Honestly, even Ren hadn't expected that Buggy would have such a connection with the Bara Bara no Mi.
This fruit was brought to Wano by Oden from Roger's ship. Along with this fruit, they had also brought some Zoan fruits. However, after the death of Kozuki Sukiyaki, Ren had proactively cut off contact with them, and even the sailors who were originally on Oden's ship had returned to sea.
Now, this Bara Bara no Mi, which would have been eaten by Buggy, was once again stuffed into his mouth.
"Yue!!!"
Buggy had been acting like a hero just moments before, but after taking a bite of the fruit, he instantly turned into a bear, collapsing to the ground and vomiting. This made Enel, who had just been about to reach for a fruit, hesitate a bit.
"Hurl! Ptoo! Ptoo! Ptoo! What is this?! It's even worse than shit!" Buggy clutched his throat with both hands, frantically sticking his tongue out as if trying to expel the part of the fruit he had just eaten.
But it was all for nothing. The moment the fruit entered his stomach, it had already become part of his power.
"This is too disgusting! How could there be something so awful to eat!"
"Is it really that bad?" Enel silently withdrew his hand and asked in a small voice.
"It's not that it's bad... I'd say it's very... delicious..." Buggy had been about to loudly proclaim how terrible the fruit was, but seeing Enel's hesitation, he immediately changed his tune.
How could something so delicious be eaten by Buggy-sama alone?
I must drag this long-eared guy into this with me!
His eyes darted around cleverly, then he began to speak with exaggerated expressions: "This is absolutely delicious! Unbelievably delicious! Seriously, you have to try it! It's so good it's making me float!"
As he spoke, he made strange gestures, but he didn't notice that Enel's expression toward him was growing increasingly horrified.
"B-Buggy..." Enel trembled as he pointed a finger at him, "Buggy... you've split..."
"Huh? I've split?" Buggy scratched his head, not understanding what Enel was saying. It wasn't until he looked down that he saw his lower half remained on the ground from the waist down, while his upper body had floated into the air...
"Ahhh!!!"
"Buggy-sama is going to die!!!"
His entire body was now split apart.
Scattered across the ground like broken Lego blocks.
"Calm down, Buggy. That's the power of the Bara Bara no Mi." Jasmine crossed her arms in front of her chest to take some of the pressure off her shoulders. "You should be able to return to normal, if you want to."
"Really?"
In mid-air, a mouth opened up and asked anxiously.
"If not, I can help too. I promise I'll put you back together!" Saya laughed.
"No, stop! I can do it myself!" Buggy shouted immediately. He didn't want Saya, this devil, to help him. She was even more terrifying than Aoba.
If she were the one putting him back together, Buggy felt that from now on he might have to pee with his mouth and eat with his ass.
"Get back to normal!" Buggy shouted, and sure enough, the next moment, his various body parts began to move and reassembled into an intact Buggy.
"Phew—alive again." Buggy wiped the sweat from his forehead and breathed a sigh of relief.
"Amazing!" Enel was no longer afraid, and his eyes filled with anticipation.
"Hehe, this is Buggy-sama's power! From now on, no one will be Buggy-sama's opponent!" Buggy immediately became arrogant and began to look at Aoba with a challenging gaze.
He felt that Aoba was no longer his opponent, especially since now he could use the Bara Bara abilities to dodge all attacks.
In short, the weather cleared up, the rain stopped, and Buggy felt like he was on top of the world again!
And then he got beaten up by Aoba.
"How could this happen..." His face was swollen, and his mouth was beaten into a duck's beak.
Aoba coldly laughed and silently retracted his Ryuo.
"Right, it must be because I didn't eat enough! Watch me eat all of these, and then I'll definitely defeat you!" Buggy no longer cared if it tasted like shit and immediately pounced toward the other fruits.
Jasmine reached out and grabbed him by the back of his neck, lifting him up.
"Buggy, if you don't want to die, you'd better not do that. A person can't eat two Devil Fruits. If you do, your body will explode."
"How about you two, Iris and Enel? Do you want to eat a Devil Fruit?"
Iris shook her head. She didn't have any intention of eating a Devil Fruit for now. Although she was older than Buggy and the others, her current strength wasn't as strong as these two young kids.
"I want to eat." Enel said expectantly. He thought Buggy's earlier splitting was cool. But he didn't rashly grab a fruit; instead, he began to choose.
"I'll take this one: the Bomu Bomu no Mi. It seems really powerful."
The other fruits, like the Sube Sube no Mi or the Hana Hana no Mi, didn't sound strong. The Maki Maki no Mi was the same way. Only this Bomu Bomu no Mi seemed really powerful.
If Buggy bullied him in the future, he would just blow this guy to pieces!
The scene that Buggy and Enel had hoped for—becoming all-powerful after getting the fruits—didn't materialize. Instead, they were subjected to even more rigorous training.
In addition to their regular physical training, training specific to their Devil Fruit abilities began.
And because of this incident, the two of them were kicked out of the daimyo's residence and sent to a training camp.
The Tenryou Commission's training camp was where the army in Kuri was trained. Among these recruits were selected the future Oniwaban and the Umibozu.
"So Enel chose the Bomu Bomu no Mi?" Ren made time to come back and heard about it but didn't say much. He had originally planned to save the Bomu Bomu no Mi for Shichigatsu.
Shichigatsu was an Oni in her Velociraptor form, with an extremely strong body. Paired with the Bomu Bomu no Mi, it would be like adding wings to a tiger.
Kuri was practically Ren's paradise. As long as he returned here, Yuriko, Keiko, Jasmine, Saori, Saya, and Aoba would all surround him.
Jasmine, as she grew older, wasn't as single-minded as she used to be.
"Ren-sama, are you taking me to sea this time?" Jasmine looked at him with full expectation.
It wasn't just Jasmine; Saori and Saya were also looking forward to it. But the overseas situation wasn't stable enough yet. Even if he took them out, they could only stay in "Inazuma."
So Ren only planned to take Jasmine this time.
Jasmine's strength was formidable. Not only was she naturally hardworking, but she was also now an Oni. Moreover, she hadn't received an Ancient Zoan, but a Mythical Zoan!
Inu Inu no Mi, Model: Kitsunebi (Foxfire).
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