Chapter 374: Another Death

Chapter 374: Another Death

"What should we do to them, Lord?" asks Cricket. Ñøv€lRapture marked the initial hosting of this chapter on Ñôv€lß¡n.

"Just throw them on the nearest Marine base, they'll take care of these guys. Ah, leave that octopus though, he is Rayleigh's & Shakky's friend. Also, send a message to Jinbe, he better let them rot in prison because only that place can protect them," says Buggy.

His crewmates salute before they tie Arlong Pirates with a single rope. Then a male mermaid Fishman takes the rope before diving into the sea. He pulls Arlong Pirates into the sea and drags them away to find the nearest Marine Base.

The only one left is Hachan who is still tied up on the ground. Buggy orders someone to tie Hachan to their ship's mast so he won't run away. They will send him back to Grandline later, but he will freak out when he wakes up, so they need to tie him up.

"You don't look so good, Kyoushiro," says Buggy while smirking.

"I am not you, after all," says Kyoushiro while sheathing his sword.

Buggy just smirks before telling his medical personnel to treat the injured ones. He also orders the other crew members to sweep the village and help the villagers. They are quite well known here, so the villagers will cooperate easily.

"Where's the old man?" asks Buggy to Kyoushiro.

Kyoushiro gets silent for a moment before saying, "My father passed away a few days after you left for Grandline. He asked me to tell you that he was very grateful to you who has done something very great for his homeland. Even if he has left that country for decades, it was still the place where he grew up and made his masterpieces. He even had the chance to meet some people from Wano through you."

"So he has left, huh? Sigh, I still owe him a drink. Where's his grave?" asks Buggy.

Buggy's relationship with Kozaburo, Kuina's grandfather was quite funny. They were like a cat & a dog who would always bicker about many things. But they kept drinking together every time they met and they always talk happily about swords.

"Up on a hill, I'll ask Kuina to guide you there," says Kyoushiro.

Buggy just nods before following Kyoushiro back to the dojo. He isn't sure when Kuina dies in the original timeline because he doesn't remember all the details. Maybe it should've happened, or maybe not, but he doesn't really care.

He only cares about changing things including Kuina's death. Buggy didn't know Kuina that well and had just met her a few times. In the past, he didn't care whether Kuina will live or die because her death is important for Zoro's development.

But when he had kids, he started to feel sympathy toward Kuina. She is just a child and he thinks that a child shouldn't die before their parents. As a father, he really doesn't want to bury his children with his own hands.

Even if Kyoushiro seems cold, doesn't talk much, and even thinks that women can't be warriors, Buggy knows that he loves his daughter. That guy is just too good at controlling his emotions because, for him, warriors shouldn't cry. He needs to be strong and that's what makes him seem as if he doesn't care about his daughter.

He challenged Kyoushiro again for fun and he won very easily. Buggy kept doing that every time he visited because it was fun. Kuina was still very young, but that's why the memory of her father's defeat is sticking in her mind strongly.

In her young mind, Buggy was a bad guy who hurt her father, and that's why she doesn't like him. And Buggy is enjoying that too because he could always tease the kid with that bad guy persona. It's always fun to tease children until they cry, after all.

When Buggy is thinking about that, they've arrived at the graveyard. It's a very simple graveyard placed beside another graveyard which is Kozaburo's wife. Buggy knows it because the old man took him here a few times.

"Yo, old man, you don't look great at all, hahaha," says Buggy while laughing before sitting down with crossed legs.

Kuina just stays silent because she knows this is how Buggy & her grandfather always acted when they met. She then sees Buggy put the small box he carried and open it. Inside the box are a bottle of sake and 2 sake cups.

"Do you know what this is, old man? This is Wano Country's best sake. Oden gave it to me a few months ago and I planned to drink it with you because you said you miss Wano's sake. But damn, you just need to die before I could deliver it to you. Well, a promise is still a promise, so I'll give it to you. The taste will change because of the soil, but I hope you enjoy it," says Buggy before pouring the sake into the 2 cups.

Buggy then clinks the cups and pours one to the grave while he drinks the other one. A drop of tear comes out of Buggy's left eye as he says, "Sorry old man, but I will drink the rest. I hope you don't mind me getting drunk a little for today."

He drinks the rest of the sake in the bottle without saying anything else. Buggy is mourning in his own way. He is a pirate who has killed people, but he is still a human with emotions who can feel sad about the death of a friend.

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