One Piece: Arkham: Buggy the Clown

Chapter 106 Choice
Kidnapping?

Gemma, the owner of the Coral Hill Mermaid Clothing Store, looked at the rioting crowd and her face suddenly turned pale.

The blood of the fishman mixed with the blood of the pirate flowed to the door of her shop, splashing the transparent and bright window blood red.

"That's what I just spent money to renovate!"

Gemma's cheeks were dotted with freckles, her brown hair was piled high, the scales on her tail fin were painted with oil paints of different colors, and her bronze skin showed that she was often bathed in the sun.

"Those barbaric guys must be driven out!"

Her voice was sharp and piercing, without caring that among the barbarians she was talking about, many of them were actually children of mermaids.

Just abandoned.

"Lord Smoothie, these fishmen have nothing to do with us!"

Janema hurriedly explained to the only customer in the store, and in order to prove her words, she even hurriedly used a broom to push out a wounded fishman who collapsed at the door of the shop.

Charlotte Smoothie is very tall, almost twice as tall as the mermaid store manager, and their skin color is similar.

However, he did not comment on what the mermaid store manager said.

Instead, he folded his hands and watched the clown's performance on the screen quietly.

After a long while, two words came out of his mouth: "Interesting."

"Sister, should we take care of that clown?"

A major feature of the BIG MOM Pirates is that their crew members are all related by blood. It can be said that this is a pirate group born by Big Mom.

One of her sisters, Charlotte Snamen, appeared beside Smoothie at some point and asked with her head down.

"Of course I will."

Smoothie's voice was efficient and cold.

"Just treat those rioting fishmen as traitors."

"Don't forget we are pirates."

……

……

"Captain, that's your old friend, isn't it?"

At the tavern in Waterwheel Town, a member of the Red Hair Pirates asked with a grin.

"Yeah, that's right."

The redhead nodded, his expression becoming much more serious.

"Then what does his kidnapping mean? Will Kaido and Big Mom listen to the Joker?"

"Or is it just an entertainment show? Hehehe."

Their smiles were unbridled. Whether it was the Joker or the other two royal groups, they all seemed inadequate in front of the fully-powered Red Hair Pirates.

Even their stay here felt like a trip.

The atmosphere in the pub suddenly turned playful again.

Only Shanks' face showed a bit of caution. He and the deputy captain Beckman looked at each other, and both of them looked serious.

"Of course those two pirate groups won't listen to Buggy."

Beckman said in a muffled voice: "But they definitely wouldn't mind doing this."

"Any emperor who wants to plant a flag will not refuse this opportunity to eliminate the resistance forces in one go."

“They have the same interests…”

Although the New World was divided up by the Four Emperors, it does not mean that the residents there will obediently accept the Emperor's rule.

"Don't forget, we are pirates, and they are pirates too."

Forces at the level of the Four Emperors actually already show the characteristics of warlord forces. With strong military strength, they often don't need to think too much.

If anyone resists, kill them.

When the killing started, no one would shout for resistance anymore.

Shanks continued speaking along with Beckman's words.

"He is trying to force the merman and fishman tribes to break off from now on."

But then he chuckled again, "Or fight to the end."

Using the enthusiasm of Fishman Street as a seesaw, pull up the entire Dragon Palace Kingdom and resist to the end...

What a wonderful design.

But does the king of this country really have the courage to fight to the end against the two Four Emperors?
Without the protection of the emperor, Fishman Island will have to face endless harassment from pirates.

"After leaving the East China Sea, have you done things so scary?"

on the screen.

Bucky's smile remained.

"You are really lucky that you have a second choice."

“A lot of people don’t even have a choice.”

He vaguely heard the sound of quarreling coming from Coral Hill.

Make his smile brighter.

The first choice has already made the mermaid, who is used to a stable life, excited.

They are different from the merfolk.

Mermaids, who are born with beautiful looks, never have any worries about hatred. The sun always falls on them naturally, and food is always within their reach. As long as they continue to find a king to protect them, such a life can continue.

Just like the petty bourgeoisie, they are naturally compromising.

However, if Neptune thought about it a little more, he would not touch this option.

That would mean the tearing of the kingdom.

So Buggy did not enter the Dragon Palace, but chose to stay in the square.
Neptune won't choose, someone will choose for him.

Two choices, are they really only two choices?
In other words, if Neptune really announced a break with the fish-men, would the two pirate groups really stop?
Of course not necessarily.

He just threw two choices in front of a group of mermaids who felt their lives were destroyed and were panicked.

One that keeps things normal, and one that completely changes their habits and lives.

Ever since.

They will think that this is their only choice.

“But that’s the most interesting part of this game.”

"The mob will overturn all rational choices, leaving only one, the most pleasing outcome."

He lowered his head and muttered something, and the image Den Den Mushi suddenly blinked.

The connection with Fishman Island has been cut off.

"The second option has not yet been mentioned."

Bucky said with some regret, but it didn't matter, people knew this choice without having to say it.

"Let's make a bet. Who will appear on the screen next?"

"It's really exciting, hehehe."

"We only have one choice!"

In Ryugu Castle, the catfish mermaid wearing a black top hat called out loudly.

"My king, have you forgotten how chaotic the island was before the royal flag protected it?"

"Are you planning to fight two emperors at the same time?!"

The older man of the Left Minister had a long hanging beard and was hammering hard on the gorgeous floor of the Dragon Palace with a bull-horn cane in his hand.

"That's really self-destruction!"

"Just like Princess Otohime advocates, we should live in peace with humans instead of killing each other!"

His tone was righteous.

"But the barbarians in Fishman Street have violated this principle."

"We should cut ties with them immediately!"

"We must use those few lives that no one cares about to preserve the stable lives of the majority of the residents of Fishman Island!"

"This is what you must do as a king!"

At the end of his words, the Left Minister almost used a scolding tone.

Going into war with two emperors is really scary.

The Left Minister didn't even have time to think carefully before hastily choosing the first option.

Cut, cut immediately.

He even felt that this was a manifestation of his decisiveness and wisdom in judgment.

Neptune's cheeks were squeezed together under his lush beard.

As the king of Dragon Palace, he certainly knew that the merman tribe was also part of the Fishman Island.

But realistically speaking, they were simply not strong enough to face the pirates.

What the Left Minister said makes sense.

"Wait, let me think about it."

He instinctively wanted to avoid these two options.

He always felt that there should be other ways, but the minister's urging and the rapidly changing situation made his mind a mess.

Only choice remains.

"We don't have time!!"

The Left Minister remembered what the clown had said, and he was so anxious that he started to beat the clown hard with his horn stick, feeling very scared.

"You must give the order immediately to cut ties with Fishman Street!"

"That clown played a ridiculous word game. He only kidnapped the murlocs from Murloc Street. The murloc tribe has nothing to do with it."

"We just need to make a cut with Fishman Street!"

The Left Minister felt that he had found a loophole in the clown's words.

The other side doesn't want us to make a cut.

Must be!
Otherwise, why would he broadcast it so openly?
"Isn't Yuren Street managed by you, the Left Minister?"

The eldest prince Shark Star asked with a stern face.

No one expected that upon waking up, the Dragon Palace Kingdom would face this life and death choice.

They didn't even have any impression of where Murloc Street was. They just remembered that the Murlocs there were quite barbaric.

(End of this chapter)