This peculiar destination lay about a two-hour sail from Orange Town. Strictly speaking, it wasn't an island at all—but a massive ship.
Its name was
The Sea Restaurant Baratie!
Recently established,
yet already famed as the most delicious place in the East Blue.
It had been founded by a once-legendary powerhouse who had made waves in the Grand Line—Red-Leg Zeff. Judging by the timeline, that meant little Sanji had to be there as well!
Sanji could create dishes so exquisite they were nothing short of divine—meals people across the world could only dream of. And the roots of his extraordinary culinary skill all traced back to his master, Red-Leg Zeff.
Just imagining the chance to taste food prepared by Sanji—or even by Zeff himself—made Tsuneo nearly start drooling.
This was practically…
Pirate King-level cuisine on the tip of the tongue!
Yet while Tsuneo lay lazily on the deck, basking in his anticipation of heavenly flavors to come, he had no idea that at this very moment, inside the cramped cabin below
Over the course of those short two hours
Buggy the Clown was enduring the greatest ordeal of his entire life.
The first to set his sights on Buggy was Kakuzu's partner, Hidan. One old, one young—yet strangely compatible—the pair were infamously known as the "Immortal (and Brain-Dead) Duo."
Hidan wore his gray hair slicked back, revealing eerie purple eyes. In his hands was a bloodstained triple-bladed scythe, radiating an aura of unrestrained madness—cool, violent, and downright unhinged.
The moment he stood before Buggy
Buggy nearly pissed himself.
"Hey," Hidan said, eyes gleaming.
"You can detach your hands, feet—even your head—and still live? Not only that, they can move freely?"
"Even I can't do that. How the hell did you pull it off?"
"I—I—what do you want from me?!" Buggy stammered.
"Heh, relax, relax," Hidan chuckled.
"I just want to use your body for a little ritual. Don't worry—I won't hurt you."
"I'll just hurt myself. Hahahaha!"
As he spoke, Hidan stepped forward without hesitation and casually sliced Buggy's cheek, drawing a single drop of blood.
Then he actually stopped and stepped back.
Next
He drew a circle on the floor, inscribed a triangle within it, and without another word—
Stabbed himself straight through the body.
"What?!"
At first, Buggy felt an overwhelming sense of relief.
He stabbed himself instead of me? What a good guy!
But then
A split second later, a wave of agony tore through Buggy's body, as if that blade had plunged directly into him.
Buggy the Great instantly short-circuited.
"Hehehe… how's that?" Hidan grinned wildly.
"When I stab myself, you feel it too, right? Want it even better? Let's crank it up a notch!"
Pshk! Pshk! Pshk!
Before Buggy could react, Hidan plunged the blade into his own heart again and again—over ten times, without hesitation.
Buggy began questioning the meaning of existence.
"Heh, not bad!" Hidan laughed.
"After all that, you're still alive? Excellent! Then let's do something truly beyond saving!"
Slash!
Raising his blood-soaked scythe, Hidan brought it down in a clean arc—
Severing his own head.
What the hell?!
Buggy's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets.
However
Buggy was the user of the Chop-Chop Fruit. Being decapitated did absolutely nothing to him.
He felt nothing at all.
Hidan, on the other hand, froze.
As his head rolled to the floor, reality finally caught up with him—without his body, he couldn't move at all.
So he could only shout loudly toward the door, where Kakuzu stood guard:
"Kakuzu! Hurry up! Come over here and stitch my head back on, please!"
Kakuzu walked in immediately. When he took in the scene, he grabbed Hidan's head off the floor with a look of utter disdain.
"Hidan," Kakuzu said flatly,
"next time, don't tell people you're my partner."
"Hey! Kakuzu, your IQ isn't much higher than mine, okay?" Hidan shot back.
"Did you forget? Last time you tried to use Marines to collect bounty money from the Marines!"
"Hidan. Shut up."
"Hahaha! We're half a catty short of a pound, the both of us! But still—after all this, he's acting like nothing happened. This guy's really tough!"
"Remember this clearly," Kakuzu warned.
"He's worth fifteen million Beli. Don't you dare kill him—I'm planning to cash him in."
"Relax, Kakuzu!"
At this point, Hidan had more or less had his fun and wasn't planning on inflicting further damage.
Unfortunately for Buggy
This ship had other monsters aboard.
And they were just as interested in him.
[Artist & Demolition Expert]Deidara:
"Art… is an explosion!"
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
In an instant, Buggy was blown apart into countless fragments, scattering wildly through the air. Even as a Chop-Chop Fruit user
He had never experienced fragmentation like this.
[Artist & Shipwright]Sasori of the Red Sand:
"Art… is eternal."
Next came an ordeal beyond imagination.
Buggy's body was riddled with over a hundred holes. His heart and organs were removed—
Yet somehow, he still clung stubbornly to life.
[Scientist & Ship's Doctor]Orochimaru:
"So you're a Devil Fruit user? The captain says this power is unique to this world."
"Hehehe…"
"I think it's time I conducted a thorough study."
In the end, Buggy encountered the true nightmare—
The mad scientist, Orochimaru.
Compared to everything before, this was hell itself.
A true abyss.
Please…
Just kill me…
Two hours later
Buggy the Clown had completely lost the will to live.
At the same time
Tsuneo and his crew finally arrived at their destination.
The Sea Restaurant Baratie.
...
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