Transcended as Lord Buggy-Part 3

503. No Chance Doffy

Doflamingo's cells are screaming at him to run and not fight Buggy now. But his heart & mind refuse to run away from this. He is someone who has Conqueror Haki, someone who wants to be a King, standing on top of everyone.

Although he is calculative and smart enough to avoid unnecessary fights, it doesn't mean that he is afraid to fight stronger opponents. He is never afraid of Buggy. It's just that he knows his chance to win is low, so he was building his power and force to defeat Buggy in the future.

But that is a big problem in itself, he is too calculative and cautious for someone who wants to reach the top. He rarely challenges himself to his limit like Buggy, so his growth is slower. High risk high return, and Buggy always takes more risks than anyone.

"Can't we talk it out, Clown Lord? What do you want?"

"Nothing to talk about here. You dared turn my mate into a toy, so you should dare to take the consequence. I've given you plenty of warnings and you should know better than touching my people."

Doffy grits his teeth as he knows he can't get away from this. He can only fight now if he wants to survive. And he knows he can't play around, he needs to go all-out from the beginning because his opponent is the one acknowledged as the strongest in the world.

The surroundings suddenly transform into countless white strings. Doffy uses his awakened devil fruit right off the bat to fight Buggy. He controls the numerous strings to attack Buggy from all sides and he coats them all with Armament Haki.

Buggy doesn't move and just stands there as the attacks are getting closer. There's no sign of fear in his eyes, it's Luffy instead who is worried. Luffy shouts at him to get away and he even tries to save Buggy using Gear 2.

"Careful kid, this is dangerous."

Buggy grabs Luffy's shoulder as the Straw Hat tries to grab his body. Then he pushes Luffy down as the string attacks are coming. Luffy can't retaliate and he looks up to see a very shocking scene he never expected.

The string attacks hit Buggy's body, but instead of damaging him, it's the strings that get destroyed. They break into small cubes and disperse upon contact with Buggy's body. Luffy is stunned seeing this unbelievable scene because he can feel how powerful those attacks were, but they couldn't hurt Buggy at all.

This is still under Doffy's speculations, but he is still surprised because his attacks were coated with haki and Buggy still chopped them up. It means that Buggy's ability can ignore haki. Or it just means that Doffy's haki is too weak for Buggy, but there's no way Doffy will admit that.

But well, Buggy's ability can ignore haki, even the strongest haki. He can cut even advanced haki which is the combination of both advanced armament and conqueror haki. That's why Doffy's normal haki attack won't even make him flinch.

Both Doffy & Luffy can't believe what they just saw. Doffy has gathered information about Buggy and other Emperors, so he knows quite a lot about Buggy's power. But the information he got doesn't describe Buggy's power well enough.

He always felt like he had overestimated Buggy's power a lot, but even his overestimation wasn't enough. Buggy's power is much more ridiculous than he thought. Now Doffy realizes that his chance is much lower than he thought it was.

"Don't you think you have looked down on me long enough, Flamingo?"

Buggy suddenly jumps towards Doflamingo who's still staying high in the air. He is moving up very fast and even uses Doffy's strings as footholds. It surprises Doffy so much because it's very hard for others to detect his strings as each one of them is too thin to be seen with naked eye, but Buggy sees them all.