Ace was just about to respond when he suddenly heard the sound of something heavy falling into the water behind him, followed by a piercing scream!
"My treasure!"
The next second, Mu Chen and Ace turned around at the same time. They saw a red-nosed man floundering from a small boat, trying to get ashore, while clutching a tattered cloth bundle tightly in his hand.
The moment he looked up, his gaze met Mu Chen's face. He froze as if struck by a paralysis spell, his mouth wide enough to fit an egg.
"B-B-Blood Eyes... Mu Chen!" Buggy's voice trembled like a sieve, and the cloth bundle in his hand fell to the ground, spilling several glittering gold coins.
Buggy had definitely recognized that face. Though it was much more mature than it had been over a decade ago, he would recognize those Blood Sharingan even if they turned to ashes.
Back when he and Shanks were fifteen, they had been beaten up by Mu Chen at the Sabaody Archipelago!
Not only that, Mu Chen was now a Marine admiral. To put it plainly, Buggy had witnessed Mu Chen rise from a Marine colonel to his current position as a Marine admiral, so he had read every newspaper article about him!
Buggy had thought he would never want to see such a terrifying existence again in his life. That was why he had come to scrape by in the East Blue so early on. Yet he had run into Mu Chen by such a coincidence. What kind of fate is this? I'm done for. I'm dead! Buggy even felt like dying. Mu Chen raised an eyebrow at the red-nosed man and suddenly smiled.
Mu Chen had not expected to run into this old acquaintance in the East Blue. It really