Starting as a Roger Pirates Apprentice

Chapter 583: Chapter 583: Won’t Your Lives Cry Out?!!!

"Hey, Hawk Eyes, did you see that intelligence?"

Inside a secret room, two figures sat facing each other, currently discussing the events happening across the sea.

Crocodile had a strange expression on her face.

Hawk Eyes, on the other hand, frowned as he picked up that piece of secret intelligence that had not yet widely spread across the sea. Printed clearly on it was the photo of a pink long-haired young man.

"This..."

"No matter how you look at it, that’s Orin, right?"

Crocodile deeply agreed, two drops of cold sweat falling down her face.

"Yeah. Rumor has it he’s the child of that guy Orin and Linlin. Honestly, the first time I heard it, I was shocked too."

In fact, it wasn’t just a little shock. At the time, before seeing that news, she had still been teaching Buggy a lesson. But the moment she received that piece of paper, she was so stunned that the cigar dropped straight from her mouth onto the ground.

Her face was full of disbelief.

Buggy had also been shocked at the time. Risking being killed, he grabbed the sheet of paper and stared at it with wide eyes.

"This... is my big nephew?"

Even now, after being beaten up and hung on the wall, Buggy still hadn’t recovered from that news.

Orin... and Linlin...

A child?

Looks like Orin’s current life is quite exciting too...

Buggy sincerely felt happy that his good friend had a son. Although he didn’t quite understand why the child’s mother was Linlin, having one more relative must surely feel nice~

Through the newspaper, Buggy had naturally learned a lot of news about the sea.

Orin was still stirring up storms across the sea every day, living a somewhat mischievous yet extremely interesting life, essentially achieving his dream of [pursuing the greatest freedom].

Shanks had also announced that he had joined the race to seize the One Piece.

It seemed that after the three of them parted ways, the other two had both been preparing and planning for the future...

Then what about me?

Buggy began recalling the decades he had walked through, the unwillingness hidden deep in his heart.

He had always said that he didn’t have the monstrous talent of Orin and Shanks, so he could lazily drift along with peace of mind. But was that really what he thought?

"No... this isn’t the life I wanted to paint..."

"Where exactly did things go wrong?"

Not noticing the change in Buggy’s expression, Crocodile and Hawk Eyes returned to the topic of developing their power.

"The [Utopia] we want to build is a military nation that won’t be threatened by any force. For that, we need—"

"Overwhelming power."

At that moment, Buggy suddenly spoke.

"That’s enough! If you want to kill me, then just do it already! Do whatever you want!!!"

"Do you even count as pirates? Chasing after this half-baked stuff!!!"

"What bounty hunting Marines, what military nation—those are things those monsters have already played out!!!"

Hearing this, Crocodile’s face instantly darkened. She cast a gloomy gaze at Buggy’s head hanging in the air.

Hawk Eyes narrowed his eyes and stared at Buggy.

"What? Do you think just because you’re connected to Orin that we really wouldn’t dare do anything to you?"

But Buggy ignored the words, still shouting out the voice in his heart unwillingly.

"You’ve heard it too, haven’t you? The whole world is saying that Red Hair has already started moving..."

"That guy, along with Orin and me, once sailed on the Pirate King’s ship. But for certain reasons, we couldn’t reach Laugh Tale like Orin did."

"What kind of people did you once want to become?"

"As for me... because Orin and Shanks beside me were both too outstanding..."

"I threw away something like dreams a long time ago!!!"

At this moment, Buggy seemed to recall that torrential rainy day more than twenty years ago.

The three of them in Loguetown had personally witnessed Captain Roger’s execution.

In his eyes, Orin—who had been the perfect candidate most likely to ascend and become Pirate King—ultimately gave up that qualification because of his identity.

And Shanks, the seed of the new era whom Captain Roger had placed great hopes on, had chosen to retreat at the last moment and back out temporarily.

In his view, it was only natural for Orin to be called the "King of the Next Generation." That coward Shanks didn’t deserve that title at all, nor did he deserve to become Pirate King.

"So Shanks has taken action... what the hell, at a time like this..."

The unwillingness in his heart, his regret for Orin, his dissatisfaction toward Shanks, and...

His longing for dreams deep inside made Buggy shout loudly.

"Right now, whether through luck or accidents, I’m already standing shoulder to shoulder with him..."

With tears in his eyes, Buggy finally shouted the sentence he had held in for his entire life.

Responding to the question young Orin had asked him decades ago with a smile.

"Buggy, do you want to become the Pirate King?"

"If that’s the case... then I want to become the Pirate King!!!!!!!!!"

"Wealth!! Power!! I want it all!!!"

The more Crocodile and Hawk Eyes listened, the more something felt wrong. Their expressions turned unfriendly as Buggy scolded them.

"Even if a title can create illusions, you’re getting way too carried away."

"You think that kind of sweet talk can fool us?"

Crocodile’s mind was clearly still more focused on management.

"Without any planning or preparation, piracy is a business operation..."

"Do you want us to start a war with Red Hair, Blackbeard, Straw Hat, and Dark Sun?"

Buggy didn’t retreat at this moment. Instead, he clenched his teeth.

"Then we just get there first! Treasure hunting is a battle of competition!!!"

"Just watch carefully—the heat contained in this sentence! Every pirate set sail because of this!!!"

Buggy grabbed the broadcasting Den Den Mushi and shouted to everyone outside.

"HEY!!! I’M ASKING ALL OF YOU!!!"

Stepped on by Crocodile’s foot, Buggy’s eyes were full of tears, yet he still refused to stop speaking.

"For what dream did you all set out to sea?"

"In the very next moment you might die..."

"Won’t your lives cry out?!!!"

At that very moment, a tall figure appeared inside the meeting room.

"Well said, Buggy~"

As that figure appeared, the originally calm Crocodile and Hawk Eyes both changed expressions at the same time.

Crocodile was pushed aside by an invisible force, her foot lifted from Buggy as she staggered backward.

As if to raise morale—

Above the Cross Guild at this moment, waves of Conqueror’s Haki thunder gathered, tearing through the sky.

All the underlings stared upward with their mouths wide open as if gazing upon a true god. Above the sky surged Conqueror’s Haki that seemed capable of ripping apart the entire sea.

Their hearts pounded wildly with emotion.

"AHHHHH!!!!"

"Captain Buggy!!!!!!!"

But Buggy was still lying on the ground, immersed in his tearful speech.

"You cowards who are content with the status quo—reach out for the thing you desire most!!!"

"You still have me!!!"

"Go seize it!!! The One Piece!!!"

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