145. Split vs Light

Buggy's swordsmanship battle with Kizaru has entered a new round. After being pressured by Kizaru, Buggy exerts more speed & strength in his attacks. He starts to push Kizaru slowly and hits the lightman a few times.

"You'll just get tired faster, you know," says Kizaru as he blocks Buggy's swords.

"I'll defeat you before I get tired," says Buggy.

"That won't be easy," says Kizaru as he tries to escape by transforming into the light.

Buggy kicks Kizaru's body and prevents him from transforming fully, "Yeah, it's not that easy."

Kizaru clicks his tongue as he failed to transform and move away. He wanted to move so he can attack Buggy from other angles. But Buggy's kick has prevented him from transforming fully.

'Heh, so I can stop him by disturbing his transformation. It's like what Rayleigh does in the series when he helps the Straw Hats,' thinks Buggy.

One of Kizaru's weaknesses is that he needs to transform onto light first to move at the speed of light. If he is disturbed, then he will fail and can't move at the speed of light. He needs a few seconds to transform into light. But a few seconds is crucial in a high-level battle.

Buggy kicks Kizaru again as the lightman is distracted. Kizaru flings away but he can stabilize himself fast. He looks at Buggy and opens his palm as he points it at Buggy.

"You are pissing me off now," says Kizaru pissedly with an unpissed expression.

Buggy sees Kizaru's palm shines and curses, "SHIT!"

*PSHEW PSHEW*

Kizaru shoots multiple light beams from his palm. Buggy uses his Observation Haki to the max to dodge & block the beams.

*BOOM BOOM BOOM*

Kizaru shots rapidly and makes Buggy overwhelmed. Buggy has done his best, but he finally misses a beam. He curses as the light beam hits him and explodes on his body.

The explosion is big and scattered everything around it. Kizaru stops his shooting and looks at the explosion site. There's nothing there except for the explosion mark and sand.

"Hmm? Strange, where is he?" ponders Kizaru confusedly.

The Vice-Admiral looks around to find Buggy, but he's nowhere to be found. The wind blows and scatters the sand around Kizaru. He still tries to find Buggy when suddenly he feels something right under him.

A black fist suddenly appeared under Kizaru and flies toward him. It flies fast and hits Kizaru's stomach, sending the lightman flies away. Then sand-like particles gather around the fist and form a human, it's Buggy.

Right before the explosion happened, Buggy split his body at the cellular level to reduce the damage as a last resort. But the explosion made his cells scattered and he needed time to gather them. His scattered body made it hard for Kizaru to sense him even with Observation Haki.

Buggy used that to his advantage and made a surprise attack. He moved under Kizaru and sent a strong punch to the Marine's stomach. Of course, he covered his fist with Armament Haki so he could touch Kizaru.

"Sigh, I shouldn't do that. I've reduced a lot of damages from the explosion. But gathering my scattered cells is more tiring than I thought. It's better to just use haki to protect myself if the same thing happened again," says Buggy.

"That's very surprising. Where did you come from?" asks Kizaru while holding his stomach.

"Everywhere," says Buggy while grinning.

"Hmm, of course, you won't say it," says Kizaru calmly like usual.

Buggy rushes to Kizaru and attacks him with a sword, but the lightman is a bit faster at transforming into the light. He flashes to dodge Buggy's attack, then moves back to Buggy at lightspeed and kicks horizontally. Kizaru aims at Buggy's head with his lightspeed kick.

"Fuck!" curses Buggy as a yellow light flashes beside his head.

The kick is too fast and Buggy doesn't have time to dodge or block it. His movement speed is far below Kizaru's lightspeed kick. So Buggy uses his special ability, he splits his head at the cellular level again right before the kick hits him.

Kizaru sees it and feels like he is kicking a sand ball. Now he knows how Buggy could take his beam without apparent injury. But he is distracted again now and Buggy uses this chance to slash his body from below.

Too bad that Kizaru realized it at the last moment and jumps back. Even so, Buggy's slash creates a shallow cut across his body and makes him bleed. Buggy clicks his tongue seeing his attack just created a shallow cut. Such a wound won't affect Kizaru's fighting ability too much.

"That hurts," says Kizaru calmly.

"Your words & tone didn't match," says Buggy as he rushes again at Kizaru.

"But I said the truth," says Kizaru as he blocks Buggy's swords with his light sword.

Both of them get into close combat again, but they don't just use their swords now. They use their swords, legs, and hands. Buggy even uses any part of his body that he splits and imbues with Armament Haki.

To match Kizaru's speed, Buggy only has one way, which is to use his Observation Haki. He needs to predict Kizaru's next attack before it landed. But there is still a limit in his current Observation Haki level.

'Damn, I can't predict every attack with my current level of Observation Haki. Luckily, my Armament is tough enough to protect me from his attacks,' thinks Buggy after a kick landed on his chest and he flung back.

Buggy crashes onto the ground and rolls a few meters before stabilizing himself. There are many injuries on his body now, but he doesn't seem to be affected. He can't let those affect him or he will lose from Kizaru instantly.

"You are distracted," says Kizaru.

Kizaru suddenly appears in front of him and sends a vertical kick from below. Buggy splits his body in half to dodge it and kick Kizaru's leg that stepped on the ground, making the lightman falls forward to him.

"You shouldn't say anything when doing a surprise attack," says Buggy as he crouches and puts his hands on the ground.

Kizaru falls toward him and Buggy sends his other foot to kick Kizaru's jaw from below. It flings Kizaru to the air and Buggy moves fast to send a flying slash attack. But Kizaru turns his body into light and avoids getting damaged.

Kizaru flies higher and reforms his body in the air before he crosses his hands, "Yasakani no Magatama!"

"Not again," curses Buggy as he coated his swords with Armament Haki.

Many light bullets are shot from Kizaru's hands. They move fast toward Buggy who is ready with his swords in his hands. Buggy slashes his swords to parry the light bullets.

He doesn't need to protect his crewmates now, so it is easier. But easier doesn't mean that it is easy, it's just not as difficult as before. The bullets are still very fast and he needs to use all his power to parry them.

Buggy can parry every light bullet that Kizaru shot because of his good Observation Haki. But it tires him and now he pants rather hard. Trying to match the speed of light isn't an easy thing to do.

"Are you okay?" asks Kizaru with a mocking tone.

"*pant pant* More than okay to kick your ass," says Buggy while grinning and panting.

"Hmm, very funny," says Kizaru without smiling.

Kizaru transforms into light and flashes to Buggy. Buggy tries to attack Kizaru, but his hands are tired, so his movement is slow. Kizaru evades it easily and gets behind Buggy.

"Kicking ass seems to be a good idea," says Kizaru as his right foot shines.

Buggy can't even curse when Kizaru kicks his ass at the speed of light. He flies toward a cliff and crashes onto it with his hands & legs spreading in a comical pose.

"That bastard, I will really kick his ass later," says Buggy as his hands twitch.

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