Cocoyasi Village?
Buggy?
Blinking, Austin carefully read the newspaper again and confirmed that the location named in the report was indeed correct.
But how could those two things possibly be connected?
Looking at the photograph in the paper again, Buggy still had that same red nose. He looked a little more mature than before, but he was still as arrogant and ridiculous as ever.
His face was bruised and swollen, his body covered in injuries, and several of his teeth were missing.
Yet he still stuck out his tongue and grinned arrogantly at the camera. Behind him, figures dressed like circus performers were carrying baskets of something.
In one corner of the picture stood a group of villagers, watching the pirates plunder their home, furious but not daring to speak.
"That figure..."
Buggy looked like he had suffered quite a bit, but he was still in decent spirits. Austin frowned curiously, but then he noticed the injured woman in the corner, who seemed to be with two children.
Was that Nami's family?
He would go have a look when he had the time.
The rest was just some insignificant squabbling in East Blue, and Austin had no interest in reading further. He folded up the newspaper and put it back into Seagull King's little bag.
"I'm done reading it. You can still keep selling it, you know~"
Austin continued walking across the sea, heading onward through East Blue.
(Continuing the Special Pirate Flashback)
A few days earlier.
Cocoyasi Village.
"Alright then, with no Marines around, let's set out and make a killing, boys!!!"
"Oohhh!!!"
"Captain Buggy!!!!"
The underlings answered with blazing enthusiasm.
They were all longtime subordinates who had followed Captain Buggy. Ever since learning that that great man was the captain's close friend and intended to support Captain