One Piece: Buggy the Clown Who Fell From Grace

"I've never been up there either." Shanks shook his head, not in a hurry to confirm his companion's words.

Instead, they noticed the obvious traces left in the middle of the island.

There used to be something here...

"Bucky?"

"This is... Im?"

"Isn't she supposed to be a three-eyed beauty? How come she's a goat?"

Shanks had never seen Im's face, but the Joker spoke of it so confidently in the news that he believed him.

But reality is quite different.

Shanks didn't pay much attention to this matter, but instead questioned Im: "You even want to destroy the truth here? Is that past that frightens you so much?"

This was the second time Im had heard another person describe His fear.

The spiritual world ignited like a fire.

He turned his head. "Is this the helper you found?"

"If I were to die because of you, it would probably make you feel ashamed and regretful."

No, absolutely not!

Bucky nodded repeatedly, fully acknowledging Lord Im's insightful observations.

The three groups each occupied a different location.

Kaido laughed, Shanks was solemn, Im was disdainful, and he paid more attention to the clown's reaction.

What Kaido cares about is taking everything from Im.

"King of the World..."

"Let me take over!"

Without needing any warning, Kaido's fighting spirit was already unleashed, and he stomped his feet hard on the coral reef.

The Eight Precepts dragged out a purple-white lightning bolt.

He started with a Thunderous Eight Trigrams move.

"You should just be a three-eyed witch!"

thump—

The echo of a heartbeat drowned out the roar of lightning, and time seemed to stagnate as if it had sunk into a quagmire.

A goat's hoof is placed on the eight precepts.

I gave it a push.

The spiked hammer almost smashed into Kaido himself!

He pressed his hands against the Eight Precepts and retreated several steps, but Im was one step ahead of him and arrived behind Kaido, kicking him in the back with his two front hooves.

cough!

Kaido immediately coughed up a mouthful of blood.

Jhin rushed out to catch his older brother, while Sandman quickly followed, his desert greatsword piercing through the coral reef and thrusting towards Im.

"Phew... I was careless. This guy's strength and speed are terrifying."

Kaido, being thick-skinned and tough, quickly recovered after adjusting his breathing.

Then I saw the clown give me a disdainful look.

Crocodile could hold his own against Im for a couple of moves, but you were taken down in one?

Too weak...

Buggy didn't say a word, but Kaido understood everything he meant.

"As long as you're better than some guy who's hanging there."

He grunted twice, clutching the Eight Precepts tightly in his hand.

Nothing can ignite a pirate's fighting spirit more than pain.

If I had to name one, it would be gold.

A surge of fighting spirit once again filled Kaido's heart.

Kill Im, seize the gold!

"Goat demoness!"

"Let me see what kind of king you are!"

There should be one or two more chapters before it wraps up!

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 285 A Companion You Can Entrust Your Back To

"Desert sunflower!"

Crocodile played very cautiously.

After creating a quicksand formation under his feet, he quickly transformed it into a swirling mass of sand, occasionally turning back to create a desert greatsword on the ground.

He was quite certain that he didn't have Kaido's physique; even that monster vomited blood after being kicked by the Goat Monster.

If I were to get hit by it, I'm afraid it would create a hole right there.

Im's response was simple and blunt.

With a sweeping and pushing motion of his goat hooves, the desert greatsword looked like a child's toy to him.

However, the quicksand beneath his feet somewhat restricted his movement.

This resulted in a situation where Im and Crocodile were evenly matched.

Not to mention the Joker's mutterings, Shanks' gaze towards Crocodile became much more serious.

However, while the desert brings aridity, this place is located beneath ocean currents and whirlpools, where moisture is abundant. The quicksand he created could not trap Im for long.

Im seemed to be intentionally letting Old Sha move around freely.

It lifted its hooves slightly, clearly disgusted by the quicksand.

Crocodile, being a seasoned pirate, naturally wouldn't let such an opportunity slip by, and landed on the ground like a wisp of sand.

Just as he pressed his palm to the ground, preparing to unleash the Desert Greatsword again, the goat monster that had been frolicking in the quicksand vanished without a trace.

In the blink of an eye, Im was on top of Old Shah's head.

His ashen face was stiff, but his eyes unexpectedly held a hint of a smile.

He thinks it's fun?

Old Sha had seen that look in the Joker's eyes before, and he immediately understood. But thinking is one thing, and physical reaction is another.

The goat's hoof was pressed down from a distance.

A burst of pitch-black energy, similar to Armament Haki, suddenly erupted, completely engulfing Crocodile.

A deafening roar filled his ears, and his body was instantly covered in scorch marks, as if he had been struck by a fiery explosion.

He finally understood the true value of an attack that could make Kaido cough up blood.

Luckily, I wasn't fighting this monster alone...

Old Sha's eyes reflected many purple and white lightning bolts, and a wild figure holding a spiked hammer high above his head.

"The Three Worlds Descend - Naraku!"

The purple lightning, pushed to its limit, revealed a terrifying black and red hue, coiling around the Eight Precepts. As it fell in an instant, the lightning roared incessantly.

It landed squarely on Im's head.

After all the noise subsided, Im remained standing in place. His three-meter-tall, slender figure looked like a bamboo pole compared to Kaido's monstrous physique.

The bamboo pole remained in place, and the ground suddenly sank by a meter, with water droplets seeping out of the cracks.

Click—

The cracks on Im's dark gray face suddenly widened.

Time is His greatest enemy, and Kaido has joined forces with this enemy.

In the mental world, Bucky could see that the mental world, which was originally just a warm red, suddenly burst into an extremely intense color after a brief pause.

Such intense emotional color is extremely rare for an old monster who has lived for at least eight hundred years.

The intense surge of emotions also means a sharp slowing down of the closure of one's mental world.

Bucky sank in.

In his view, the mental world is mainly composed of a cognitive axis like film tape and emotional clusters of different colors.

And what he first came into contact with this spiritual world was this cognitive long axis.

A movie that's been playing for eight hundred years and we still haven't seen the ending.

What's even more frustrating is that he didn't see a progress bar.

The clown hanging in the red moss suddenly convulsed, his eyes rolled back, and eight hundred years of knowledge seemed to be a vast ocean, immersing him in it. Instinctively, he struggled and tried to survive!

The unhealed wound bled under pressure, seeping into the moss and dripping down.

Shanks was the first to notice the Joker's state.

Although Pakistani's current stance and behavior seem very unfamiliar and even difficult to understand.

But a friend is a friend, someone you could once entrust your back to.

When he's smug, I'll tease him with a smile and give him a couple of playful punches; when he's down, I'll grab a couple of bottles of wine and chat with him under the stars all night long.

Even if we go our separate ways the very next day.

At least in Shanks' mind, Bucky was that kind of friend.