Seafaring: Buggy the Clown Turns the Sea into Arkham

Red nose, blue hair, clown makeup: when Buggy wakes up, he finds two more lives in his mind. One belonged to a college student who entertained children at an amusement park; the other to a madman who vanished from Arkham Asylum. The three sets of memories twist together like strands of rope, turning him into a brand-new Joker, even crazier than the original.

Locked in the hold of a warship transporting prisoners to the great underwater prison, he is surrounded by criminals with bounties nearing a hundred million, with a Navy commodore above and the Gates of Justice ahead, supposedly impossible to escape. Buggy laughs inside his iron cage, saws off his own hands in front of everyone to break free of the Seastone shackles, then activates his Chop-Chop Fruit. Pulling out a gun, he invites every prisoner aboard to play a game: "Before the Marines storm in, come up with a new name for me. If you can't, you'll die first."

He has already stashed a grand surprise in the armory and disguised himself perfectly as a Navy lieutenant commander. When the entire transport ship explodes and sinks in front of the Gates of Justice, the red-nosed clown is standing on the deck of a warship rushing to the rescue, smiling as he watches the fireworks that belong to him.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual events or people is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.