"Captain Roger's dying wish?" Buggy didn't expect the Newspaper King, Crocodile, to come here and be interested in this. "What are you asking that for?"
"I only decided to set out to sea after watching his execution. Desert Grandes Espada!"
Crocodile thrust his hand into the sandified deck, and a giant sand sword pierced out from it, attacking the Pacifista.
"There is no such thing as a dying wish. Captain Roger simply gave everyone a reason to go to sea."
Buggy used Shunpo to dodge the Pacifista's attack. "What, does your life need to be decided by someone else?"
"Magnetic Field Rotation: 50,000 Horsepower—[Thunder Roar Cannon]." Buggy struck the black lightning orb onto the Pacifista.
"Crocodile, you're not a child anymore. Shouldn't your so-called ideals be something you decide and practice yourself?"
"That makes a lot of sense, Captain Buggy." Crocodile laughed loudly. "So... why did you pretend to be a clown back then? When I first heard the news of you becoming one of the Four Emperors, I even wanted to come and kill you immediately..."
"Crocodile, you bastard, you really are up to no good!" Mr. 3 said. "What exactly do you want?"
"I wanted to see if Captain Buggy has the strength to bear the title of one of the Four Emperors. If not, you might as well give it to me."
Crocodile surrounded the Pacifista with sand. "But looking at it now, Captain Buggy has deceived the whole world. As expected, there are no weaklings in the Roger Pirates."
He had already discovered how troublesome the Pacifista were, yet Buggy was dealing with four of them alone.
The Roger Pirates really are full of monsters.
"If you can't beat them, join them?" Buggy laughed. "What do you want from me?"
"The chance to fight against top-tier experts. Since you've become an enemy of the world, you certainly won't lack battles. I want to become stronger and surpass Whitebeard!" Crocodile said.
"If you want to fight experts, just go to the Holy Land, Mary Geois,e and kill a Celestial Dragon. You don't necessarily have to join my Pirate Crew!" Buggy said.
"I want to get stronger, not commit suicide..."
Crocodile knew that if he did as Buggy said, there was a high probability he would be torn to pieces by the Marines.
"Do you agree or not?! But let me tell you beforehand, my loyalty is limited. Once my strength surpasses yours, I might rebel at any time." Crocodile was somewhat embarrassed and angry.
This guy seems a bit tsundere... Buggy thought to himself.
"Welcome to the Buggy Pirates."
Since an expert of the Shichibukai level specifically came to join, Buggy naturally had no reason to refuse.
"Now that's more like it. I really didn't misjudge you, Captain Buggy. You have the magnanimity that matches your ambition," Crocodile said.
"You bastard... Even if Captain Buggy agreed, I'll be keeping a close eye on you, Crocodile. Don't you dare try any tricks," Mr. 3 said exasperatedly.
"Don't worry, until my strength surpasses Captain Buggy's, I will get along with him just fine." Crocodile laughed wildly as he unleashed his ultimate move.
"Armament: Black Crescent Moon Dunes."
The sand grains, turned black by Armament Haki, tightly surrounded the Pacifista, attempting to drain the moisture from its body.
As the moisture was lost, the Pacifista's movements became sluggish, and the power of the paw-paw fruit became intermittent.
"This guy's ability is a bit troublesome." Sentomaru pulled out a notebook and said while recording, "The ten hearts inside the Pacifista are still its weakness. If it loses moisture, its fruit ability will decline."
"Although they reached the Shichibukai level as expected, they are still somewhat lacking in actual combat. It seems the decision to abolish the Shichibukai system was a bit hasty."
"Is that so? Was it the appearance of these things that disrupted my peaceful life?" A voice sounded behind Sentomaru.
"Ah...?" Sentomaru turned his head and saw a pair of yellow eyes as sharp as a hawk's staring at him.
"Hawkeye Mihawk, why are you here!" Sentomaru suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart.
"If you were quietly tasting wine at home and a group of Marines suddenly arrived outside and blasted your home to pieces, you wouldn't be asking such a stupid question," Hawkeye Mihawk said.
"Ha~ That has nothing to do with me." Sentomaru could feel that Hawkeye's mood was not very good.
Actually, he also felt that the World Government's one-size-fits-all approach to the Seven Warlords of the Sea was a bit brain-dead.
Some Shichibukai cause trouble everywhere and should indeed be cracked down upon.
But for someone like Hawkeye, who usually stays at home and doesn't cause any trouble, why would you provoke him?
Even if his Shichibukai title were revoked, he probably wouldn't bother to care.
Instead, they had to send the Marines to surround and suppress him... It can only be said that the victory in the Marineford War and the replenishment of Admirals made the World Government feel their strength had greatly increased. Coupled with the successful development of the final version of the Pacifista, the Gorosei were under the illusion of being invincible. Not only did they abolish the Seven Warlords system, but they also launched an attack on the Shichibukai.
Those five old fogies stay in that room every day, acting all mysterious; they couldn't have developed senile dementia, could they...? Sentomaru cursed the Gorosei in his heart, but his body quickly hid behind a Pacifista because he saw Hawkeye had already drawn his black blade, ade Yoru.
Armament Haki turned Hawkeye's sword pitch black.
In the next moment, Hawkeye raised his sword and slashed at the Pacifista.
"Repel him!" Sentomaru hurriedly gave the order.
However, another weakness of the Pacifista was revealed: they only had Bartholomew Kuma's abilities but lacked his combat experience.
If the real Bartholomew Kuma were here, he could have used the paws on his hands to repel the attack of the black blade Yoru.
But facing an attack from the World's Greatest Swordsman, the Pacifista's reaction speed was a fraction too slow.
Hawkeye's blacblade b, Lade, Yoru bypassed the Pacifista's hands and sliced it in half at the waist.
The sword intent accompanying the black blade Yoru, also sliced through Buggy in the process.
"Hey, don't hit me by mistake!" Buggy said while reassembling his separated body.
"As I thought... you're not using Observation Haki to dodge in advance at all; it's just that slashes have no effect on you." Hawkeye didn't care about the Pacifista and instead looked at Buggy thoughtfully.
"I found it strange during the Marineford War. Given the speed of my swings, if you were splitting your body in advance to dodge, then your Observation Haki must have been trained to the limit."
"Now it seems that the body splitting happens automatically when a slash is launched. You really are the nemesis of every swordsman in the world..."
"You accidentally hit me on purpose just to confirm this?" Buggy saw that the Pacifista, now in two halves, clearly had traces of flesh and blood tissue inside. He casually released a [White Lightning] to char them.
"No, my actual goal is to join your Buggy Pirates." Hawkeye said, "The World Government has no sense of honor and destroyed my peaceful life. So, as revenge against them, joining your Pirate Crew is the best choice..."
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