beastmen covered head to toe in white fur and topped with an icy bowler hat each, hail from a Snow Country the reader never actually sees — they're mercenaries, hired by Caesar Clown to guard Punk Hazard, not captains chasing treasure. The single 40 million bounty resting on the pair is stranger for it: it marks hired muscle, not an organized crew.

Their method explains well enough why the Government bothered to file them at all. Lying in ambush, they open fire on the Straw Hats with giant sniper rifles loaded with sleeping-gas rounds and explosive charges — an assassin's weapon fired from a distance, not a fair duel. Zoro and Brook go down under that fire before either can identify the shooters; Nami is taken right after, without a single blade ever crossing at close range.

What stays unclear, for lack of any source confirming it, is the exact reasoning behind pricing both brothers under one shared figure instead of two separate files — an administrative choice nothing in the work bothers to explain further. The Government treats them as full-fledged criminals either way, on the same terms as any classic pirate captain, with the wanted poster never distinguishing hired muscle from an independent outlaw. What's solid, though, is the outcome: two well-paid bodyguards who took two confirmed members of the Straw Hat crew out of a fight in a single ambush.