395. Maverick

The man that finally shows up has a small stature with a skinny and rather short body. His skin is black and he looks quite young, unlike what Buggy thought after hearing his voice that sounds deep and very manly. Buggy thought someone with a Gigachad physique will appear, not a kid-size man.

There is something unique about the man's appearance though. He has an eye on his forehead, a 3rd eye that looks like his other 2 eyes and functions normally. So Buggy knows this guy is a member of the 3rd eye tribe, but that doesn't matter at all.

"Are you a kid?" asks Buggy.

"No, I'm an adult. My dead mom said that I would be an adult after turning 20 years. It has been 6 years since I passed that age," says the man.

"Oh, so you are 26 even though you look like a kid. Well, 26 is an adult, still younger than me though, I'm 30 this year, after all," says Buggy.

"What about the story?" asks the guy.

"I will tell you, don't worry. Let's change the place though," says Buggy.

"No, let's do it here," says the guy with a wary tone. He is still vigilant toward Buggy.

"Fine, but at least tell me your name," says Buggy.

"Maverick, that's what my dead parents used to call me," says Maverick, the 3-eyed man.

"Damn, that's a cool name. Alright, Maverick, what do you want to hear first? The full story of my adventure will take a long time to tell. So I can tell you a general view of this world that I've seen, or a group of people who look like you," says Buggy with suspense.

Maverick seems surprised by the last statement, "People like me? What do you mean?"

"You sure realized that you have 3 eyes and I only have 2, right?" asks Buggy.

"Yeah, you are strange," says Maverick. He thought that everyone has 3 eyes because his dead parents also have 3 eyes and he had never seen other people besides his parents his whole life.

"I know I'm strange, but that's not because of my eyes. Most people in this world only have 2 eyes, Maverick. There aren't many who have 3 eyes like you in this whole world," says Buggy.

"Really?" asks Maverick, still not fully believing what Buggy said.

Maverick doesn't just skeptical about Buggy's statement, he is also confused because he doesn't know how big the world Buggy means. His whole world is this island. Even though his late parents have told and taught him many things, he won't understand much without experiencing them himself.

Buggy is very impressed with Maverick's parents now. They taught Maverick so well that he could grow to this extent without socializing with people other than them. From the way he talks, Buggy knows that Maverick isn't an idiot, he's just inexperienced.

"Well, let's start with that then, about the knows groups of people with different physical characteristics," says Buggy.

Buggy starts telling Maverick about known races and tribes that spread all over the world. He also tells Maverick the estimated number of people living in this world right now. There are billions of them, and it makes Maverick confused, so Buggy doesn't dwell there.

He focuses on telling Maverick about the variety of people. Human, Giant, Fishman, Lunarian, Sky people, etc. He tells Maverick about those races and human tribes like the 3-eyed, long arms, long legs, snake neck, etc.

The human race is the race with the most varieties in this world. There are a lot of classified tribes that have members with distinct characteristics. But tribes aren't the only factor that makes humans very diverse.

There are many humans who have unique and distinct characteristics too. They are mostly coming from the normal human group, but getting unique traits from birth. The easy example is Buggy with a red round nose, Cricket with chestnut hair, Big Mom her gigantic size even though she is a human, etc.

Buggy's descriptions of the diversity of this world's people make Maverick amazed. He never saw anything outside this island, so he is very curious about the outside world. Even if Buggy only tells him a fraction of what he said right now, Maverick will still get impressed.

But Buggy tells Maverick everything because for him, telling people about the world he has explored is very enjoyable. He also has met 3-eyed people and they are just like normal people. They are one of the nicest groups of people The Clowns ever met.

It's just that they have great anxiety and are very wary of outsiders. They have been targeted and attacked because people see them as freaks. They are the targets of discrimination for people who consider themselves to be normal.

The Clown Pirates needed a rather long time to befriend the 3-eyed people. They stayed quite long on the 3-eyed people's island to befriend them. The reason is simple, they want to know more about the 3-eyed people and the only way is to hear it from the people themselves.

Long story short, they succeeded and now they know a lot about 3-eyed people. That's why Buggy can tell a lot of things about 3-eyed people to Maverick. Although what he says is still just the surface of what he knows, that's enough to make Maverick happy.

"Where are they living now?" asks Maverick curiously.

"They live in a sea called New World which is a part of a bigger sea called Grandline," says Buggy.

The 3-eyed people lived on a small island in New World now. They have been relocated from their initial island by The Clown Pirates. Previously, they live on a big island along with other human tribes, and that made them always receive discrimination.

Buggy proposed to them to move to another island where they can live alone after they became friends. They were very worried at first because even though they always wanted to move, they didn't know much about the outside world. Also, they weren't used to kindness, so they became suspicious of Clown Pirates.

But The Clowns handled it really well by saying that the 3-eyed people will move to an island in their territories. They would also work for The Clown Pirates because they have skills that Clown Pirates needed, sewing.

Yeah, they are very good at sewing and while The Clown Pirates didn't dwell in the fashion business, they still need good tailors for their business. The Caribbean is a group of spies, so they will need a lot of pretexts. Selling clothes is a very great and unusual pretext to gather information.

By selling high-quality clothes, they can entice nobles or people of high positions to their stores and gather information. They can even do it on Sabaody to entice Celestial Dragons. Those pieces of trash don't always come down just to get slaves, after all.

Anyway, the 3-eyed tribe agreed and now they live on a small island protected by Clown Pirates. Their new island is quite close to Clownland, so it is one of the safest places in The Clown Pirates' territories. Buggy went to such lengths because that's just how he is. He is never half-assed at helping people.

Buggy keeps telling Maverick about this world's people. He also tells Maverick the general view of this world like the 7 seas, the main groups competing in this world, etc. Maverick keeps listening excitedly even with his limited imagination because he never saw the things that Buggy tells him.

"This world is very vast, Maverick. My crew has explored a lot of places for more than a decade now, but we still haven't finished because of how vast this world is," says Buggy with a cool face.

Maverick is silent for a moment before he asks, "What is a decade?"

Buggy's cool face cramped instantly, but he still answers, "A decade is a cooler name for 10 years and there is a century for 100 years."

"Ooh, I see I see," says Maverick happily because he learns something new.

Buggy sees Maverick and ponders that he must've looked like that whenever he learns something new too. 'I need to take this guy out of here. The feeling of being alone in the world, I know that feeling very well, and it makes me hurt just by thinking that it happen to someone I met.'

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