[Clown Buggy, with his eye-catching red nose just like a circus clown, once a crew member of Pirate King Gol D. Roger. During the Roger Pirates days, he and Red-haired Shanks both served as intern pirates, following Pirate King Roger all the way to the end of the Grand Line, Laugh Tale, where he witnessed the existence of the Grand Treasure, One Piece…]
[Twenty years ago, Pirate King Roger was publicly executed in Log Town. Buggy personally witnessed the opening of the Great Pirate Era there. He turned down Red-haired Shanks' invitation and founded a new pirate crew of his own…]
[From that day on, for some unknown reason, the Buggy Pirates have been hiding in the East Sea, tirelessly searching for treasure all over the place…]
[Why a pirate who has allegedly seen One Piece with his own eyes would still be interested in these ordinary treasures is something no one can figure out.]
[Some suspect he wants to dig up other hoards Roger buried elsewhere, since the East Sea is Roger's homeland and must also hide some treasure.]
[Others suspect Buggy spent twenty years in seclusion searching for treasure in the East Sea to seek out the future of the Great Pirate Era there, to find the seeds of a heinous pirate capable of discovering the Grand Treasure One Piece, to find someone who can inherit the Pirate King's will…]
[But all of this is already lost to the world…]
[According to another newly obtained, reliable piece of information, after Buggy was defeated by a young pirate wearing a straw hat, he vanished completely from everyone's sight.]
[Yet when Buggy appeared again, he brazenly assassinated the Heavenly Celestial Dragon Saint Mjosgard, once more revealing the wild arrogance of a former Roger Pirates member!]
"Not a bad paper."
Akihara Kagura looked in satisfaction at the half-true half-false account on the page.
Anyone who finishes reading this paper will subconsciously wonder about one thing: why did Buggy, after being defeated by a pirate in a straw hat, go on to assassinate Saint Mjosgard? Was it because he couldn't accept losing to a youngster, or was there some other unknown reason?
The two latest Wanted Orders that came bundled with the paper were interesting as well: one for Monkey D. Luffy in a straw hat, and one for Clown Buggy with the red nose.
Obviously.
Anyone can tell who the real winner is.
Straw Hat Luffy, who defeated Clown Buggy, is wanted for 30 million Belly.
And Clown Buggy, who was beaten by Straw Hat Luffy, is wanted for 730 million Belly!
Out at sea.
A small coffin boat was slowly sailing toward Log Town, and a News Bird brought the latest newspapers along with two fresh Wanted Orders.
Mihawk looked at the two Wanted Orders in his hands. Both of these pirates had a very special relationship with his friend, Red-haired Shanks.
However…
why does the report say Clown Buggy assassinated a Heavenly Celestial Dragon?
A Heavenly Celestial Dragon got killed…
and it actually has nothing to do with the Konoha Pirates…
Some random Clown Buggy popped up and took the fall.
Mihawk had personally taken part in the Konoha Pirates' Heavenly Celestial Dragon assassination case. Remembering those clown symbols painted on the cannonballs, he faintly felt like he'd fallen into a vortex.
"Was he framed?"
"Or did he jump in of his own accord?"
"…"
"I was framed!"
Buggy was sitting on a rock, clutching the newspaper and bawling his eyes out.
What does any of this have to do with him!
He'd never even seen a Heavenly Celestial Dragon, let alone had the guts to assassinate one, so why did the World Government have to pin the assassination case of a Heavenly Celestial Dragon on him!
Besides…
he didn't even have the time!
Ever since being beaten by Straw Hat Luffy, Buggy had washed up on some nameless deserted island, and only just barely got rescued by another East Sea pirate, Alvida…
"Buggy…"
Alvida had eaten the Slip-Slip Fruit, giving her a particularly youthful and shapely figure. Her face was full of shock as she looked at Clown Buggy. "You actually made it to Laugh Tale on the Grand Line and saw the existence of One Piece?"
"Captain Buggy!"
A group of pirates stared at Buggy in astonishment.
They had never imagined that the Clown Buggy they'd been following all this time was actually a big shot, someone who had even secretly assassinated a Heavenly Celestial Dragon and had once seen the Grand Treasure!
"…"
Buggy instantly cried even harder.
Because…
back then…
was it him who caught a cold, or was it Shanks? Was he the one taking care of Shanks, or was Shanks taking care of him?
Anyway…
neither of them actually saw the Grand Treasure.
Yeah, it was definitely because that bastard Shanks got sick that he missed out on the treasure inside the Grand Treasure!