Red-Nose

Leiyin formulated a simple and easy-to-implement plan.

He would sneak into Tom's dormitory tonight and stab them to death.

There were many ordinary combatants like Tom on Buggy's ship, so basically no one cared. Leiyin didn't believe that Tom would have any protective measures while sleeping.

But after all, Leiyin was preparing to kill a living person, not a chicken. If he killed Tom, Buggy would definitely inquire about it. And everyone on the ship knew that his relationship with Tom was extremely bad, so after Tom's death, the Pirates on the ship would most likely suspect him. At that time, he would definitely not escape his doom and be executed as a warning. After all, for people like Leiyin, their lives were not as valuable as an ant's, and there was nothing to regret about their death.

So, Leiyin planned to perish together with Tom, killing them and then ending his own life.

If he continued to live such a humiliating life, there would be no hope at all.

Thinking like this, Leiyin took action. Because he was just the lowest-level shipwright on the ship, no one equipped him with weapons like samurai swords or Western swords. Therefore, he found a rusty boning knife and a square whetstone with a missing corner in his workplace—the almost dark lower deck.

This knife was said to be a boning knife, but it had not been used for many years and had been abandoned in an unnoticed corner, already covered in rust.

Leiyin took a basin of seawater and began to sharpen the knife on the whetstone.

The boning knife made a "hissing" sound as it rubbed against the stone. In Leiyin's eyes, this rusty iron that had long been forgotten had become a sharp blade to destroy his enemy!

In fact, this sentence was not wrong, because after being sharpened, this rusty iron had become somewhat sharp and had a bit of a sharp edge.

Leiyin did not have superhuman strength, so he could only use this method.

He was not a punching bag who accepted things passively. If he had to endure such things all the time, it would only mean that he was a coward, and he would look down on himself.

"The humiliation I have suffered will be repaid with your blood." Leiyin looked at the sharpened boning knife and muttered to himself.

When Leiyin was preparing to implement his plan at night, something that happened at noon dispelled his idea of revenge.

To be precise, he didn't need to take revenge.

Buggy's ship was heading to Orange Town in the East Blue. Buggy had obtained a sea chart of the East Blue and the Grand Line, and had received news that Orange Town was a place far from the emperor and relatively wealthy, and the Navy branch was basically unable to take care of it. Therefore, Buggy decided to attack Orange Town as their base.

For those civilians who had no power to resist, this would be a one-sided and cruel massacre!

This is a story for later. Back to noon today, Buggy had already regarded Orange Town as his own, so he held a banquet on the ship.

Speaking of banquets, they were the favorite activity of Pirates. Most of them were violent and ruthless, but in the end, they still yearned for a free and unrestrained life. Banquets could be said to be the best way to adjust their lives.

The banquet began. The meat of various sea beasts sizzled with oil after being cooked by the ship's cook, emitting a burst of meaty aroma. Various vegetables and fruits that could not be named were randomly placed on the table, but the most important thing at the banquet was of course the wine.

It was precisely because of the wine that Leiyin's hatred for Tom disappeared.

Speaking of which, Tom not only liked to bully the weak, but also liked to drink heavily. He loved to drink from a wine bottle when he had nothing to do, and he had a particularly bad character when he was drunk. He would go crazy when he drank too much.

To sum up, with these two hobbies combined, the first victim was naturally the weakest Leiyin on the ship. Especially when this guy was in a bad mood, Tom would beat him up when he got drunk.

It was because of this hobby that Tom brought about his own doom.

Captain Buggy raised his glass and drank happily with everyone. Chief of Staff Kaby rode a unicycle and performed acrobatics to cheer everyone up. And the most excited was Vice-Captain Moji's funny lion, Riki. It devoured the meat on its plate, and the meat in the plate was gone in a few bites.

The sailors and combatants also raised their glasses and shouted excitedly for the captain's plan to capture Orange Town. The ship's musician also played the violin to add to the drinking fun. Leiyin and some other low-level shipwrights were driven by them to carry wine, dishes, and fruit plates.

Everything seemed like a harmonious scene, but it was broken by a sentence from Tom.

"Our Red-Nose captain is finally going to lead us to seize a base!"

Tom had drunk a lot of wine today, nearly two pounds of brandy. As the saying goes, wine emboldens cowards. He said the word that he would not dare to say at ordinary times when he was dizzy.

As soon as this was said, the originally lively and noisy ship suddenly became deathly silent!

Most of Buggy's subordinates slowly put down their wine glasses.

Tom's voice was very loud and reached everyone's ears on the ship. Even Leiyin knew that his days were numbered.

The Pirates looked at Buggy in unison. They saw that Buggy's originally ridiculous clown face gradually turned blue.

"Tom, what did you just say?"

When Buggy said this, the corner of his mouth twitched obviously.

This was an extremely angry twitch.

When Tom heard Buggy's words and saw Buggy's ferocious expression, he realized what he had just said, and he immediately woke up most of his drunkenness.

He had made a big mistake!

Sure enough, Buggy said with a gloomy face, "Someone, tie him to the cross for me!"

The Pirates under his command obeyed and immediately did so, tying the stunned Tom to the wooden cross.

Chief of Staff Kaby held the unicycle in his hand, as if he knew what was going to happen next, and watched with great interest.

Tom was tied to the cross and slowly moved to the bow of the ship before he woke up from his dream and begged for mercy, "Lord Buggy, I was wrong, please let me go, please let me go!"

Hearing this weak wailing, the clown Buggy would not be moved by it at all.

Anyone weaker than him who dared to call him "Red-Nose" would incur his cruel revenge.

All the crew members knew that this was a taboo, but only this guy Tom said this word after getting drunk, which was just asking for death.

As the saying goes, if you don't court death, you won't die.

For Tom, who was now tied to the cross, a terrifying hell was coming.

And Kaby, who liked to watch torture very much, was looking forward to this "gorgeous" performance.