Part seven - Buggy and Zorri 1/4

- Don't, captain!

- Please, Captain Buggy!

- Let's just give them everything and float away!

- Please, Captain!

- SHUT UP !!! Today I will avenge all our past humiliations at once! Today I will kill them all !!!

- You say that every time, - Luffy remarked kindly.

- SHUT UP !!! Today I will definitely kill you with my new bomb ... my new secret weapon !!!

- A new secret weapon? - The guy echoed. - What is it? Have you come up with a new version of your idiotic Buggy Eggs?

- Don't call them idiotic !!! And not Buggy Eggs, but Buggy Bombs !!! - as a small child began to kick the furious Buggy with his heel.

- And what did you call the new version of the bomb then? Buggy's Golden Balls?

- Don't call my bombs "Golden Balls" !!! And this is "Special Maggi Bomb" !!! - the pirate tapped his foot on the ground even harder.

- "Special Maggi Bomb"? Are you saying you named your new secret weapon "Special Magic Golden Buggy Eggs"? Seriously?

- This is "Maggi Bomb", "Maggi Bomb" !!! No Buggy Eggs !!!

- And what does your "Special Maggi Bomb" do without any of your balls? Shining with the blinding light of the Golden Balls?

- No Golden Balls !!! And it does not shine, but explodes !!!

- Did you actually make the exploding bomb? - Luffy made a surprised face. - Incredible! - the guy immediately admired. - You seem to be a real genius. Wow, a bomb that explodes! I've never heard of such a thing. Definitely, soon the whole world will know your name!

- ... !!!

- Hey, why are you swearing? - Luffy asked resentfully, folding his arms over his chest. - It is your fault that I cannot understand anything. You said yourself that you made a new bomb and that it explodes, but you didn't say what was so special about it.

- It explodes violently !!!

- A bomb that explodes violently ... - Luffy repeated after him. - Again, what's so special about that? There are a whole bunch of bombs in the world that explode violently.

- Yes, but they are all big, and I was able to make a bomb, the size of a small ball, and at the same time more powerful than the already powerful Buggy Bomb.

- That is, instead of a cannon, you can shoot her with a pistol, or what?

- Ha ha, no! Better still! Thanks to my fruit, Bara-Bara no Mi (Divide-Divide Fruit), I can hide Maggi Bombs right in my body and then shoot them when my opponent is near me and does not expect it at all. And also, thanks to the directional wave of the explosion, I won't get hurt, even if I attack someone while standing a meter away!

- Truth? Listen, it's really cool!

- And then! - resting his hands on his hips, proudly pulled up his huge red nose Buggy.

- And how many "Maggi Bombs" can you store in your body at the same time?

- So far, only three, - Buggy became a little sad, - but not because I can't store them anymore, but because of the difficulty of making them. However, I will definitely bring their number to ten soon! - The pirate beamed again.

- Thank you Buggy for telling me everything about your new secret weapon, - Luffy thanked him with a sincere smile and a heartfelt voice, and then turned to Zoro, Johnny and Yosaku: - People, did you hear everything? He now has three bombs in his body, and he can attack them from a very close range, so be careful.

At that moment, Buggy finally realized that he had just blurted out:

- ... !!!

- Luffy-aniki, seriously, even I felt sorry for him, - Johnny sighed. - In my opinion, it would have been better to just kill him than to scoff like this every time. After all, he really tries to defeat us, and constantly comes up with various things for this. Be human, slow down at least a little!

"Clown" Buggy - Captain of the Buggy Pirates. He got his nickname due to the fact that he always dressed like a clown ... not that a man had a special choice. Buggy managed to be born with a large, round, red nose, one-on-one similar to the red noses-nozzles of clowns. Luffy almost ripped off Buggy's big nose when he first met him, thinking it was just a regular element of makeup. In general, the history of the relationship between the Buggy Pirates and the Straw Hat Pirates began almost two years ago. Buggy then became almost the very first pirate that Zoro and Luffy ran into when they went to sea together. And Buggy was very lucky that time that when he saw Luffy's hat, he managed to mention his past friendship with Shanks, otherwise, fruit of separation or not - Buggy could literally fall apart - Zoro would have stabbed him. And so the guys then limited themselves to beating Buggy and his entire crew, after which they cleaned up all the gold on their ship and most of the food.

Since then, it has gone on. With a regularity of two or three months, the Hats always dropped in to the Buggy Pirates. Luffy's beloved Orc regularly supplied him with all the information he needed, so he never had a problem finding Big Red Nose.

Visits to the Buggy Pirates always ended the same way - with beaten Buggy, his beaten crew, depriving the Buggy Pirates of all their gold that they had already stolen, and, of course, a fair share of provisions. I must admit, Buggy's perseverance was not lacking, so he carefully prepared for each new visit of his offenders. His team gradually grew stronger and stronger, and he himself diligently sought more and more sophisticated methods of assassination that would help him get rid of the Straw Hat Pirates. And everything would be fine, but the innate idiocy of Buggy, and the completely unrealistic power of the Straw Hats for East Blue, nullified all the efforts of the red-nosed pirate.

In the end, his own team just gave up, which is why the last two times - if you count this one - as soon as the Straw Hats appeared on the horizon, they either tried to convince Buggy to try to escape, - the key word is "try" - or give all the money and food. But, as already mentioned, Buggy's stubbornness was beyond measure, so he, with perseverance worthy of better use, invented everything and invented new ways to kill the Straw Hats. No one on Luffy's team wanted to admit it out loud, but they ... not to say that they liked Buggy that much, but they still had a certain respect for him. And it is quite understandable why.

Buggy, being the owner of the "Power of the Devil" himself, was not at all afraid of other fruit. He perfectly knew their weaknesses, and various features, so that he could come up with various methods of counteraction without any problems. Nami had possessed the fruit for more than six months, but during this time only Buggy managed to figure out that the girl could not be reached with ordinary physical attacks, so he immediately ordered to attack her with fire. And in order to understand the strength of the Nami's fruit and its weakness, Buggy only had to make a few shots at the girl and look at the result. The Sube- Sube no Mi (Slide-Slide Fruit) Nami ate allowed her to ignore the attacks of solid matter, but the heat from the fire could not slip off her, and Buggy immediately realized this. Considering that he was not particularly bright in his own mind, this spoke of a great, - frankly, very great - practical experience. And this was only confirmed by the fact that Buggy knew about all three types of haki, which, for the most part, was found only in the New World - the second and most dangerous half of the Grand Line. In other words, Buggy had the knowledge and experience of a pirate who once sailed the waters of the New World.

In turn, respect for Big Red Nose was undermined by the fact that, for all his knowledge, Buggy, in fact, was a small fry. Although his reward inspired by the standards of East Blue - and they gave him a whopping fifteen million, which was five times higher than the average - Buggy himself was weak. Even too weak, if you understand the value of all the information he knows.

On the other hand, respect or not, everyone in the Straw Hats was well aware that Luffy liked to mock Buggy too much to just take it like that and leave him alone. Perhaps, as in the case of Zoro, it was all about the reaction of the red-nosed pirate? Buggy, like Zoro, always reacted violently to Luffy's words and actions. Only if the swordsman in response constantly tried to stab his captain, then Buggy usually rolled completely childish-looking tantrums. Tantrums, which were unusually funny to watch, are a fact recognized in the family by all members, without exception. It also meant that Luffy was downright crazy about Buggy's tantrums.

- Even if you tricked me out of the secret of my new weapon, it still won't help you! - Buggy shouted. - Anyone who dares to approach me, I will send to the forefathers with my "Maggi Bomb"!

- Hey guys, did I pull something out of him? And even by deception? - Luffy asked. - I think we were just talking, and he blurted it out to me, didn't he?

- Luffy-aniki, who exactly are you trying to fool here? - Yosaku asked.

- Okay, okay ... you have become boring, you used to be much funnier. But this still does not negate the main question.

- A question?

- Who will fight with him this time?

Zoro, who was sitting on the porch steps, silently got to his feet and pulled his katana out of its scabbard to be immediately stopped by Luffy:

- Zoro sit! I like red-nosed, ...

- WHOM YOU CALLED RED-NOSED ?!

- ... so you definitely won't fight with him ... Or rather, I won't let you go and kill him.

- Luffy-aniki, I will pass. - Johnny sighed - I have neither the mood nor the desire to fight with him.

- Me too, - Yosaku nodded. - We beat him so many times that I feel ashamed in front of myself. Maybe it's true, it's better to just kill him and be done, huh?

- No murders! Bignosed ...

- WHOM YOU CALLED BIGNOSED? !!

- …Is too funny to kill him.

- Then knock him out yourself - grumbled a displeased Zoro, flopping back onto the

stairs. - Besides, is there any point in fighting him?