"Damn it..."
With a backward lurch, Buggy flew back and smashed a pile of barrels and crates to pieces.
Clutching his head and looking at the blood on his hand, Buggy's face was full of fury.
Always cowardly, timid, and one to bully the weak while fearing the strong, Buggy had never fought someone head-on like this in all these years.
Yet even with a swollen, bruised face, he showed no intention of backing down.
Pushing aside the shattered planks around him, he looked at the underlings rushing forward. Without question, they were no match for the fish-men.
After all, pirate grunts from the East Blue were not much stronger than ordinary people. Against fish-men, whose natural physical abilities were several times those of normal humans, it often took several men just to barely hold one off.
Especially Shark Fish-Man Arlong. Buggy was now covered in blood, his face bruised and swollen, several teeth missing. He spat out blood miserably.
"Ptoo—"
"You damn fish-men!!!"
Watching his circus crew get beaten back step by step, he gritted his teeth.
Then he swept out one arm.
"Get out of the way, all of you!!!"
The circus members were quite obedient. Their faces were just as bruised and swollen as they quickly moved aside. At that moment, Buggy kicked out, and a pill-like object sprang from his shoe.
"Watch this, Buggy Ball!!!"
The fierce fish-men, who had been arrogantly gathered together just moments ago, watched in shock as the "pill" approached. A moment later—
"Boom—!!!"
Under young Nami's gaze, the fish-men who had gathered outside Bellemere's home were blasted into the sky by a violent explosion.
Most of them lost the ability to fight. Some of the unlucky ones even lay on the ground, their fate unknown.
Drip...
Drip...
Watching the fish-men get