Seeing Xie Wen's dangerous smile and movements, Buggy and his men finally remembered that the "Sapphire Star" before them had first made his name as a pirate hunter-and a "pirate killer" who showed no mercy at that!
"Of course we'll help! Straw Hat is our brother, our nearest and dearest!"
Mohji, the animal tamer who had styled his hair and beard into a furry hood, hastily declared his stance.
Cabaji, the acrobat whose hair covered half his face in a decidedly punk style, sold out his captain without the slightest hesitation. "Captain Buggy is the only one who doesn't want to help! It has nothing to do with us!"
The rest of the Buggy Pirates, including the great lion Ritchie, all nodded in agreement.
"Y-you bastards!!!"
Betrayed by his own men, Buggy stared at them wide-eyed in shock, a long string of snot dangling from his nose.
But Mohji and the others were already ignoring Buggy's accusations. They swarmed off the Thousand Sunny and charged toward the Marines...
Of course, given their strength, they were really only a cheer squad. They provided almost... no, absolutely no help to the battle as a whole.
They certainly lived up to the name Clown Circus. This bunch really was just here for comic relief, wasn't it?
Caught between laughter and exasperation, Xie Wen watched the devastated Buggy fall apart, his desire to kill him no longer particularly strong.
Well, in truth, Xie Wen hadn't particularly wanted to do it in the first place.
Aside from respecting the unwritten convention of "don't kill comic relief characters," Xie Wen was also somewhat wary of mystical things like "Conqueror's Haki Luck."
After all, two of his own cats were mystical "children of destiny." He had seen plenty of equally unscientific incidents caused by Klee Meow's and