242. Disease

After dueling with grasses as swords, Oden keeps asking Buggy to duel again every day. Buggy welcomes it because he can train with a very strong swordsman every day. He can train his swordsmanship and Haki at the same time through the duels with Oden.

He also uses his devil fruit abilities but not excessively. Buggy just uses his devil fruit as support in his duels with Oden and trains it alone when he's not in a duel. Still, he gets some ideas of his devil fruit abilities usage in his duels, so the duels are very helpful.

Everyone else is also dueling on their own after they see Buggy's duel against Oden. They are very motivated to have duels so that they can get stronger. The samurais have understood that the Clowns taunted them to make them fight seriously so that they can get stronger for the war.

Kanjuro also has realized it but it's too late already. His relationship with Orochi has become very bad now with Deon's interference. Orochi's trust in him is very low now and Kanjuro can't do anything about it.

Deon has manipulated all their interactions in these few days. The Clowns also use this chance to reduce the enemy's force. Buggy ordered Deon to make Orochi sends Oniwabanshu's ninjas daily to investigate but then the Clowns will capture them.

It will reduce the enemy's number a little, but of course, it will raise suspicion. However, they have a perfect scapegoat, Kanjuro. They kept making it so that Kanjuro would be suspected to be the one who revealed the ninjas' locations.

The Clowns have purposedly set up something in one of these days so that Kanjuro would be the one who discovered them. Then everyone around him attacked the ninjas but the Clowns purposedly let 2 people leave.

The escaped ninjas then told Orochi that Kanjuro was the one who revealed their locations. It made Orochi's trust in Kanjuro plummet and his suspicion disappeared. Now, Orochi never sends any message to Kanjuro and orders all Kanjuro's messages to be destroyed.

All of this makes the Clowns very happy because their opponents are actually fools. If they think about it more carefully, they will realize that they are being manipulated. But they are too arrogant to even think that there are spies among them.

The matter of Orochi's relationship with Kanjuro has been settled. But Buggy still has a plan for Kanjuro through Brook's help. Brook still duels with Kanjuro every day because Kanjuro keeps asking him for duels.

The guy doesn't have another choice because the other Red Scabbards & even Oden say they all will keep sparring with the Clowns to raise their strength. Orochi might have abandoned him, but he still needs to act or he will get killed if they know he is a Kurozumi.

Buggy used that to his advantage and ordered Brook to keep damaging Kanjuro's soul. The damage to his soul weakens Kanjuro a lot and it keeps accumulating. Then after dueling for more than a week, Kanjuro finally reaches his limit.

He doesn't die yet, though, just becomes very ill as the side effect of getting his soul damaged. But no one suspect Brook and the Clowns at all because Kanjuro's illness symptoms are very normal actually.

"I don't know why he is suffering this much, it is just a fever, and it's not even a very high fever. I'm sorry, but I am very confused right now. This is something that I've never seen nor learned. I'm sorry for my incompetence," says a doctor from Wano after he examined Kanjuro.

Kanjuro lays on the futon while breathing hard because of his fever. He is still conscious but he can't even do anything because he is very weak right now.

"Even you, the best doctor in Kuri can't do anything about it?" asks Kin'emon rather angrily.

"Enough, Kin'emon! This is not his fault. Even he has things that he doesn't know. This is why opening our border is very important. There will be many benefits including knowledge," says Oden.

"Hmm, knowledge from outside, huh? Can't we ask the pirate doctor to check Kanjuro's condition?" asks Inuarashi.

"!? That's right, he must have a vast knowledge of disease from all over the world," says Kiku.

"Alright, Raizo, you go to their ship and tell Buggyjiro that we need his doctor's help. I'm sure he will gladly help us," says Oden.

"Yes," replies Raizo before he leaves.

Raizo goes to the Clowns' ship on the beach as fast as he can. As a ninja, he is very fast with his running even with his big head. He arrives on the beach in a short time and immediately goes to the Clowns' ship.

"Oh, isn't this Raizo the ninja? Are you here to challenge someone?" asks Buggy as if he doesn't know anything.

"No, it's not like that, Buggy-dono. I am here to ask for your crew's doctor's help," says Raizo.

"Manba? Why do you need him?" asks Buggy.

Raizo explains the situation with Kanjuro and Buggy has a fake concerned expression. Obviously, he knows what happen to Kanjuro because he is the one who planned it. But he can't show it so he fakes his expression.

After Raizo finished his explanation, Buggy calls Manba and tells him to go with Raizo. He asks for the reason fakingly too because he also has known it. Buggy goes with the act by saying that Kanjuro is ill and needs his help.

Manba nods and then takes his tools before he leaves with Raizo. After the 2 leave Buggy smirks and almost laughs, but he holds it. He hasn't won yet, so he can't laugh now, but he still giggles, followed by the crew.

Sometime later, Manba & Raizo arrive at Red Scabbards' place. They go to Kanjuro's room immediately to check on him. The others move aside to let Manba examines Kanjuro's condition.

Manba frowns and says, "What kind of disease is this?"

"D-Do you not recognize it, Manba-chan?" asks Oden.

"I don't, but maybe it is written in one of my books on the ship. But going through them will take time and we don't know what will happen to him in the meantime," says Manba.

Oden & the Red Scabbards bite their lips, but then Manba gives them a solution.

"I have a solution, although this won't solve it but it will help us in the meantime," says Manba.

"We're listening," says Denjiro.

"He is a devil fruit user, right? Then we need to stop his ability in the meantime. Devil fruit ability is good but it also absorbs its user energy constantly. It will be fine if he is healthy, but with his current condition, his ability will be a burden to him. We need to put seastone on him to stop his devil fruit from working temporarily," says Buggy.

"Is that true?" asks Oden.

"It is, I've done it to our devil fruit users a few times and it worked. Sure, it will weaken the users, but that will also help them save their energy while they are already weakened by their disease," says Manba.

Surprisingly, Manba says the truth because he really has done it on Jude when she was sick, and it worked.

"I don't have any seastone with me, so can I leave it to you?" asks Manba.

"Yes, we have many seastone here," says Kiku.

"Alright, I will go back to the ship and find out what kind of disease this is. I will return as fast as possible, so please take care of him. Ah, please change his clothes too. It is very wet with sweats, so it will make him feel colder," says Manba before he leaves.

After Manba leaves, Kiku also leaves to take a seastone handcuff. This is the easiest to get, so he just takes it along with its key. He then puts it on Kanjuro's left hand.

Kanjuro wants to resist because he won't be able to use his devil fruit ability if he touches seastone. But he is very weak now and can't resist at all. So the seastone handcuff finally gets installed on his left hand.

The Red Scabbards then start to strip Kanjuro's clothes to change them. He wants to resist again but he fails. As Kanjuro's clothes are stripped off, the Red Scabbard suddenly paused. Then Manba who has just left gets surprised when the building suddenly gets exploded.

He is genuinely surprised and asks, "What happened?"

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