"Richie! Richie!"
Buggy was fighting Fujima and the others when he suddenly spotted Richie hanging from a tree. A woman in a short red skirt stood nearby, one hand on her hip as she threw hidden weapons with the other.
One moment she hurled a flying knife, the next a stone, then a cloud of smoke. She was using Richie as a live target for practice.
“Foxy, you little girl, don't tell me you've taken a liking to that lion,” Immortal Toad Reggie teased, finding time to laugh even in the middle of the fight.
"Hee-hee... Maybe I have!"
Foxy giggled and deliberately swayed her slender waist. She pursed her lips and let out a sound that could make a man's bones go weak.
"She really is a little temptress."
Heat surged through Reggie, and he hurriedly turned away.
"Twin-Star Volley!"
Foxy kept laughing as she flicked two more Willow-Leaf Flying Knives from her hand. White light flashed, swift as shooting stars, and two pirates trying to rescue Richie died almost at the same instant.
Buggy was furious and started to rush over, but Lanbo and the other two pressed him even harder. Their combined attacks came fast and fierce, leaving him no way through.
Reggie suddenly dropped to the ground. His belly swelled with a gurgle, and he kicked off, flying forward like a gust of wind. The moment he drew close, he spat a mouthful of crimson venom.
Buggy dodged sideways and bared his teeth. "So you're a poisonous toad!"
Buggy had barely escaped Reggie's attack when a green mantis leaped down from the tree above him. Swish, swish, swish! Lanbo struck at blinding speed, slashing more than a dozen times in an instant and cutting Buggy to pieces.
But even that failed to hurt him.
**"Back together,