Starting as a Roger Pirates Apprentice

Chapter 584: Chapter 584: The Clown Captain’s Hat That Ate the Pump-Pump Fruit 【Shier】

"Captain Buggy!!!"

"We swear to follow you to the death!!!"

"What’s going on?! My whole body is starting to boil with passion!!!"

The cheers of the underlings were deafening, as if they were about to overturn the entire base.

Buggy’s voice had awakened the dreams they had buried deep in their hearts for many years.

"Set out toward your dreams!!!"

"Behind us..."

"Stands Captain Buggy!!!"

The underlings were in tears, but Crocodile and Mihawk both wore strange expressions at this moment.

The force they had carefully built up—how had its goal been hijacked just like that?!!!

"Hey!!! Orin!!!"

"No matter how you look at it, this is way too childish!!!"

Crocodile clenched her cigar tightly in her teeth, staring at the suddenly appearing figure, her face full of displeasure and gloom.

"This is nothing like what we imagined!!!"

She looked toward Buggy outside. His body was wrapped in bandages, and he was currently receiving the fanatical worship of his underlings.

Inside a secret chamber behind the Cross Guild, Orin sat in front of Crocodile and Mihawk, drinking wine.

"Long time no see, Hawk Eyes and Crocodile~"

"What do you mean ’long time no see’? I’m talking to you about something very serious!!!"

Crocodile was almost furious. Her golden hook lifted Orin by the collar as she questioned him with a hostile expression.

At sea today, there were probably only a handful of beings capable of doing something like this.

Orin remained completely calm. He merely smiled lightly and glanced at Mihawk.

The latter looked helpless, quietly pouring himself more red wine.

"Don’t be so agitated. Buggy actually has a lot of talent. It’s just that for certain reasons, his strength hasn’t been able to show itself~"

As he spoke, Orin snapped the fingers of his right hand.

Under the puzzled gazes of the two, a red-and-white skull pirate captain’s hat suddenly appeared in his hand. With a casual flick, it flew out and landed on Buggy’s head.

Buggy himself noticed nothing, but for some reason he suddenly felt filled with power.

"Hey!!! You!!!"

"What was your dream before?!"

Buggy asked one of his underlings.

The underling froze for a moment, then stammered in reply,

"To find treasure..."

"Exactly!!! That’s right!!!"

"There are so many treasures in the world. Why can’t we be the ones to find them? And if we’re going to search, we’ll search for the greatest treasure of all!!!"

"The Pirate King’s treasure!!!"

Word by word, Buggy stirred the emotions of all the underlings. His sincere and convincing speech shook every muddled pirate soul present.

Even Mihawk and Crocodile couldn’t help but start thinking about how grand it would be to search for the ultimate treasure...

"Something’s wrong!!!"

With a cold shout, Mihawk instantly stabbed the black blade Yoru into the table before him.

A drop of cold sweat appeared on his face, and his hawk-like sharp eyes narrowed slightly.

"What is going on..."

Crocodile was also extremely intelligent. She quickly noticed something was off as well and suddenly turned to look at the smiling Orin.

"Why am I being influenced by that clown’s words?!!!"

"Well... maybe Buggy just has a natural talent for speeches?"

Facing the deathly stares of his old friends, Orin let out an awkward laugh before finally waving his hand.

"Alright, fine. Actually, it’s the ability of the [Pump-Pump Fruit]~"

"The Paramecia-type [Pump-Pump Fruit]?!!!"

Crocodile’s eyes widened. She knew about this fruit. It belonged to a high-ranking officer in the Revolutionary Army.

It could greatly inspire the morale of allies. For the development of a force, it could be said to have a decisive impact, even boosting allied combat power to a certain extent.

"I injected the ability of the Pump-Pump Fruit into that circus captain’s hat.

For someone like Buggy who’s good at stirring people’s hearts, a fruit like this can finally show its true value~"

For the Revolutionary Army, most of their funding came from Orin’s support. Obtaining a bit of Belo Betty’s blood was naturally no difficult task.

Back when Black Gun fused with the Mirror-Mirror Fruit, he had already asked Vegapunk to create this [Inspire Captain’s Hat] as well.

"Buggy’s potential doesn’t lose to that guy Shanks at all~"

"Didn’t you want to establish a force and make it bigger and stronger?"

"I can give you a little guidance. The future Pirate King might even end up being Buggy~"

Outside the meeting room, Buggy’s original crew members such as Alvida were also watching the three people talking with complicated expressions.

The slimmed-down Alvida swirled her wine glass and said helplessly,

"That person really treats Buggy well. Could the future Pirate King really become Buggy?"

The now-fat beast tamer Mohji’s eyes shone brightly.

"Does that mean... we’ll become crew members of the Pirate King too?!!!"

These guys, who had ridden their luck all the way from the East Blue to the New World and become crew members of a Yonko, all expressed their amazement.

Orin naturally noticed them, but he mostly found it amusing. Buggy’s crew always had some strangely extraordinary individuals.

Watching Mr.3 serving them tea and pouring drinks, Orin sighed inwardly.

But Mr.3 was screaming in his heart.

Why?!!!

How could Buggy of all people have this kind of fate? Even in such a situation he could still turn things around.

Becoming a Shichibukai through luck was one thing, but later he even became a Yonko.

And now it looked like he was about to become the Pirate King!!!

After hearing Orin’s words, Mihawk sighed.

"Of course we’re willing to believe you. But the sea’s situation right now is chaotic. Almost every Yonko has announced they will compete for the Great Treasure."

"We don’t want to follow Buggy around fighting Red Hair and the others all day long..."

But Orin waved his hand.

"No, no, no... Buggy already told you, didn’t he? Treasure hunting is a competition~"

"Without the four Road Poneglyphs, it’s impossible to find the Great Treasure."

Crocodile frowned.

"What do you mean?"

"It means..."

Orin slowly raised his hand. A small red cube-shaped stone appeared in his palm.

"If you don’t have the Road Poneglyph in my hand, then it’s impossible to gather them all."

"So..."

"You guys actually have a huge advantage~"