One Piece: Arkham: Buggy the Clown

Chapter 212 The Border between the Island and the Sea

"No response? Or is there something wrong with the surveillance?"

On the screen, the thin-line mummy that was fed with a fruit still maintained its original posture, as if the whole body was paused and there was no movement at all.

Caesar also recorded this unchanged time and muttered a few words.

He remembered that the clown's reaction was very big, especially when the devil appeared.

A long time passed.

After about two hours, there was still no change on the thin-line mummy, but a little snow appeared on the monitor.

The snow spread quickly.

"Surveillance camera... No, that's not right. The surveillance camera was specially modified by me for the research and development of poison gas. It won't have any problems even in the worst environment."

Caesar kept his eyes glued to the screen, carefully observing every subtle change in the remaining image.

It's not just Buggy's threat. Caesar feels that even Vegapunk can't do such research - during the MADS period, they had to deal with many people with special abilities in order to study bloodline factors.

A lot of research has also been done on the possibility that a person with special abilities will explode and die if they eat multiple devil fruits.

But none of them can compare to the two samples in front.

One is the rare Yamata-no-Orochi, a mythical beast species that possesses multiple life attributes, and the other is a person who has developed a devil fruit to the awakened level and has half-contained a second devil fruit.

Not to mention their small group at the time, even the world government could not provide such an experimental subject.

I also cherish this opportunity.

After staring for a while, Caesar suddenly remembered something and hurriedly retrieved a piece of data.

"Temperature, it turns out there's something wrong with the temperature!"

"The temperature of the surveillance camera suddenly dropped to an extreme point, and the thermal insulation layer couldn't protect it!"

"But those three fruits have nothing to do with the concept of freezing!"

Once Caesar gets into the state, he's no different from a mad scientist. Because of his makeup, he even looks a little crazier.

He tilted his head and saw the clown's mouth curled up.

"The soul, the changes are in the soul."

This is not difficult to guess.

Caesar relied on his own experience, while Buggy made his connection through the Yomiuri Fruit.

If the change is in the soul...

With my own development of the ability to split into pieces, I had already touched the soul level a long time ago...

Bucky thought for a few seconds before telling Caesar, "Make a note. I'll go check it out."

He has always been a man of strong executive ability.

Since the changes inside cannot be observed relying solely on the monitor, just do it yourself.

Of course, the most important thing is that Bucky thinks this should be interesting, and he has some ideas that he wants to try out.

The moment the stone door of the sea tower opened.

A whistling sound that pierces the soul arose in response.

The thin-line mummy suddenly took a step, as if trying to escape from the seastone through the door.

But in the blink of an eye, he was scared back by the momentum that doubled the effect on demons.

Bucky walked in through the door which was about two people wide, with his upper body floating.

Pitch-black lines penetrated his body, and the whistling sound that pierced his soul turned into a soft whimper in front of the momentum that buried the two demons.

Those criminals who are used to killing people always look terrifying when they glare.

Buggy is used to killing demons, and his aura has an extraordinary effect on demons.

They could smell the devil's desperate fear and wailing.

In this regard, it is much more useful than the Overlord Color.

"I thought it had nothing to do with me. After all, it's just an experiment."

Bucky smiled and closed the stone door of the sea tower again. The originally bright incandescent light dimmed a lot at some point.

It seemed like more than ten years had passed in a flash, and the glass cover was covered with a thick layer of dust.

To be precise, it's like frost.

The mummy's whimpering stopped and its shape returned to its previous stagnant state.

"We should still have some time."

Bucky raised his wrist, glanced at the nonexistent watch, and grinned.

Then another hand floated out and placed on the mummy.

The original seastone room extended infinitely at the moment of contact, and the stone wall was swallowed up by boundless darkness. The concept of boundaries does not exist in the world of souls.

The thin line mummy in front of Bucky also swelled up in the blink of an eye, as if a real boundless flame was burning countless white lines, with a vertical eye wrapped in the middle of the white lines.

The white line spreads like a wave, but this wave has a source.

The appearance of a person.

Doflamingo's body seemed to be cut in half vertically, with the back half woven with countless white threads, the ends of the threads tightly stuck to his organs.

The skin on the front half of the body also underwent an alteration, with delicate scales protruding from the pores, and large diamond-shaped spots that were a mixture of purple-gray and black and arranged evenly spaced on it.

Its eyes bulged, and the snake's head and tail emerged.

Snake-snake fruit: snake form.

This is the fruit that Buggy stuffed in. It is not the private collection of Yamata no Orochi, but the one he got from Onigashima. Kaido has a strange habit of collecting animal-type fruits. When the three overlap repeatedly, they drag out a cold air, as if touching the gate of Hades.

Bucky reached out and felt around on the floor.

It feels similar to a real laboratory and has the appearance of seastone, but it has none of that irresistible quality.

The whole world has a familiar yet strange feeling.

To put it in a more vivid way, he thought that the invaded spiritual world was like standing on an isolated island, with a spiritual light ball and a long axis of cognition on the island.

But now he felt as if he was standing on the boundary between the sea and the island, and the surging sea water was piercingly cold.

"Soul, or the underworld?"

This concept does exist in Devil Fruits.

For example, Brook's Yomiuri Fruit, Big Mom's Soul-Soul Fruit, and Perona's Spirit-Spirit Fruit all touch upon this ability.

"clown!"

Mingo's consciousness was almost destroyed, but the only thing he remembered was his hatred for the Joker.

Especially when the distance between the two parties is so close.

The sudden awakening of consciousness even made the snake retract its head and tail, and it turned around, revealing a pair of red eyes.

The white waves rolled with flames, and like a pair of hands clasped together, they moved towards Bucky.

The four consciousnesses seemed to have reached some kind of consensus.

Eliminate the fifth invader first.

This body can't hold any more.

The boundary between the stone slab and the endless darkness suddenly shrank.

That darkness where nothing exists is the source of the cold.

Bucky stood there without any resistance.

Let the thin thread entangle you.

Then another clown stepped out and stood in this strange place on the border.

“It feels a little tingling, but it’s okay.”

Bucky nodded and described the feeling of being engulfed by the white line of fire.

The four overlapping foreign objects paused for a moment, as if they were doubting something.

Immediately afterwards, the snake head and tail in Mingge's eyes suddenly emerged, and Mingge's limbs were attached to his torso, gradually transforming into the shape of a snake body.

The snake head emerged from the eyes and roared, as if complaining about the reduction in its share.

The vertical eye wrapped in the white line was cold and focused on dealing with the raging sea of ​​fire.

The matter of dealing with the intruder seemed to have been forgotten in an instant.

Human will seems particularly fragile in such a strange entanglement. Even Mingge, who has hatred engraved in his bones, can only do this much.

I blame myself for this.

Buggy reflected seriously and thought, if he could increase this hatred several times, then when Mingge saw him, would he be able to suppress these three demons in the blink of an eye?

He looked down again.

When the head and tail of the snake emerged, the floor disappeared completely.

They seemed to be standing in darkness, but also seemed to be falling continuously. Frost formed on the surface of Bucky's soul, and it felt rusty.

The three entangled individuals were instantly pulled far away.

It was like he was exiled, or like Bucky was just left there, letting the cold eat away at him.

"call--"

Bucky exhaled a breath of cold air and narrowed his eyes slightly.

"That's not okay."

"Why don't you take me with you to play?"

He took a step forward, crossed the dividing line between the island and the sea, completely submerged himself in the sea, and stretched out his hand again.

Another dot of darkness.

As the white line and the sea of ​​fire intertwined, a hand emerged from the white line.

Then there was the head… covered in gray and messy hair, and the face was painted with pale paint, a red nose, and red lips.

The corners of his mouth were raised high.

He stretched his hands desperately, crossing the edge of the white waves and touching the darkness.

A little ripple appeared.

The distance between the two points disappears as the ripples reverberate.

One after another, clowns stepped out of the darkness, their breath carrying a lingering chill and their skin covered with frost.

"I almost froze to death."

"Well...how about playing a game?"

Countless clowns stretched out their hands with knives in their hands, sank into the white waves, into the sea of ​​fire, and stuck to the surface of the snake.

"It is certain that the soul is strongly related to the will."

(End of this chapter)