Chapter 13: Chapter 11: Battle against the Buggy Pirates (I)
"At last, you come out of hiding!!" Buggy shouted.
"Alright, you guys handle the fighting, and I'll go after the treasure and the map," Nami said.
"Consider it done!!" Luffy shouted.
At that moment, the Mayor began to get up, still in pain.
"What are you doing here? This doesn't concern you. I will fight on my own," Boodle said as he stood up and grabbed his spear. "I can take care of myself! Stay out of this!"
Luffy grabbed his head and slammed him against a house, knocking him out.
"Hey! What the hell are you doing?! Why did you hit him?!" Nami yelled angrily.
"So he doesn't get in the way," Luffy said with a smile.
"That's actually a good idea. If we let him fight, he'd put his life in danger. This way, he'll be safe," Zoro agreed with his captain.
"But you hit him way too hard!!" Nami yelled.
"I agree with Nami this time. I think that was too much," Oliver said, looking at Boodle, now missing a few teeth.
"YOU!! BIG NOSE!!" Luffy shouted.
Everyone was shocked to hear that, but Buggy was the most affected.
"BLAST HIM RIGHT NOW WITH THE BUGGY BALL!!"
The pirates aimed the cannon and fired it at Luffy.
"Why did you say that?!!" Nami screamed as she tried to flee.
"Luffy, run!!" Zoro shouted.
"Don't worry. It won't do anything to me," Luffy said with a smile.
Oliver stayed nearby in case Luffy failed, ready to put the Buggy Ball into his inventory.
Luffy began to inhale air.
"Gomu Gomu no..." As he kept inhaling, his stomach swelled like a massive balloon. "Balloon!"
The cannonball got trapped in Luffy's stomach before being launched back, destroying the bar completely.
"Yes! Now there must be fewer of them. Are you ready?" Luffy said.
"What the hell are you?!!" Nami yelled, furious.
"They definitely didn't expect that," Zoro said.
"I have to admit, that scared me a little," Oliver said.
The entire bar was destroyed, and Buggy's pirates were knocked out and injured from the explosion.
Nami yelled at Luffy, demanding an explanation, since it wasn't normal for someone to do that.
"No human can do something like that. You inflated like a balloon—what was that?" Nami asked.
"That was Gomu Gomu no Mi: Balloon," Luffy said proudly.
"THAT'S NOT THE QUESTION!!" Nami shouted angrily.
From the rubble, Buggy and Cabaji emerged completely unharmed, having used their crewmates as shields.
"How dare you fool me?" Buggy said angrily. "I'm so furious I can't even describe it."
"We've never been made fun of like this," Cabaji said.
Mohji started getting up and saw the complete disaster.
"Damn it! I was unconscious—what happened?" Mohji asked.
"You're still alive, Mohji?" Cabaji said.
"Cabaji! What do you think you're doing?" Mohji asked, seeing that Cabaji was holding his lion.
"Oh, you mean the cat? I didn't want my clothes to get dirty, so I used him as a shield," Cabaji said, tossing the injured lion aside.
"Richie! Are you okay?!" Mohji asked worriedly.
The lion woke up and looked at Cabaji in fear.
Mohji then looked at Luffy and remembered that he had eaten a Devil Fruit and was a Rubber Man, so he told his captain.
"Rubber?!" Nami asked Luffy.
"Yeah," Luffy said, stretching his face.
"A Devil Fruit. That's why he was able to send the cannonball back. But if you knew that..." Buggy grabbed Mohji with his hand. "WHY DIDN'T YOU SAY SO EARLIER?!!"
He then threw Mohji at the group, but Luffy kicked him aside, knocking him out.
Cabaji was about to go after Luffy, but before he could, Oliver grabbed his axe and, using Electro, threw it at Buggy.
'I hope this actually cuts him.'
Buggy saw the axe flying toward him and didn't move, thinking it wouldn't affect him. That was a mistake—while the axe itself didn't harm him, the Electro did.
"GYAAA!!"
Buggy was briefly electrocuted and fell to the ground.
"Captain!!" Cabaji shouted upon seeing his captain on the ground.
"Wow, it worked," Oliver said, wiping the sweat off his forehead. "I thought I was going to die."
"YOU BASTARD!!"
Cabaji rushed toward Oliver, but Zoro stepped in between them.
"I'll be your opponent!" Zoro said.
"It will be an honor, Roronoa Zoro. I never thought I'd get the chance to kill you," Cabaji said.
Luffy noticed that Zoro's wound was still bleeding, so he told him that he could handle the fight and that he should rest.
Cabaji, upon noticing the wound, decided to take advantage of it.
"Kaji oyaji!" Cabaji lowered his scarf and spat fire at Zoro's face.
Zoro, who was blinded, was unable to dodge a kick directly to his wound from Cabaji, making him scream in pain.
"I didn't hit you that hard, what are you complaining about?" Cabaji said.
"This bastard..."
Oliver lunged to attack him, but a muscular man emerged from a house and grabbed Oliver.
"GOT YOU!"
The man started crashing through different houses with Oliver.
"Looks like your friend went far away," Cabaji said. "Yukemuri Satsujin Jiken!!"
Cabaji began spinning his unicycle around Zoro while dragging his sword on the ground, raising a curtain of dust.
"But this is just dust," Zoro said.
Cabaji used the dust curtain to attack Zoro, who managed to block the sword but not the kick that once again struck his wound.
"What's wrong? Men don't cry, you know?" Cabaji said. "Your friend has put us at a disadvantage, but even as a pirate hunter, facing us was a mistake!"
Zoro was trying to get up when Cabaji attempted to strike him again.
"Die! Roronoa Zoro!"
Cabaji rushed in to attack him, but Zoro struck him on the head, making him fall.
"What a loser. Do you enjoy attacking my wound?" Zoro said before immediately cutting his own wound.
"What are you doing?!" Cabaji asked, confused.
Zoro held back the urge to scream and placed one of his katanas in his mouth.
"I will be the World's Greatest Swordsman. I hope you're satisfied now that I've given you an advantage. I'll show you what makes us different," Zoro said, ready for battle.
Elsewhere, Oliver punched the man who had been dragging him, forcing him away.
'I guess this is one of the things the System told me about,' Oliver thought as he watched the man touch his face.
"Ha, ha, ha! You're so funny," the man laughed in a strange way. "Let's play, let's play!"
'What's wrong with this guy?'
In a second, the man was next to him, punching him in the face and sending him flying.
'Huh? What just happened?' Oliver thought as he looked at the sky.
He saw a shadow above him and quickly moved aside, dodging a punch from the strange man.
'There's something really weird about this guy,' Oliver thought as he observed his behavior.
"Hey! Why did you dodge me?! That's not how you play!" the man complained.
"Hey, freak, I don't feel like playing with you," Oliver said.
"I'M NOT A FREAK!" The man grabbed a house and threw it at him.
Oliver ran straight at it and punched through the wall to get past it.
"I think you are!"
Oliver punched him directly in the stomach and then struck his jaw.
"Hope that calms you down..."
The man punched Oliver in the head again, but this time Oliver quickly recovered.
'He punches really weird...'
Oliver took a good look at the man and noticed that his arms bent in an unusual way.
"Hey, are you a member of the Longarm Tribe?" Oliver asked.
"Eh?! Don't look at me!" the man shouted, trying to hide his arms.
'I think I know how to defeat him.'
Oliver stood up and coated his hands in Electro.
"Get ready, Long Arms."
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