"Looking for Ace? No, no, no. I really came to find my crew," Clown Buggy said with a grin.
"As for running into Ace, perhaps that was just an accident. Of course, I knew you were here, but I never made any effort to look for you."
"Otherwise, why would I have waited for you to come straight to my ship? I would've gone and found you long ago. Don't you think?"
Ace frowned as he looked at the laughing Joker. "Are even the people from Uncertainty Terminal worth the attention of a Great Pirate like you?"
"Don't say that. Even a sheet of toilet paper has its uses," Joker said with a smile.
"Not to mention these souls filled with despair and madness. They're simply my favorite!"
As Joker spoke, the crew members who had just boarded came up from behind him. What unsettled Ace and Sabo was that their expressions were exactly the same as Joker's. They wore strange, crazed smiles that radiated an eerie sense of chaos.
Looking farther away, they saw several people tightly bound inside the cabin, hooked up to IV drips. The green liquid in those bottles did not look like anything good.
"Y-you... what exactly are you doing?! What happened to them?!" Ace and Sabo asked in panic, chills running through their hearts.
"I merely conducted a few little experiments, helping them see the true nature of the world. At the same time, I tested my Joker Virus No. 3."
"Look at them now. Aren't they smiling so happily?"
"Bastard, you turned them into Joker Party members?" Ace's face was filled with shock and fury.
Ace had heard some rumors about the infamous Joker Party of the seas. Even those few rumors had made him understand just how terrifying those madmen were, with