"What?!" Buggy's voice shot up, brimming with deep-seated hatred and wild delight.
"That rubber idiot who made a complete fool of me in Orange Town and cost me my map of the Grand Line?!"
"Hahahaha! Of all the people to run into! It's time for revenge!!" Buggy thumped his chest, his face filled with excitement.
"Revenge! Revenge! Kill Straw Hat!" The pirate lackeys roared, brandishing their weapons.
They had clearly already subdued the guards near the harbor, and several captured cannons were aimed out to sea.
In the distance, several small naval vessels arriving as reinforcements had barely appeared before precise cannon fire from the Buggy Pirates blasted them into flying splinters. Trailing black smoke, they slowly sank, leaving the harbor entirely under the Buggy Pirates' control.
"Boys!"
Buggy waved a hand triumphantly and pulled a pile of dark cloaks from somewhere. "Put these cloaks on! Don't let Straw Hat and his crew spot us early and run away! Follow me into town! We'll drag them out and hack them to pieces!"
"Yeah!!!"
The pirates threw on the cloaks. Though they looked even more ridiculous, they surged menacingly toward the streets in a noisy mob behind Buggy, like hyenas let out of their cages.
But as rotten luck would have it!
Buggy was so excited that he practically breezed along, his eyes busy scanning the streets for any sign of Straw Hat.
So he never noticed Kirishima Bupai, who had just stepped out of the inn's shadows ahead, radiating a forbidding, stay-away air.
Thud!
They collided solidly, and Buggy felt as though he had walked into a mountain cast from steel.
The tremendous recoil sent him staggering, nearly knocking him down and even knocking his red nose crooked.
He instantly flew into a rage and cursed without thinking. "Bastard! What