Transcended as Lord Buggy-Part 1

52. Tune Island

"Hey Captain, it seems your decision to make them announce their relationship is wrong," said Jude.

"Yeah, it seems to be a fatal mistake. I should've just stayed silent," replies Buggy.

Buggy & Jude are watching Cricket & Mantis flirting while eating on the front deck. Those 2 have behaved like that since they announce their relationship. Flirting everywhere and every time without restrain.

Now Buggy starts to regret what he did to make them open with their relationship. He can only watch others being lovey-dovey while he can't. He hasn't seen Bellemere for weeks now, and these 2 really make him jealous.

"Captain, maybe we can be like that too," said Jude with eyes full of hope.

"Sigh, don't bring this up again, Jude. I've made my point clear, right?" Buggy sigh.

"I know, but I really don't want to give up," Jude said firmly.

"Do as you please, but it won't work."

Buggy goes to the rear deck to train. He has reached a good level in his devil fruit mastery. He feels like he'll achieve something soon, so he keeps training hard every day.

The Clown pirates have sailed on the sea for 10 days now. They deliberately sail longer on the sea to avoid detection. Buggy knows that some people would know that Robin is with them, so he needs to be careful.

They also have created trouble with a Rear Admiral, so it's better to hide from the light for a moment. Buggy also takes this chance to make his crew gets closer with Dina & Robin.

Some hours after he started training, Mantis call him. She says their supplies will run out in 2 days, so they need to refill them. Buggy decides to find an island now and finish their hiding. The tension with Marine should've lowered a bit too.

They go to the nearest island from their position. The island is Tune Island, a place with many musicians. Buggy even has a hunch that this island is Brook's homeland. But he's not that sure too.

When he thinks about Brook, Buggy gets an idea to recruit Brook. He knows Brook's location and he will pass that area after he builds his ship on Water 7.

Buggy likes Brook's character and always enjoys what that skeleton does in Straw Hat pirates. But even if he like Brook as a member of Straw Hat, he can't let Brook suffer 20 more years of loneliness.

'Guess I'll recruit him. Luffy can find another musician for his crew.' Buggy decided to recruit Brook in the future.

The Clown pirates reach Tune island at night. So they decide to rest on the ship and go to the town tomorrow.

The next day, they go to the town and explore it. Jude stays on the ship to guard it now while the others are exploring. Cricket & Mantis buy supplies, while Dina & Robin buy their necessities.

Buggy goes to a broker like usual to buy information. He has bought the information, and Buggy read the papers. The Cipher Pol & Marine have made some moves in the last few days like his prediction.

Then he finds a piece of interesting information. His crew got some new bounties. Well, only him & Cricket, not everyone.

Buggy 'The Clown': 63 million

Mont Blanc 'Chestnut' Cricket: 19 million

They haven't got in touch with the world because they didn't buy any news from news coo to avoid detection. So these 2 new bounties really surprise him, although it is still in his prediction.

Their bounties aren't much, but that's for Grandline standard. For West Blue, those bounties are high enough. The Marines here must've used their standard to raise Buggy's bounty and give Cricket's bounty.