One Piece: Wanted for Having Too Much Fun

A few of Buggy's crew hurriedly loaded the cannon with a Buggy Ball and lit the fuse after aiming it straight at Luffy.

"Now, flashily die, you thieves!" Buggy declared with a wide, smug grin on his face.

"Oh yeah? You think I'll even move from here for this?" Luffy said as the Buggy Ball flew toward them at full speed.

Nami stared at the incoming ball, frozen in fear.

"GOMU GOMU—BALLOON!"

Luffy sucked in a massive gulp of air. His body puffed up like a balloon, growing fatter and rounder until he looked like a three-meter beach ball with limbs.

The Buggy Ball struck Luffy's balloon belly dead-on, spinning furiously. Without missing a beat, Luffy used his rubber body to bounce it right back—fully applying Hooke's Law, though he had absolutely no idea what that meant.

BOOM!

The Buggy Ball exploded, obliterating the entire building behind them into a cloud of rubble.

"Shishishi~ now their numbers are reduced," Luffy grinned, proud of his rubbery deflection.

"WHAT ARE YOU?! Explain what just happened!" Nami shouted, completely baffled. Her mind was running out of space to process all the insanity she'd seen in just a few hours. First a man who could detach his limbs, then a weird pocket bottle, and now… this balloon man?!

"Gomu Gomu—" Luffy began cheerfully.

"No, not that! That's not what I meant!" Nami cut him off, exasperated.

Just then, the sound of movement came from within the dust cloud. All four of them turned their attention to the source.

Out stepped Buggy and a tall, lean man. Buggy, looking singed and bruised, was dragging an unconscious crew member in front of him like a meat shield. He was clearly injured, but only on the surface. Meanwhile, Cabaji appeared completely unharmed—though dramatically holding a giant lion in one hand.

They dropped their "protection" and glared at the group with grim expressions. The rest of their crew? Out cold.

"What the—" Zoro blinked in shock.

"They actually used their crewmates to shield themselves…" Nami muttered grimly.

"That lion… isn't that…" Lucen squinted at Richie, the oversized beast, trying to recall.

"Damn it… I was unconscious… Eh? What the heck happened here?" Mohji groaned as he lifted a huge slab of stone off himself. He looked around in confusion.

Then his gaze landed on Richie, lying limp in front of Cabaji.

"WHAT DID YOU DO, YOU BASTARD?!" Mohji roared, furious.

Cabaji glared back. "I just didn't want to dirty my clothes."

Veins popped on Mohji's forehead as he clenched his teeth in rage. Then his eyes locked onto Lucen.

"You! Did you do this?!"

"Nope. He did." Lucen casually pointed at Luffy beside him.

Mohji turned to Luffy's goofy face, squinted suspiciously, rubbed his eyes, then looked again. After a few repeats, he finally screamed in horror, "WHAAAH! Y-You… how are you still alive?!"

"Oh, the weird-looking guy. Well, I'm a rubber man!" Luffy said cheerfully as he stretched his cheek to inhuman levels.

Nami just stared. At this point, weird was the new normal.

"I see… so you're a rubber man. That explains… all of this," Buggy muttered, still trying to comprehend.

Then he turned to Lucen with a cold glint in his eye. "Pretty boy. Give me back my hands."

Buggy could feel a faint connection to his missing hand—but it was almost non-existent. He didn't know how Lucen did it, but he knew it had something to do with that weird pocket.

"Naaah~" Lucen tugged at the corner of his eye and stuck out his tongue, making the most childish face imaginable.

"YOUUU!" Buggy's forehead veins popped like party streamers.

"Captain Buggy, leave it to me," Cabaji said as he rolled forward—not walked, but cycled on his unicycle.

"Okay," Buggy nodded, stepping aside as Cabaji pedaled full speed, then leaped high into the air like a circus ninja.

"WOOOOW!" x2

Gravity promptly remembered its job and yanked Cabaji back down at lightning speed, his sword aimed straight at Lucen.

CLANG!

Cabaji's grin flattened when his sword was blocked—by Zoro.

"You're a swordsman, huh? Then I'm your opponent," Zoro said with a smirk, pressing his blade harder and forcing Cabaji back.

"Roronoa Zoro… it's an honor to kill you," Cabaji said coldly.

"That we'll se—ugh!" Zoro winced as his wound flared up painfully.

"Zoro, you should rest. Me and Lucen can handle this," Luffy offered, seeing Zoro struggle to stand.

"Hey! Leave me out of this!" Lucen protested from the side, casually munching on a piece of meat while seated like he was watching a wrestling match.

"What the heck are you doing?!" Nami yelled.

"Uh… nothing?" Lucen blinked. He was planning to sit back and enjoy the WWE-style chaos, but he doubted Nami would understand.

"Hey! You still have food?!" Luffy's attention was immediately hijacked as he lunged toward Lucen for a bite.

"These morons—wh—AHHH!" Zoro was in mid-eye-roll when a kick landed squarely on his wound. He hit the ground, groaning in agony.

"You shouldn't be distracted during a fight," Cabaji said coldly.

"Very good, Cabaji! GYAHAHA!" Buggy laughed in the background, entertained. 

Whereas Mohji crawled to see Richie's condition.

"SO GUYS, THAT RIGHT THERE WAS A DIRTY TRICK—BY THE… UH… WEIRD CYCLE GUY!" Lucen shouted dramatically, holding the meat like a microphone and giving commentary like a sports announcer.

Unfortunately, half the food in his mouth splattered across Nami's face.

"YOU IDIOT!" Nami snatched the remaining meat from Lucen's hand and shoved it all into his mouth. "YOUR FRIEND IS DYING OVER THERE AND YOU'RE COMMENTATING LIKE IT'S A GAME?!"

"I'M SSSOOORRYYYY!" Lucen wailed after swallowing it whole.

"Nami, why'd you give all the food to Lu—" SMACK! Luffy was cut off by a surprise fist to the face.

Zoro, Cabaji, and even Buggy paused mid-fight, stunned by the spectacle.

Cabaji turned to Zoro with a mocking smirk. "Seems like your friends don't care much about you."

Zoro shakily rose to his feet, blood dripping from his side. He was breathing hard but steady.

"Well… they don't need to," Zoro said, raising his sword. "Because it'd be shameful for me if they did."

With that, he cut off the bandage on his wound. The stitches tore as well, and blood poured like a fountain.

Everyone stared in shock.

TO BE CONTINUED…

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A/N:

So we know Zoro is prideful here what he meant was that if they were worried then it was a shame on him because this goal was to be strongest swordsman losing to a small pirate with little skill was disgrace to him.

Luffy who even with his random personality would be serious in occasions like this acted like that mainly because he believe Lucen. Don't ask more just know he is Luffy.

Next chapter for collection would be when this book completes 400 collection.