Transcended as Lord Buggy-Part 1

101. Clowns Battles

While Buggy fights with Strawberry, his crewmates also fight with their opponents. Jude & Manba have the easiest time because their opponents are weak even though their number is high.

Jude uses her ash power to trap & attack her opponents. She uses them as test subjects for her techniques. No one of the marine soldiers can attack her because they can't use haki. So she defeats them easily without any problem.

Manba also has an easy time, although not as easy as Jude. He uses his bazooka to defeat most of the soldiers. But then he needs to fight with his spear after he runs out of ammo. Still, he is just too strong for the soldiers and finally defeats them.

In another place, Mantis also makes her opponent overwhelmed. Her fighting style that looks like dance is very unpredictable. Even Buggy has a hard time countering her dance if he just uses the same strength as her.

She moves her staff around with random patterns and hits the Lieutenant many times. Her observation haki also makes her able to block or evade the Lieutenant's sword attacks while she dances around.

She is also very skillful with her staff that she can control her attack range anytime easily by changing her holding spot amidst her moves. Finally, the Lieutenant gets defeated after Mantis hits him many times.

Palu also defeats his opponent without much effort. He is very strong physically and his strikes are heavy because of the hammer's weight too. It makes the 2nd Lieutenant feels like he is being hit by a cannonball every time Palu strike.

He gets defeated without being able to hit Palu. The heavy strikes from Palu made his hands sore even though he uses a pair of metal gauntlets. Well, his gauntlets have dented after taking so many heavy strikes from Palu.

The only one who has a hard time fighting with the Marine is Cricket. His opponent is a Captain and a strong one. Furthermore, the guy is actually a devil fruit user. It's a zoan devil fruit, Bear Bear Fruit, model: Panda.

The Marine Captain wraps his chain on his left fist. It makes his punch gives more damage and he can block Cricket's strong punch with it. They exchange many punches and hit each other many times.

Cricket doesn't use his armament haki at all in this battle. He wants to toughen himself by fighting a strong opponent without haki. This Marine Captain is a good opponent for him because Zoan devil fruit users are strong physically.

As the 2nd in command in the crew, Cricket knows need to be stronger than the other members. He also needs to be able to support Buggy as their captain because he knows that Buggy can't do everything himself.

Their enemies will keep getting stronger and Buggy won't be able to handle all of them. So he always needs to be ready to help Buggy anytime. He has a big responsibility as the First Mate of the crew.

That's why Cricket just uses his pure physical power and does not use his haki. This will grow his basic strength and skills which are very important. Strong basic is really needed as he goes further.

Cricket keeps exchanging punches with the Marine Captain. But the Captain's punches are stronger than him since the guy transformed into a hybrid Panda.

So now, Cricket change his strategy. He opens his palms and starts to deflect the Panda's punches. Cricket uses his palms to strike the Panda's body.

The Panda-man send a left hook at Cricket, but Cricket deflected it with his right hand. Then Cricket sends a right palm strike at the Panda-man's chest. It pushes the Panda-man back a little.

Cricket then slides forward and lowers his body to evade a right punch from the Panda-man. He moves closer to the Panda-man and lookup. Then Cricket sends a full-powered palm strike at the Panda-man's lower jaw.