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Voyage Chapter 9: Clownin' Around
🕑 Added 2025-05-18 16:14:57 +0000 UTC~Nami~
Hearing the sounds of explosions just like the first time Yuji had used his ability Nami knew it was her time, she darted through the alleys with the grace of a cat while avoiding routes that would lead to the sounds of shouting and anger as Buggy's men started swarming toward the sound of explosions. She did not know Yuji's odds but she wasn't a gambler, she was a thief.
She held onto her collapsible bo staff tightly in case she did encounter any pirates. But thankfully she encountered none, Yuji's assault had drawn any and all attention to his person allowing her to quickly aim towards her goal.
With nimble movements she easily scaled the buildings, she was called the cat burglar for a reason after all. She could see Buggy's base easily, and although the circus leader hadn't left, the people guarding his treasury certainly had.
Using her stealth skills she slipped into the treasure room before unfurling the large durable cloth sheet she had brought with her. Seeing the golden jewellery and stacks of Beri she smirked, her eyes shone a yellow light with pure unfettered greed.
"Hehee~ he was loaded. I should at least leave a thank you note to Yuji for helping me so far."
She loaded everything she found valuable onto the cloth before folding it into a bag and hauling it over her shoulder. Yes, it did weigh over several hundred kilograms but Nami was no wuss. If she wanted to maintain the thief lifestyle without dying some strength was required, both to be able to run with the weight of her spoils and to beat up the occasional pirate in self-defence when she had to.
With the sack of spoils over her shoulders, she started sprinting away to where Yuji had told her his ship would be. It would be a bit of a long trek but by the time Yuji and Buggy had finished fighting she would have set sail by then and gone a long way.
She smiled. With this much treasure coupled with the spoils in Yuji's ship, she should be able to buy her village back from Arlong.
"Sorry, Yuji. If only you weren't a pirate."
﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏𓊝﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏
~Yuji Liberio~
I did a little stretch as I caught my breath, using Ozone Baby so many times in a row was exhausting even with my enhanced reserves and energy regeneration speeds.
Slipping into an alleyway to not catch a bullet to the temple as I rolled my tickets I used the Silver Ability ticket I got from Cabbage.
Rolling Silver Ability Gacha...
An Uncommon Ability!
[Despair Aura II]
|Rarity: Uncommon| |Class: Thinker|
Allows you to emit an aura of despair that makes people feel a sense of unease and fear toward you, weaker-willed targets will be overcome with unbearable fear and panic.
It's awfully poetic that the first ability I get from the Buggy Pirates is one that specializes in intimidation and bluffing. Still, this wasn't a bad ability, I was not thirsting for raw power at the moment, I had that in troves with OB and Strength.
Despair Aura would give me an upper hand in negotiations and a massive advantage when I want to get people to surrender or stand down. It could also be used to extort people if I wanted to go that route. All in all, quite useful. A fine addition to my collection.
Speaking of Buggy, I should seek him out first. I don't want to bring his attention to me and potentially let him throw one of his Buggy Balls™ at my face. Intiative was important.
Those things can level city blocks, I do not even want to be in the same zip code as one of those, let alone anywhere near its line of fire.
That's why I will bring the fight to him. With a simple gesture, I summoned Nue by my side and got on its back as it flew me to the skies. But as I took the skies I heard a raspy voice shout.
"There he is! Shoot him down flashily!"
"Yes, Captain Buggy!"
Boom!
I turned my face to see Buggy on top of his building, dressed in his clown pirate outfit with his big red nose on top of his face covered in facepaint while his hair was tied into pigtails that escaped from either side of his captain's hat as plumes. And as he pointed at me I saw a short man taking control of a rather mightly looking canon next to him, aimed straight at me.
Remember what I said about buggy balls roughly 6 paragraphs earlier?
"Dive. Dive! Dive! DIVE!!!"
Nue hurriedly dove down towards the platform as fast as it could while avoiding the red cannonball cutting through the air toward us, thankfully, Nue was much faster at diving than a big ball of pain was at sailing through the air.
BOOOOOOMMMM!!!!!
I felt the blast go off behind me and the shockwave rattle my bones while also shaking my organs as if shaking an adolescent child. Still, I kept my eyes firmly on Buggy as Nue landed on the platform, Buggy gave me a smirk that actually looked oddly intimidating despite my preconception of the man.
"Hooh, so you are the cretin that has been messing up my men and stole my map and beat up my men!" He pointed an accusing at me with his raspy voice as I stood ready to blast him with Ozone Baby, but it wouldn't be easy. Unlike other people I fought, Buggy was well acquainted with devil fruits and wouldn't stand in the way of a shimmering zone.
"Silent treatment eh? Think you're the silent and strong type?"
Huh?
Oh shit, I was just zoning out.
Buggy gritted his teeth and grinned at me madly.
"Oh well, here is the deal. Unless the next words that come out of your mouth aren't "Lord Buggy! Please let me join your crew!". I'LL SLICE YOU TO RIBBONS!" To emphasize his point he pulled multiple knives out of his pants that he held between each finger while I was sweating a little bit.
Why was I sweating?
Because creating such a small pressure zone was a bit taxing.
"Let me give you my answer. Please listen to me carefully. I have a sore throat so I can't speak that high."
Buggy tilted his head and furrowed his brows.
"Ah, so that's why we're silent. Well then, what is it?"
"Pressure Point."
"Pressure what-!? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Crack!
I had to create the zones someplace I could see but he couldn't.
I chose under his pants.
So Buggy was hit with the equivalent of a fist with the weight of a school bus uppercutting balls and ass as he let out the most guttural scream I had ever heard. I had never heard a man be in so much pain. It was almost like I broke was his femur, if the femur was also the proof of his manhood.
"Nue."
"Kiieeeek!!!"
"Y-you! I'm gonna kill you-!"
Crash! Zap!
Buggy's legs shook like there was an earthquake while he clutched his manhood for his dear life, his teeth grit so hard I saw a slight crack as he stared at me like his mortal enemy, which to be fair, I probably was right now.
But before he could finish promising me a full course of pain he didn't see the human-sized divebombing lightning bird. Probably because of the indescribable ball pain. He only looked up just in time to catch a glimpse of Nue's mask before he was tackled through the roof of the building into the floor under coupled with the nasty sounds of electricity crackling.
I peered down the hole that Nue crashed Buggy through and caught sight of Buggy under the rubble, with only his tattered leg showing, and the only sign that he was alive was the fact that his leg spasmed violently from the electricity coursing through him. Nue was also next to him, a bit dazed and roughed up from divebombing man through a building.
"For a clown, you sure are easy to fool."
It was his lack of caution that allowed me to bust his balls after all. But as I saw response to my words by his leg twitching angrily I furrowed my eyebrows.
Fucking stupidly durable One Piece people. If I had taken even a third of that hit I would be soup across the wall.
But considering that Buggy could take multiple hits from Mr. Monkey "I punch through 500 tons of bedrock" D. Luffy it made sense.
Oh well, double it was.
"Wind Canon."
BOOOM!!!
"GUUEEEKHHH!!!"
And Buggy was sent another floor down, letting a noise akin to an animal being clotheslined as I hit him with another wind canon. I wasn't worried about him dying but damn was I hoping I wouldn't have to hit him with another canon.
But thankfully...
[Quest: Orange Town Tomfoolery] Complete!
Reward:
+1x Gold Ability Gacha Ticket
+1x Silver Item Gacha Ticket
+5,000,000 Berries
Finally, tickets. Come to Papa.
I turned my head up from the hole and looked at the terrified crewmate who tried to shoot me down from Nue. Dude looked just about ready to piss his pants.
Oh, wait.
Taking a closer look at the state of his pants revealed that he had, in fact, really pissed his pants.
"Ah ah, p-please don't explode my balls!!!!!!"
I raised an eyebrow before smirking.
"Sure, if you go and take your boss with you and scram from this island I'll leave your balls intact. Capitche?"
The terrified and piss-soaked man saluted with a god-fearing expression before running down the stairs, making me heave a sigh of relief.
Now that that was over and I didn't have to worry about anyone I could feed my gambling addiction some more.
Let's go gold and silver! Silver goes first of course.
Rolling Silver Item Gacha...
An Uncommon Item!
[Heros Bandages]
|Rarity: Uncommon|
A set of sentient bandages that automatically wrap around your wounds and injuries, the bandages are really good at stopping bleeding and stabilizing broken bones. With training, you can manipulate the bandages yourself too.
Eh, not bad, I wouldn't get to perform first aid on myself in the middle of combat anyway. Besides, I could hand it over to someone who is injured to help them stabilize.
Now then, Gold Ability.
Don't disappoint me.
[Cow/Bull Zoan]
|Rarity: Uncommon| |Class: Transformation, Changer|
Allows you to transform into a cow or a cow hybrid at will, boosting your physical abilities and augmenting your vitality and stamina. You also inherit the traits a cow possesses while in this form.
"Ahahaha!"
Now that was a sight to behold!
I didn't think the system would straight up give me a real Zoan but I am grateful nonetheless. Sure, statistically it's not good to roll Uncommon from Gold Gacha but Zoan's were worth the little sacrifice. Especially at this stage.
Wasn't this similar to that one guy? From Drum Kingdom? I don't remember his name but his fruit was pretty good.
The enhanced vitality and stamina will help me get stronger and it being an all-rounder makes it better than strength for most confrontations. I just wanted to know when I could use two abilities together and combine it with strength.
But that's for the future. For now, I better get out of here before Nami sails too far with my ship. Flier or not I don't want to dawdle for too long and try to catch the world's best navigator at sea.
"Nue."
"Kiek!"
"Let's bounce."
I hopped on Nue's back, standing up to not hinder his wings before he took off and I slotted in Gale to divert wind from my face. It didn't take me long to find my ship, around 500 meters away from the coast. She was certainly quick, wasn't she? However, I noticed that she was half naked now, wearing only her orange-striped underwear as her other clothes were hung up as she adjusted the sails.
Of course, she was taken by surprise when the fucked up bird Shikigami and I landed in front of her.
"Hiiieee!!!"
She shrieked and covered herself up as my feet touched the deck of the shi instinctively before she realized that it was me who landed in front of her. And then her face promptly went pale.
"Yo. Long time no see."
Nami's face paled even further.
"For real...?"
A/N: Yuji is a smooth criminal who handled these clowns with smoothness. Keep in mind, Yuji would have struggled hard if it came down to a real battle, Buggy is not a joke despite clowning around. But thankfully, Buggy is a sucker for performance and getting fooled. Which led him to getting folded. What did you guys think about the conclusion to Buggy's crew getting defeated?
Uh oh, it seems like Nami may have made a small miscalculation and ended up in the worst position possible. On the same ship with the guy she betrayed and his horse-sized lightning demon bird. She is going to have to really rack her head to get out of this situation.
Comments
BronzDeck
Actually, all abilities that affect mind aren't Master, only ones that make them act for you count as Master. Master category means minions, not mind control.
Drim
I'm picturing him turning into a cow and launching himself at his enemies with his wind powers lol.
Finn Ryan
I think despair aura would be master for changing peoples minds stranger for changing peoples perception or shaker for being a wide area effect rather than thinker which gets the user more information
