Chapter 4: Hunting

Chapter 4: Hunting

After Roger's execution, Buggy decide to gather experience. Training in the mountain have it's limit. He need real battle to grow even further, and he have found a way, hunting pirates & bandits.

In this 1 year of him living near Loguetown, Buggy found an interesting fact. No one recognize him as Roger Pirates' member at all. He have walk in front of the Marine base, but the marines never try to capture him whatsoever.

It seem because he doesn't have any bounty on his head, and because he was just a mere apprentice, the marines doesn't recognize him. That's why he will use this to his benefit. He will hunt pirates & bandits and become a bounty hunter. This is also a perfect opportunity because he is on East Blue, and the pirates here are the weakest of all seas.

"I still need to be careful of some marines from Grandline, especially those who have chased us in the past like Garp, they might know my face."-Buggy

Buggy will hide his identity everytime he take a bounty. But he can worry about that later after he really catch anyone with bounty. For now he need to leave Loguetown and go somwhere else.

Buggy have prepared everything he need for this plan. He return to his shack and take all his stuffs. Then he go to his boat that located on the other side of the town, near the mountain.

Buggy then sail away with his boat, following the map that he bought on town. His destination is Orange Town, on Organ Island. Yeah, that's right, Buggy go to the town where the Buggy on the canon fight with Luffy.

He go to Orange Town because that place is small and didn't have any Marine Base. He's still worry if some marines might recognize him, so it's better to minimize that chance. That island is also rather empty and only have a small town on it, so he can train on the empty part.

It takes 1 day to reach Orange Town with his small boat. He arrive the next morning and go to a small restaurant to eat. He also ask the owner for the Mayor's house. He want to live here for 2 years after all, so he need to ask first.

After he eat, Buggy go to Mayor Boodle's house. He knock the door and the old Mayor come out. Boodle looks almost exactly like what he remember from the series. The guy is not as old as he remember, as this is 22 years before the canon start, but Buggy still know that it's him.

"Who are you, kid? What happen with your nose?"-Boodle

"I'm Buggy, and please leave my nose alone! Are you the Mayor?"-Buggy

"Yeah, i'm Mayor Boodle."-Boodle

"Nice, i want to ask for permission to live here, maybe for 2 years."-Buggy nôvel binz was the first platform to present this chapter.

After a week, Buggy decide to hunt his first target. This can be said to be his first real fight with human after he became Buggy, so he target the easiest one first. His target is a bandit on Frauce Kingdom, 'Butcher' Ivan, with bounty of 3 million beri.

Buggy go to Frauce immediately after he tell Boodle & the apartment owner. He buy some supplies and sail following the map & use his compass. At least he know a little about navigating after buying a book about it on Loguetown.

It takes 2 days for him to reach Frauce Kingdom. Buggy land on a small port of a village on the outskirt of the island. He avoid using big ports where Marine usually place some people there.

Buggy then go to a pub and search for info about his target. He can't be obvious though, because usually bandits like them have some spies in place like this. Buggy just ask about the route to the city, and the pub owner tell him a route.

"There is a road on the east, and it is wide enough for carriages. However, you need to be careful, there are bandits that might try to rob you there."-Owner

"Bandits, huh? It seem i need to be careful, i have some goodies after all. Thanks for your help."-Buggy

Buggy give the owner some extra money for the info. Then he leave the pub and go to the direction that the owner showed him. Buggy also bring a big luggage to lure the bandits out to rob him. He just fill his big bag with leaves, there's nothing valuable there.

After walking for sometime, Buggy get stopped by some people. They're the bandits that he searched for. They don't seem rich at all, because they just use makeshift weapons like wooden club or worn out swords.

The only one that have good weapon is their leader, the 3 million head. He have a big cleaver, and it's bigger than normal cleaver. This weapon might be the reason why he's called the 'Butcher'.

"Hehehe, a lone target. You should know what to do right now. Give us your valuables and you can leave, or try to fight and you won't be able to leave alive."-Butcher

"Ooh, so scary."-Buggy grin

Buggy is really interested in his first hunt. This will be his starting point on his adventure in this world.

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