Transcended as Lord Buggy-Part 1

20. Cheff Candidate

Buggy have found a cheff candidate, but she doesn't like pirates. So it will be hard to make her want to be a pirate, but Buggy will make sure that she want to be one. Cheff is important in a sailor crew who can sail on the sea for weeks after all.

Buggy decide to follow Mantis from afar. He will try to persuade her, so he follow her while thinking of a good way to make her agree. Buggy follow her for half an hour before she reach her destination.

It's an old building that have many broken walls & windows. Buggy read the old sign on top of the door and it's actually a restaurant. However, the business seem to be very bad, and no one eat there even though it's open.

"This is certainly strange. She doesn't won even though her food is better than the others. Now no one eat in her restaurant too even with good food like that."-Buggy

Buggy decide to get inside the restaurant and check it himself.

*CLING CLING*

Buggy open the door and it ring the bell. He look around and see the tables & chairs are prepared well. The interior seem decent compared to the exterior.

"You again? What do you want now?"-Mantis

"Like i said, i want to ask you to be my ship's cheff."-Buggy

"And i've refused, isn't that clear?"-Mantis

"And i refuse your refusal."-Buggy use Luffy's tactic

"Huuh? You're not making any sense. Didn't you hear me? I hate pirates, so i will never become one. Now leave before i force you to leave!"-Mantis

"Fine, fine, but my offer is still available."-Buggy

"I won't take it."-Mantis have a tickmark

"I'll make you accept it."-Buggy walk away

Buggy leave the restaurant and go back to his ship. At least now he know where to find her, so he can return later. Buggy look back for a moment after he reach rather far distance and see Mantis is spraying salt on the front door.

"Did she think of me as a curse bringer or something?"-Buggy have a dark expression

Buggy return to the ship and tell the story to Cricket. Cricket get pissed when Buggy say he eat good food until he's full, but then laugh at the salt spraying incident.

"Hahaha, that's what you get for not sharing that food with me. But are you sure you want to take her in? She refused right?"-Cricket

"Yeah, just like you, and i will make her agree just like you too."-Buggy

"Alright, so what's the strategy?"-Cricket

"Strategy? We just need to keep asking until she agree."-Buggy

"..... Sometimes i wonder wether you're actually smart or not. But whatever, let's go to her restaurant tonight and eat there, so you can ask her again."-Cricket sweatdrop

At dinner time, Buggy & Cricket go to Mantis' restaurant. They lock all the door in the ship tightly and pay the port security to guard their ship until they return. They reach the restaurant which is still empty like before.

"Oh my gosh, it's you again, and you even bring a friend."-Mantis

"Hey now, we're here as customers, so you should serve some food to us."-Buggy

"I've told you to not come here. It's not because i don't want to serve you food, but because you will get into trouble, serious trouble."-Mantis get serious

"We're pirates, trouble is our life."-Buggy

".....Fine, what do you want?"-Mantis

"Everything on the menu, big portions, we can eat a lot of food."-Cricket