That left Buggy deeply conflicted.
On the one hand, he really hated Shanks.
But on the other hand...
The treasure was innocent!
And there was also the potential threat posed by Long Ears, whom Rayleigh had taken away back then.
Buggy held back again and again, thought it over and over, and finally decided to stay aboard the Red Force for a while.
Only temporarily!
He was not joining the Red Hair Pirates!
"Ha—you bastard! You've called me Red Nose several times now!!"
With a pop, Buggy's head detached from his neck and flew into the air, then turned back to hover in front of Shanks's face. His lipstick-painted lips rattled away like a machine gun.
"I'm no Red Nose... Shanks, you bastard... I'm mad, so mad..."
"Hey, Clown! Shut your mouth! You're about to deafen me!"
Just then, a rough, thoroughly impatient voice rang out from the side.
The speaker was a tall, burly, muscular man, a full four or five meters in height. A broad-bladed naginata hung on his back, its shaft smooth and thick as a cobblestone.
Buggy's head spun around in the air. He looked the muscular man up and down, then shouted back just as irritably.
"Who are you calling a red-nosed clown, bastard?!"
"You!"
"Ha! Seriously! Do you know who I am? I'm the world-famous—"
It happened in a flash.
Before Buggy could finish introducing himself,
the burly man, whose mood had already been ruined by the interruption, reached behind him, drew the enormous naginata, and swung his arm in one motion.
The naginata's blade, over a meter long, sliced sharply through the air and struck straight at Buggy's face, easily splitting his floating head in two from the Baihui point atop his skull down to his chin.
So swift, not a drop of