Bab 23: 23. Red Axe Gang
Sometime after Buggy & Cricket finish their meal, the Red Axe Gang arrived. All their 1000 mens' marching sound can be heard throughout the town. Buggy & Cricket come out from the restaurant to meet them.
"So you're the one who beat up my idiot son."-Visco
"Yeah, i am."-Buggy
"Let me hear your reason before i kill you here."-Visco
"Well, he refused the money i gave to pay Mantis' debt. And his mens attacked us, so what would you suggest us to do? Letting ourselves being beaten up? Nah, you can do it yourself."-Buggy
"You pay the debt? Taki!"-Visco
"Right away, sir."-Taki
Taki then take a beaten up mafia who was defeated by Buggy & Cricket.
"Did he gave the money?"-Visco
"....Yes, but young leader refused it because he only accept the girl's money."-Mafia 1
"So that's how it is."-Visco
The beaten up mafia return to the back and Visco look at Buggy & Cricket again.
"Well, so it's my idiot son's fault. But even if it's his fault, you shouldn't beat him up like that. Only i can do that to him."-Visco
".... Then what's the point of asking that guy just now? You're just wasting time. This mafia leader seem to be as stupid as his son."-Cricket
"That's what we called genetics trait, my partner."-Buggy
"Ah, i see."-Cricket
"You sure have foul mouths there. How about this? You give me the money, and her debt will be cleared right away."-Visco have a tickmark
"Hah, do you think that we're stupid? Even if we pay her debt, you'll still attack us, right? After all, it only pay her debt, but it doesn't do anything about your son's case."-Buggy
"Heeh, you're smarter than i thought."-Visco
"You're just more stupid than me."-Buggy
The mafia leader get annoyed and order his mens to attack, but Buggy shout and ask them to stop. He didn't want to create a big destruction here, so he asked them to move somewhere else. The mafia gang agree and they move to an open land outside of the town.
"Let's get this over with."-Visco
"ATTACK!"-Taki
The mafias then start to run toward Buggy & Cricket. Buggy grin and he fly after detaching his upper body. He carry the case to the sky, and then open it. Buggy start to take the bombs and throw them to the enemies.
*BOOM BOOM BOOM*
The enemies are grouping, so his bombs take out a lot of them. Cricket also shoot at the ones in the front rows, while Buggy attack the middle. Cricket shoot his flintlock at the enemies. He have prepared many bullets for this, so he won't run out of bullets soon.
"HAHAHAHA, DIE! DIE! DIE!"-Buggy
"Damn, we've fall into his trap."-Visco
"What should we do, leader?"-Taki
"Tell them to spread, so the bombs won't take out many of them!"-Visco
"Yes."-Taki
The mafias then start to spread and the boms take out less people now. However, it's a bit too late, as Buggy's bomb have take out around 3/4 of their troops. They were gathered in one place before, so the bombs really give them big damage.
"Around 250 left, can you do it?"-Cricket
"You should worry about them rather than me!"-Cricket grin
"Heeh, that's the spirit. Then, let's compete on who defeat more enemies."-Buggy
"Fine by me."-Cricket
Buggy & Cricket then rush to the enemy's group. Like usual, Buggy detach his wrist and spin it with the sword to make a flying circular saw. Then he attack the group of mafias with his legs & elbow. Their axes didn't work on him, so he doesn't need to worry.
Cricket also seem to do a good job on his own. He use his flintlocks smartly and can shoot open & vital area. Altough his aim at long range isn't that good, but in short range, his enemies can't evade.
Visco & Taki observe the battle, and see their mens getting defeated. His mens can attack Cricket and make it harder for him. However, their mens can't touch Buggy at all. His body just split & return everytime an axe cut him.
"Cut? Is his devil fruit immune to sharp attacks? Taki, use the blunt side of the axe to attack that clown!"-Visco order Taki who nod at it
"USE THE BLUNT SIDE OF YOUR AXE OR EVEN THE WIDE SIDES! SHARP WEAPONS WON'T WORK ON HIS DEVIL FRUIT."-Taki
Buggy click his tongue, and the gang turn their axe around. Now they start to attack him with the blunt part. Buggy maximize his observation haki and dodge or split his body before he get striked.
While the others attack Buggy & Cricket, some mafias attack Mantis. Surprisingly, Mantis fight them back, and defeat them. She use her hands to fight, and she use her palm rather than fists.
Mantis is a good fighter actually, altough not as good as Buggy or Cricket, but at least she can protect herself. However, she didn't fight these mafias before, their number is too high for her, and she doesn't have a chance. When Buggy & Cricket take out a lot of these mafias in a short time, she see her chance to win, so she join the fight.
Buggy & Cricket are shocked to see this. They never thought Mantis can fight this good. She have told them that she can fight, but not this good. Sure she is not as strong as them, but it's enough to defeat these low levelled mafia.
"It seem we don't need to worry about her."-Cricket
"Yeah, let's just mind our business and go berserk!"-Buggy
Buggy & Cricket get more ferocious in their battle. Buggy get some hits, and Cricket get some cut wounds, but they keep going and blast through the enemies. Mantis also defeat a lot of enemies that come to her.
Soon, the ones left on the mafia's side are Visco & Taki. Buggy & Cricket face them even with some cuts & bruises. Mantis is at the rear, sitting on the ground and panting hard. She never fight so many people like this after all.
"Well, that was easier than i thought."-Cricket
"Yeah, i thought they would use guns to shoot from afar, but they choose close combat instead."-Buggy
"If we use guns, then we're not Red Axe. You two are impressive to defeat our mens so easily like that. But this will end here. We are different from our mens. Taki, take care of that big guy, i'll go for the captain."-Visco walk slowly toward Buggy
"Understood."-Taki
Taki take out his chainsaw and attack Cricket. Cricket can only move back to avoid the chainsaw blades. Now Buggy just stay there with Visco, facing each other.
Visco open his red jacket and throw it on the ground. Under that jacket is a pair of axes that seem expensive and have red color. Visco take those axes and point one toward Buggy.
"I am different from my mens, so-"-Visco
"I never said you're the same."-Buggy
"...I am different from my mens, so get ready to die!"-Visco
'He ignore my interference.'-Buggy
Visco suddenly attack Buggy with his axe, and he use the sharp side. Buggy want to let Visco's axe cut his body, but suddenly he cancel it and dodge back. Buggy look at Visco's axe that now have purple liquid on it.
"Poison?"-Buggy
"Aah, you find it out, too bad."-Visco grin
Buggy can't let the axe cut him, he's worry of the poison. He don't know what kind of poison is that, so he won't take any risk. If that poison stick on his detached body, then it will get in his body when he attach his body back. It might also be able to seep in through his pores, so he can't even risk to get in contact with it.
"Are you red axe or poison axe now?"-Buggy
"Why don't you find out?"-Visco grin
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