One Piece: Arkham: Buggy the Clown

Chapter 34 I'm Just Staying Here

"Hello, my name is Youqi. Are you also someone who accidentally entered this thick fog?"

When Bucky's eyes saw colors again, he saw this man greeting him.

The other person was wearing a white cowboy hat, had algae-colored hair, and had yellow tassels on the shoulders of his coat.

He looked quite cheerful.

"Hello."

Bucky responded with a small smile.

Then he took out a pistol from the armory on his chest.

Get the gun, raise it, and pull the trigger.

The movements are done in one go.

A bullet the size of a finger pierced Yuchi's forehead.

His body staggered a few times before falling down, but the cheerful expression on his face remained unchanged.

He continued to murmur, "Hello."

Instead, it was Bucky who had just opened his eyes and got up.

He was on the deck of a strange sailing wooden boat.

A sticky smell continued to waft from the wet and rotten wooden boards.

The sky was as dark as water, with only an oil lamp in a glass cover hanging on the nearby ship building.

The light of the oil lamp was not bright yellow, but as bright and clear as the moonlight.

It barely illuminated the deck in front of the ship.

On the other side of the deck, Yuchi's crew was having a cheerful party.

"The captain is dead, hahahaha."

They pointed at Yuchi's body and laughed happily.

A tall man with an afro held a violin in his hand, and the bow jumped back and forth on the four strings.

“Yo hoo hoo~~~Yo hoo hoo~~”

The crew members huddled together, arms around each other, raising their glasses and singing a cheerful boat song together.

There were also people leaning on the lower deck of the boat, playing the accordion.

The melodious and cheerful singing seemed to dispel the darkness here.

"How can the captain die? I am the captain."

Bucky tapped his fingers to the beat, chuckling as he joined in on the joyful party.

They didn't seem to care much about Captain Yuchi.

After hearing what Buggy said, someone immediately echoed:

"Cheers to the new captain!"

"cheers!"

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The Afro man's bow suddenly moved faster.

The more cheerful and upbeat melody makes people want to immerse themselves in it from the bottom of their hearts.

Bucky's laughter was also cheerful, and the red corners of his lips seemed even brighter.

He joined in, raising his glass and clinking glasses with the crew.

They didn't care that they had only known each other for three or four seconds, and they were already hugging each other.

The crew member whose shoulders he had put his arm around slowly split apart to the cheerful melody.

Just like broken porcelain bottles that have been glued together and then returned to their broken state.

The singing became quieter and quieter.

After a while.

The only people left on the deck were Bucky and the oil lamp hanging on the top of the ship.

"Hahaha, another fun party."

Bucky's smile was full of lingering feeling.

He showed no fear or alarm at the pieces of meat on the deck.

Instead, he took another gulp of the tea-colored wheat wine.

The astringent taste slid down into the stomach.

He raised his gun and fired at the oil lamp on the upper deck.

There was a crash.

The glass cover was shattered all over the floor.

The bright white flames instantly spread throughout the ship.

In the firelight, darkness once again completely invaded Bucky's vision.

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"Hello, my name is Youqi. Are you also someone who accidentally entered this thick fog?"

I don’t know how much time had passed before a cheerful voice woke Bucky up again.

Everything seemed to go back to the time when he just opened his eyes.

In other words, it was the 127th time after being swallowed by the shadow.

"Hello."

Bucky's answer and actions were no different from before.

Accompanied by cheerful singing, once again, all the creatures on the boat, whether they were alive or not, were torn apart.

Then light the broken oil lamp.

The darkness came again.

This is not a cyclical world. If Baki is willing, he can continue to live happily with them like this.

Drinking, singing and having fun.
But he created a cycle for himself, starting when he realized that once everyone on the ship died and the fire engulfed the ship, everything would start over again.

Repeating everything in front of you over and over again.

The only thing that changed was the number of times he kept counting in his mind.

Open your eyes for the 146th time.

Just like before, Buggy kills the captain with a quick move and then joins the party.

"Why are you trying to kill us?"

Amid the cheerful melody, a curly-haired crew member beside him suddenly turned his head and asked.

"It looks like the game has finally entered the second stage."

Bucky snickered but didn't respond.

It’s just that the other party’s splitting speed suddenly increased a lot.

The pair of eyes that suddenly turned from cheerful to empty shattered to the ground in about three seconds.

The flames engulfed the ship again.

"Don't you like it here?"

When Buggy opened his eyes again, Yuchi's expression had become much colder.

"There was once someone who had this dream day after day."

Yuki continued with a hollow look in his eyes.

"It's a dream. No wonder it makes people so happy." Bucky grinned, not at all surprised by such a change.

"But I don't like dreaming."

“Reality is funny enough.”

Bucky repeated his previous actions, raising the gun and pulling the trigger.

Murder and arson.

Just like what he does best.

Open your eyes.

Yuchi's expression was indifferent, and he kept a distance of six steps away from him.

"Aren't you bored?"

It was the first time he had seen someone repeating a series of actions so impatiently.

Killing people is like drinking water to him.

Even if they were a group of complete strangers, they still greeted him warmly.

“Bored?” Bucky stroked his chin, as if he was thinking seriously.

Then, with a sneer, "Ahh, open your eyes, close your eyes, and repeat the process."

“The vast majority of lives I’ve seen are like this.”

"Why bother?"

Bucky walked silently to Yuchi again.

Then raise the gun and pull the trigger.

The movements are smooth and flowing.

"kill him!"

The crew on one side finally stopped watching the battle.

Three or four long swords were pulled out from the accordion, and the guy with the afro who had been playing the violin turned the bow into a sharp knife.

This is their dream.

“It’s the berserk stage now.”

Bucky shook his hands, looking helpless.

Let those swords and knives cut into your body.

"So what's next?"

He pulled out a wire from the corner of his mouth.

Rub your finger lightly over it.

"boom--"

His mouth movements and the fire sounded at the same time.

"what have you done?!"

Yuqi returned to the starting point with an angry face. Cracks spread from his face to the hull, and even outside the hull, into the darkness that could not be illuminated by the cold firelight.

There were also cracks there, like broken porcelain pieces.

Bucky raised his head. The other party's angry expression seemed to bring him special pleasure, and he smiled playfully.

“I just stay here.”

The first effect after the awakening of the Split Fruit is.

Anyone who comes into contact with him can be divided.

"How can this be!"

"How could you escape from my dream!"

"Isn't it good to dream here?"

Yuchi was still shouting loudly, but the spread of the cracks was already unstoppable.

There was a crash.

The dark shadows covering the entire area suddenly shattered into pieces.

Bucky stamped his feet, and the damp and rotten smell on the deck disappeared.