Bam! - A sound like a kick of a soccer ball was heard in the square. Buggy felt his head fly up higher and higher. And when he finally reached the height, his head wobbled slightly.
- OUCH!! IT HURT!!! - he screamed, looking around. His head began to fall back, and his eyes filled with anger and fury.
"How dare you use your stinking foot to hit the great clown Buggy?!" he shouted, despite still holding the knife in his mouth.
Rogu briefly thought that Buggy seemed to have learned to speak with a knife in his mouth from Zoro, even though they hadn't met yet. But how he managed to pronounce the words so clearly was a mystery.
Buggy's head rushed towards Rogu again at a furious speed. However, having received his first lesson, he decided to be more cunning. And now he flew around Rogu from behind and continued his monologue.
"Even if I can't cut your throat, I can cut off your neck! What would it be like to feel like your body is tied up and can't escape? What would it be like to know that you can't see anything and are slowly waiting for your death?" Buggy spoke slowly on purpose, as if enjoying the approach to his goal.
But just as his knife was about to reach Rogu's neck, a sudden whistling sound of wind pierced his ears.
- What!? - Buggy only managed to say, turning around. And then he saw again... a huge boot sole flying straight into his face!
Bang! - This time his head flew even further.
One can only wonder how one head could withstand two such powerful blows? The knife fell from his teeth and fell to the ground with a clang, and the head crashed with a dull thud into one of the tents, which immediately collapsed, covering Buggy.
"Hey! Who turned off the light?!" A scream came from under the fallen fabric. Despite such blows, Buggy was still conscious.
Rogu, still with his hands clasped behind his back, glanced at the tent and shook his head regretfully. Then, tensing his muscles, he abruptly pulled away from the grip of the hands that had been holding him all this time.
"You think you can escape?!" Buggy's voice was heard again from under the tent. His two severed arms were now flying chaotically through the air, trying to grab Rogu. However, instead they grabbed the nearest unfortunate pirate, whom Rogu had knocked out earlier...
Hands began to tug furiously at his face, turning it into something resembling an abstract art painting.
"I admit, it does look creepy," Rogu said thoughtfully, watching this spectacle.
Then he entered the tent, inside which, without a head or arms, Buggy's body was still sitting in a confident pose, with his legs spread wide. One of his legs was twitching nervously, as if expressing displeasure at having the "lights turned off."
Rogu took out his signature mace and swung it at Buggy several times, as if testing the best way to strike. After that, a thoughtful look appeared on his face.
"It's somehow uncomfortable without a head," he said.
He glanced at Buggy's head, which had already emerged from under the tent and was flying chaotically in the air. It was quite comical to watch: if someone saw such a picture at night, they would probably think it was a ghost.
- Damn it! Where are you hiding?! Show yourself so that the great Buggy can fight you face to face! - his head screamed, spinning around the tent.
Rogu smiled slightly, then grabbed Buggy's body by the collar, lifting him into the air. However, at that very moment, the clown's body instantly flew apart, scattering his limbs all over the tent.
"Hahaha! You thought you could use my body to threaten me?" A mad laugh came from Buggy's head, which had now crashed into the tent's ceiling and was circling through the air again. "You just gave away your location! You're still in my tent, and I'm coming to kill you right now!"
His head, full of determination and anger, with loud statements, suddenly accelerated, rushing towards the tent. It seemed that he decided to go for broke, accelerating so much that the wind that arose from the speed scattered the remains of the tent, and everything around was flooded with the sudden sunlight.
Squinting in the bright light, Buggy tried to keep his gaze focused. However, his angry gaze didn't have time to gain clarity before his entire field of vision was filled with a snow-white wall!
Bam!!! - a dull but distinct sound was heard.
Rogu remained standing in the tent, looking at what was happening with an expression of absolute amazement.
"I swear," he said, shaking his head, "he's the most theatrical pirate I've ever met."
He swore that he hadn't done anything in all that time except kick twice. He had even considered using Buggy's body as bait to lure the head closer, since it was flying too high to reach. But instead, what happened was... what happened...
Buggy, making threats while flying through the air, almost tore the face off one of his subordinates, and then, accelerating, crashed into a wall with such force that he himself passed out.
"Excellent. Simply amazing," Rogu sighed, looking at the pirate's body, which had fallen apart. The head had lost consciousness, and now all these parts of the body lay motionless.
"I wonder if this will count as me catching him?" Rogu muttered thoughtfully.
And soon he received an answer, in the form of a notification before his eyes:
[Do you wish to carry out the capture?]
Rogu grabbed the closest part of Buggy's body without thinking, put his palm on it. After that, the system instantly activated, and chains appeared from all sides, which began to collect parts of Buggy's body, pulling them together.
The head was the last to arrive. It still had a huge red nose, but there was now a large bump on its forehead. Rogu barely held back his laughter when he saw it.
"You're so… cute-ugly," he muttered.
The chains, having tied the head and body, finally wrapped everything, leaving only the head outside.
[Capture of Buggy the Clown completed. Received: Reward 15,000,000 Belly, +1 Black Iron Coin.]
Rogu looked thoughtfully at the chains.
"I wonder if these chains can neutralize the powers of devil fruits?" he said. This was important, because if they couldn't, Buggy's body would remain motionless, but his head would fly all over the ship. This was clearly not a pleasant prospect.
While he was thinking about this, a new notification popped up before his eyes.
[A special reward has been issued. Please check.]
Rogu's eyes lit up. Last time, after receiving a special reward, he acquired a hunter's license, and a new skill.
"Maybe my license has been upgraded?" he suggested, opening the notification.
[Key of the Fallen +1]
[Access to the Fallen has been opened.]
"Access to the Fallen?" Rogu repeated thoughtfully, opening his hunter's license.
Hunter's License.
Owner: Norlos Rogu.
Skills: Heart of the Moon level 5, Superpower level 5.
Coins: Black Iron Coin x4.
Belly: 47,270,000 (available for withdrawal).
Coin Shop: [Open].
Fallen: [Open].
"It looks like this is indeed a license upgrade," he said.
Just when he was about to open "Fallen" and see what this function was, he was distracted by a sharp voice: "Who are you? What happened here?"
Rogu turned his head towards the sound, still remaining calm, but with obvious interest in his eyes...