บท 4: Shanks, Is That You?

"Windmill Village?"

Buggy was a little impressed with this village. After all, he has been in the East Blue for many years and learned a lot about many islands in the East Blue.

Windmill Village is the home of Vice-Admiral Garp, so pirates never go to that place. As a pirate in the East Blue, Buggy certainly knows this.

"Aight, we're goin' there."

Although Buggy questioned Shanks's identity, the strength that Garp had just demonstrated was very powerful. So, Vice Admiral Garp should be true.

Buggy didn't know why Garp would mistake the fake Shanks as the real Shanks, but if the other party wants to go to the Windmill Village, let's just do it. Garp should leave the boat after arriving at the Windmill Village so that Buggy doesn't need to deal with Garp anymore.

Under Buggy's command, the helmsman also changed course, turning around and sailing towards the Windmill Village.

Actually, the location of the Windmill Village is not too far away from the uninhabited island before. In just two days, the Buggy Pirates took the three to the Windmill Village's pier in the Kingdom of Goa.

.....

"PIRATE!"

"THERE ARE PIRATES!"

When the Buggy Pirates' ship was arriving, the Windmill Village became busy. The villagers here have not encountered pirates for a long time. Hence, the arrival of the Buggy Pirates really shocked the villagers.

"What should we do? Mr. Garp is not here either."

As the number one combat force in the Windmill Village, Garp was first remembered by the villagers. However, the Vice-Admiral was not in the Windmill Village at this time, and none of them could resist the attack of the pirates.

As the mayor of Windmill Village, Woop Slap stood up to calm everyone, "Don't worry, let's first..."

"Wait, the one on the boat is Mr. Garp!"

Woop Slap, who was about to let everyone go to evacuate first, saw the few people who disembarked and suddenly stopped panicking, "Ain't that Mr. Garp!"

"It looks like it is."

The villagers who were going to evacuate under Slap's direction also saw the Garp on the pirate ship. And at this time, they were finally relieved.

"It turned out to be some pirates that Mr. Garp subdued."

After everyone saw that it was Garp, they no longer felt nervous and returned to their homes one by one. The emergency state in the Windmill Village was instantly lifted.

...

"Mr. Garp, Mr. Garp."

Makino of the Windmill Village Pub was planning to go to the mountain today to see Luffy and Ace. After seeing Garp approaching, however, she smiled and walked over.

Garp, who was walking behind Wexford, looked at Makino in front of him. He was at a loss. Does this person know him?

In the parallel universe of the Old Garp, the Windmill Village was destroyed when he was young, and there wasn't Makino at that time.

Although Garp didn't know Makino, he still knew Slap, who was walking slower than Makino.

After seeing his well and alive acquaintance, Garp gave a rare smile. "Slap."

He could see the intact Windmill Village in this world and an acquaintance like Slap. Garp was already very satisfied. For this Garp, this world was even more perfect than in the world where he was the Pirate King. 'At least, the Windmill Village is still here.'

Although Makino was ignored, she still smiled and said to Garp, "Mr. Garp, are you going to Luffy today too?"

"Luffy? You said that kid is in the Windmill Village?"

Garp also had Luffy as his grandson in another world. But Luffy in that world was very different from Luffy in this world. When he talked about his grandson, Garp was furious, "Of course, it just so happen I'll be able to teach that kid well."

When Garp was planning to give Luffy his iron Fist of Love, Buggy, who was behind Wexford and the others, slowly moved in.

Although Buggy's head was sometimes not very agile, after two days of sailing, he realized that Wexford is the trio's boss. Whether it was Garp or the fake Shanks, both of them would call this fellow Captain Wexford.

When Buggy approached, he whispered to Wexford, "Wex... Master Wexford- see, can I leave?"

Buggy doesn't want to stay next to these three people all the time. Since he could never stand a chance, the first and most obvious choice was definitely to run away. Now that the three of them have reached the destination, the Windmill Village, of course, he, the pirate, doesn't have to stay any longer.

Just as Buggy talked to Wexford, the young Shanks came over from the boat with a big bucket.

"Buggy, what are you talking about?"

When Shanks, who was holding the big bucket, passed by Buggy, he glanced sideways at his old crewmate. "Hurry up and help me move things down."

'Damn it! That's all my stuff!'

Although Buggy was very dissatisfied in his heart, there was no change in his face, "I'm talking to Master Wexford right now."

"What? Do you want to go?" The young Shanks put the barrel aside and looked at Buggy with suspicion. He knew his friend very well, "Captain Wexford has said that he wants your ship. You can't leave."

Buggy didn't respond to Shanks's remarks and directly continued to say to Wexford, "Master Wexford, we have arrived at the Windmill Village, and there's nothing for us to do here."

Wexford nodded slightly and said, "Hm. Indeed there's nothing. You can go now."

As soon as he heard Wexford's words, Buggy breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that he could finally leave.

But before Buggy had time to be happy, Wexford said again, "But leave the boat."

"What?" Buggy was taken aback by Wexford's words.

If he left the ship, how could he and others leave? Buggy and the others were all pirates; they had to go to sea, but they have no ship. If there is no ship, they can't go anywhere.

"Master Wexford, did I hear that correctly?" A cold sweat spread on Buggy's face for fear that his ship would not belong to him.

"You can also continue to follow us. When we encounter another group of pirates, you will have a ship."

Wexford had already understood this very well. When there is no second ship, he will not let them drove the only ship away.

'Damn it!'

There are 10,000 kinds of dissatisfaction in Buggy's heart. It felt like his heart is about to burst out. He could only grit his teeth and looked at the sky, looking back on why he met such a group of people.

"Shanks? Is that you, Shanks?"

Just as Wexford angered Buggy, Makino, who had finished talking to Garp, saw Wexford and the young Shanks beside Buggy.