Transcended as Lord Buggy-Part 1

120. Hunting Plan

After the party, Ruff and Deon leave to resume their Dials research. The others also leave except for Palu who stays to fill the gap of 26 years with his parents. The three of them need time to know each other better, so the Clowns leave them alone.

The Clowns have an agenda now and that is about the Half-Wings Pirates. They need to find those guys because Palu wants to take his parents' money back. Those guys have taken their money but didn't do anything worthy of it.

Buggy gives his crew some instructions before they split. They will go in pairs except for Buggy who will go alone. Cricket is paired with Mantis, while Jude is paired with Manba.

As for Buggy, he will go to God's Palace to make sure that there won't be any problem later. The government here supports the Half-Wings in a way because those guys are their first line of defense against Blue Sea Pirates.

The Birka's God even asked Buggy to not destroy that crew because he knows Buggy's strength. He agreed to it and unless those guys attack first, then Buggy won't attack them. But now, he needs to attack them first because they've made a problem with his friend's family.

"Let's see if the government wants to protect some ruffians instead of their normal citizens' interest," says Buggy while grinning.

As Buggy walks to God's Palace, someone is approaching him from behind, it's Enel. Of course, Buggy notices Enel's presence and stops.

"Do you want to join now?" asks Buggy without turning around.

"I haven't decided yet. I just want to know why you want to go to that place again," says Enel.

"Oh, good timing, you can join me if you're curious. I just have something to do there and you might be interested in this," says Buggy.

"Hmm, sure," says Enel.

Enel joins Buggy to the God's Palace without knowing what they'll do there. But with Enel here, Buggy won't need to do too many things if something happens. This guy can just electrocute everyone there, hopefully.

'I hope his lightning range is big enough with his current mastery,' thinks Buggy.

Meanwhile, Cricket & Mantis are asking around for their target's location. Of course, they don't ask random people like Palu & Ruff. Both of them have a lot of experience at information gathering.

Even so, it's not easy for them to find their target's location. The people here aren't too welcome with outsiders, especially Blue Sea people like them. So they can't get any clear answer from the natives.

"Should I use force?" asks Cricket.

"Better not, it will make another problem," says Mantis.

"But it won't be a problem if I use it on those guys, right?" asks Cricket while pointing at 2 thugs who try to flirt with a girl.

"Alright, just don't kill them," says Mantis.

Cricket & Mantis then approach the thugs from behind. The girl who gets scared by the thugs sees Cricket's shadow and gets more scared. Then Cricket grabs the thugs' back collar and lifts them, scaring the 2 teenage thugs.

"You won't get any girl like that. Come with me and I'll teach you the proper way," says Cricket while smirking.

"W-Who are you? Let go of us!" says one of the thugs while struggling.

"Shut up!" says Mantis who stands beside the girl.

*TAK TAK*

Mantis suddenly hit the thugs' heads with her staff and make them shut their mouths.

"W-Who are you?" asks the scared girl.

"We're just passersby, don't worry. You can go now, we will take care of these guys. But be careful in the future and try to learn how to protect yourself. A girl needs to be strong too," says Mantis while smiling.

"Eh? A-Alright, thank you," says the girl before running off.

"Now you guys will follow us for a moment," says Cricket to the thugs.

The thugs look at each other and nod after seeing Mantis glare. They still can feel the pain from her staff. She used colorless haki on her staff before to make her hit more painful, after all.

Cricket & Mantis take the thugs to an alley near their location. They start to interrogate the thugs about Half-Wings. But the 2 thugs don't answer, so Mantis hits them harder than before.

The 2 thugs finally tell the pair everything they know about Half-Wings because they don't want to get hit again. They often got into fights, but Mantis' hits are a lot more painful than any beating that they've received.

"Hmm, so they're very famous here. People don't like them, but they're considered as protectors too, huh?" asks Cricket.

"Yes, they defeat Blue Sea pirates who came here, so they can be considered as the ones who protect us from pirates. But they are still pirates and often created troubles here. That's why people don't like them," says one of the thugs, or Thug A.

"We wanted to join them in the past, but our parents forbid us, so we didn't join them," says Thug B.

"Huh? You listened to your parents? That's a surprise," says Mantis with a surprised expression.

"W-Well, we might be like this, but we never dare to oppose our parents," says Thug B.

"Yes, our parents are scary," says Thug B while shivering.

Cricket & Mantis look at each other while blinking their eyes. These guys are just teenagers in their rebel phase. It's as if they just become thugs in pursuit of identities and attention.

"Sigh, teens are very troublesome," says Mantis.

"Well, Captain is still a teenager too if you think about it. He is still 18 now," says Cricket.

"But at least he is not like them," says Mantis.

"I wouldn't join if he's like them. Anyway, do you guys know where they are now?" asks Cricket.

"W-we don't know. But usually, they will sail around on the White Sea to find any ship that comes from the Blue Sea," says Thug A.

"Do they return to the island after sailing around on the White Sea?" asks Mantis.

"T-They usually return before night," says Thug B.

"Good boys, that's good info. Now go back to your parents and don't make another trouble. You won't know if the next people who stop you will be as kind as us," says Cricket.

"YES!" says the thug while saluting before running off.

"Sigh, teenagers," says Cricket.

"You're just like them when you're their age. You even ran away from your home," says Mantis to tease Cricket.

"Ugh, that's why I don't want them to be like me. I will go home after we find what we wanted," says Cricket.

"You should. I want to see my future In-Laws too, my Knight," says Mantis with a soft smile.

"Sure, my Princess," says Cricket with a smile too while caressing Mantis' face.

*BLEGH*

Suddenly, a puking sound is heard from behind them. They look back and see Ruff is puking and Deon has a cringed expression. Crickey & Mantis get stunned and pause seeing them.

Both guys were passing by and saw the couple was interrogating the thugs. They stop by to find out what happened and just wanted to leave after the thugs left. But then the couple started to flirt and call each other with cringe nicknames. It made Ruff puke & Deon cringed.

"Idiot couple," says Deon with a cringed expression.
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