Transcended as Lord Buggy-Part 1

35. Calm Belt

Cricket & Mantis walk from the women's room direction.

"Heeh, you're curious of Calm Belt, huh? Wait until we reach Grandline, it will look more mysterious than this place, especially because we'll cross New World. I assure you, that your current navigation skill won't be able to understand it."-Buggy

"Really? I can't wait for that."-Jude get excited

Jude get so excited when she hear about the Grandline, that she forget her fear of Pirates & Kraken. It didn't take long for her to realize it, and she's panicking.

"Calm down! We won't do anything to you, haven't you been with us for some hours already? Maybe Captain will do bad things, but i won't."-Mantis

"Oi, what do you mean by that?"-Buggy retort

"I mean you have a bounty, so you are a bad person."-Mantis

"Really now?"-Buggy

"How about me?"-Cricket

"You two boys are troublemaker and most likely will be baddies. You even looks like baddies now, and you look scary. Meanwhile, i am a delicate kindhearted girl that everyone love, and never do bad things on my own."-Mantis praise herself

"....."-Buggy & Cricket

"Let's train your haki, Cricket!"-Buggy

"That's a good idea, Captain."-Cricket

"DON'T IGNORE ME!"-Mantis said with red face

Mantis jump to Buggy and shake his shoulder angrily. Jude giggle seeing their antique and now get more relax.

'Maybe i'm too paranoid with them, and maybe not all pirates are bad.'-Jude

Jude have better opinion about them and get more relax. Even though she haven't really like them, but at least right now, Jude isn't that wary around them anymore. Now, they can cross the Calm Belt calmly without any trouble.

While crossing Calm Belt, Buggy train his crew on haki again. They still train their observation haki with Rayleigh's training method, and they have started to feel it now. Cricket make better progress in his training, and now can avoid more stick attacks.

"W-what are you doing?"-Jude

"Training their sense."-Buggy

"S-sense? W-will that really work?"-Jude

"Yeah, it worked for me, so it will work on them. You want to try?"-Buggy

"N-nonono, i don't want to get hit in my head."-Jude cover her head

"No one want to get hit, that's why we train like this, so we can sense the incoming attacks and avoid them."-Buggy

"Y-you don't want to get hit, but train it by getting hit?"-Jude get confused

"Yeah, at least these hits aren't intended to kill, unlike the enemy's hits. Sometime we need to feel pain to gain result and avoid something more painful. Just hoping to not get hurt won't help you avoid it. The sea is full of danger, so we need to be prepared for any situation."-Buggy

"B-but if you just don't create trouble, then...."-Jude

"That's not a good thinking. Sometime we don't create trouble, but trouble will come to us. Even we don't want to create trouble if we can, but sometime situation force us to do it. That's why we need to prepare for it, not just hoping for it to end by itself. As long as we live, trouble will come to us."-Buggy

"....."-Jude ponder Buggy's words

"Don't you have a dream, Jude?"-Buggy

"I have."-Jude

"Then, will you back out from pursuing your dream if you meet some trouble?"-Buggy

"!?... No."-Jude realize what Buggy mean

"Right? We don't want to back out too, that's why we train, so we can handle all those troubles that will come to us."-Buggy

"W-what if you can't handle it?"-Jude

"If i can't handle it, then my friends wil help me handle it. If we can't handle it together, then we will run from it and prepare ourselves for the next time. That's why if you have a trouble that you can't handle, we will help you to handle it, because that's what friends do, isn't it?"-Buggy smile widely

Jude blush seeing Buggy smile at her like that and run to the women's room. The 3 pirates are stunned, and blink their eyes. Then Cricket & Mantis look at Buggy and grin.

"Captain, i never know you're such a player."-Mantis

"You should teach me how to do it sometime."-Cricket

"I never intend to do it, i never flirt with girls, except my Belle. They all just suddenly blushed & flustered, then start to chase me. As for Jude, isn't she just a shy girl from the start?"-Buggy

"Come on, no need to cover it!"-Mantis tease Buggy

"No, i'm not lying, that really happened many times."-Buggy

"Huh? Then how did you explain about it?"-Cricket

"Hmm, i think my charisma is just that high. Yare yare, it sure is hard to be such a charismatic person."-Buggy said narcissistically

The 2 are just looking at him like an idiot before leaving too. Still, now Jude will most likely want to be their navigator, so it's a good thing.