The next day.
The morning mist wrapped around the small cabin like a gauze. The wooden windows were dotted with dewdrops. The morning light on the pine needles fell like shattered gold, mixing with the scent of earth and wild chrysanthemums spreading out.
Inside Dadan's hut.
Luffy's eyes were closed, his brows slightly furrowed, his body constantly turning left and right. Beside him were Sabo and Ace.
Even with Luffy's considerable movement, it still hadn't woken up these two guys.
Suddenly, Luffy's eyes snapped open.
No way! He couldn't hold it anymore, he had to go pee!
However, the moment he jumped up, he bumped into a red thing, his hands instinctively grabbing towards that red object.
The next second...
"Ahhh!!!"
An extremely wretched scream rang out, instantly startling everyone awake in the entire hut.
Following the sound, they saw a strange man standing not far away, with Luffy hanging from him, both hands gripping his nose.
"Pain! Pain!! Brat!! Get off me!!"
The man was Buggy. At this moment, he felt like his nose was about to be torn off, he kept shaking his body trying to throw Luffy off.
But no matter how he shook, Luffy's hands still clung tightly to his nose, the shaking only causing more pain.
It wasn't that he didn't want to use his hands, he simply couldn't.
His hands were cuffed behind his back at this moment, the feeling of weakness coursing through his body indicated these weren't ordinary handcuffs, but seastone handcuffs.
To spare his nose further suffering, Buggy immediately sat down, placing Luffy on the ground.
Luffy still tugged at his nose, tilting his head slightly to ask Buggy:
"Who are you?!"
"Brat! Don't worry about who I am for now, first let go of my nose, if you keep squeezing it it's going to get deformed!!"
Buggy roared at Luffy.
Being roared at like this, Luffy's hands, which had started to loosen, tightened again immediately, causing Buggy's face to instantly change color in pain.
"B, Brat, what are you doing? Want to die? Let go of me, quick, or I'll knock your head off later!"
As soon as these words were out, Luffy increased the force again, even pulling left and right constantly, saying as he did:
"Hit me then, hit me then!!"
Kyle had taught him, when dealing with rude people, retaliate with even ruder means.
Although it seemed like he started the problem, couldn't they talk to him nicely?
If they talked nicely, wouldn't he let go, why did they have to yell at him.
Joking, he was a proper Marine, could you yell at him?
On the other side, Ace and the others looked dumbfounded at this scene, asking curiously:
"Who is this guy? Where did he come from!"
"He's a pirate, I caught him last night!"
Kyle sat up from the bed, yawning before speaking.
"A pirate? You caught him?"
Hearing this, the group became even more confused.
Wait, why did you secretly go out at night and catch a pirate?
Kyle sat on the bed, looking at Buggy who was being pulled and constantly screaming by Luffy, and said:
"Buggy the Clown, bounty five hundred thousand Berries. Other aspects aside, in terms of strength, just a small fry!"
Last night after Kyle caught Buggy and electrocuted him unconscious, he just left him in the hut.
On the other side, Buggy, hearing Kyle call him a small fry, immediately protested, glaring at Kyle with furious eyes, shouting loudly:
"Brat, who are you calling a small fry? I am the great and famous Lord Buggy!!"
Saying this, he shook his nose a few more times. Seeing he still couldn't shake Luffy off, Buggy's eyes darkened, looking at Luffy in front of him he spoke in a low voice:
"Brat! You forced my hand!"
"Take this... Buggy's Big Snot!!"
As he said this, Buggy's nose suddenly exerted force, instantly, a large amount of snot gushed out, landing directly on Luffy's hands.
Luffy froze for a moment, but his expression immediately became one of extreme horror.
"Ah!!"
He immediately let go of Buggy's nose, wildly shaking his hands, countless snot droplets flying off, flying out towards various places in the room.
Seeing this scene, the others' expressions changed drastically instead.
Zzzap!!
Several flashes of lightning flickered in the air, blasting all the flying snot into dust.
Kyle stomped forcefully, his figure instantly appearing beside Buggy and Luffy.
"Thump! Thump!!"
Two dull thuds sounded, Luffy and Buggy fell to the ground together, eyes rolling white, a large lump swelling on their heads.
Kyle's face was full of disgust.
"Are you two looking for a beating?"
"Hey! Brats, what are you all making a racket about?"
At that moment, a boisterous voice came from the doorway.
The door was pulled open, Garp's figure appeared at the entrance, his attention instantly drawn to the two lying on the ground.
Especially that strange yet familiar red nose.
After looking for a good while, Garp seemed to remember something, pointing at Buggy's red nose and shouting loudly:
"You're that red-nosed brat from Roger's ship?"
The words 'red nose' were like a sensitive term, causing Buggy, whose eyes had been rolling white, to jump up like a corpse resurrected, his expression twisted as he yelled:
"Who are you calling red nose?!!"
However, when he saw Garp's face clearly, all the ferocity on his face vanished, replaced by confusion, and then deep fear.
"Mon... Monkey D. Garp??!!"
The familiar nose-picking manner, the familiar aura, everything reminded him that the old man before him was the one he had deeply feared in the past.
Suddenly, the memories of being chased all over the seas by Garp resurfaced in his mind.
This guy in front of him was a character on the same level as his captain back then!!
Damn it, was he going to be killed??
"Oh, it really is you! How did you end up here?"
Garp picked out a booger and flicked it, asking curiously.
Seeing Garp here, Buggy completely gave up all ideas, slumping to the floor, speaking with irritation:
"You think I wanted to come here! I was kidnapped!!"
Saying this, Buggy turned his gaze towards Kyle nearby, saying:
"See, he's the one who brought me here!"
Feeling Garp's gaze, Kyle briefly explained what happened last night.
After listening, Luffy, who had somewhat recovered, was the first to voice his displeasure:
"Huh? What do you mean, Kyle, you went on an adventure by yourself and didn't take me?"
"That's right, that's right, such an interesting thing and you didn't take us, that's not fair at all, is it?"
Ace and Sabo chimed in from the side.
Kyle gave them a faint look.
"What could you few rookies do even if I called you? Could you keep up with my speed?"
"Huh? Kyle, what did you say? I challenge you to a duel!"
"Right, a duel! A duel!!"
Watching them shouting there, Kyle deeply wondered if he had been too gentle before, for these guys to be so lively again after such a short time.
Thinking this, a smile on his face, Kyle slowly walked towards them..
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