481. Buggy's Domination

Buggy's Raigo lasts for around 3 minutes before it runs out of lightning. The black cloud sphere disperses quickly after that and a big demonic figure falls from it. Imu has been struck by lightning continuously inside the sphere which obviously damaged him severely.

He has immunity to heat because of his devil fruit which gives him the ability to conquer all aspects of fire including heat. Lightning is very hot, but the heat of lightning doesn't affect him at all. However, the shock and other energy in the lightning still affected him, so he still got damaged.

The injuries inflicted by Buggy's attacks haven't even healed and he got struck by powerful lightning bolts rapidly for around 3 minutes. Such a thing obviously broke his body apart. It would kill him if he isn't immortal and his devil fruit isn't powerful.

Buggy knows Imu is still alive and he wants to finish this now. He doesn't want to play around anymore even though he feels that the previous torture wasn't enough. But he can feel that he is getting closer to his limit, so he needs to finish this now.

The limit that he feels isn't his energy or strength. He can feel it's about time for the borrowed abilities to return to their real owners. There is a time limit for borrowing other's abilities using Dela's devil fruit ability and that time limit is near, so Buggy needs to end this before that.

He dashes to the falling Imu at a very high speed and almost reaches Imu instantly. However, he is stopped by a powerful shockwave that spreads from Imu's falling body. Then suddenly, blue fire comes out of Imu's body and expands rapidly, forming a big blue fire sphere with Imu in the center.

Buggy frowns before approaching the blue fire sphere. He is surprised that there is no heat or other kind of energy around the blue flame. Then Buggy suddenly widens his eyes when he feels that this blue fire is quite familiar.

"No way! Phoenix's flame? Then, if this is really a phoenix's flame, could that guy....? Immortality's healing factor and phoenix's flame's healing power. What a great combination."

Buggy looks astonished as he rubs his chin without any sign of worry. He is truly impressed by Imu's devil fruit which has many important abilities. It even makes him jealous. Even Teach would prefer this devil fruit over Darkness Darkness Fruit.

But Buggy doesn't want to admire it for too long because he wants to end this quickly. So he approaches the blue fire sphere and punches it. The blue fire sphere breaks into numerous small cubes because of Buggy's awakened devil fruit ability.

Strangely, Imu isn't inside the chopped blue fire sphere. He has gotten out and he suddenly shows up behind Buggy with a punch released. Imu's punch is covered with reddish black flame and it flies straight at Buggy's spine at a high speed.

Too bad for Imu, his attack has been read by Buggy who dodges the punch. Buggy turns around to the left while evading Imu's punch narrowly. Imu is surprised by Buggy's sudden maneuver and he tries to get away.

However, Buggy catches his arm, stopping him from escaping. Unable to break free, Imu sends a kick at Buggy's waist, but it is blocked by Buggy's dragon tail. Imu really has lost the initiative in this battle and everything he does can be read completely by Buggy.

"You have healed your injuries, but you can't recover your stamina. Heck, you even used a lot of your stamina to heal your injuries. Be it your physical or mental fatigue, they've weakened you so much. Don't you think it's time to give up? You don't have any chance to win."

Buggy says that with a worried tone, but his eyes are looking down on Imu. He really enjoys this role of being the bad guy who always gets their asses kicked by the main characters in stories. Well, that wouldn't happen to him now because Imu isn't the main character of this world.

Anyway, Imu's shock disappears and he is getting angry again. He sends more attacks at Buggy using everything he has left. He squeezes every bit of power that remains in his body, but nothing is working. All his attacks are useless because Buggy can dodge or block them easily.

"Weak!"

*BAM*

Buggy grabs Imu's face and throws him to the top of Red Line. Imu can't resist it because he has gotten too weak to resist Buggy's power. The gap between their power keeps getting wider, and it all comes from their mentality.

Imu who has gotten used to having everything go his way can't handle this humiliation. Having himself overpowered by Buggy and getting beaten up really hurt his pride. Everything he does to change the situation fails, destroying his mentality even further.

His mentality affects his skills and power so much. He gets worse over time, making the fight easier for Buggy who actually has gotten weaker too because of fatigue. Both of them are getting weaker, but Imu's decline of power is faster than Buggy who has a stronger mentality.

The difference in their battle experiences has become the deciding factor now. Surely both of them have years of battle experience and maybe Imu has fought more than Buggy in his life. But Imu hasn't fought for years or maybe hundreds of years while Buggy has fought very often to this day, so his experiences are still fresh in his mind and body.

Furthermore, Buggy is more used to difficult and almost impossible battles than Imu who is more used to ordering people these last hundreds of years. Buggy also never expected this to be an easy battle while Imu is the opposite. That's why Buggy won't break down even if he almost dies in this battle.

Buggy approaches Imu who struggles to get up from the ground after being thrown. He looks at Buggy with an expression of disbelief. He can't believe someone like Buggy who was nothing but an ant in his eyes can humiliate him this much.

"Who exactly are you?"

"Who? That's an interesting question to ask for someone in your situation. I'm a pirate, a captain, a man, a husband, a father, a human, a friend, and other things that I can't mention. But for you, I am obviously an enemy."

"Are you a D? You must be a D, aren't you?"

"Sigh, I've told you, I am not someone from that clan. I don't even know the full history of your beef with D clan. Damn man, you really believe that prophecy so much that you can't accept someone who isn't a descendant of that clan defeats you."

"If you aren't a D, then why do you want to destroy us so much?"

"Really? You're asking that? Rather than that stupid question, you should ask whether there is someone who's not part of your group who doesn't want to destroy you. I can guarantee that everyone who knows your true color would want to destroy you if they had the power to do it. But personally, for me the World Government that the World Nobles made is nothing but a massive and organized pirate crew. It's normal for pirate crews to fight each other to take the others' wealth, right? Which pirate crew isn't tempted to get the World Nobles' wealth? Though my reason is simple. You are blocking my way to reach my dream. Your existence prevents me and my crew from achieving our goal of exploring every place in this world. We want to explore those islands that you control, those islands we don't know but you've found and used, the sky that you watch, the bottom of the sea that you suppress, and the biggest land, the Red Line that you kept for yourself. We can't go to those places because of you, so we need to remove you. Selfish, right? Pirates are like that, just like you guys. So we are the same."

Buggy grins while walking toward Imu who has stood up. Imu is quite surprised, and he is very insulted for being told to be the same as pirates. For him, pirates are filthy and useless, so he is very insulted. Though he can't do anything now even if he is enraged.

However, Imu's anger suddenly turns into joy when he sees Buggy's half-dragon form and lightning disappears. Buggy returns to his normal self and he also gets weakened as some of his energy also disappears along with the borrowed power.

"Oh, fuck."

Imu immediately uses this chance and dashes to attack Buggy. He opens his arms and claws while coating them with black & red flame. Then he swipes his claws at Buggy from both sides at a very high speed.

Buggy looks at Imu with a plain expression as if he has predicted this. Then when Imu's burning claws almost touch him, Buggy's body suddenly gets chopped to the cellular level. He looks like a cluster of dust now which then spreads like dust blown by wind.

The spreading dust suddenly forms a left fist in front of Imu's stomach and punches it very strongly. It makes Imu cough some blood and arches his body. But then, the dust forms the right fist that appears below Imu's jaw and sends a powerful uppercut.

The rest of the dust has formed Buggy's remaining body parts on top of Imu. He waits there to send a dropkick on Imu's body right after the uppercut. His drop kick slams Imu onto the ground again and now Buggy is standing on Imu's back.

"Hah, you thought you would have a chance just because the borrowed abilities have returned to their owners? Dream on! I already knew they would return around this time, so I've prepared for it. Did you think I would be that weak without those borrowed powers? Too bad I never relied solely on those abilities to win. I always believe I can win even without them. It's just that winning would be more difficult, but it's not impossible."

Buggy looks down on Imu who lies under his feet with a bloody mouth and nose.

"King of Trash Nobles, you are much more naive than I thought or maybe you are just too desperate. You are too miserable that I can't watch it anymore. So let's end this now."

Buggy unsheaths and swings his sword at Imu's neck in a split second. Imu doesn't even have time to react before his neck gets chopped by Buggy's awakened power, so there is no injury. Then Buggy controls Imu's head to fly up and he grabs Imu's head.

Buggy grins evilly while looking at Imu's shocked eyes. "You will wish you weren't immortal now."

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