One Piece Gunslinger

The result of washing was only slightly better than not washing at all. Li Ang wasn't very good at washing clothes, and he didn't have any soap or laundry detergent. So no matter how much he scrubbed, he didn't get rid of the bloodstains at all.

After wringing it out, he realized the blood had turned black, and wearing it made him look like a beggar, all filthy. In the end, Li Ang decided to ignore it and figure out how to change into clean clothes in Orange Town.

This explains why, when Li Ang first arrived in Orange Town, the two circus members thought he looked like a vagrant, and why Leigh smelled a strong stench of blood along the way.

However, warnings are warnings, but who is Bucky? Is he the kind of person who stops moving forward and becomes suspicious because of such warnings?

After casually dismissing Mochi, Bucky asked, "Have you guys thought it through? Do you want to follow me?"

What's there to consider? It's just helping Bucky steal things; it's not like he'll catch me and do *that*. As long as I'm alive, I'll always have a chance. Besides, with Bucky's intelligence, he'll have plenty of opportunities to run away later.

Seeing their quick agreement, Li Ang shook his head. How naive! If they can catch you once, they can catch you again. The two still haven't figured out why Bucky found them. Once Leigh Lion remembers your scent, you'll never have a chance to turn things around.

However, both of them agreed, and Leon didn't want to cause trouble. He followed them, and the treasure was hauled onto the ship. This was for the best; if a conflict broke out, Bucky wouldn't be able to conveniently pull out his Bucky Cannon.

Before being hoisted up, Nami whispered to Leon, "Just say you're one of our accomplices, otherwise Buggy will think you're worthless and will definitely kill you."

These words left Li Ang feeling both heartened and heartbroken, leaving him at a loss for words.

He felt warm inside because these two hadn't betrayed him and still considered him a partner in adversity. He felt heartbroken, though, because he didn't need their protection at all. He was waiting to get the blueprints for the Bucky Cannon from Bucky; he was going to fight the boss later.

"Don't worry, Little Thief Cat," Li Ang said. "If I wasn't afraid that Bucky would blow up my ship with his cannon, I wouldn't bother with him. I would have just overturned him. Once I got on board, I would have just hidden in the side and watched him take care of me."

Not at all, Nami didn't seem to mind this unusual nickname; in fact, she thought it suited her style quite well. But now wasn't the time to think about that, so she quickly advised, "Don't do anything foolish. Buggy has dozens of men."

"Yeah, yeah. We don't want to work for Bucky either; we'll have plenty of opportunities to escape later."

"Hey, why doesn't anyone believe me?" Li Ang thought dejectedly.

Since neither of them believed him, Li Ang simply asked, "How about we make a bet? If I win, then you two will no longer be thieves, okay?"

The two men rolled their eyes upwards; expecting them to stop stealing the treasure would be tantamount to asking for their lives. They retorted irritably, "What if you lose?"

"I lost? If I lost, I'll lose my life. What else can I give you?"

Chapter 147 Secret Technique

The moment Li Ang stepped onto the deck, he was immediately targeted by Lion Liki.

"Mommy, this is the person."

Just as Liki was about to roar and tell Mochi that Li Ang was the source of the bloodshed, Li Ang turned around and glared at him unexpectedly.

Although Leakey was a lion, he had been following Bucky for the past few years, enjoying a life of luxury and having long lost his wildness. A single glare from those murderous eyes silenced him instantly, and he lay trembling on the ground.

"Tch, he's becoming more and more like a puppy." Seeing that Liki quickly succumbed to his murderous aura, Li Ang immediately lost interest in the lion.

"Hehe, welcome to the Buggy Pirates." Buggy was completely oblivious to Riki's strange behavior behind him, and was even happy to have recruited three talented people. "Now we can steal treasures all over the world, yahahaha."

“However, Captain Bucky, I have a question to ask.” Seeing Bucky so excited that he was gesturing wildly, Leon’s curiosity was piqued.

"Since you're so fond of treasure, why are you occupying Orange Town and refusing to leave? Is there some treasure hidden beneath Orange Town?"

This question made Bucky fall into deep thought. He stroked his chin and said, "That's true. Why am I still in Orange Town? I should have left long ago. There are countless treasures waiting for me in the world. It must have been some bastard who suggested it. Who dared to interrupt my treasure hunt?"

Although Buggy is ridiculous, he has always been a person with dreams and ambitions. He shouldn't be like some other low-level pirates who take over a place and then become local tyrants.

Bucky has spent his entire life searching for treasure, or at least on his way to find it. He shouldn't have stopped, especially not for two years.

There's hardly anything to be made of in a tiny Orange Town. Even if Baki were to plunder every inch of the town, he wouldn't gain much wealth. But finding a treasure is worth more than plundering dozens of Orange Towns.

So when Li Ang asked this question, Bucky didn't know how to answer, nor did he know what kind of will had led Bucky to have the idea of ​​taking over a town.

Li Ang could only attribute this to the protagonist's halo; Bucky had already been squatting here a step ahead, just waiting for the protagonist to come and farm him for experience and nautical charts.

"If there's no treasure in Orange Town, then why are we going back? There are countless sunken and buried treasures in the Grand Line." Since Buggy was starting to doubt his life, Li Ang seized the opportunity to persuade him to go to the Grand Line and stop causing trouble for the already impoverished people of Orange Town.

"Yeah, that's a good reminder." Bucky slapped his forehead, then pulled out a nautical chart from his pocket. "I clearly have a nautical chart for the Grand Line, so what am I doing here? Let's go treasure hunting on the Grand Line, guys."

Seeing that Bucky had finally seen the light and decided to leave the East Blue, where there was little future, and head to the Grand Line, where there were more opportunities and greater financial prospects, Leon nodded in agreement.

"Hehe, well done. From now on, you'll be my strategist." After figuring it out, Bucky reached out and put his arm around Li Ang's shoulder.

Upon hearing Bucky's invitation to Leon to be his strategist, Leon immediately shook his head and said, "No, if I spend too much time with a bunch of idiots like you, I'll become an idiot too. Please allow me to refuse in order not to become an idiot."

Seeing that he had successfully dissuaded Bucky from returning to Orange Town to cause trouble, Li Ang stopped wasting time and got straight to the point: to teach Bucky and his gang a lesson and then obtain the method for making the Bucky Bomb.

"What?! You actually called me a big-nosed guy?!" Bucky shouted angrily. "I'm going to blow you to pieces."

"Captain Bucky, he didn't call you big-nosed, he called you a big idiot."

This guy's words only made Bucky angrier: "You actually called me a big-nosed person? I'm going to blow you up too!"

Li Ang went through all these roundabout ways just to rescue the people of Orange Town, and he didn't want to kill Bucky directly.

The reasons, besides the Pakistani cannon, are two other main points.

Firstly, while Bucky can be quite hateful at times and has done many bad things, he's not entirely incorrigible. Bucky's true interests aren't killing or causing destruction, but rather finding treasure.

If someone is obsessed with treasure hunting, then he becomes a treasure hunter, not a pirate. Just like Luffy and his crew, they are practically adventurers under the guise of pirates, not interested in the piracy of burning, killing, and looting, but only in adventure.

Buggy is similar. If he weren't just there to give the protagonist experience points, he would at most be a treasure hunter posing as a pirate. Even after becoming a Shichibukai, he didn't use his privateering license to rob people. Instead, he used his Shichibukai status to start a logistics company.

Therefore, in Li Ang's view, Baki is not an irredeemable villain. He can be reformed if possible, instead of always resorting to knives, which is uncivilized.

Secondly, although Buggy considers Shanks an enemy, Shanks considers Buggy a close friend.

Moreover, although Bucky repeatedly says that he hates Shanks immensely, only he himself knows what he really thinks.

This made Li Ang less willing to take action against Pakistan. Li Ang was not alone; he had a large family and tens of thousands of comrades waiting to join him in overthrowing the Qing and restoring the Ming.

Within the Revolutionary Army, the natural approach is to try and win over pirate adventurers like Shanks, who are similar to Luffy, but if they can't win them over, they shouldn't offend them.

So, Li Ang took a long detour, not going straight ashore in Orange Town to gang up on them. His original plan was to send those two powerful figures away before turning back to fight them, but now that Bucky is catching up, it's not a bad thing. Anyway, fighting here won't affect Orange Town.

Before Bucky could finish his tirade, Li Ang rushed forward and punched Bucky in the chest.

The two beautiful women next to them hadn't even realized what was happening yet. One second they were having a harmonious and friendly meeting, and the next second they started fighting over a single word.

Remembering what Li Ang had said earlier, he quickly took two steps back, creating distance, and hid in a corner.

Although Buggy hadn't expected Leon to attack so suddenly, with his Devil Fruit powers at his disposal, he felt invincible. He split his upper body in two, causing Leon's punch to miss its mark.

Then Bucky didn't hold back, taking out eight throwing knives from somewhere, holding them between his fingers, and throwing them at Li Ang.

Bucky, true to his circus boss reputation, proved his knife-throwing skills were even more effective than firearms at close range. In the blink of an eye, he was closing in on Li Ang.

If someone were unaware of Baji's true nature, they might be unable to stop themselves after being torn apart and be instantly killed by this sudden flying knife.

However, Li Ang needed to know Bucky's true strength. Before throwing the punch, Li Ang anticipated that Bucky would dodge it, so he didn't use much force, just a quick, deliberate move. Then, without even looking, knowing that Bucky would throw a knife in front of him, he simply dodged to the side.

"Puff puff."

Eight throwing knives, eight sounds, each knife piercing diagonally downwards into the deck.

"A Devil Fruit?" Li Ang asked in confusion after dodging the flying knife attack.

That's right, Li Ang is still acting, still playing someone who doesn't know much about Bucky. Even his previous, deliberately missed attack was all an act.

"Hmph, Lord Buggy is a user of the Chop-Chop Fruit, which allows him to cut his body into pieces. You can forget about hitting Buggy."

Bucky heard his men mocking Leon and chuckled smugly. "So you have no chance of winning. Um, by the way, what's your name?"

"Li Ang."

“You have no chance of winning, Li Ang.”

Looking at Bucky's smug face, Leon smiled with satisfaction.

"Hmm, very good, same formula, same idiocy." Only a bunch of idiots like Buggy would willingly reveal their Devil Fruit abilities to an enemy.

Sometimes, keeping Devil Fruit abilities a secret is extremely important. This way, enemies will be caught off guard and overlook the strange and unpredictable nature of these abilities.

Just like Sugar, one of Doflamingo's subordinates, her secrecy was excellent. Aside from those turned into toys and Doflamingo's own subordinates, no one knew Sugar's abilities. When Sugar's abilities were exposed, the situation spiraled out of control, and Doflamingo reached his end.

If Leon hadn't known Francis's ability to control and transform the land back in the Kingdom of Yutaka, he wouldn't have devised a plan to turn Hardman's scheme into his own.

Therefore, it is very important to keep the abilities of Devil Fruits secret. Even if you reveal your abilities, you should not tell others the name of the ability or its specific effects.

Just like Blackbeard's Dark-Dark Fruit, no one knew before that Blackbeard could use it to steal other people's abilities. Otherwise, who would have let him get close to Whitebeard's corpse? Whether it was Whitebeard's subordinates or the Marines, they would definitely have done everything they could to stop him.

"Oh? So it's the Chop-Chop Fruit." Leon looked at Buggy, who had scattered and was flying in the sky, and said thoughtfully.

"Hmph, prepare to die! Tear to pieces? Joker's throwing knives!" Bucky commanded his two arms, each wielding a throwing knife, to thrust at Leon. After Leon dodged to the side, the two arms curved and attacked again.

"These are practically floating cannons." After dodging the two arms again, he looked at the arms that were attacking back and thought to himself.

Li Ang didn't want to play with two arms like this for the rest of his life. He found an opportunity, kicked the two arms away, and charged at Bucky again.

“It’s useless.” Bucky laughed smugly. “No matter how you attack, I can dodge by separating my body.”

"Is that so?" Li Ang said noncommittally. "Then I'll tell you a principle today."

"Hahaha. What kind of logic is that?"

"Don't easily reveal your Devil Fruit abilities, and even more so, don't tell others about them. Because that will expose your weaknesses." Li Ang shouted after saying this.

"Secret technique!"

"A secret technique?!?"

"Step on my toes!"

Chapter 148 Showing off and then running away, so exciting!

"Secret Technique: Stepping on Toes!"

Normally, this sentence doesn't need to be shouted, but Li Ang just felt that if you fight without shouting the name of a move, it would be a huge loss.

"What the hell? His secret technique is stepping on toes?" Nami, who was hiding to the side, watched Li Ang solemnly explain for so long, only to end up using a toe-stepping move. She was too embarrassed to watch. She shook her head and rubbed her forehead.

Karina, who was hugging Nami, didn't say anything, but judging from her expression, she probably meant the same thing.

However, to everyone's surprise, Li Ang's move was surprisingly effective.

Bucky the Clown's invincible ability to tear things apart was rendered useless by this move, and he was ruthlessly trampled on by Leon.

quiet--

"Ouch, it hurts!"

"Eh~~~!!"

Seeing Bucky's face contorted in pain mid-air and his body convulsing, both Bucky's men and the two hiding in the corner gaped wide-eyed.