Buggy wanted to escape.
His head and body quickly split into pieces, but in Chaos's eyes, they moved at a snail's pace. With a sweep and grab of his flowing black-and-gold Haki, Chaos caught Buggy's freshly separated heart in his hand.
Buggy reassembled himself nearby, but he only had his head and body. A piece of his chest was missing.
He looked bizarre.
That was the power of the Chop-Chop Fruit. His body could split into pieces and then come back together.
"Damn it."
Buggy's face turned deathly pale. He looked down at the empty space in his chest, feeling as if his soul were about to leap out of his body.
He tried to use his ability to split his heart, but it was trapped in the airtight space formed by the flowing Armament Haki. Even when he split it into countless tiny pieces, he couldn't escape the sealed space created by the Haki.
All Chaos had to do was lightly grind it away with his Armament Haki, and Buggy's heart would turn to ash. Once his heart was completely gone, Buggy would die.
If it were just his limbs, Buggy wouldn't die even if they were reduced to ash. But this was his heart.
It was one of the vital organs that kept him alive.
The Chop-Chop Fruit was powerful. If he awakened it to its full potential, perhaps he really would become impossible to kill.
Clearly, Buggy still had a long way to go.
"Golden Emperor, you're asking for it!"
At that crucial moment, a shadow fell over Chaos. Sambel, who was nearest, rushed over and appeared behind him. Gripping his trident, he thrust it at Chaos's back with lightning speed, its prongs coated in Armament Haki.
Chaos didn't even turn around. A cigarette dangled from his