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"Captain Buggy!"

Mohji shouted:

"That guy's the Pirate Hunter who wants to cash in our heads!"

"We should raise the sails and run with the wind!"

Even as Mohji said this, his hands were already working hard to paddle in the sea.

And Richie, the pet lion, was also helping its master paddle with great effort.

"But..."

Buggy said with great reluctance:

"My foot is in his hand. I can't move if I'm more than two hundred meters away."

"Captain Buggy!"

Cabaji said with a serious face, "I have a solution."

"What solution?"

Buggy asked with some surprise.

Cabaji slowly drew his katana: "Amputation will do the trick."

"Brilliant!"

Buggy excitedly slapped his thigh, then suddenly realized, "If I cut off my leg, that foot won't be considered part of my body anymore!"

"Then I'll be able to move freely!"

He seemed to have opened the door to a new world, gaining a new understanding of his Devil Fruit ability.

And Cabaji's gleaming blade quietly approached Buggy's calf.

"Ugh..."

Buggy was stunned for a long time before finally recovering:

"Damn it! This is my leg!"

"Buggy-sama!"

Cabaji advised in a deep voice:

"If we cut it off now, we'll only lose one foot."

"If that Pirate Hunter gets on board, we'll lose three lives!"

"Roar, roar, roar~"

Richie the lion roared with tears in its eyes, reminding everyone that more than three lives would be lost.

"This..."

Buggy suddenly fell into extreme entanglement.

He had already lost his ship, lost a group of followers, lost his treasured collection of treasures, lost the Buggy Bomb formula he had painstakingly developed, and really didn't want to throw in a leg...

But in the current situation, he seemed to have no choice but to act decisively to save his life.

"Captain Buggy!"

Mohji glanced back at Garen and the others, who were closely following behind and getting closer and closer, and joined the ranks of those trying to persuade him:

"It'll be too late if we don't raise the sails and run!"

"..."

Buggy looked around at his remaining two or three subordinates, and finally said with great reluctance:

"To protect everyone's lives..."

"Cut it off!"

After saying that, Buggy clenched his fists in resignation, his conspicuous red nose shivering uncontrollably.

"Captain Buggy!"

Cabaji was moved to tears: "We will definitely remember the kindness of saving our lives by cutting off your leg for the rest of our lives!"

Mohji and Richie the lion also hugged each other tightly, watching Buggy cry with his head in his hands.

The small lifeboat was suddenly filled with a generous and painful atmosphere, and Buggy's heart was even more filled with grief:

Will I, Buggy the Clown, be disabled from now on?

And Cabaji clenched the hilt of his sword with difficulty, slowly raising the blade towards Buggy's calf...

Boom, boom—

A vast and overwhelming sonic boom came from the sky again, interrupting the tragic drama that was about to unfold.

"Huh?"

Buggy was slightly stunned, then followed the trajectory of the cannonball with his eyes.

Garen, who was busy rowing to catch up with the lifeboat, was even more surprised and stopped what he was doing, his expression becoming inexplicably grief-stricken:

"You've got to be kidding me, again?"

"I already abandoned ship and ran away, and this cannonball can still hit me?"

To be able to accurately strike such a small, fast-moving target at a distance invisible to the naked eye, that simple-looking solid cannonball probably had a combined navigation system installed inside with global positioning, inertial navigation, visual imaging, and infrared thermal sensing. It might even have a posture control computer and a built-in power unit.

Garen suddenly had a more shocking understanding of the black technology of this world.

But Garen didn't have time to hesitate. He could only instantly activate Fatal Strike and Courage, leap from the broken piece of wood, and once again collide with the incoming high-speed cannonball.

Garen successfully knocked down the cannonball, but still couldn't escape the huge reaction force, and once again crashed heavily from mid-air.

Last time, there was a wrecked ship to catch him, but this time Garen could only fall straight into the sea.

A splash of water soared into the sky, and Garen disappeared in an instant.

On the lifeboat not far away, Buggy quickly showed symptoms of ability failure and weakness.

"He and my feet fell into the sea together!"

A desire for survival flashed in Buggy's heart, and he immediately shouted excitedly to his two subordinates:

"Take advantage of this opportunity to go over there and grab that Pirate Hunter's companion as a hostage!"

"With a hostage in hand, we might be able to get away unscathed!"

"Okay!"

Cabaji unhesitatingly retracted the blade hanging over Buggy's leg and decisively prepared to turn back and attack.

If he had the chance, he wouldn't want to sacrifice his captain's leg.

Mohji also gritted his teeth and threw the unfastened sail rope aside:

"Richie, let's go!"

Richie the lion was a little reluctant.

But its owner, Mohji, had already kicked the big lion into the water and, together with Cabaji, stepped onto Richie the lion's broad back.

"Roar, roar, roar~"

Richie the lion roared twice to embolden itself, then carried the two of them quickly towards Nami and Wallace, who were not far away.

"Garen?!"

Seeing the powerful enemy approaching, Nami's face showed a slight panic, and she subconsciously called out Garen's name.

Unbeknownst to her, Nami, who had relied on herself to struggle for survival for many years, had gradually become accustomed to Garen's help and protection.

But Garen didn't surface this time.

Cabaji and Mohji, riding on Richie the lion's back, one holding a katana high and the other waving a beast-taming whip, had already revealed their ferocity.

"Damn it..."

Nami glanced worriedly at the sea where Garen had fallen, then heavily at the boxes of treasure placed at her feet, and finally unhesitatingly picked up her self-defense staff and mustered the courage to face the approaching enemy.

Wallace also placed the box containing manuscripts and cameras next to him and unobtrusively broke off a piece of wood from the broken plank under his feet and held it in his hand.

Just as the two fierce enemies and a menacing lion were about to engage Nami and Wallace, two combat weaklings, Garen's voice suddenly resounded across the sea:

"Stop! Otherwise, your captain is dead!"

Richie the lion's movements suddenly froze. Cabaji and Mohji hadn't even had time to reach their target before they had to stop in their tracks.

They turned back and saw:

Garen was already standing on the lifeboat;

And their Captain Buggy, who had been left alone on the boat, had a gleaming greatsword pressed tightly against his neck.

It was difficult for Garen in his heavy armor and with a greatsword to float in the water, so he could only rely on his own treading water to provide the power to move forward in the water.

But Garen had a tireless, data-driven body, so treading water was no effort at all; coupled with his already strong physical strength, Garen's speed in the water was not slow.

When he fell into the water from mid-air just now, because Garen's body would not be injured or damaged, he quickly recovered from the impact.

After that, in order to seize the lifeboat, Garen unobtrusively sneaked underwater to the side of the boat and finally captured the lifeboat and Buggy, who was weakened by the seawater, in one fell swoop.

Faced with the sudden reversal of the situation, Mohji and Cabaji were caught in a dilemma.

They couldn't take down Nami and Wallace in a short time, but Garen could take their captain's life at any moment.

"Damn it..."

Buggy fell into despair once again: "Why can't I move yet?"

"Oh,"

Garen explained with a smile, "I dropped your feet in the sea and forgot to bring them up."

"You!"

Buggy was so angry that his big red nose swelled up another three points.

The greatsword pressed against his throat, however, subtly lowered a few millimeters.

Buggy didn't dare say another word, only able to cry out in his heart with a tangled expression.

Garen, on the other hand, felt much more relaxed:

Despite the twists and turns, he had finally regained absolute initiative.

A relaxed smile hung on his face as he calmly confronted Cabaji and Mohji.

"Surrender!"

Garen shouted loudly:

"You absolutely can't escape this time!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Garen felt the sunlight behind him suddenly dim.

A huge shadow loomed over the entire sea.

Garen turned around slowly with a stunned expression, only to see a giant ship as tall as a small mountain steadily docked behind him.

Countless cold and terrifying cannons stretched out, and the continuous sails blocked out the sun.

Even stranger, a cloud of smoke suddenly rose from the giant ship, flying straight towards the lifeboat where Garen was in a bizarre manner.

"I..."

Garen looked at the towering giant ship and couldn't help but mutter to himself:

"I'll never set a Flag again."