One Piece: Arkham: Buggy the Clown

Chapter 120 Identity comes from fear

The huge ship Noah was still hovering above, like a dark cloud drifting back and forth.

Most of the sunlight was blocked, and even if there was some light shining through, it was only intermittent.

It fell on the clown's pale face, sometimes like a funny smile, sometimes like a sinister smile.

But no matter what kind of smile it was, it was matched by his crazy eyes and the black and red blood at the corners of his mouth.

There is a chilling touch.

Of the huge Dragon Palace City, only the bottom floor remains intact, and the golden dragon is shattered into pieces.

The corridors were in a state of disrepair.

Jinbei and Smoothie went to deal with Quinn's affairs, and Shirahoshi was left alone to follow this clown.

I was already afraid of Bucky, and now I'm even more scared.

To be honest, she wasn't usually this timid when meeting other people.

But she couldn't help but hear too much.

Especially the wailing coming from the other party's body by the originally arrogant demon made the mermaid's heart tremble.

I always have the illusion that this clown will unreasonably chop me with a knife in the next second.

In fact, there was a two-finger-wide cut on Bai Xing's fair forehead.

Of course, they are two fingers of a normal human being.

Otherwise, Shirahoshi might not have been able to cry so loudly.

But what can be proved is that as long as Buggy wants, Shirahoshi's life is not in his own hands.

"I really do not know."

In Bucky's other two memories, no matter how beautiful a woman was, if he looked at their originally stunning faces through a magnifying glass, he would feel disillusioned.

But not White Star.

She is about ten meters tall, and from a normal human's perspective, it is no different from looking through a magnifying glass.

But there was no flaw on her skin, even when she pouts and looks aggrieved.

Shirahoshi certainly hated the man who had killed her father and destroyed the kingdom.

But such sadness cannot cover up the fear in my heart.

Shirahoshi has been hiding in the Hardshell Tower for eight years since she was targeted by the pervert Vander Decken. Eight years ago, she was only six years old.

So even though she has a keen sense of touch and can sense other people's moods, she appears to be very immature and timid in her responses.

For example, now, she pursed her lips and tried hard not to let tears fall because she remembered what Bucky said: crying also counts as time.

"Then let's talk about your mother, Princess Otohime, right?"

When the palace was built, the mermaid's extraordinary height and size were fully taken into consideration, so the things were almost five or six times larger than Buggy's size.

When he walked in this palace, he had an exceptionally grand feeling.

Then think about it, this place was indirectly compressed from three floors to one floor by myself, well, it's quite interesting.

The palace's stone pillars still support the roof and remain basically intact, but some of the decorations are not so lucky.

Including the portraits that were originally displayed on both sides of the palace, they had fallen down long ago.

Bucky casually picked up the portrait on the ground.

The picture above shows an elegant woman with long wavy golden hair, wearing a long robe with an orange fish scale pattern. The patterns on the cuffs and fishtail are more dense. Even the eyes in the portrait reveal kindness.

"What was your impression of her speech?"

"Mother."

When talking about his deceased mother, Bai Xing's eyes couldn't help but start to turn red again, and the corners of his mouth closed like a bulging pocket, trying hard to suppress his emotions.

The blows of reality always make people grow better than gentle teachings.

At least Shirahoshi has learned how to call upon the Sea Kings, and that crying also counts as time, so she shouldn't cry too much.

The former was something she had mastered a long time ago but she had not dared to use it due to her family's concerns and her promise to her mother not to abuse her abilities. The latter was a lesson she had learned from blood.

“Mother, you have made a lot of efforts to make everyone on Fishman Island put aside their hatred and live in peace with humans.

She would often go to that big square and talk to everyone about human lifestyles and things on land.

I would talk about the sun that is like a big fruit, and the green trees.

Mother
She believes that the relationship between fishmen and humans has become what it is now because we don’t understand each other well enough, and hatred prevents us from understanding each other.

So as long as we can understand each other, we can live in peace and go to land to live."

Before Princess Otohime was murdered, she would often tell these stories to Shirahoshi and her three sons.

In addition, Shirahoshi's life was too scarce in the eight years after her death, so it was not difficult for her to recall these things.

“She was almost there.”

She muttered softly, and because of the memories, her eye sockets finally didn't look like they were about to form little pearls at any time.

"The world's nobles have agreed to get along with us in a friendly manner, and everyone on the island has also begun to slowly accept Mother's ideas.

In the past, when no one listened to her, she would cry sadly and bubbles would come out of her nose.

But that period was when she was happiest.

There are so many signatures in the palace. Mother is an amazing person."

Shirahoshi's face showed a look of remembrance. Her mother Otohime could be said to be the person who had the greatest influence on her.

"It's just a pity."

She thought again of the murderer who killed her mother.

"Very…interesting idea."

Bucky tilted his head, a funny smile on his face.

"If I saw such an idea in a fairy tale, I would definitely praise the creator for his good guidance of children.

But if I saw this in real life, I would definitely give priority to throwing this person off the roof.

It just snapped and fell into pieces like a meat patty."

He licked his lower lip, not even interested in laughing.

"By the way, did your mother ever tell you about the existence of slaves?"

"slave…"

Princess Shirahoshi showed reluctance on her face. Otohime seldom told them about the existence of slaves, but through what she saw and heard, Shirahoshi still learned a lot.

"Well, being a slave means you become an object.

Like this one.”

Baki was holding Otohime's portrait in his hand, and the portrait kept splitting in his hands.

"Your body will become a plaything, your ridiculous will a joke.

Well, what a shame, I didn’t bring any footage of the Holy Land.

But I'd give that video a seven."

The next one will be better.

"I know"

Shirahoshi crossed his arms and thought of that pervert Vander Decken.

My own pets have told me many similar stories.

Male fishmen and mermen who were captured as slaves would become playthings of humans and be whipped to do all kinds of hard labor. This was still a relatively good outcome. Most of the nobles who purchased slaves had long been dissatisfied with the stimulation brought by simply being ordered around and whipped, and they would come up with more chilling ways of playing.

Make even death a luxury for them.

The dignity and bodies of female mermaids who were captured as slaves would be ruthlessly violated.

Unfortunately and fortunately, because female mermaids are rare, slave owners will not let them die easily.

These were things her pet shark, Mekaro, had once told her.

It is said that some female mermaids who were lucky enough to escape, after successfully returning to Fishman Island, the first thing they did was not to look for their loved ones, but to bury themselves in the Sea Forest.

Many times, Shirahoshi didn't even dare to listen.

"Then did you know that humans can also be captured and made into slaves?

In fact, it’s not just humans, including giants and long-legged people, they will all be captured and made slaves.”

Bucky played a jigsaw puzzle with the portrait in his hand.

As he said, being treated as an object means having no self.

"how come!?"

Shirahoshi exclaimed, mermaids would never enslave their own people.

"of course."

Buggy said bluntly, "So you haven't figured out whether you want to coexist peacefully with humans, or whether you just don't want to be bullied like this and become a slave."

"Is there a difference?"

Bai Xing didn't understand. She felt that achieving the former was the same as achieving the latter.

"Of course it's different."

The portrait in Bucky's hand was pieced together into a weird shape, but his ability to split made the portrait complete.

It looks very weird and distorted.

“Peaceful coexistence means peaceful coexistence among the minority of you mermaids, which is not necessarily the case, and then we can just use the majority of mermaids to satisfy the appetite of humans.

The celestial dragon who reconciled with your mother is the world's largest slave owner.

Longing for the mercy of slave owners, well, very creative idea.

But if you don’t want to be bullied.”

He raised his head and looked straight at Bai Xing.

"Are you afraid of me?"

Shirahoshi was just glared at like that for a moment, and small pearls began to form under her eye bags again.

"afraid."

"Then do you dare to bully me?"

"Don't dare."

She pouted, but tears still rolled down her cheeks.

"Then you have to listen carefully. It's not often that I'm in such a good mood."

Bucky smacked his lips, seeing that the girl really took his words to heart.

“Identification comes from fear.

Only those who are afraid of you dare not hurt you, understand?"

He took two steps closer to Bai Xing, the funny smile and sinister eyes on his face made his words particularly powerful.

The civilization of this world is that there is no civilization.

There are only brutal hunters and wailing prey.

They only put on the mask of civilization when the prey is strong enough to endanger the hunter's life.

Fear.
Bai Xing thought about it seriously. No one had ever discussed these with her, including her father and brothers.

Her understanding and thoughts about the world all come from her mother's teachings when she was a child.

But now someone told her all this very seriously, making her feel that the world can still be like this.

Are you afraid of clowns?

Scared.

Do you dare to hurt him?

dare not.

The truth is so simple!
Shirahoshi used herself as an example and easily verified what the clown said.

"So back to the beginning, are you interested in playing a frightening game with me, my dear princess?"

The corners of Buggy's mouth curled up again, and he could vaguely hear the sound of fighting coming from the outskirts of Ryugu Castle.

The little girl may not have much knowledge, but she is born with an extremely sharp observation Haki, so she can tell whether what Buggy says is true or not.

Coincidentally, what Bucky said was always his true feelings.

Using pitiful signatures and speeches, he tried to make humans wake up and live in peace with the fish-men.

That really underestimates the cruelty of the terrifying upright ape.

"Can I try?"

Shirahoshi said timidly.

Fear can make people dare not hurt others. If one day I can make the clown afraid of me, then he will not dare to hurt me and everyone in Fishman Island.
An idea popped into the girl's mind.

"Of course, my dear princess."

Bucky had a huge smile on his face.

I'm happy that I found another fun thing to do.

“Red bean soup!!”

Quinn's roar came from the outskirts of Longgong City, and stones were shaken off the roof.

"Try and make him afraid of you."

When Shirahoshi heard Buggy speak, she timidly took Buggy into her hands and flicked her pink fish tail.

The whole person floated out of the palace.

She also had a bubble ring tied around her waist, which was a must-have for mermaids moving in dry areas.

"By the way, why did you say that only one pirate group was allowed to leave? Isn't there also the pirate group of that powerful-looking red-haired uncle?"

Bai Xing muttered something quietly.

The clown was too close to him, and he felt even more scared.

Not to mention being hurt, she was even afraid to speak loudly.

"Yes, so the spot for that pirate group has already been decided."

Bucky turned his head and grinned.

“Also, our game is called, The Mermaid Princess’ Seven Warlords of the Sea Game.

Well, there is no need to remember. "

"You bitch, let go of my red bean soup!"

On the outskirts of Ryugu Castle, Quinn roared as his fat body suddenly rushed towards Smoothie.

"Brachiosaurus Bomb!"

His body stretched out in mid-air, his head and neck lengthening, his body expanding further, his hands and feet turning into four legs.

In an instant, it turned into a fat brachiosaurus.

That is, the Animal Series, Dragon-Dragon Fruit, Ancient Species, Brachiosaurus Form.

The brachiosaurus stood upside down in mid-air and suddenly smashed down with its head.

Smoothie had obviously heard of it before, after all, he even knew the weakness of Red Bean Soup.

So he slowly inserted the sword into the ground, squeezing out every drop of moisture from the ground.

The greatsword quickly expanded to a size twice her height.

Then she grasped the hilt of the sword with both hands.

It's like a child waving an adult's weapon.

He swung the greatsword upside down, almost carrying it on his shoulder.

Its magnificent momentum is like an inverted waterfall.

A huge slash that was enough to swallow the Brachiosaurus whole was swung out from bottom to top.

Quinn's eyes narrowed, and he wanted to avoid the sharp edge first.

But then I saw this bitch took out the bowl of red bean soup and shook it in front of her.

"Smelly bitch!"

Quinn couldn't bear it any more.

A black armed color domineering suddenly appeared on his forehead, and at the same time, the two flamethrowers on his ankles spewed out even more violent flames.

His falling speed instantly increased by several levels.

You have to meet this terrifying blow head-on.

Only a loud bang was heard.

Quinn flew backwards and smashed seven or eight huge stone pillars in succession.

The "I"-shaped wound on the forehead is very obvious.

"It's so hard."

Smoothie whispered that animal-type devil fruits are known for their thick skin and flesh, not to mention the ancient species that are the best among them.

And Quinn also transformed his body beyond recognition.

The kind that you can't even recognize a Brachiosaurus if it comes.

Thanks to Chen Yu, book friend 20190726085436828, and the big guys of The Name Is Not Edible for their rewards~~~
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