8 Chapter 07 (2/2)

Buggy sent three knives straight towards Nami and he floated away from me. The knives were already halfway there and there was no way I could stop them. I transformed into my hybrid monkey form on pure instinct and rushed straight towards her. Everything looked like a blur, I never thought it's possible to move that fast.

I did reach on time and managed to stop the knives. I was able to push her away from their paths, however, two of the hit me on my back and the third got my straw hat. One of the knives was stabbed into my gut, while the other was right under my right shoulder. I managed them by stretching my arm around me and pulling them out.The wounds will hopefully heal soon.

Unfortunately Buggy took my hat away with the third knife. He was currently holding ”I knew I have seen this hat before, Shanks gave this to you right?” Buggy didn't even give me a chance to respond as he threw it on the ground and spat on it.

He was preparing to stomp it and at that moment I was seeing red. I instantly reached him with a burst of speed and managed to punch him in the head before he can damage it any further.

Now in my hybrid form, I was at least five times stronger. Buggy was still putting up a fight, however, I was both stronger and faster than him. In the end, I was able to knock him out.

At this point, Zoro had already beaten the unicycle guy. I made him cut Buggy apart. We tied his body parts and placed them in a bag. We left him with only a head, two hands, two feet, and a small torso. He looked like a chibi Buggy.

I woke him up by slapping him a bit. As soon as his eyes opened he tried summoning his parts, but he noticed I had them tied up. He seems to have realized his situation as I saw the fear in his eyes.

I was thinking of taking them with me, but I decided to give him a chance, not before him a lesson that is. So I made the meanest face I could do and told him ”I will take your parts with me and I will throw them randomly throughout the Grand Line, let's see if you will be able to find even one of them.”

He knew how low the chances are of him finding all of his body parts in that chaotic ocean. I saw him panic he seemed to believe me, so now I have to give him some hope ”However if you promise me, that you will no longer terrorize towns and civilians any more and that when we meet next time, you would have an amazing story about your adventures that you will share with me and my crew, I will return them to you.”

”Like I already told you, you had the chance to be a Pirate on the best pirate crew like Shanks and right now he is one of the Four Emperors, but you don't hear stories about him terrorizing towns like you and ruining the lives of the citizens. Do you know that when I was little I accidentally ate a Devil Fruit that he found and he got super angry? He got super angry because I won't be able to swim anymore and complete my dream. Buggy you have the same potential as him, yet you are here sailing in the weakest sea acting like a week pirate, while you could be so much more.”

I wasn't sure if I would be able to change his mentality with just a speech, but judging by the change in his eyes and his response there was hope. He promised he will no longer go after innocent people for their treasure and that he will target pirates or go on adventures to find his own treasures.

He wasn't as stupid as he looks, because as soon as he asked for my name and I introduced myself as Monkey D. Luffy, he immediately made the connection with grandpa ”Do you have any relations with Garp the marine Hero?”. It seems I have completely inherited the ability to not lie. ”Garp is my grandfather, so if I hear you are terrorizing innocent people again I will somehow get in contact with him and rat you out. Let's see who the marines will send after you.”

Considering the terrifying look that he had when I confirmed that, I believe he will keep his word. If the marines find out he was part of Rogers' crew they would hunt him down.

In the next twenty minutes or so Buggy had gathered all of his crew and were already leaving the town. He didn't even ask for the treasure that Nami had stolen so that's a good start for him. Surprisingly it wasn't even that hard to convince her to leave half of it for the townsfolk.

Before he left, he asked me about my two Devil Fruits, I guess he noticed that. I explained to him how I ate the second one by mistake and attributed the fact that I am alive to luck. I really don't know how to explain that. He didn't forget saying he will wait for me at the top before sailing away.

Buggy also gave us a slightly bigger boat as there was no way we fit three people on the small one that we came with Zoro. It was already tight enough, especially with me making clones.

As we were sailing away from the island we saw the mayor and Chouchou. The mayor was thanking us for getting rid of the pirates and waving.