"I'm not doing this anymore! Why do I have to do this kind of work!" Ulti angrily threw down the farming tools in her hand.
"Sister, stop throwing a tantrum. Isn't everyone doing the same work?" Page One picked up the tools. "We have no way to mine the Sea Stone Quarry anyway."
"We're combatants, specifically responsible for fighting! Yet here we are doing farm work. What on earth is Captain Buggy thinking?"
Ulti had never done this kind of farm work in her life.
"Only by doing well can we join the combat sequence. Sister, you don't want to do this kind of work forever, do you? Look, isn't Jack working quite hard?" Page One pointed to the side.
Jack had already transformed into his ancient mammoth form, becoming a ruthless plowing machine.
"That big idiot..." Ulti covered her face, unable to look. "Does he have any of the dignity of the Three Disasters left?"
"There are no Three Disasters anymore. Jack just wants to become a Division Commander as soon as possible. If we work hard, we can still compete for Vice-Commander," Page One said.
Suddenly, the ground shook, and the mountains swayed as a mushroom cloud rose into the sky in the distance.
"Captain Buggy is using a Forbidden Move again." Ulti's eyes immediately lit up. "Every time I see it, I think this skill is so exaggerated."
"Construction on the third reservoir has begun. Before that, hurry up and finish reclaiming this land." Page One transformed into his Spinosaurus form, hitched up the farming tools, and began to run fast.
"Wait for me, Pay-Pay!" Ulti hurriedly followed.
In the distance, before the mushroom cloud had even dissipated, Crocodile had already manipulated the ground into quicksand and then shaped it into the form of a reservoir.
"I never thought being a pirate would require this kind of work."
Since it was the third time building a reservoir, Crocodile was already very proficient. "Captain Buggy, what exactly is going through your head?"
"Making the best use of everything." Buggy's long hair was much shorter now. "If we relied solely on ordinary people, how long would it take to build a large reservoir?"
"The people of Wano Country wouldn't even know how to build this thing. But at this scale, it would take at least tens of thousands of people working for several years."
Buggy had directly blasted a huge pit several kilometers wide and about a hundred meters deep. If people had to dig this, who knows how long it would take?.
"The two of us can finish it in a day, and the manpower saved can be used for other things. Isn't that a good deal? By the way, I originally planned to assign the water conservancy project to you. Can't your Suke Suke no Mi also dig pits?"
Buggy felt a bit sorry for his hair; its growth rate clearly couldn't keep up with the rate of consumption.
"What do you take Logia-type Users for? I can turn the land into sand, but digging such a large pit also consumes a lot of stamina," Crocodile said crossly.
"And next, I have to dig a canal connecting the entire Wano Country..."
Despite being a pirate, Crocodile found himself becoming like a worker—and an exploited one at that.
"Your Suke Suke no Mi is practically a god-tier fruit for construction. Why limit it to combat?" Buggy was generous with his praise for Crocodile.
"Even if you say that, I won't be grateful."
Although Crocodile said that, his movements were clearly much faster.
This guy is such a total tsundere. Could the rumors be true...? "Work slowly, I'm going to check elsewhere." Buggy's nuclear bomb pit-digging was complete, and he prepared to handle other matters.
"What exactly do you want to do? Even if you did nothing, no one in Wano Country would dare resist you. Why do this thankless work?" Crocodile suddenly asked.
Most of the Buggy Pirates had been put into reclamation and construction work. If it weren't for Buggy's high prestige, someone would have been dissatisfied long ago.
"I just want to see how much power Devil Fruit abilities can exert when used for construction. Building a new era isn't something that can be done just by shouting slogans and defeating all enemies. If we can't completely change the world, then what's the point..."
"Perhaps the Celestial Dragons were once dragon slayers, but as time passed, the slayers eventually became the dragons themselves."
"If I lead the Buggy Pirates to kill all the Celestial Dragons, will the crew become the new Celestial Dragons?"
"Destruction is always easier than construction. Now, I want to challenge something difficult."
"If I can't even govern a country well, how can I talk about overturning the world? I might as well be like Straw Hat and just be a free pirate."
Hearing Buggy's words, Crocodile was stunned. "Your ambition really is unique... In the whole world, I doubt you'd find another Pirate Crew so special."
"How do you regret it?" Buggy asked.
"No, it's actually quite interesting." Crocodile laughed suddenly. "Clearly pirates, yet doing things more righteous than the Marines, while not being bound by morality, brandishing the butcher's knife at will..."
Crocodile seemed to see the qualities of both light and darkness concentrated in Buggy.
In the end, will you choose to be the dragon slayer or the dragon, Captain Buggy?
"Leave the canal to me. I'll finish all the work within ten days," Crocodile said. "And if there are any other tasks, I'll take them on as well. Use me as you wish; I just want to see what your new era looks like, Captain Buggy!"
Buggy looked at the hyper-motivated Crocodile. What's wrong with this guy? Why is he suddenly so full of energy?
But subordinates who work this hard without asking for anything in return are truly rare.
"Keep it up! Maybe in the future, you'll become the King of Construction, a god in the hearts of Civil Engineering Bros..." Buggy praised Crocodile a bit and left hurriedly.
For Wano Country to become prosperous, relying solely on growing food wasn't enough; they also had to work on local specialties.
Wano Country is the only nation capable of processing and crafting Sea Stone weapons; even the World Government came to trade for weapons.
Now the Sea Stone quarries and Forging Workshops were running again, but since the World Government was likely no longer a customer, they had to find new buyers for the Sea Stone weapons.
I wonder if the Revolutionary Army is wealthy... Perona walked into the Forging Workshop and found Hawkeye there as expected.
In front of Hawkeye lay a pile of swords; he was imbuing them with Armament Haki.
"How rare, this is usually your tea time." Perona laughed, holding her parasol. "And yet here you are, working."
"Is there something?" Hawkeye said flatly.
"Nothing, it's just that my ability isn't suited for work, so I'm just idling around." Perona giggled, covering her mouth.
"Doesn't that just prove you're useless?" Hawkeye's words made Perona fall silent.
"That's not it! I just haven't found a way to use the Horo Horo no Mi yet!" Perona shouted in protest.
She only knew how to use the Horo Horo no Mi for combat and hadn't considered anything else.
Should I just attach Negative Ghosts to people?
"Then go find one. Where's Moriah?" Hawkeye asked.
"Captain Buggy sent him to lose weight. He said if he wants revenge, he at least needs to get back to the physique he had when he first fought Kaido," Perona said.
"That won't be easy..." Hawkeye thought about Moriah's current size.
"Are these weapons infused with Sea Stone?" Perona touched one out of curiosity and immediately felt a sense of weakness, quickly pulling her finger away.
"Yes." Hawkeye picked up a weapon and imbued it with Armament Haki, turning it into a black blade.
With the reinforcement of Armament Haki, the quality of the weapon improved.
"An expert like you reinforcing weapons here... do you miss Kuraigana Island?" It was Perona's first time seeing Hawkeye work.
"No, I find it quite interesting." Hawkeye switched to another weapon and continued imbuing it with Armament Haki.
"Eh?" Perona didn't expect that answer. "Do you like forging swords?"
"Of course not. I mean the changes in the Buggy Pirates. Some of these guys are becoming less and less like pirates..."
---
A/N: 40+ Advance Chapter Has Been Uploaded.
Support: patreon.com/Narrator_San