I'm back

In an instant, he was already in front of Buggy.

But just then, a red gleam flashed in Buggy's eyes, and he laughed aloud.

"You're still too slow!"

He clenched his right fist and abruptly punched the air in front of him.

"Fist Bone: Shatter!"

That punch made everyone watching widen their eyes, and a smile suddenly blossomed on Xia Le's face.

Crack!

His fist had yet to land on Lucci, but space shattered at that very moment.

Yes, shattered.

And it did not crack like a mirror. Instead, it split into neat, evenly sized pieces, each a regular geometric shape.

Among those countless shattered pieces, some held Lucci's eyes, others his mouth, his abdomen, or his legs.

That single punch shattered his entire body in an instant.

"Gasp!"

"Lucci!!"

Kaku and the others sucked in sharp breaths, then cried out.

"An awakening of the Chop-Chop Fruit?"

"All those years I spent training and teaching you weren't wasted, Buggy!"

A smile rose at the corners of Xia Le's mouth.

What he had just witnessed was undoubtedly an awakened Devil Fruit power.

Moreover, it was the awakening of the immensely promising Chop-Chop Fruit. If its destructive power were fully unleashed, it might well rival Whitebeard's Tremor-Tremor Fruit.

In other words, if Buggy unleashed his full strength now, he already had what it took to stand among the world's strongest.

"That's enough, Buggy!"

He raised a hand slightly.

Buggy moved his hand, and the shattered space before him returned to normal.

Rob Lucci looked stunned, sweat beading on his forehead.

In that brief instant, his entire body had split apart, shattering along with the surrounding space, and he had lost all sensation.

It was easy to imagine that if it had lasted any longer, he would have died without a doubt.

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