One Piece: Buggy the Clown from Arkham

Artificial devil fruit…

Rene recognized this thing. Pirates from outside often talked about this devil fruit with polka dots.

It has spread all over the underground world.

Some people even found out that the Beast Pirates have relied on this fruit to establish a legion of gifters consisting of more than 300 ability users.

"Smile and laugh wildly, which one do you want to choose?"

Baki weighed the fruit in his hand with an interesting look in his eyes.

"Well, smile means that after you eat it, there is a 50% chance that you will become a fool who only smiles, just like this... hehe"

He smiled with the corners of his mouth raised.

"As for laugh wildly, you should understand."

"But remember to do me a favor."

"Believe me, no one can eat my food for free."

"Power..."

Why laugh wildly?

Because of power.

Only by becoming an ability user, even if you are the most ordinary animal ability user, you are not a piece of meat on the chopping board that can be slaughtered at will.

Rene felt his mouth dry.

His heart was pounding, as if it was about to jump out.

I just went to the dance hall to have some fun because I was happy because the factory was bombed.

I didn't expect such an opportunity!

"You know, I may have been married and may have had children."

He stared, his hands at a loss.

"But I don't remember their existence at all. I don't even know why I have to work all the time. They can't give me anything!"

"There are only two toy dolls, and sometimes they come into my house..."

The Don Quixote family is a mafia family composed of criminals and orphans.

This means that they will only keep squeezing the value of the people.

Maybe when Ming Ge opened the factory, he said that he would give them food and clothing, but he went through the hands of family cadres and factory foremen.

For Rene, it became constant labor and a weak and hungry body.

When they can't work anymore, they will be transferred to the family's slave trade association or bullfighting arena to squeeze out the last bit of value.

The closed loop was successfully achieved.

So there is a very interesting phenomenon in the kingdom. During the period when the country is no longer poor and pirates dare not invade, the population is constantly decreasing.

Under the King's Highlands, many empty houses and toy dolls appeared.

"So?"

Buggy smiled.

He was not surprised by this situation, but he did not have any sympathy.

Bet on your reason and help him.

This is the greatest kindness shown by the Joker.

Unless the other party says that he will stick to the principle of not killing and execute all criminals in the town.

Then Buggy can consider finding a bat fruit for the other party.

"So, I can give up my life!"

Renee's hands trembled, but he held the fruit with a firm face.

The fruit was held in the palm of his hands.

Take extra care.

This is his chance to change his fate.

It may also be the only time!

The next moment, Renee ate the fruit fiercely like a starving ghost, and even refused to let go of the core.

The sound of heartbeat... is very clear!

He closed his eyes, and his hands were covered with cold sweat.

Quietly waiting for the change to come...

After a while.

"How does it taste?"

Renee opened his eyes, and the Joker's teasing expression was still in front of him.

"Like an apple."

He answered honestly.

Not sure what he was like.

"Right!"

The clown clapped his hands, "It's just a dyed apple. Don't worry, I used edible coloring."

"Well, as long as it's not excessive, it will be fine."

"..."

The dancer on the stage staggered and almost fell.

"Do you like my joke?"

The clown tilted his head and grinned.

He liked Renee's fearless look just now.

Rene felt a sense of chest tightness and shortness of breath.

He even wanted to scold the other party.

However, considering the other party's ability to control the dancer just now, he still endured it and showed a smile that was uglier than crying.

A proper dance hall is not something that any dancer can open.

Pirates don't care whether you are decent or not.

"I really don't have such good luck, but... thank you for the fruit."

"Why don't you choose again."

Bucky had no interest in dealing with his forced politeness. He stretched his waist and leaned back, and a ball of soft snow caught him.

The seats in the dance hall were all simple round wooden stools.

"One could be a surprise, and the other could be a nightmare."

He took out two more fruits in his hand.

This time they were two ordinary-looking fruits.

"Try it, anyway, it won't hurt anything."

Rene wanted to refuse, such a teasing was too hurtful to his self-esteem, especially after he was so open-hearted.

But after hearing what Bucky said, he changed his mind again.

It won't hurt anything anyway.

The same is true for his own life.

Eat a sweet fruit, and then continue to be squeezed dry by the four words Don Quixote.

Or...really change!

Damn, why am I so cheap!

I always think there will be a chance to favor myself!

Rene wanted to slap himself, but looking at the fruit in front of him, he didn't hesitate for a moment, and directly grabbed the fruit on the left hand and swallowed it whole.

The taste was pungent, hard and sour.

But there was a kind of magic that froze Rene's body. Something... was replacing him!

"What a pity."

Baki shook his head and peeled off the peel of the fruit on his right hand, revealing the conspicuous curled pattern of the devil fruit.

He had some of this stuff in stock.

If the other party was lucky, he wouldn't mind playing with it.

By the way, experiment with the process of regeneration of devil fruits after the death of the ability user.

"Do you want to try it?"

He said to the two women still standing on the field.

Rene had curled up on the ground, holding his head and twitching constantly.

The dancer and the soft snowball both took a step back at the same time.

The dancer knew the common sense that he couldn't eat two fruits.

Monet felt that he didn't have the ability like Buggy to conquer and replace a devil.

The dance ended.

The neon lights went out one by one.

Violet changed into a light outfit and quickly moved between the red pottery top and the white lime wall.

She wanted to inform the family of the news that the clown appeared in the country.

As for the pile of conditions proposed by the clown, the dancer didn't intend to mention it at all, which would only make Mingge's eyes focus on his father again.

This is not a good thing.

Especially the other party's words, that if the mission fails, a hand will be given away, it's too scary!

As long as Ming Ge knows the existence of the clown, the dispute will focus on the two of them, and has nothing to do with me and my father.

There is even a chance to... achieve my revenge!

Violet's mind is constantly organizing words.

With the identity of a family killer, she passed through the guards of the cadres, climbed the King's Highland, and entered the gate of the palace.

The back hall of the palace.

Violet met the current ruler of this country, Doflamingo, very smoothly.

This guy stepped on the moccasins and looked into the distance in front of the blue arc window. A factory below was still billowing black smoke.

The fighting group led by Diamante and the special forces Pica Army rushed around to put out fires.

"I guess that guy showed up."

Ming Ge looked at the chaos outside and rubbed his hands.

"Yes."

Violet nodded silently. Before she knew the hatred between Ming Ge and the clown, she thought it was better to say less.

"Interesting, did he find you?"

"The Joker said that a flying ship full of explosives will be loaded to the King's Highlands at dawn."

Violet did not try to deceive, she just told part of the truth.

"You don't seem to be calm."

Ming Ge raised the corner of his mouth, and his eyes under the sunglasses revealed a cruelty.

"I saw Monet, she was with the Joker."

Crack.

Ming Ge kicked the floor with his toes, and the stone protruded.

"Baaaaaaaaaaaa-"

His laughter was ferocious.

"The Joker!"

"You really didn't disappoint me."

"You instigated another family member to rebel, and you also added fuel to the fire of the family."

"I haven't seen such a lively scene for a long time."

Violet lowered her head and didn't dare to interrupt.

As a marginal person and captive of the family, she survived by saying less and doing more.

"But I don't think that what he wants you to convey is that simple. There must be something more interesting that you haven't said."

Violet's elbow joint was suddenly lifted upside down, and several thin wires penetrated her body.

"No... no more!"

The dancer's pupils shrank sharply, and fear arose in her heart.

Doflamingo.

Although his bounty was only 340 million Baileys, it was ten years ago. After he became a Shichibukai, the bounty was also cancelled.

But Violet knew better that in these ten years, this demon had destroyed no less than eight towns with his own hands, and the lives taken by the white thin wires had exceeded ten thousand.

In the dancer's perception, it was even more terrifying than the clown.

"Ah——"

Violet roared in pain.

The increasingly tightened thin wires made her skin ooze bright red blood.

She was suddenly lifted upside down by the thin wires.

"Have you seen a wire saw..."

Mingge's eyes were filled with extremely terrifying hostility.

He was unhappy.

Unhappy about another family member's betrayal, unhappy about the clown's survival, unhappy about the pirates outside who completely ignored his reputation, unhappy about the evasive look of the woman in front of him.

"It should be your honor to be my family."

"I have always cherished these two words."

His fingers flicked twice, and the thin line pulled the dancer upside down in front of Mingge.

"Go ahead, tell me everything that happened after you met the clown, we still have a lot of time."

The dancer's disguise was actually very good.

But she overlooked one thing.

Observation Haki can sense emotions.

Her inner panic was not covered in front of Mingge.

Violet could only tell the whole story.

Her throat became more and more hoarse, and it seemed that something was about to jump out of her throat.

The neck... was the place where the clown pinched.

Mingge wiped it before her.

At the dancer's neck, a red light suddenly flashed twice.

Then, a muffled sound suddenly came from the towering palace!

The clown hid a well-hidden bomb on the dancer's neck.

It even had sound effects.

After the muffled sound, the clown's cheerful laughter was heard.

"Huh!"

"It seems I guessed right!"

On the red terracotta roof, Buggy looked up.

After seeing the thick smoke from the palace, he whistled happily.

He guessed that the dancer would go to Brother Ming first, not his father.

"Hmm, Smile Bomb, I like that idea."

The palace suddenly became noisy.

In addition to the fighting group and the special agent force Pika Army, the family also has a Torrebol Army, which is dedicated to guarding the palace.

A special ability team that protects Sugar.

"Young Master, what happened!?"

"Why did the palace explode?"

"Tsk..." Brother Ming walked out of the dust with a sinister smile on his face and a few gravels in his hand, "Someone is just saying hello to me."

The explosion was loud, but not very harmful.

For Doflamingo, it was extremely humiliating.

The veins on his forehead were extremely clear.

"Notify me."

"Block the port from now on and don't let a single ship leave."

"But... there are still many pirates in the port now. Even the Shichibukai came to join in the fun and blocked it rashly..."

The men looked confused.

"Just do it."

He waved his hand unceremoniously.

"in addition…"

There was still a lot of dust on Brother Ming's face, and his right eye was broken into a hole in his pink cat-eye sunglasses, which was accompanied by a sinister smile.

The family leaders soon understood.

The young master's anger was very high at this time.

"Tell all the major forces that the clown is in this country right now. If he wants the smile factory and the three billion reward, use his head in exchange."

"Otherwise, even if I blow up this factory, I won't give them anything."

The Joker used the artificial Devil Fruit and the popularity of the Smile Factory to make Dressrosa the target of public criticism, creating constant chaos in his territory.

Brother Ming can also do the other way around.

Use the coveted factory as a reward.

The clown's head was even higher in his mind than the factory he had worked so hard to build.

"Young... Young Master..."

The subordinates were obviously particularly surprised by Ming Ge's determination.

In their opinion, the clown did not conflict with the family's business, and even contributed to the family's business.

However, whether it is the clown's criminal imitation or the proposal of the fruit awakening theory, the chaos in this world has been further aggravated.

They even had to buy slaves from other places to work.

But when faced with Brother Ming's terrifying eyes, he could only suppress his doubts.

They are not top cadres.

After Brother Ming finished explaining, he walked out of the palace.

He is going to find King Liku.

Although I don’t know why the clown specifically asked the other party to come to the King’s Heights before dawn, but since it was mentioned...

Brother Ming plans to take advantage of it first.

If you fail the mission, you will be given a hand. This plan is really good.

…

…

When Rene opened his eyes again.

There was only darkness in front of him.

He stretched out his hand, and there was shiny black fur on his arm.

Various smells compete to enter the nasal cavity.

The pungent aroma of the dancers, the wet and salty smell left by the pirates, the stench left by the explosion before sunset...

Also, the smell of dynamite.

The clown didn't say what he wanted to do for him, but he left a few bombs for himself...

Lei felt something in his heart, and stood up in the form of a black-skinned hound. There was no silly smile on his lips, and he could still feel his own presence.

strength…

He squeezed it with his palm and felt an unprecedented power burst out of his body, and his body became extremely flexible.

This feeling…

Rene couldn't help but grin, laughing maniacally.