43 Chapter 43

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"Join my pirate crew." That's what the boy had said.

The surrounding pirates looked at Luffy as if he gained a second head.

Buggy wasn't even angry anymore, he just laughed. "Sorry but I don't want you in my crew, flashy bastard."

"No, I mean, leave your crew and join mine," Luffy said, ignoring the sarcasm, and the ropes that tied him. "You can be someone strong if you put your mind into it…"

Of course, just looking at an aura one couldn't guess someone's potential, some people have weak aura till they awaken their haki.

Still strong-willed people had a type of aura that shone brightly to Observation Haki users. But being strong-willed doesn't mean they were actually strong.

But Buggy's aura seemed to be strong, he was sure he would be able to handle Luffy's full brust of Conquer's haki. And that saying something. But then again he was a former member of Roger's crew, so he might have just gotten used to it. And his impressive aura was because of that.

Buggy almost got a flashback from a certain redhead wearing a straw hat saying something similar. Wait… that hat. It couldn't be.

"What are you guys waiting for…" Buggy almost turned hostile. "Get that flashy bastard!"

"Okay then… Nami get on the ground, this is foking shoot out." Luffy ripped away from his restraints as the pirates poured around him to attack.

But the moment the orange-headed girl dived under, Luffy made his hands mimic a handgun, and started shooting. "Taste my foking railguns lads."

*Bang *bang *bang *bang *bang *bang *bang *bang *bang *bang *bang

A second later every one of the pirates got shot down with some coming out of there bodies as if they were shot by a bullet. There were no bleeding, but Luffy made sure to break some bones and give some lasting damages.

There might be internal bleeding… but blood was supposed to internal anyway.

Buggy and Nami looked and widened their eyes comically, theri jaws hit the floor in unison.

Luffy brought his hands up which had some coming out of his index and middle finger, as if they were actual guns. And Luffy breathed in the smoke, blowing it out of his mouth. "Uh, I almost want to touch myself."

Both Nami and Buggy were still wide-eyed and jaws dropped to make any comment about it.

"So… now do you want to join my crew?"

Buggy quickly came out of his stupor. "Never!" And he shot toward Luffy with six small blades in his hand.

Luffy also grabbed his naginata and swung it. Buggy smirked internally as he knew that his devil fruit powers would be able to avoid the sharp attack. But what he didn't expect was to be hit by the side of the blade, making him blast away half screaming across the island.

"That's what I call a home run," Luffy said as he planted Horn's Edge into the ground as he put one arm over his eyes to look at his shot.

Nami again was bewildered at the impressive feats of strength. Those muscles weren't for show after all. Luffy just shot Buggy the pirate away like a freaking baseball.

"Oh, when did you guys come here?" Luffy asked, acting ignorant. Sparky rolled his eyes. The straw hat boy was showing off again.

Coby, Zoro, and Kuina saw what Luffy did. The sword users actually wanted to help Luffy when they saw him in danger, but the monkey stopped them. And they saw how quickly he dealt with all of them.

"This might be e-even faster than Alvida's crew," Coby said sweating a bit, okay, that might be because of the new mask that he was wearing. But he actually thought Luffy was in danger for a moment, even he was willing to join the fight. But it seemed that he forgot how overpowering Luffy was.

Nami turned to the voice seeing the rest of the crew and Luffy laughed.

"Anyway, guys come aboard, there's free food here." Luffy said. And he started pulling out the foods that the buggy pirates were eating. Only Sparky seemed to joined in, later on, the others were still processing it.

Zoro was the first one to break out of the stunned expression. He had smirked in a challenging way.

"Hey, fight me today," Zoro said. Now he got why Luffy wanted to fight both of them at once, fighting him together might just give him a chance of beating him. But he still wanted to go against him alone And the green-haired swordsman was just itching for a fight.

He already took out three of his swords, and put one of them in his mouth. He was about to put his bandana over his head…

"So he does use three swords at once," Coby muttered to himself as he took a few steps back, in case a fight breaks out.

"Nope," Luffy answered, but before Zoro could speak, Luffy continued. "I want you to fight you at your fullest. I mean that isn't a condition, but I want some challenge at least… Your recovery is great, so let's fight tomorrow or the day after…"

Zoro wasn't that patient, but Kuina stopped him by putting a hand in front of him. "Yes, let's do what he says for now."

"You just say that because you already had your good share of the fight against Captain Morgan."

Kuina rolled her eyes, "Oh, please the man wasn't even a challenge. But this isn't the time to fight…" she pointed it at a certain direction.

From where townspeople came out and were looking at Luffy like a savior. They had their town taken from them by Buggy, but all of them came prepared today to fight, but it seemed that straw hat-wearing boy had already dealt with them.

Of course, no one noticed that a certain bird that was dressed like a mailman snapping pictures of Luffy and the crew.