"Skillful Grade Swords, are you serious old man?"-Buggy is surprised by the swords' grade
"Yeah, as a swordsmith, I know many fad swords. These 2 have been disappeared for more than 70 years if I'm not wrong. To think that you found them, what a stroke of luck."-Drey
"Well, I hope that my luck doesn't run out because I found them. So, which one is Castor & which one is Pollux?"-Buggy
"The black one is Castor, while the white one is Pollux. Both swords have the sa specification and are even made from the sa material. The only difference is just their creator, which is twins too."-Drey
Drey explains that Castor was made by the older twin, while Pollux by the younger one. They were made around 100 years ago on Grandline at the request of a prince that wants to be the Strongest Swordsman.
Even though the prince failed to get the title of Strongest Swordsman, but the swords have gained enough fa to be one of the 50 Skillful Grade Swords. It's not only the fa of course, but the swords' high quality too.
"Strongest Swordsman, huh? It's not my type of thing, but I will take the swords. How is their condition?"-Buggy
"They're still in really good condition, just what I expected from fad swords. It just needs basic maintenance, not much needs to be done. Do you want to do it- No, please let do it. It's not an everyday thing to co across fad swords after all."-Drey
"Sure, that's why I ca here, right? Please inspect them further, because they'll have a lot of battles from now on."-Buggy
"Alright, you can wait here for a few minutes."-Drey
"No, I'll leave & return again later. I want to explore the town for now."-Buggy
"Alright."-Drey
Buggy leaves the workshop to explore the town. The fact that he found fad swords really surprised him. He's really lucky to find them, they're one of the best swords in the world after all.
Even if Skillful Grade Swords aren't the best, but they're still top-grade swords. Only 21 Great Grade Swords & 12 Supre Grade Swords are above them.
'Their devil fruit might have raised their grade to Great Grade. Then if I can turn them into Black Blade with my haki, they might beco Supre Grade. Well, it's just my assumption, but at least they will be Great Grade if I can make them Black permanently with haki.'-Buggy
Buggy decides to not think much about it and just wait for the future. However, when he thinks of the devil fruit, he becos shocked.
'To add devil fruit on fad swords, just what was that researcher thinking? Is it because fad swords are stronger? But what if his research failed and broke the swords? Hmm, I think researcher like him doesn't care much about the swords' condition, huh?'-Buggy
Buggy is curious about the researcher's reason to use fad swords. He doesn't explain it in his journal, he doesn't even write that the swords are fad.
"h, who cares about that. The swords are fine and even beca better. I need to thank him instead of questioning his motive."-Buggy
Buggy walks around the town and looks around for their specialties. The town is ho to Craftsn, so Buggy finds any kind of crafts. He's not into sothing like this, but he knows that these products are good.
Buggy keeps walking around, and he doesn't find anything he likes except so food. He just buys a lot of food before he returns to Drey's workshop after walking around for an hour.
"How is it?"-Buggy
"There's no problem, just so dirt inside the hilt and scabbard. No rust at all even after years of abandonnt. Just what I expected from fad swords."-Drey
Buggy takes the swords and they've beco cleaner. Buggy also buy so maintenance kits for his swords. They need good care, so he needs proper tools. Previously, he just use oil on his old normal shortswords.
"How much?"-Buggy
"No need, it's just a little maintenance, so no need for paynt. Furthermore, being able to hold 2 of the legendary swords is enough for a swordsmith in West Blue like ."-Drey smile
"Heh, it seems my luck hasn't run out, hahahaha."-Buggy
Buggy then leaves the workshop and returns to his ship. His mates haven't returned, and there's only Salaki there. Buggy gives the food that he bought to Salaki before he starts to train.
"Alright, you've been cleaned, so show your power!"-Buggy
Buggy starts his sword training using his twin swords. He trains like normal, like training his swings, parry, block, and other techniques. He also keeps trying to use the sword's devil fruit power, but it's not working.
"Just how can I use their power?"-Buggy
Buggy then tries to flow his colorless haki to the swords. He try to have a connection with the swords, so he can command them, but it also didn't work.
"Sigh, I'll work on it slowly. Solving a mystery like this need slow but steady work."-Buggy
Buggy keeps doing his sword training while using his haki. Now he uses hardening, and his hardening is black with a light bluish color. It will form a connection with his swords, and also train his haki.
By using haki extensively until he runs out of it, he will raise his haki capacity slowly. It can also train his haki hardness because he keeps using it. His goal is haki projection, but he needs strong armant haki for that.
"Haki can grow stronger faster if I fight with strong haki users. However, I haven't fought with any haki user so far. My only way is to train it regularly like this. Maybe I can spar with my crew when they can use armant haki."-Buggy
Soti later, Buggy's crewmates return carrying many groceries. Mantis bought many food ingredients, but she order Cricket to carry them. Jude bought so navigation tools, won's necessities, and also a spear.
"You bought a spear? Can you use it?"-Buggy
"No, but I want to train it. Even with my devil fruit, fighting closely is still scary, so I bought a long spear. I want to use guns, but I don't know how to combine it with my devil fruit, so I choose spear instead."-Jude
"Well, you're free to use whatever you want as long as you train it seriously."-Buggy
"Yes."-Jude
"Hey guys, what'd you want to eat tonight?"-Mantis
"I want at stew."-Buggy
"Can you make fruit salad?"-Jude
"Anything's fine."-Cricket
"Okay then."-Mantis
Mantis go to the kitchen to cook their dinner. While waiting, the rest of them train their skills. Jude trains his spearsmanship by following a guidebook. As for Buggy & Cricket, they sparred with hand-to-hand combat.
Cricket is actually good in hand-to-hand combat, but he uses his pistols more often because he could defeat his enemies with pistols before he needs to use his hands. His hand-to-hand combat style is also unique because he shapes his hands like beaks, similar to Bentham.
"You need to use your hand-to-hand combat more often! Your pistols will be handy in early battle, but when you fight the bosses, they usually beco useless. Even more so if they're devil fruit users."-Buggy
"But I use it every day when I train with you, isn't it enough?"-Cricket
"No, sparring is not a real battle, and fighting one opponent every day isn't useful enough. Everyone has a different fighting style, so you'll need a different approach for each enemy."-Buggy
"Fine, I'll try to use it more often."-Cricket
They keep training until the dinner is ready. They stop their training to eat, and they finish their day with that.
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