Transcended as Lord Buggy

Chapter 339: White Island

After seeing the White Island, Buggy cancels his idea to get onto the island immediately. He orders his crew to sail around the island first to see its overall view from the sea. They go around the island and they see that it's completely white everywhere.

The island is also smaller than they thought. Its size is only half of the Sabaody Archipelago. There is no mountain on this island, there are only 3 hills that can be seen from the sea. The trees here are normal in size though, unlike the previous island, but all the trees are white.

The crew then docks their ship on the coast of the White Island, The Clown Pirates are looking around curiously at all the white stuff there. Everything is really white here and this place is also very cold. It's actually as cold as the deeper parts of the Arctic and Antarctic, but not as cold as the center.

The Clown Pirates, or at least the early members have gone to both the Arctic & Antarctic, so they know just how cold those places are. This island is almost as cold as the deepest parts of those 2 places that they've ever reached.

On the coast, the temperature is already at -50 degrees Celcius. So the center of this island should have a lower temperature because the effect of the hot water & steam is the lowest there. But the temperature difference shouldn't be that high because this island is small and the highest place isn't that high too.

However, even in this temperature, The Clown Pirates are still wearing their casual clothes. Even the teenagers only wear thin jackets, not thick winter jackets. They've adapted to this level of temperature that often felt on the previous island that has extreme weather changes.

The temperature on that island could drop to this level so suddenly. It happened often and it made the Clowns adapt to this level of cold. Their bodies are also far stronger now, so they can handle this cold. Save for the teenagers who are still not strong enough to handle it.

Buggy then orders his crewmates to explore the island as usual. They are moving in groups and each group carries books & cameras to document everything they find. This is what they've always done in explorations.

The crew has a lot of journals about their adventure in many places. But the early journals aren't too detailed and not as good as the new journals because Buggy wasn't that good at making journals at that time and they didn't have enough manpower to explore the whole islands completely too.

So Buggy plans to explore those places again in the future after he finishes exploring the world. He doesn't know when they can do it again as it will take a long time, but that's not a problem. He never thought that he can explore the world in just a few years, after all.

But he will make sure to do it because that's his goal, his dream. Furthermore, most of his crew members haven't explored the 4 Blues. So he wants to show them all those places that he has seen in the past.

Back to the White Island exploration, Buggy is exploring it with the teenagers and Dela. They take pictures and write their observation results. Buggy also takes some samples like leaves, barks, or even pebbles.

The kids even start competing on who can get the most samples with the best conditions. Well, it's just their way to not getting bored because Buggy & Dela are focusing on their observation. Doing boring stuff like writing or observing the items' characteristics isn't something that these kids like, so they do their own kind of observation.

"Are the trees' inner parts also white?" asks Yamato so suddenly.

"Hmm, well, let's check it," replies Buggy before he chops a tree using his awakened devil fruit to not kill the tree.

Unsurprisingly, the wood inside is also white, although it's not as white as the outside. It's rather clear as if the white color is a little diluted. Dela assumes that probably the water content inside the tree is the cause of the rather diluted color.

"Lord, Lord, let's see the soil. We haven't seen it because the snow covers the ground completely," says Elen.

"Alright," replies Buggy as he re-attaches the tree.

Buggy stomps his left foot at the snow and it gets chopped into many cubes. Then Buggy levitates the cubes and moves them to the side. Surprisingly, the snow is more shallow than he thought. After only digging a meter, he already finds the ground.

However, the ground is not soil, it's not even sand, it's stone, deep white stone. These trees aren't growing on soil but stone. Well, it's not that rare to find trees growing on stone and their roots breaking the stone as they grow, so it's not strange.

The strange thing is the stone's white color, which is rare, and he never saw this level of whiteness. Buggy cuts the white stone into cubes and it's still white deep down there. Everything they found here is white and those eyes are the only colorful objects here.

"Hmm, are there other colored islands like this in the world?" wonders Alan.

"I don't know, at least I never found something like this before. But it will be interesting if we can find similar places to this island. Let's continue our exploration," says Buggy.

They continue to walk while observing the objects around them. After walking quite deep into the white forest, they finally find an animal. It's a white rabbit with red eyes. This is the first time they see another color other than white on this island.

The teenagers are looking at each other before they run at the rabbit together. They are racing to catch the rabbit first, it's their usual competition. But none of them can catch the rabbit because it enters a hole in the snow and disappears very quickly.

Then they see some other rabbits and they immediately go to catch them. The same thing happens again and none of them can catch it even after targeting a few more rabbits. Buggy & Dela just watch them amusedly because it's really funny to see them can't even catch a single rabbit.

Alan, the oldest & strongest among them can't even get close to the rabbits. He is already as strong as the new Supernovas, but he doesn't have any bounty because all the adults in the crew outshine him. Yet, someone like him can't even catch a small rabbit.

"What's the matter, kids? The power that you're so proud of is worthless in front of these rabbits, huh?" asks Buggy mockingly.

"They are too fast and small," says Yamato.

"Yeah, I'm sure you won't be able to catch them too," says Alan out of frustration.

The others are looking at him strangely and now Alan also realizes that he messed up.

Buggy smirks and says, "What a famous last word. Then, if I can catch one in a few seconds, you will do anything I ask."

"Ah, t-that's," Alan can't finish his sentence because Buggy suddenly crouches.

They all are confused as they see Buggy stab his right hand into the snow. Then they get surprised when Buggy pulls his hand. He already caught a rabbit by its ears just by crouching and stabbing his hand into the snow.

"This is why you need to strengthen your Observation Haki. This rabbit was running away from you and entered the hole that leads to this position. If you could feel its presence under the snow, then you would have found it easily," says Buggy before throwing the rabbit at Alan.

Alan tries to catch it, but the rabbit suddenly opens its mouth which is full of long scary fangs. It surprises Alan and because of his reflex, he punches the rabbit's body. The rabbit flies back to Buggy, so he caught the rabbit that is still alive even after getting a strong hit from Alan.

"What a tough little guy," says Buggy before he breaks the rabbit's neck by twisting it. It seems they will have this freak rabbit for dinner.

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