342. Monsters

Buggy spread out his Observation Haki to probe, yet he sensed no living presence. His brows furrowed slightly as he walked toward the direction Ahong had indicated.

Ten steps... five steps...

Less than half a step from the thicket, the grass suddenly rustled in the wind, leaves swaying and whispering.

A skeletal figure with scraps of flesh clinging to its bones shot out like lightning. It flipped through the air, its powerful kick sweeping in from Buggy's right toward his cheek!

Buggy's expression remained calm. The instant the kick drew near, he reached out with his right hand, clamped down on the figure's lower leg, and gave a fierce yank, tearing off the entire incoming shinbone!

Then, his body tilted subtly backward. In the instant he passed by the figure, he raised his right leg and kicked it squarely in the back with the force of raging waves!

The figure was shattered by the brutal force. Leg bones, skull, ribs, and arm bones scattered in every direction like beads from a snapped string. A black substance of unknown origin drifted away like wisps of smoke, leaving only a robe fluttering down onto the ground. The surroundings fell silent once more.

Buggy stopped and looked down at the Wano-style floral robe on the ground, then swept his gaze over the scattered bones around it, somewhat puzzled... Was that skeleton really the one that attacked me just now?

"That is... Flower-Robed Masamune!"

Ahong shakily rose to his feet. Seeing the floral robe on the ground seemed to remind him of something, and he suddenly cried out.

Buggy looked at him. "Who is Flower-Robed Masamune?"

Pointing at the Wano-style floral robe on the ground, Ahong explained that Flower-Robed Masamune had been the daimyo of Kamakura a hundred years ago. He had lived extravagantly