Chapter 201: Arm Wrestling

Chapter 201: Arm Wrestling

Buggy sees a small arm wrestling competition on the street and gets interested. He joins it without thinking twice because it seems fun. There are many people who join it and they need to pay 100 Belly.

After waiting for 6 minutes, the competition starts. There are 19 contestants here and they'll play with a knock-out system. 16 contestants are Fishmen while the other 3 are humans. The 3 humans are pirates like Buggy but he doesn't know them.

Then it started and Buggy go against one of the human pirates. He defeats the guy easily, their strengths are too far apart. The other matches also finish soon and now there are 10 people left because 1 of them didn't have an opponent before.

Buggy faces a Tuna Merman and wins again, but now he acts as if it's difficult to make the show more interesting. He wins the next matches with 'hard' effort and wins by a 'small' margin. The Fishmen even think that he is lucky.

He finally gets in the final and faces a muscular Orca Fishman. It makes him rather confused though because Orca isn't fish, it's a mammal. But it lives in the water, so maybe it's also a fish. It's too complicated, so he ignores it.

"You are strong, human. I've been doing this kind of competition many times and it's the first time I face a human in the final," says the Orca Fishman.

"Hoo, it seems you've won many times," says Buggy.

"That's right, I am the champion of Fishman Island's arm wrestling. I've won hundreds of arm wrestling competitions in Fishman Island and never get defeated," says the Orca Fishman proudly.

"Is that so? Then, how if we make a bet?" asks Buggy.

"Interesting, what kind of bet?" asks the Orca Fishman.

"If you win, I will do anything you ask. But if I win, you will join my crew and go to New World," says Buggy.

"Fine, let's do it," says the Orca Fishman without hesitation.

"Good, everyone here is the witness. I'm Buggy," says Buggy as he places his hand on the table and gets ready.

"I'm Siman," says the Orca Fishman.

Both of them get ready and then the match starts. They push each other's hands as 'strong' as they can. But they look equal and no one budges from their position. It surprises the Fishmen audiences, but they all are getting excited because this match has gotten more interesting now.

"Strength won't be a problem from now on because it's easy to find strong people in New World. The problem is their loyalty, that's the main problem with most pirates in New World," says Buggy.

"Loyalty is not an easy thing to get everywhere, but it's very important. Sigh, I guess we can only do what we can with the recruitment. We need to focus more on strengthening the ones who are in our crew already. It's good if we can get new members, but it's not a problem if we can't," says Cricket.

"You're right. The number isn't a big problem. Anyway, Enel, how's the progress of the thing that I've asked?" asks Buggy.

"It's good, we can start tomorrow. I've adjusted the strength to match each one's level so no one will die," says Enel while smirking.

"What are you talking about?" asks Palu.

"I think it's pant-," says Buggy before a flying ladle hits his skull head.

"It's not panties, but something better. Enel, try to improve it before we depart. We will do this after we leave Fishman Island so I will tell you before that. Please wait for it with anticipation," says Buggy, who doesn't explain it clearly.

The others are curious, but they don't ask again and just wait. Then they talk more about their plan in New World. Their target is not any pirate crew, after all, so they need to be serious.

They might've lost some crewmates, but that's a risk for everyone who becomes a pirate. Still, they want to make the casualties as low as possible. That's why they need a good plan and make their crew stronger.

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