Transcended as Lord Buggy

Chapter 237: Working on It

After Buggy gave his order, the Clowns leave the ship to challenge the samurais. Of course, the ones who are on guard duty can't leave. It includes Enel who will guard the ship today. He is very pissed because he can't fight and need to stay on the ship.

While Enel is pissed, Magnus is very excited because he finally can fight. He has stayed on the ship for a few days and it is suffocating. As a giant, Magnus can't just go around as he pleases because he might scare people.

Now, he can finally go to Kuri and even fights some samurais. The people in Kuri have heard about him so they won't be too surprised. Some samurais even want to fight him because they have never fought a giant before.

But they've lost miserably to the Clowns before and Magnus didn't even join. So now, some of the samurais who want to fight Magnus become unsure and cancel their plan to fight him. Only a few still want to fight Magnus even after getting beaten by the Clowns.

Just as Magnus enters the town, these people immediately come to meet him. He doesn't even need to challenge them because they are the ones who challenge him. These people also want to prove that samurais aren't weak by fighting Magnus.

Magnus accepts their challenges but he'll only do it after he walks around the town. He also asks them to find a wide place for the fight because he needs a wide place to move around with his giant size. They agree and then Magnus 2alk around the town while they prepare the location.

As that happens, the other Clowns have started to fight after challenging any samurai they met. It's easy for them to make the samurais accept their challenges. They just need to taunt them with insults and no samurai will refuse.

As pirates, the Clowns are really good at insulting people. Well, not every pirate is good at insulting others, but the Clowns are really good at it because they've learned it. Insulting others is useful to taunt their enemies sometime, so they learn it, and apply it in battles.

Fights between pirates and samurais spread all over Kuri. Of course, the news reaches Oden & the Red Scabbards. They are very confused why the Clowns do this so suddenly after being silent for 2 days.

Suddenly, Kanjuro says, "This is an insult. They must be trying to show us that we are weak through these duels, just like what they did in the sparring match. I hear they insulted our people, that's why the duels started. They just won through dirty tricks, but they think it's their real power."

Kanjuro says that to provoke the Red Scabbards while appearing concerned. He wants to make their relationship with the pirates gets worse. Good for him, the other Red Scabbards agree with him, and they are angry.

Only Oden stays calm and doesn't get provoked. It is but a small matter, after all, and Buggy has told him that this will happen. Buggy also told him that if the 9 Red Scabbards are angry, he needs to let them be.

Buggy will give Oden an explanation after the Red Scabbards leave, so Oden doesn't say anything now. When the 9 Red Scabbards ask him for leave to settle this matter. He allows them just like what Buggy asked him.

The 9 Red Scabbards leave the room and go to find any duel. They want to stop these duels and make the Clowns return to their ship. These duels will just disturb the people, at least that's what they think.

But before they can find the duels, they are stopped by the Clowns executives that have waited for them near Oden's residence. Magnus is also there after defeating the samurais who challenged him.

Still, even with Magnus, they only have 7 people because Enel is on the ship, Ruff won't fight, and Deon is on a mission. The Red Scabbards now don't have any choice except to fight the executives if they want to go through.

"Why are you doing this?" asks Raizo.

"What is 'this'?" asks Palu.

"Don't act stupid! You know what we mean," says Denjiro.

"Ah! You mean the duels? Well, our men are bored so they just go to find entertainment," says Cricket while smirking.

Such explanation makes the Scabbards angrier and Kanjuro asks, "Then you also search for entertainment?"

"Of course, we can't let our men have all the fun," says Manba.

"Bastards! If that's what you want, then we'll gladly take it. But just like what your men do, let's not fight in groups like before," says Ashura.

"Sure, anything is fine. The result won't change, after all," says Palu.

The battle distribution is the same except that Enel's opponent becomes Magnus' opponent. Kin'emon and Ashura attack Cricket, while Inuarashi & Kawamatsu attack Palu. Kiku attacks Mantis, Denjiro attacks Manba, Kanjuro attacks Brook, Raizo attacks Jude, and Nekomamushi attacks Magnus.

The Red Scabbards want to settle their scores, that's why they choose the same opponents. They don't know that the Clowns have planned all of these. Brook has a job to weaken Kanjuro, so they made him fight Kanjuro since the sparring match.

In the sparring match, Brook just wanted to test his chance against Kanjuro. He found out that his chance is high so he is very confident that he can do his job well. Now, he just needs to do his job and finish it.

They all spread to find empty places so that they can go all out. If they fight in the town, they won't be able to use their full strengths because they can destroy buildings or injure people. That's the last thing they want to do.

When the Red Scabbards and executives go to settle their scores, Buggy meets Oden in Oden's residence. Buggy comes with Dela like usual because she is his secretary. Toki is also present because she is curious about Buggy's reason too.

"So, can you tell me your reason for doing this, Buggyjiro?" asks Oden.

"Right to the case, huh? Fine, let me explain it to you. It's because I want to make our men stronger," says Buggy.

"Stronger? What do you mean by that? They can just train if you want them to be stronger. Also, we don't just need strength for war, but teamwork. What you do right now is souring our relationship and we won't have good teamwork," says Toki.

"Yeah, that's correct, but not entirely. Toki, I've gone through a lot of battles and I can say that teamwork isn't always necessary. We have just met and we'll fight together soon. Building good teamwork is something that's very hard to do. So rather than building teamwork, I plan to build a strong sense of competition," says Buggy.

"Hmm? Do you mean you want to make my men & yours compete with each other?" asks Oden.

"Yeah, that's right. The plan is to make them want to be better than the other. That way, they will exert all their strengths and even surpass their limits to win the war. We've fought Beasts Pirates many times and we know that this method is effective. They don't have teamwork, so we can win even without it," says Buggy.

Oden thinks for a while and he agrees with Buggy. When he was in Whitebeard Pirates & Roger Pirates, Oden has seen this thing used many times. The pirates are crewmates, but they still compete with each other and don't think much about teamwork sometimes.

Even so, they still won many battles because they are strong, strong enough to ignore teamwork. So Oden now thinks that this strategy is not too bad. Besides, Buggy also says that these duels will train their men too, so they'll get stronger.

"Alright, I don't have any problem with that. I will hide this from the Red Scabbards too so that they'll focus on getting stronger," says Oden.

"Alright, thanks for your understanding," says Buggy.

"Sure. So now, it's just us who are left. Let's spar, Buggyjiro, I've prepared a place," says Oden while grinning.

"I know you'll say that and I won't refuse again. But I have something to show you first," says Buggy.

Buggy takes Oden & Toki outside to see 5 men who are unconscious and have been tied up.

Oden widens his eyes and says, "Oniwabanshu?!"

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