Amid a chorus of astonishment, Buggy unconsciously began to swell with pride.
And he had every reason to be proud:
"Hahahahaha!"
"Before me, any slash is useless!"
Buggy laughed loudly with his hands on his hips, his big red nose bobbing conspicuously with every chuckle.
Doflamingo had not wanted to waste any more time on that ridiculous red nose, but Buggy's excessive flair for performance inadvertently stirred up the anger Doflamingo had barely managed to suppress.
Ordinary slashing attacks truly were useless against Buggy, but Doflamingo had already developed the String-String Fruit to its utmost limits. His attacks were hardly limited to cutting and slashing.
"Spiderweb!"
Dozens of transparent threads crisscrossed through the air, forming a dense, sturdy invisible spiderweb before hurtling toward Buggy at Doflamingo's command.
As the web descended over him, the smug expression on Buggy's face did not fade in the slightest.
His gathered body split apart once more. One portion shot outward like rockets, while the other broke into even smaller blocks and passed straight through the gaps in the web.
The invisible web missed and fell to the ground, while Buggy's scattered body reassembled in midair without a scratch.
"Hahaha!"
A smug grin appeared on Buggy's face once again.
Then he saw the mocking smile curling at the corner of Doflamingo's mouth.
Buggy looked down.
His feet, which could neither split apart nor fly, had already been tightly covered by the spiderweb in Doflamingo's hand;
And Buggy could clearly feel several tough threads silently winding tightly around his feet several times.
Though those threads were thin, they possessed immense strength and were impossible to break. It did not take long for them to completely crush Buggy's resistance, binding those unruly feet into dumplings.
Doflamingo's combat awareness was astonishing.
Although his surging rage had affected his