I'm in One Piece, and I'm Luffy's childhood friend.

Bai Yun spread his hands and shook his head. "Let's make this clear first, I'm not discriminating against you, I just genuinely hate big red noses."

Bucky's eyes widened, his emotions oscillating between anger and panic.

As Bai Yun finished speaking, a loud bang rang out, and the shell was fired, carrying a wave of heat as it flew towards Bucky and his men.

"Get down on your feet!!"

In the end, panic overcame anger, and Bucky shouted and lay down first.

The shell exploded, producing thick smoke, and one shot rendered two-thirds of the Buggy Pirates incapable of fighting.

Amidst the black smoke, Bucky slowly stood up, his panic gone, replaced only by anger.

"kill him!!!"

Bucky shouted, his voice becoming shrill.

Kabachi was the first to approach, quickly getting closer on his unicycle.

The light of the sword and the shadow of the sword.

In an instant, Kabachi appeared behind Bai Yun, who was then cut in half at the waist and fell to the ground.

"Hip-hop...no!"

Bucky was about to laugh, thinking it was some big shot, but it turned out to be nothing special. But before he could even laugh twice, he realized something was wrong. Cut in half at the waist, there wasn't a drop of blood? Impossible? This was just like his own ability to split into pieces?

"Kabachi!"

Bucky shouted.

Kabachi turned his head in perfect unison and spewed a burst of flames from his mouth.

Chapter 43 Limitations of Abilities

Bai Yun's sudden betrayal infuriated Pakistan.

I didn't expect this thing to be so weak. It was cut in half, but it didn't lose any blood. Is that normal?

"Kabachi!"

Bucky shouted.

Kabachi turned his head in perfect unison, and a burst of flame shot out from his mouth.

But just as he spat it out, a hand holding a long silver stick aimed at his chin and smashed it down from below.

Kabachi's flames shot upwards.

Grabbing the long stick, taking advantage of Kabachi's stunned state after the blow, he pressed his advantage, wielding it rapidly and striking Kabachi's chest several times in succession, forcing him to retreat continuously.

Finally, he swung the stick in a wide arc, striking Kabachi's left cheek from left to right, instantly knocking him out and sending him flying onto the roof of the tavern on the right side.

Everything happened so suddenly. It only took Bai Yun a few seconds to knock Kabachi onto the roof on the right. It was so fast that no one could react and could only watch helplessly.

Or rather, they were dumbfounded, wondering why Bai Yun had the same ability to tear things apart as Bucky.

Bucky and his gang were filled with this question.

“How…how is this possible?” Bucky murmured.

Watching Bai Yun separate his upper and lower body and control his hands to wield the stick in the air, this was completely his ability to split into four pieces!

How can this be! !

"How...how do you possess my abilities?"

Bucky couldn't help but question him.

Bai Yun's lips curled up slightly. "Want to know? I won't tell you."

Bucky was stunned for a moment, then his expression turned extremely ferocious with anger.

"asshole!"

"Who do you think I am?! I'm Bucky the Clown!"

"Fragmentation Cannon!!"

Bucky roared in anger, raised both hands, his left hand gripping the top of his right arm, his right hand holding a dagger between his fingertips, and fired it like a cannonball, aiming the tip of the knife at Bai Yun!

"Ah."

Bai Yun let out a shout, showing no panic or hesitation. He didn't dodge, but instead used his long stick to strike Bucky's hand back with his hand in mid-air.

"Scrapped in pieces - a pancake!"

Bucky stabilized his hand that had been knocked away in mid-air, and his lower body separated directly, with blades emerging from his toes. He spun around like a frisbee and smashed towards Bai Yun.

Bai Yun then took a step and jumped to dodge Bucky's lower body, controlling his other hand to grab the long stick, which then split in two.

It didn't turn into a knife; it remained a stick.

Using a knife to slice a power user's body into pieces is simply a joke.

Buggy spun back down, and Bai Yun didn't even flinch, letting Buggy cut him through once again, but this was nothing to him, given his ability to replicate the Chop-Chop Fruit.

He controlled both hands, gripped the stick, and forcefully smashed it down on Bucky.

Bucky immediately raised his hands and used the dagger between his fingers to block the stick.

Bai Yun's lower body returned to join Bucky's upper body, and Bai Yun's lower body followed closely behind. After Bucky's upper and lower bodies were pressed together, he kicked Bucky directly in the abdomen. With a bang, Bucky's eyes bulged out and his mouth opened wide, and he was instantly forced back.

Bucky knocked over a group of tables and chairs, fell to the ground, struggled several times, got up again, and looked extremely disheveled.

"Cough cough!"

Bucky coughed twice, a trickle of blood hanging from the corner of his mouth, and sweat pouring down his forehead.

He now realized that this junior who knew Shanks was no ordinary person! At the very least, he couldn't beat him.

Damn Shanks!

(At this moment, Shanks, who was sailing on the high seas, suddenly sneezed.)

Shanks: A cold? No way! Could someone be thinking of me? Hahahaha.

"Hahaha, Bai Yun."

"I think we've misunderstood something, haven't we?"

"You know Shanks, I know Shanks, why can't we sit down and talk it over instead of fighting?"

Upon hearing this, Bai Yun controlled his lower body and hands to return to his side.

"good chance!"

Bucky was waiting for this moment when Bai Yun was careless.

"Special-made mini-Pakistan shell!!"

Bucky's lower body flew out, and from the mechanism under his feet, a small Bucky shell flew out. Although it was only the size of a marble, its power was several times greater than that of a regular one.

"This is what I've been waiting for!"

Bai Yun instantly retracted his lower body and hands, and the moment his body recovered, a small Pakistani shell struck Bai Yun in the chest.

Bucky smiled, as if to say, "Let's see if you die," but his expression changed in an instant, leaving him dumbfounded.

The bullet hit Bai Yun in the chest but did not explode. Instead, Bai Yun's chest caved in, deflecting the bullet back.

This is the power of the Gum-Gum Fruit.

Through this experience, Bai Yun also discovered that his ability had a limitation: although he could retain the replicated ability, he could not use two Devil Fruit abilities at once.

For example, just now, when he wanted to use Luffy's Gum-Gum Fruit ability, he had to bring back the body that had been split off by the Chop-Chop Fruit ability before he could use it.

Meanwhile, Bucky and his henchmen on the other side were engulfed in intense flames, their expressions filled with astonishment.

The massive explosion sheared off half of the tavern's roof, and more than a dozen houses behind it collapsed—a true physical collapse.

When the smoke cleared, the Buggy Pirates were all lying on the ground, completely incapacitated.

Chapter 44 Nami (partially) joins

"That's it!"

Luffy and his three companions arrived at the rooftop of the tavern.

They were shocked by the fact that half of the roof had been blown off and the house had subsequently collapsed.

Bai Yun explained to him that this was caused by his solo battle against the Buggy Pirates, and based on the current situation, he should have won.

........

"Hahahaha, I knew it! Bai Yun, you would never betray us! And, well done! Hahaha!"

Luffy, hands on his hips, smiled and praised Bai Yun.

"Tsk, I thought we could have a fight. If this keeps up, the knife will rust."

"How about we have a fight, Bai Yun? Let me see what you're made of?"

Zoro took his hands off the hilt of his sword, feeling a little regretful. He had thought he could have a fight to warm up, but it turned out that Bai Yun had taken them all.

"Hahaha, I can't beat you."

"I'll just take this 'experience pack' for now. I'm too lazy to do anything if you guys ask me to fight later."

Bai Yun replied with a smile, saying that if he had come with them, he wouldn't have bothered to lift a finger.

Meanwhile, Nami and the mayor were still standing behind Bai Yun, amidst a scene of a bunch of Buggy Pirates lying on the ground.

Nami was thinking about how Bai Yun had single-handedly defeated the Buggy Pirates! What kind of strength was that?

Bai Yun said: This is nothing.

The mayor was no less surprised than Nami; the pirates who had occupied their town for so long had been dealt with just like that.

He had hoped to fight these pirates to the death for a glimmer of hope, but now he was being told the matter was already resolved. It was truly...

"Thank you so much!!"

With tears in his eyes, the town mayor bowed to Bai Yun, thanking him for protecting the town.

"It was nothing, Mayor, you didn't need to go to such lengths."

"Now you can go and call the townspeople back."