One Piece - I Am A Different Luffy! BOOK1!

Chapter 16 - Orange Town 1

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Third Person POV

Orange Town, East Blue.

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As soon as the explosion subsided and the entire area fell into silence, all those who had witnessed this spectacle were left wondering what had just happened.

*Whistle*

In the midst of the silence that enveloped the atmosphere, Luffy whistled, breaking the quiet, and exclaimed.

"That was amazing, the art is an explosion! Hahaha!" Luffy laughed heartily, snapping the rest of his crew out of their dazed state, and they stared at him as if he were a madman.

"How can you find this incredible!?" Kuina and Lami shouted comically.

Luffy paid no attention to them and looked at the island, still some distance away. He turned to his crew with a smile.

"I think our friends are waiting for us, so let's keep attacking them!" Luffy said as the ship regained speed after the explosion had temporarily hindered its progress.

"Are the cannons ready? Keep firing, Kuina, you're in charge of them. I'll head over there to attack the center of Buggy's camp with Yamato." Luffy said as wings sprouted from his back, and his hair grew.

"EHHHHH???" Yamato exclaimed in surprise when she was suddenly grabbed by Luffy and swiftly pulled into the air.

Luffy soared into the sky with Yamato in tow, covering two kilometers in no time and landing in the square where the bandits' camp was located. Chaos reigned at the fringes of the location, but the center remained relatively unaffected by the marine ship's explosions. Luffy observed that they were preparing another Buggyball to shoot at the ship quickly, and he wasn't going to allow that to happen again.

Hovering about 500 meters above the ground, with his arm wrapped around Yamato's waist, they rapidly descended at high speed.

"How is the ship intact after that attack?" Mohji asked in disbelief.

They had been celebrating when they witnessed the explosion, thinking it had hit the ship.

However, as the steam and smoke cleared, they were dumbfounded to see the ship approaching, seemingly unaffected by the explosion.

"Is it just me, or was the Buggyball explosion much more powerful than usual..."

"I believe they intercepted the bomb before it hit the ship since the explosion seemed quite close," Cabaji commented next to Buggy.

"So prepare another Buggyball!" Buggy shouted, and everyone readied themselves to launch another attack on the marine ship.

Meanwhile, unnoticed by them, Luffy and Yamato had landed with a powerful thud.

"Boom!"

The sudden noise caught the attention of the pirates and the orange-haired girl, who watched in surprise as these figures appeared after the dust from the earlier attack began to settle.

"Who are you, you scoundrels!?" Buggy was the first to speak, clearly enraged, as he witnessed these two individuals.

He shouted hysterically, seeing a tall, tattooed man wearing black pirate clothes with a straw hat on his back, along with a taller woman with horns holding a massive spiked kanabo. They seemed to have appeared magically in the midst of the ongoing battle against the "Navy," which was drawing closer.