"Where is my hat?"
"Where are my swords?"
"We will find them, let's just focus on getting out of here", I activated blood buff and bend open the iron bars with great effort. As they exited, Richie roared.
"Fucking lion" I punched the big beast knocking it out. I then opened the cage Nami was in, "if you want to get out alive, follow us" I undid her ropes.
Footsteps were coming closer. She nodded and we ran in the opposite direction of the footsteps, through the tents. Behind us I could see Mohji running at us with Buggy. We were quick but not quick enough. Soon, we were surrounded at all sides. Fuck me…
Buggy clapped slowly as he walked over, the strawhat in one hand, the swords in another, "you missing these? Well you won't get them back… unless you join my crew that is! Just imagine it, serving under the great buggy the clown! You would be very wealthy and-"
"Hell no! I'm the captain of this crew!" Luffy shouted.
"You idiot, we could've pretended to switch sides", Nami punched Luffy but his rubber body just bounced her punch back.
"So you aren't ready to join me… well, there is only one fate befitting my enemies… bring out the buggy ball! This little cannon ball is my pride and joy, I designed it myself. One shoot from this and an entire block is erased…" the heavy ball was loaded into a canon and the clown lit the fuse.
"I expected something more out of you, Red nosed creep" I tried pushing his buttons and it worked!
"My- nose?! How dare you-?!"
"A real pirate would fight us head on, a real pirate, like Red haired shanks"
"That damned red head! It was because of him that I lost everything… how did you know that?!" He smothered the fuse and grinned at me, "since you are so intent on fighting me, I will human you, take any weapon you desire and we'll fight manu a manu"
I grinned, whispering to my crewmates, "whilst I am draining him, you deal with his lackeys", before turning back to Buggy, "okay, red nose, I choose a sword"
The crewmates around snickered, thinking i didn't know about his devil fruit powers but it was but a distraction.
"Okay, ready? Go!"
I activated blood buff, my muscles filling with power and I lunged at Buggy, slicing off his arm. Of course, no real damage was done but I picked up the arm quickly and bit into it. Blood rushed from the wound and buggy moaned. Around me, the buggy pirates stepped in but our crew held them off 40 points… 50… 65…
Chop chop fruit skill acquired
A buggy pirate slipped through, punching me and throwing me away from buggy. Cabaji the acrobat sliced at me with inevitable his swords but I roused the blood to activate the chop chop fruit powers and the sword slashed right through me, only to watch me reattach myself.
"That is Lord buggy's power", his jaw hung open.
Buggy too, slowly returning to his senses, stared at me. His hand moved to the wound on his arm and realisation dawned on him, "what kind of devil fruit did you eat?! How can you copy my powers?!"
"A magician never reveals his secrets", I replied cheekily.
He looked around, at his comrades slowly losing the fight and at the man in front of him who had just done the impossible. He jumped a few feet back and ordered, "everyone, retreat! We can't win, not right now!"
He let go of the strawhat and the swords and began running.
"Remember me, I am the reaper of the sea, Max D. Cain!"
"Why aren't you running after them? You were winning! Isn't that what pirates do? Take advantage of their opponents weakness?" Nami asked.
"Maybe other pirates are like that but we aren't" I placed a hand on her shoulder.
"Yeah, where would be the fun in that. I got my hat back, that is all that matters", Luffy placed his hat on his head.
"There would be no honor in striking them whilst they were fleeing" Zoro nodded.
"Why were you captured?"
"Well, I might've stolen a map of the grand line from them", she sheepishly scratched the back of her head.
"You are a navigator? Great, my crew needs a navigator! Be part of my pirate crew!"
"No- I hate pirates, I only steal from pirates, I would never become one but- you are strong… how about we form an alliance together? I need to gather a lot of money to do something very important. How about that?"
"Sure and after that, you can join my crew!"
Nami tried punching him again and again, it bounced back.
"Well, you need money, right? It just so happens that we have a pirate hideout to loot. 50/50?"
"30/70" she offered.
"40/60" I gave her a cold stare. She shrunk back and agreed. She knew after he had bent those steel rods that she couldn't beat him and now he possessed those weird powers on top of that.
"Fine, 40/60"
They looted the hideout, gathering 10 million berry in total, 4 million for Me, 6 million for her. She was happy, I was happy, we all were happy.
Alongside the berry, we found several sets of ordinary swords(nothing which interested any of us), a few maps, which nami all took, a few smut books, which neither of us touched with a ten foot pole and other various knickknacks. I took a few of buggy's knives and a belt for them. The other two who weren't looting, were eating and drinking anything they could get their hands on. I smiled at those two doofuses and opened my system interface with a quick 'status' command.
Max D. Cain
Blood points: 209
Blood skills:
Blood buff 1(Multiply your strength by ten)
Absorbed skills:
Basic navigation
Basic cooking
Basic craftsmanship
Basic swordsmanship
Basic fishing
Chop chop fruit