One Piece: Buggy the Clown Who Fell From Grace

The thread-mummy whimpered, bound by a pair of extremely pure sea stone shackles. As the clown approached, his three eyes, side by side, revealed obvious fear.

"But none of them worked for me."

It will only worsen my headaches and tinnitus.

Bucky had already stood inside the cage, his tone sounding like he was offering comfort.

Do you want to know what I did next?

He grabbed the mummy with one hand.

"I found the pharmacy myself and found the medicine."

"Because I discovered that the reason for the pain was simply that the medicine wasn't strong enough."

"So all you need to do is increase the dosage."

The fruit was stuffed directly into the mummy's mouth, and Bucky even held the mummy's chin to help it chew for a bit.

He then withdrew. The door to the Seastone laboratory could be opened from both the inside and outside, and he left half of his body outside.

He only believes in himself.

Yeah, sometimes even I can't trust myself.

The moment the door opened, Bucky floated out and then closed the door again.

There's no need to lock yourself inside.

He's a little sick, but he's not stupid.

By installing a few surveillance cameras, we can observe what's going on inside.

The monitoring screen was right outside the laboratory, and Caesar was already observing.

"Bloodline factors...soul...and wishes...what power truly shapes a Devil Fruit?"

"I really want to dissect it and see."

The mad scientist was just as insane as Bucky.

His eyes were fixed on the laboratory.

That mummy that suddenly became unusually quiet.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 212 The Boundary Between the Isolated Island and the Sea

"Is there no response, or is there a problem with the surveillance system?"

On the screen, the thread mummy that had been fed a fruit remained in its original posture, as if its entire body had been paused, without making any movement.

Caesar also noted down this unchanging time, muttering a few words to himself.

He remembered that the Joker had a strong reaction back then, especially when the demon appeared.

Time passed again.

After about two hours, there were still no changes on the thread mummy, but a little bit of static appeared on the monitor.

The snowflakes spread very quickly.

"The surveillance camera... no, that's not right. The surveillance camera was specially modified by me for the development of poison gas. It won't have any problems even in the harshest environment."

Caesar pressed his eyes against the screen, meticulously observing every subtle change in the remaining image.

It wasn't just Bucky's threat; Caesar felt that even Vegapunk couldn't do such research—during the MADS era, they had also messed with many ability users in order to study lineage factors.

There have been many studies on the possibility that a Devil Fruit user might explode and die after consuming multiple Devil Fruits.

But none of them can compare to the two samples in front of us.

One is the rare Mythical Zoan type Yamata no Orochi, possessing multiple life attributes; the other is a user who has developed their Devil Fruit to the awakened level and also partially possesses a second Devil Fruit.

Such experimental subjects were something that even the World Government couldn't provide, let alone their small group at the time.

We cherish this opportunity just as much.

After staring at it for a while, Caesar suddenly remembered something and hurriedly pulled up a data point.

"Temperature, it really is a temperature problem!"

"The temperature of the surveillance camera suddenly dropped to an extreme low, and even the insulation layer couldn't protect it!"

"But those three fruits have absolutely nothing to do with the concept of freezing!"

Once Caesar got into character, he was no different from a mad scientist, and even looked a bit more insane due to his makeup and costume.

He tilted his head and saw the clown's lips curl into a smile.

"The soul, the change is in the soul."

This is not hard to guess.

Caesar relied on his own experience, while Buggy made the connection through the Yomi Yomi no Mi (Revive-Revive Fruit).

If the change is in the soul...

Through his own development, the ability to shatter into pieces had long ago reached the level of the soul…

Bucky thought for only a few seconds before instructing Caesar, "Make a note of this, I'll go take a look."

He has always been a person with strong execution skills.

Since the changes inside cannot be observed by the monitor alone, let's do it ourselves.

Of course, the most important thing is that Bucky thinks this should be interesting, and he has some ideas he plans to try.

The moment the stone gate of the sea tower opened.

A piercing, soul-stirring howl arose in response.

The thread mummy suddenly took a step, seemingly wanting to escape the seastone's embrace through the door.

But in the blink of an eye, they were frightened back by the aura that amplified the effect on demons.

Bucky floated in through a doorway that was about two people wide.

The jet-black lines pierced through the body, and the piercing howl became a soft sob in the face of the aura that buried the two demons.

Those criminals who habitually kill always have a terrifying aura when they glare.

Bucky is skilled at killing demons, and his aura is especially effective against them.

They could smell the demon's utter despair and wailing.

In this respect, it is much more effective than Conqueror's Haki.

"I thought it wouldn't involve me, since it was just an experiment."

Bucky smiled and closed the stone door of the sea tower again. The originally bright fluorescent lights had dimmed considerably at some point.

It felt like ten years had passed in an instant, and the glass cover was covered with a thick layer of dust.

To be precise, it's like frost.

The mummy's whimpering stopped, and its form returned to its previous static state.

"We should still have some time."

Bucky raised his wrist, glanced at the non-existent watch, and grinned.

Then another hand floated out and landed on the mummy.

The original sea stone room expanded infinitely the moment it came into contact with the stone, and the stone walls were swallowed up by boundless darkness. In the world of the soul, there is no concept of boundaries.

The thread mummy in front of Bucky also swelled up in the blink of an eye, with countless white lines burning like tangible, boundless flames, and a vertical eye wrapped in the middle of the white lines.

The white lines spread out like ocean waves, but these waves have a source.

The appearance of a person.

Doflamingo's body looked as if it had been vertically cut in half, front and back. The back half was covered with countless white threads intertwined, with the ends of the threads clinging tightly to his organs.

The skin on the front half of the body has also changed, with fine scales emerging from the pores, and large diamond-shaped spots of purplish-gray and black arranged at equal intervals.

Its eyes bulged, and the snake's head and tail emerged.

Snake-Snake Fruit - Snake Form.

This is the Devil Fruit that Buggy stuffed in. It wasn't Orochi's personal stash, but rather something he took from Onigashima. Kaido has a strange collecting obsession with Zoan-type Devil Fruits.

As the three elements overlapped and intertwined, a chilling aura emanated from them, as if they had touched the gates of the underworld.

Bucky reached out and touched the floor.

It has a tactile feel similar to that of a real laboratory and an appearance similar to seastone, but it lacks any of those repulsive characteristics.

The whole world felt both familiar and strange.

To put it more vividly, he thought that the invaded mental world was like standing on a deserted island, with a cluster of mental light and a cognitive axis.

But now he felt as if he were standing on the dividing line between the sea and the island, with the surging seawater carrying a bone-chilling cold.

"The soul, or the underworld?"

This concept does indeed exist in Devil Fruits.

Examples of abilities like Brook's Revive-Revive Fruit, Big Mom's Soul-Soul Fruit, and Perona's Spirit-Soul Fruit all touch upon this aspect.

"clown!"

Doflamingo's consciousness was almost completely extinguished, but the only thing he remembered was his hatred for the Joker.

Especially when the two sides are so close together.

The sudden surge of consciousness even caused the snake to retract its head and tail, then it turned around, revealing two bright red eyes.

White waves, churning with flames, swarmed toward Bucky like hands clasped together.

The four consciousnesses seem to have reached some kind of consensus.

Eliminate the fifth intruder first.

This body can no longer hold any more.