Above Iron Fang Island.
The wind howled.
A massive figure was flying at high speed beneath the clouds.
It was a comical-looking fat man with a hairstyle like a propeller. His neck and limbs were spinning rapidly, propelling his body through the air.
He was a Donquixote Family officer and the user of the Spin-Spin Fruit: Buffalo.
On his back sat a long-haired woman dressed in a maid outfit, carrying heavy weaponry.
The Weapon Girl, Baby 5.
"Hey, Buffalo, is that guy Roger giving us a false report?"
Baby 5 held a pair of binoculars, looking down at the smoke-shrouded island with a furrowed brow.
"Iron Fang Island looks pretty quiet."
"Beh-heh-heh, who knows."
Buffalo grinned, revealing a gap-toothed smile.
"Roger was always a coward. He probably got scared out of his wits by a few troublemaking pirates. The Master is being too cautious, making us come all this way."
"Regardless, let's go down and take a look."
Baby 5 pulled a massive Gatling gun from her back, aiming the muzzle downward.
"If someone really dares to run wild on the Master's turf, I'll blow them to bits!"
The two rapidly descended.
As they drew closer, the tragic state of the island finally came clearly into view.
Severed limbs were scattered everywhere on the streets, and black blood covered every inch of the ground.
Swaying figures were feasting on the corpses below.
"What are those disgusting things?"
Buffalo felt his stomach churn.
[Ding! Detected Buffalo's shock and disgust: Astonishment Points +50!]
[Ding! Detected Baby 5's suspicion and doubt: Astonishment Points +120!]
Just then.
Whoosh!
A black afterimage suddenly shot out from the ruins at an alarming speed.
Buffalo only had time to tilt his head slightly.
Puchi!
A sharp bone spur grazed his scalp, slicing off a corner of his signature propeller hairstyle.
"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"
Buffalo screamed in terror, his body wobbling wildly in the air.
[Ding! Detected Buffalo's extreme fear: Astonishment Points +30!]
"There!"
Baby 5's eyes narrowed, and the Gatling gun in her hand instantly opened fire.
Rat-tat-tat-tat-tat!
A dense hail of bullets poured down like a metal storm, kicking up clouds of dust from the ruins.
The dust cleared.
A weirdo in a red and black skintight suit was standing on a broken stone pillar.
He held a half-eaten chicken leg in one hand, while the other was raising a middle finger toward the sky.
"Hey! You propeller fatso and maid-outfit pervert up there!"
Deadpool casually tossed the chicken bone aside and cupped his hands around his mouth to shout.
"This is a private party! No entry without an invitation! Unless that maid lady is willing to come down and discuss human anatomy with me!"
"You bastard! What are you saying!"
Baby 5's face turned beet red with rage, and her arm instantly transformed into a rocket launcher.
"Die, you pervert!"
Boom!
A rocket trailed a long plume of fire, heading straight for Deadpool.
Deadpool didn't dodge or evade.
Just as the rocket was about to hit him, he suddenly drew the twin swords from his back.
"X-Slash!"
Swish!
Two flashes of cold light flickered.
The high-speed rocket was actually sliced into four pieces in mid-air.
The severed pieces of the rocket grazed past him and exploded into four fireballs in the ruins behind him.
"Whoa! A perfect ten!"
Deadpool held up a sign with '10' written on it, giving himself a score.
"This... how is this possible?"
Baby 5's eyes widened.
[Ding! Detected Baby 5's disbelief: Astonishment Points +50!]
"Don't daze out, Baby 5! That guy is the Deadpool the Master mentioned!"
Buffalo shouted, his body spinning rapidly to form a powerful hurricane.
"Gust: Matasaburo!"
The hurricane, carrying sharp wind blades, swept toward Deadpool.
At the same time, an earth-shaking roar erupted from the ruins below.
"ROAR!!!"
The hurricane howled, the wind blades sharp as knives.
Buffalo's portly frame spun at high speed in the air, creating a gale strong enough to shred a wooden house into splinters.
However, a black shadow charging out from the ruins was like a heavy torpedo going against the current, forcibly smashing through the wall of wind.
"What... what kind of monster is that?"
The Gatling gun in Baby 5's hand was still smoking, but her pupils contracted violently at this moment.
[Ding! Detected Baby 5's intense shock: Astonishment Points +60!]
Appearing before them was none other than Bone-Smasher Buck.
His original three-meter-tall Grappler form had mutated once again.
His size ballooned to five meters, and his skin had completely disappeared, replaced by a layer of purple-black carapace with a metallic sheen.
Countless bone spurs grew wildly from his joints, and rows of blades like shark fins exploded from his back.
The most terrifying part was his face.
His human features had completely melted away, leaving only a massive mouth that split to his ears, filled with three rows of densely packed, hooked fangs.
This was his complete form after consuming the Monster Cells the Deep Sea Kisame Form.
"ROAR!!!"
Buck roared at the sky, the sound waves turning into a physical impact that suppressed the surrounding flames.
"What the hell is this monster? An Awakened Zoan Fruit?"
Buffalo was blown back by the foul wind, stumbling in mid-air as his rotation speed slowed down.
[Ding! Detected Buffalo's fear: Astonishment Points +80!]
"I don't know if it's an Awakening, but I do know he's very hungry right now."
Deadpool crouched on the stone pillar, a bucket of popcorn having appeared in his hand at some point. He was grabbing handfuls and stuffing them through the slit in his mask's mouth.
"Friendly tip: this is my ultimate baby that just evolved after I fed him some good stuff. You'd better not let him feel like he hasn't had enough to eat."
"Stop playing tricks!"
Baby 5 gritted her teeth, her right leg instantly transforming into a massive sickle.
"Weapon Transformation: Flying Sickle Girl!"
Using the airflow from Buffalo's rotation, she shot forward like an arrow from a bow, aiming straight for Buck's throat with a piercing whistle.
This strike was enough to slice through steel.
Clang!!!
Sparks flew, but the sound was as deafening as a great bronze bell.
Baby 5 felt as if she had struck a mountain of Sea-Prism Stone.
The massive recoil instantly numbed her entire right leg, and her bones felt like they were about to fall apart.
She looked up in horror.
She saw that Buck had blocked her sickle with just one finger a finger as thick as a roof beam.
She hadn't even scratched the purple-black carapace.
"How... is that possible..."
Baby 5's mind went blank.
[Ding! Detected Baby 5's conviction crumbling, generating despair: Astonishment Points +100!]
She was a Weapon-Weapon Fruit user, able to turn her entire body into a lethal weapon. She knew the power of that strike better than anyone.
Even a Vice Admiral from Marine Headquarters wouldn't dare take it head-on with their bare body!
"Too weak, way too weak."
Deadpool shook his head from above, turning his popcorn bucket upside down to shake it. "Are you just tickling him? Put some back into it! For example like this!"
Before he finished speaking, Buck moved.
There were no fancy moves, just a simple, unadorned straight punch.
But with absolute power and speed behind it, this punch created a sonic boom.
"BOOM!"
The air was compressed into white vapor rings.
Baby 5 didn't even have time to deactivate her weapon form before she was struck squarely in the abdomen by the punch.
Pfft!
A mouthful of blood mixed with internal organ fragments sprayed out.
Baby 5 was sent flying back like a broken kite at ten times the speed she had come, crashing violently into the ruins behind her.
Rumble!
She smashed through three houses in a row, sending dust everywhere.
"Baby 5!"
Buffalo was scared out of his wits.
[Ding! Detected Buffalo's soul-shattering fear and despair: Astonishment Points +200!]
This wasn't even a fight in the same league!
This monster's strength was something that would strike terror into anyone's heart, even in the New World!
"Damn it! We have to retreat! I have to get this intel to the Master!"
A bonus episode will be released at 100+ Power Stones, and another after two new 5-star reviews.