"I have a question," Buggy began, "Is there a rare stone tablet here with inscriptions?"
Jess's attention returned to Buggy. She sat down in her chair, looking Buggy straight in the eye. "That's right... There is indeed a stone tablet on Sifa Island that was washed ashore by the ocean currents when the Sky Island was born. This stone tablet is incredibly hard, and no one has been able to destroy it. It has been stored in the temple for seven or eight hundred years."
Buggy asked, "Then can I go and see this stone tablet?"
"Hmm..." Jess hesitated for a moment before saying, "Since Lord Buggy wants to see it, I have no reason to stop you. However, the inscription on that stone tablet is complicated and obscure. Apart from the gods and sages of hundreds of years ago, no one can understand the meaning of the words."
"It's alright. Since I'm here, I'd like to observe it a bit." Buggy SMILE. There was something else he didn't say: even if he couldn't understand it, as long as he brought a rubbing of the stone tablet to the Blue Sea, someone would naturally be able to figure out what was written on it. Perhaps this stone tablet held the truth of this world and the Void Century of the past hundred years.
Jess nodded in agreement. "Alright, then Buggy, please choose a time, and I will send someone to pick you up and take you to the temple."
Buggy laughed, "There's no time like the present, let's go now."
"Now...?" Jess paused, " Buggy fought a life-or-death battle with Bag yesterday, and his injuries seem quite serious. It wouldn't be too late for him to visit the monument after a few days of recuperation."
Buggy said, "My injuries aren't too bad, but if I stay in bed too long, my body will rust."
Priest Karma whispered, "He's clearly injured so badly, yet he still insists on being stubborn..."
No wonder she said that. Buggy was wrapped in bandages all over except his face, making him look rather frightening. Moreover, his enemy in yesterday's battle was the most powerful being on the Three Gods Island, Bag!
Jess glanced at Karma and quickly replied, "Since you insist, then we'll wait for you outside."
After exchanging a few polite words, Jess and her companion left the room.
Cabaji then spoke up, " Captain Buggy, I also think you should rest for a couple of days to recover from your injuries."
"Oh? Don't you want to see where your hero statue is placed?"
A gleam of excitement flashed in Cabaji's eyes. "Let's go now!!"
"... That's way too much!" Buggy muttered to himself, waving his hand dismissively with a dark expression. "Go wait for me outside."
After Cabaji left, Buggy put his captain's cape and hat back on, changed his shoes, and put the Den Den Mushi in his inner pocket. His attire was already very simple, so he changed in just a few moments.
Looking at himself in the mirror, a sly smile crept across his lips. "That's right, this is me."
After walking a few steps, although my body was still a little sore, it didn't feel so awkward and uncomfortable after I got used to it.
As soon as Buggy stepped out of the room, he saw Nilek walking towards him, waving his short arms and saying, "Hey, hey, hey, where are you going, Red Nose? I just saw Jess come over, you haven't been bewitched by her, have you!"
"You're really good at spouting nonsense..." Buggy's eye twitched slightly. "I really am going to the temple with her..."
Before he could finish speaking, Nilek immediately interjected, "Wow, I was right! You really couldn't resist her charms! This woman rejected my advances so many times before; she's completely unreliable!"
"Tsk tsk, you're a machine creature and you actually have mating instincts? What can I say? You're quite similar to a creature called a teddy bear... By the way, what brings you here?"
"What can I do about the consciousness brought about by memories... it's a biological instinct!" Nilek said. "I came to visit you out of kindness because I heard you were seriously injured after defeating Bag. We have a friendship built on fighting side by side!"
"Fighting side by side?" Buggy stroked his chin, seriously recalling all the previous battles, and it seemed that they had never fought side by side.
"Hmm..." Seeing Buggy deep in thought, Nilek quickly changed the subject, "Let's not talk about that. What were you and that woman Jess doing at the temple?"
Buggy didn't hide anything. "I was planning to go see the stone tablet in the temple."
"The stone tablet that was a gift from the Blue Sea?" Nilek perked up at this point. "Can you read the writing on it?"
Buggy's eyes darted around, and he looked at the other person with interest, asking in return, "So, can you understand it?"
Nilek proudly raised his head. "Of course, there is no script in this world that I, the God Nirok, cannot understand. My mind contains a vast data exchange database, unlike you humans, which cannot be deleted, replaced, or forgotten. If Jess hadn't treasured that stone tablet, calling it a gift of fate and Hundred Plans could to prevent me from seeing it, I would have already deciphered the script on it!"
"Alright, you can come to the temple with me." Buggy was overjoyed. He had originally been looking for someone destined to read the inscriptions on the stone tablet, but now it had come to him without any effort!
"Tch, I'm not going!" Nilek leaned against the wall, his little arms crossed over his chest, and turned his head away. "Unless you make that woman Jess kneel down and beg me to go see her."
"What a proud dog." Buggy didn't care about any of that, chuckled, reached out and lifted Nilek up, then said to Cabaji, who was also waiting, "Let's go."
"Let me go, let me go!" Nilek struggled for a while, but gave up after realizing it was no use, looking like a piece of clothing hanging on a clothesline being hung in Buggy's hands.
The group walked outside and arrived at the entrance of the guesthouse, where Jess and Karma were waiting.
Jess glanced at the Nilek in Buggy's hand. "Are you coming too, Nilek?"
"Of course, you woman, shut up!!" Nilek suddenly became very tough, though the way he was left hanging on Buggy's hand was rather unseemly.
"No disrespect to the God Jess is permitted!" Karma roared.
Nilek opened his mouth, extending a remarkably flexible mechanical tongue in a mocking gesture. "Hehehe~~"
Karma was about to say something, but Jess stopped her, shaking her head. " Nilek, come to think of it, you must be hundreds of years old, yet you're still as childish as you were decades ago..."
"None of your business!" Nilek retracted his tongue, closed his mouth, and raised his head.
Jess ignored Nilek and looked at Buggy, saying, " Buggy Bucky, please come with me."