This time, looks of shock and disbelief appeared on everyone's faces.
"Hey, hey, Captain Buggy, you're joking, right?"
As a user of the Wax-Wax Fruit, MR. 3 naturally understood how difficult Devil Fruit Awakening was. He simply refused to believe that Buggy, who was even weaker than him, had actually awakened the power of his Devil Fruit.
Alvida was also full of shock. The other few, however—including Mohji, the vice-captain who had followed Buggy since they were young, and the chief of staff, Cabaji—shouted excitedly, their eyes shining with admiration.
"I knew it, Captain Buggy! You really had hidden depths!"
"You've been waiting for this moment to prove yourself, haven't you!!!"
Seeing this, Bonney, who was standing to the side, also sighed.
"Hey, is that for real...?"
"Of course it is..."
Buggy stopped hiding it and spoke as he recalled the past.
"Actually, I awakened it on the day Captain Roger died. That day, I was devastated as I watched Captain Roger die. When I returned that evening, I discovered that I had awakened a special power. The Devil Fruit, which had originally only allowed me to split my own body, now had the same effect on other objects. But at that time, the Marines and the World Government were constantly hunting us down. To conceal my existence, I hid the fact that I had awakened my Devil Fruit until now..."
Everyone was even more shocked. Didn't that mean Buggy had awakened his Devil Fruit's power more than twenty years ago?
Kid stared incredulously at the clown Buggy before him—the man he had never taken seriously.
"As expected of someone from the Pirate King's ship. Every one of them is a monster!!!"
Bonney's words expressed what everyone present was thinking.
A trace of astonishment appeared on Robin's face, but she