Ice crystals formed from the ground, taking on a human shape and transforming into Aokiji.
Aokiji waved his hand to create a pile of ice crystal wine glasses to hold the nuclear cola Smoothie that had been squeezed out.
"How did you know I hadn't left?"
Buggy picked up a glass of cola and drank it in one gulp. "Cola that isn't chilled really has no soul."
"You haven't answered my question..." Aokiji said.
"Where else could you go if not here? Back to the Marine? You can't accept Akainu's way of doing things."
In fact, Buggy just asked casually; after all, Aokiji temporarily had nowhere else to go.
"I left the Marine to become stronger; it has nothing to do with anything else..."
In truth, the reason Aokiji left the Marine was not just to kill Blackbeard, but more so because his ideals clashed with Akainu's.
As a moderate within the Marine, the operating styles of Aokiji, Fujitora, Smoker, and others were too different from a hardliner like Akainu.
Aokiji brought up his previous excuse, only to find Buggy looking at him strangely. "Do you think I'm a fool? Even Blackbeard wouldn't believe that line!"
"Ara-ra-ra-ra, is my acting really that bad?"
Aokiji didn't think Blackbeard had noticed anything unusual. If Buggy and the others hadn't suddenly appeared and wiped out the Blackbeard Pirates, he would still be undercover.
"You can't blend into a band of villains just by having a cold face. You lack the temperament that Blackbeard and his lot have."
Cunning, cruel, and a disregard for life—that was the impression the Blackbeard Pirates gave.
Whereas Aokiji seemed out of place beside them, like an ice sculpture, with nothing left but indifference.
"Since you have nowhere to go anyway, why not join us?" Buggy asked.
Besides being used as a refrigerator, Aokiji's ability had other uses.
"What exactly do you want to do? Conquer the world?" Aokiji asked.
He had heard Buggy's speech just now; being a pirate, yet wiping out pirates was practically a betrayal of his own class.
"The difficulty of conquering the world is too low. I want to change this world and make it a bit more interesting," Buggy said.
If it were just about conquering the world, Buggy would only need to blast his way through.
Given some time, he could hand-craft a few Tsar Bombas and use the Mirror-Mirror Fruit to transport them to the Holy Land Mary Geoise, sending the Holy Land Mary Geoise sky-high.
But afterward, he would inherit only a devastated world, and it would take even more time to rebuild it.
"What is this interesting world you're talking about?" Aokiji asked.
"Wait a moment. I'll set up a fixed venue first, and then we can talk in detail. We'll be waiting here for a while," Buggy said.
Many people on Cake Island had been sold as slaves. Buggy planned to wait here for them to be released and, incidentally, see if any stubborn fools dared not to release them.
By now, everyone on Cake Island had gathered together; it wasn't good to keep standing in the barren open field.
"Old Sand, I'm counting on you."
"Don't call so many people next time. This battle didn't even count as a warm-up."
Crocodile had come full of anticipation, but in the end, he only got to deal with half of Avalo Pizarro, which left him feeling a bit disgruntled.
With a cold face, he pressed his hand to the ground. "If it's a fixed location, I'll need to put in some effort..."
Large amounts of quicksand appeared, shrouding everyone in shadow, then the sand slowly transformed into a magnificent hall and began to solidify.
"Candlelight Wax Museum!"
Seeing the hall was a bit dark, Mr. 3 flung large amounts of liquid wax, which solidified into various wax statues and artworks, with candlelight at the top illuminating the hall brightly.
"Wow, this is so cool!"
Luffy, Chopper, and Usopp exclaimed in unison.
"The atmosphere is still missing something. Kuzan, make some ice crystal decorations," Buggy said, noticing the lighting was still a bit plain.
Are we that close? We were enemies just a moment ago... Aokiji was somewhat speechless. It was the first time he had seen Devil Fruits used like this.
"Hmph, can he even perform such delicate operations?" Crocodile lit a cigar on a wax statue.
"Ice Thorn Spear."
Hundreds of ice spears were thrust into various parts of the hall, and then ice flowers bloomed upon the spears.
The candlelight passed through the ice crystals, refracting into seven-colored light, making the hall look like a dream world.
"In terms of utilizing Logia-type fruits, you're still far off, Sand Crocodile," Aokiji said.
"How can ice that will melt compare to a structure that exists for eternity?" Crocodile sneered.
"Alright, you guys can go rest," Buggy said to Luffy and the others. "Katakuri, prepare some food for them."
"Can we have more of this cola?" Franky drank a cup of nuclear cola. "This stuff would definitely be a powerful fuel!"
"Hey, you iron hunk, don't be ungrateful," Smoothie glared at Franky. "This is juice, not fuel!"
"Just make some for him, but you'd better do a small-scale experiment first."
Buggy didn't know if this nuclear cola would explode when used as fuel. It was essentially something created by the Juice-Juice Fruit; what if it had other properties?
One of the dignified Three Sweet Commanders had actually been reduced to a Juice Machine.
Smoothie was full of resentment, but thinking of how Buggy looked when he killed Blackbeard, she decided just to endure it... Franky excitedly carried two barrels of nuclear cola back to do his experiments.
Aokiji was still dwelling on the previous question. "What kind of world do you want to turn it into?"
Luffy, who had originally wanted to eat and drink, also became interested. "Yeah, what is an interesting world?"
"First of all, do you think the current world is normal?" Buggy asked.
"It's very normal!" Luffy said. "I think the current world is quite interesting..."
Buggy ignored him and continued, "The development of this world is too deformed. On one hand, things like military biochemical robots, lasers, and tanks have appeared."
"On the other hand, civilian goods are extremely backward. Some people haven't even left their small islands in their entire lives and don't know what the outside world is like."
Actually, it wasn't that deformed; the Blue Star was much the same. Some countries were exploring space, while others were still living primitive tribal lives.
Buggy had the luck to come from a space-exploring country, so he found this 'backwardness' of the pirate world hard to endure.
Even with power, he missed the internet, games, and all sorts of strange novels.
But the 'backward' pirate world wouldn't provide these things, so Buggy would have to do it himself.
"Because of the Celestial Dragons' selfishness, the world has become fragmented. I want to reunify this world. Human wisdom should not be wasted on survival and war, but should be used to make this world more interesting!
"How about it, Kuzan? Do you want to come and help me?"
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