"Buck, didn't you want Radoga's Treasure? Well, I found it a long time ago!"
The Drunken Fruit had many tricks and was a relatively rare special Paramecia. Besides its unusual beams and highly corrosive acid, it also allowed its user to liquefy their body.
But for people who could survive in the New World, this was the kind of opponent they most wanted to face. Haki allowed them to deal easily with Ability Users who did not know their own limits.
Buck had now been bound in Seastone chains, and Wolf had revealed the truth of what happened back then.
"I knew it."
"Heh, it was indeed a fine treasure, but I already sold it. Part of the money went toward rebuilding Joy Town, while the rest became research funding.
There's nothing left now."
"You really are an idiot, spending money on something like that."
"It doesn't matter anymore, Buck. You committed a grave mistake in Joy Town back then, and I lacked the ability to keep you there. That was my mistake.
Taking you out to sea and letting you become like this was also my mistake. Today, I have to atone for it."
In the end, Wolf personally killed Buck, the pirate who had committed countless sins in the North Blue.
Though he had done it, Wolf still looked deeply sorrowful. No matter what, Buck had still been his son.
"I taught him properly from childhood, but it was useless. Whether I reasoned with him or beat and scolded him, he just kept walking down that road without ever looking back."
"Sir, it wasn't your fault."
Bepo tried to comfort him from the side, but after thinking for a long time, he could not come up with any comforting words. In the end, all he could say was