"I'm heading to Sky Island."
Fire Fist Ace wanted to bid farewell to Clown Buggy.
"That really is..."
Clown Buggy was bewildered for a second, and could only lower his head, a bit saddened and regretful. He's a man who values loyalty and feels sorrow at parting with friends.
However...
Before Clown Buggy could finish speaking.
A group of pirates from the Buggy Pirates immediately cheered!
"Captain Buggy will surely go to Sky Island too!"
"Captain Buggy was the first to kill a Celestial Dragon!"
"How could Captain Buggy miss such a feast of slaughtering Celestial Dragons?"
"Wait..."
Clown Buggy's eyes suddenly widened. He instinctively wanted to stop his crew from spouting nonsense; he never had the guts to assassinate any Celestial Dragons!
Such trouble...
Clown Buggy has no desire to get involved! He doesn't care about ancient weapons or Celestial Dragons; he only wants to search for hidden treasures of the sea, and doesn't want to meddle in those troublesome matters!
But...
Once again, this group of pirates lifted their captain high.
Fire Fist Ace looked at Clown Buggy in front of him and couldn't help but laugh: "Hahahaha... Let's go together then!"
"Ah? Ah! Ah?!"
Clown Buggy held his head, looking at the cheering subordinates and the smiling Fire Fist Ace before him, feeling an intense headache!
"Sky Island is bound to be super troublesome right now..."
Clown Buggy looked at the image in the Radio Snail, with a flash of pain and dilemma on his face: "That bunch from the Konoha Pirates are great at stirring trouble... The Straw Hat is also on Sky Island, though I do want to take revenge on the Straw Hat..."
"Huh?"
"You have a grudge against Luffy?"
Fire Fist Ace wrapped an arm around Clown Buggy's shoulder, calling him brother: "No matter what, Luffy is my brother, so for my sake, don't hold it against him..."
He himself never minded that Clown Buggy was once a crew member of that Gol D. Roger, so why does Buggy keep fixating on Luffy?
"Huh?"
A bunch of pirates were stunned, looking at Fire Fist Ace.
The person who saved them is Luffy's brother?
Clown Buggy was also quite shocked, looking at Fire Fist Ace, his face immediately plunged into deeper conflict and agony!
No...
Why does it have to be this way!
Why is my newly-made friend the Straw Hat's brother!
I got severely beaten by the Straw Hat, but my friend is his brother, what should I do!
"Let's go, let's go..."
Fire Fist Ace dragged Clown Buggy along, planning to embark on their ship together: "Let's hurry up, so Teach doesn't get away..."
"That guy called Teach..."
Clown Buggy suddenly became curious, remembering from his time as an intern on the Roger Pirates when he once saw Teach: "That guy is a monster, when I fought against your Whitebeard Pirates, I heard that Teach had never slept since birth..."
"Ha..."
Fire Fist Ace chuckled but didn't ask more.
Famous powerhouses around the world were rushing to Sky Island, whether for the chance to kill Celestial Dragons or for the news of Sea King Poseidon, all converging on Sky Island.
Of course.
The Straw Hat Pirates mostly don't care much about the Celestial Dragons.
Only Nico Robin intentionally pays attention to these; she even felt a mix of emotions when Mary Geoise fell to the Konoha Pirates' assault because her enemy is the World Government.
The World Government...
was formed by the Celestial Dragons.
"Indeed..."
"The status of the Celestial Dragons..."
"is no longer so supreme..."
Nico Robin felt as if she breathed a sigh of relief; when she saw the Alabasta event and the Mary Geoise event on the newspapers, she knew through these events the fate of the Celestial Dragons and the World Government.
Currently...
The Konoha Pirates are accelerating this process.
Once this game of hunting Celestial Dragons concludes, not many people in the world will still fear the Celestial Dragons.
That brutal bunch of Celestial Dragons...
are nothing more than pigs and dogs to be slaughtered in the face of the strong!
"I think..."
"Quite a few people would be interested in hunting Celestial Dragons, wouldn't they?"
The Red Sand Sasori stood at the bow of the Golden Ark, imagining the enthusiastic responses worldwide, but his voice remained cold and indifferent.
"Since that's the case..."
"I hope everyone will actively participate..."
"We have set loose about a thousand Celestial Dragons on Sky Island."
"These Celestial Dragons will move freely within the Sky Island area, each carrying a chip symbolizing their identity as Celestial Dragons, and these Celestial Dragon chips will serve as the final proof of victory..."
"..."
Donflamingo instinctively clenched his fist.
Once...
he was one of them.
But his father gave up their Celestial Dragon status, and their family's Celestial Dragon chips were taken back. The words of Red Sand Sasori were quite a provocation to him...
However...
Donflamingo dared not interrupt the other.
"However..."
"Please be cautious as well."
"In this game..."
"There are no excess rules, simply hunters killing prey, and the hunting game will only end once we confirm all prey on Sky Island are dead."
"Whether it's the hunters killing prey, hunters killing each other, or prey slaughtering amongst themselves, all these actions are allowed..."
"The rule for winning the game is simple: after all prey on Sky Island are dead, the person who collects the most Celestial Dragon chips will be the hunting game's victor and receive our best reward, the location of the Ancient Weapon Sea King Poseidon."
"Besides that..."
"There is a special benefit for those who want to partake in the hunting game."
Red Sand Sasori's eyes flashed as he mentioned something that made the whole sea tremble slightly again: "Any powerful individual who obtains even one Celestial Dragon Identity Chip will receive an entry ticket to a future Celestial Dragon slave auction..."
"I suppose many people are aware that a batch of high-status Celestial Dragons will be auctioned as slaves, such as the Commander of the Celestial Dragon Divine Knight Order, Saint Figarland Garling. To participate in the auction, the qualification is one Celestial Dragon Identity Chip..."
"That is to say."
"Only those who obtain a Celestial Dragon Identity Chip on Sky Island will qualify to attend the auction of Celestial Dragon slaves and acquire the Celestial Dragon slaves you desire..."
"Finally."
"To prevent any Celestial Dragons on Sky Island from surviving."
"The vice-captain of the Konoha Pirates, Uchiha Madara, will enter the hunting grounds a month after the game starts to slaughter the remaining prey in the hunting game. With his power, he will quickly kill all the prey on Sky Island..."
"Similarly..."
"Uchiha Madara will also be a hidden reward in this hunting game..."
"Any participant who defeats our vice-captain will obtain another Ancient Weapon, Pluto's location."