It's been five days since they left the headhunter island, and the pirates are back to the way they were when they set sail, Hawkeye the lookout standing on the high lookout, sighing and swearing.

"I can't even see a boat! It looks like I'm going to change course in the future!"

"Now who of the merchant ships of the Stormy Sea does not know that our Goddess of Despair is always on this course, and it is not a madman or the Imperial Navy who dares to take this course. ”

"The Imperial Navy is not bad, at least we can kill it!

Hawkeye muttered that he didn't really want to go to the Endless Sea, it was too dangerous, and if he encountered a powerful sea beast, he couldn't guarantee that he would survive.

However, Captain Zack can't change it, after all, now the goddess of despair is sailing in the direction of the endless sea, and Hawkeye can only hope to meet a merchant ship full of goods on the way, maybe this will make Captain Zack change his mind.

But for five days, it seemed that there was only one ship on the sea, the Goddess of Despair.

Andy didn't bother to pay attention to Hawkeye's thoughts, he had recently noticed something very strange, Buck was getting more and more silent these days, even like a different person.

Andy had just done the divination yesterday and confirmed that he was safe for the next few days, and there was nothing going on now, so he was particularly interested in the changes in Buck.

When Andy went to find Buck, he was leaning against the side of the ship, looking out at the endless sea.

"Big man, what are you looking at?"

Buck turned his head, looked at Andy, and sighed.

"What's wrong? tell me, maybe I can help you. ”

Andy couldn't help but ask when he saw that Buck's expression seemed a little sad. He wondered what had happened to this swaggering guy to become what he was.

"Little one, I just... It's just a little homesick. ”

Buck's tone was a little weak, as if he had exhausted his strength to say this.

"Homesick?"

Andy was stunned, he really hadn't thought about this possibility, Buck has been at sea for more than ten years, and it stands to reason that he has long been used to such things, how could he suddenly be homesick?

"Andy, look over there, that island, do you see it?"

Andy nodded, the island was far away, and he could only vaguely see an outline.

"That's my home, the island is inhabited by cannibal natives, and I grew up there. ”

Buck said, memory in his eyes.

"Is that your home? You can talk to Captain Zach, and I think he'll agree to let you go back and have a look." ”

Andy thought for a moment and said, although Zach is usually cold, he is very nice to the crew.

"I can't go back, I was driven out of the island by the chief, and I'll never go back. ”

This big black man who was more than two meters tall actually shed tears, which caught Andy off guard.

Buck took the flask from his waist, and despite the fact that he didn't have much rum in stock, he took a big sip of relief and sighed with a sigh of relief.

"I can be your listener, if you will. ”

Andy said at the right time, patting Buck on the shoulder, but he was obviously not tall enough, and he had to stand on tiptoe.

"That's going to... It started when I was a teenager. ”

Buck looked at the island in the distance and fell into reminiscence.

Curious about what was going on off the island, young Buck would stand on the beach every day watching the passing ships in the distance, and after a storm, Buck spotted a survivor.

He settled the survivors, where he learned the lingua franca of the continent and learned about the bits and pieces of the ocean.

The more he learned, the more Buck wanted to leave the island that had confined him for more than a decade.

Finally, one day, the opportunity came.

The chief found a lifeboat in the wreck of a wrecked ship and kept it as a collector's item.

Buck took the opportunity to steal the chief's lifeboat and wanted to leave with the survivors, but alarmed the people.

The survivors are being used as food by the tribesmen, and Buck is placed under house arrest, believing that he has been bewitched by an evil god and is preparing for a sacrifice.

At the sacrifice, Buck confided in him, quarreled with the chieftain, and was driven out of the tribe by the angry chieftain, because he broke the sacrifice, he was cursed by the alien gods believed in the cannibals, and he could not set foot on the island where cannibals existed for the rest of his life.

Buck floated across the ocean in a wooden boat for several days, but the chief prepared food for him so that he would not starve to death, and later came across a pirate ship and joined him.

Later, the pirates were defeated by the Goddess of Despair, and Captain Zach admired Buck, who had distinguished himself in that battle, and took him into the Goddess of Despair, for more than a decade.

Although Buck couldn't go back to Cannibal Island, he was very concerned about it, and it wasn't until he found out on the chart a few days ago that they would pass by that island on their way to the Endless Sea, and his heart became more and more uncomfortable.

"Buck, why would you rather quarrel with the chief and bear his wrath than leave Cannibal Island?"

Andy listens to Buck's story, and he thinks that maybe Buck will be his partner in the future, and Buck seems to like gold because he wants more rum, as for his purpose as a pirate......

Buck fell into deep thought, and then looked at Andy for a long time and said, "Maybe just like you, I'm also after something, the new and vast world in the eyes of children, which is what you call ... Freedom!"

"And now, are you still curious about the world?"

Andy asked.

"Now, little one, now I only like rum, and although I hated Cannibal Island as a child, I have to admit that I would love to go back and see it all these years, and I don't think I need anything other than that. ”

"Don't you want to go to other seas to see? the Devil Sea, the Crystal Sea, the Ghost Sea, the Mysterious Rakshasa Sea in the East, the Celestial Dragon Sea... There are so many places to explore. ”

Andy said, looking at Buck wistfully.

Buck was stunned when he heard this, and sighed, "Andy, I'm not young anymore, I don't have the blood and vitality I had at the beginning, I just want to enjoy the rest of the time, and I'm not in the mood to pursue those secrets, after all, we are pirates, and our destiny is either to die on the ocean or to die on that damn gallows!"

Buck patted Andy on the shoulder, "Andy, the ocean is so big, even a lifetime can't lift her veil, don't have those damn dreams." ”

Andy nodded in frustration and left the side of the ship, walking back to his cabin.

Buckla leaned on the rope, closed his eyes, and leaned forward, as if that way, he could get closer to the Cannibal Island......