Chapter 13 You wouldn't want Shanks to see you like this, would you?
"This guy is..."
"Bucky the Clown!?"
Luffy and Zoro, who were carrying out a rescue operation, exchanged a glance.
"action!"
There were no words spoken.
Having spent less than a day together, Luffy and Zoro acted in perfect unison, quietly approaching Buggy from behind.
"Hmm? You're my subordinates too?"
Hearing footsteps behind him, Bucky immediately turned around and saw two unfamiliar faces, asking questions.
However, the next second...
"Die, Bucky the Clown!"
Luffy and Zoro launched their attack like cheetahs!
"Rubber rubber—net!"
Luffy stretched his arms out to the sides at an astonishing speed, his fingers miraculously crossing to form a dense, elastic net that covered Buggy's head, which had just poked its head out of the ruins, from above!
"W-What is that!?"
Before Bucky could react, his entire head and upper body were tightly bound by a rubber net.
Zoro, standing nearby, acted swiftly, his twin swords flashing like lightning and embedding themselves directly in Buggy's feet.
"Waaaaah! Let me go! Who are you!?"
The intense pain caused Bucky to let out an angry roar.
But when he tried to use his Devil Fruit power to retaliate against the attackers, he found himself completely bound and unable to move at all.
"Don't move."
The beautiful, snow-white blade of the Wado Ichimonji pierced through the gaps in the rubber mesh and rested against Buggy's neck.
Zoro's deep and imposing voice reached Buggy's ears:
"Stay put if you don't want to die!"
Bucky's face was covered in a cloud of cold sweat mixed with dust.
He was both shocked and furious: "Who are you people... and that straw hat that looks exactly like Shanks's..."
"What?" Luffy blinked, then suddenly perked up: "You know Shanks?"
"This straw hat was a gift from Shanks!"
"Shanks!?"
Bucky's expression suddenly turned serious.
A moment later, he shuddered violently, like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, temporarily ignoring the sharp pain in his foot.
"That bastard...that bastard Shanks! Of course I know him!!!"
Bucky's voice suddenly rose, filled with resentment clenched between his teeth.
"I see!"
"I was wondering why this straw hat looked so familiar, then I suddenly remembered..."
"Back then, he would always be hanging around me wearing this straw hat."
Bucky roared as he tried to twist his body.
At that moment, he seemed to forget the long knife stuck in his neck and the fear of death.
"Hey, don't move."
Zoro threatened in a cold tone.
However, Buggy, who is not afraid of swords, is not so easy to calm down after being provoked by Shanks.
Just then, on the other side of the ruins, the rubble was suddenly ripped away!
Two disheveled yet comical figures staggered to their feet.
It was Cabaji, the chief of staff of the Buggy Pirates, and Mochi, the vice-captain.
Behind Mochi followed his injured lion, Liki.
Although both were in the epicenter of the explosion, like Bucky, they were both fortunate enough to escape the most intense impact.
Despite their still serious injuries, it did not affect their will to fight.
"Release Captain Bucky!!"
Kabaji brandished his long sword and shouted sharply.
Mochi then lashed out with his long whip, emitting a piercing shriek in the air.
"Are there any other fighters left?"
Luffy and Zoro's eyes narrowed, preparing for battle.
But at that moment—
call--!
A dark figure descended from the sky with a whooshing sound, landing heavily on the open ground between the two sides, kicking up a cloud of dust.
V landed steadily, cradling the still unconscious orange-haired girl Nami in his arms.
Her eyes were closed and her face was pale, but her breathing had returned to normal, and the wound on her back had disappeared, revealing her fair back.
V gently placed Nami on a relatively flat rock to the side, glanced at Buggy whose movements were restricted, and a slight smile instantly appeared on his lips.
"Well done, Luffy, Zoro."
"Leave the rest to me!"
He then turned around to face Kabaji and Mochi, the blue light in his prosthetic eyes flowing calmly.
"Is this guy going to play the hero and rescue a damsel in distress?"
Zoro raised an eyebrow, and upon seeing V appear, his rising fighting spirit vanished instantly.
at the same time.
A low, mechanical hum could be heard coming from beneath the skin of V's arms.
The metal structure rapidly reorganizes and expands.
The originally sleek arms transformed and expanded in the blink of an eye, becoming two gorilla arms covered in matte black armor, with thick joints and huge fists.
"What...what is that!?"
Kabaji stared in horror as V's metal arm instantly transformed and swelled to twice its original thickness.
This was the first time he had ever seen someone perform magic tricks better than him.
Sensing danger, Mochi instinctively took a half-step back.
actually...
He wasn't that keen on saving Captain Bucky.
Behind him, the lion Liki let out an uneasy growl.
"Why aren't you going up?" V smirked, amused as he looked at the two who were intimidated by the gorilla's arm.
"Since you're not coming, then I'll have to take the initiative!"
tread!
The turbulent airflow spreads from V's entire body.
With a powerful stomp of his feet on the ground, the prosthetic leg thrusters blasted out, propelling him forward like a cannonball.
Almost at the same moment he moved, Kabaji also moved.
As the chief of staff of the Buggy Pirates, he is confident in his swordsmanship, especially his ability to perform high-speed slashes while riding a unicycle.
But at this moment, he did not have a unicycle.
So it's normal that you can't beat them!
"Captain Bucky, you wait!"
"We will definitely avenge you!"
Seeing that things were not going well, Kabaji suddenly turned around, only to find that Mochi had somehow gotten on Liki's back and was three body lengths ahead of him.
"You two bastards!"
Seeing his subordinates abandon him without hesitation, Bucky suddenly roared in anger.
But then his expression suddenly froze.
A dark flash suddenly pierced through the ruins and arrived in front of Kabaji and Mochi.
Before anyone else could react, two terrifying gusts of air suddenly rose up and struck the two of them.
In an instant, the two people and the beast were sent hurtling towards the building next to them as if they had been struck by a heavy hammer.
Boom! Boom!
Kabaji and Mochi's bodies crashed into a half-collapsed two-story building like rag dolls, shattering bricks and tiles and filling the air with dust.
Leakey let out a painful howl as he was crushed under the rubble.
"Vulnerable."
V retracted its deformed gorilla arm, the metal joints making a slight clicking sound as they reset.
He turned around and looked at Buggy, who was being held down by Luffy and Zoro, his prosthetic eyes calmly scanning over him.
"W-What are you going to do!?"
When Bucky met V's eerie gaze, he instantly felt as if he had fallen into a cold ice cave, and his whole body trembled inexplicably.
V, as always, smiled and walked up to Bucky in a friendly manner, speaking to him through the rubber netting:
"Relax, Bucky-senpai."
"You were once a subordinate of the Pirate King Roger. If your crewmates saw you like this, they would laugh at you."
"Especially Shanks!"
"You wouldn't want Shanks to see you like this, would you?"
End of this chapter...