One Piece: Legend of the Star Sea

"What are you doing? My appearance isn't something for you to judge," Alex grumbled, crouching down and cradling his head as he muttered to Nami.

Earlier, when Nami saw Alex stand in front of her, she recalled how he'd taken advantage of her. The memory reignited her fury—she was about to clock him again. But then, she hesitated, because his back looked oddly familiar. That moment of confusion ended as someone confirmed this idiot was indeed Alex Carter.

At first, Nami felt relieved—like a weight had lifted off her chest—and unconsciously mumbled, "Thank god it's him." But she quickly snapped back to reality. "Why the hell am I happy? I was the one who got taken advantage of!"

Then Alex, completely oblivious to his danger, had the audacity to ask what she had said—sending Nami into a mixture of embarrassment and anger. Naturally, she punched him straight in the face.

"Judging by the way your body's morphing, that's gotta be Devil Fruit power. But you can't even control it, and that's why you look like this," Buggy sneered at Alex. "Pathetic. You can't even handle your own Devil Fruit, and you want to head to the Grand Line with that Straw Hat brat? You're basically signing up to die."

Alex's heart sank. As much as he hated to admit it, Buggy had a point. If he couldn't even manage his Devil Fruit ability, how the hell was he going to survive the Grand Line?

But then again—what even was this power? It had awakened without him noticing a thing. What kind of Devil Fruit had he eaten?

While Buggy cackled maniacally, lying on the ground in pain, a white dog suddenly appeared in front of him.

"What now? You wanna die, mutt?"

Buggy's upper body was sprawled helplessly. His lower half and torso were still wrecked from the earlier fight. He could only glare at Chouchou as they stared at each other.

Chouchou, staring at the large, round, red object in front of him—Buggy's nose—lunged and bit down.

"Aaagh! You crazy dog, let go of my nose! It's not a chew toy!"

Buggy's oversized red nose became a victim of Chouchou's mighty chomp. Tears streamed down his face from the pain.

"Hey, Nami... do I look normal again?" Alex asked after mentally trying to revert his transformation.

"You? You look worse," Nami shot back. "Your face used to have symmetrical red-and-orange stripes. Now it's mostly red with a weird orange strip in the middle. It's a mess. Honestly, it's ugly."

"Whoa! That's so cool! Alex, keep going! Your Devil Fruit power is hilarious!" Luffy's excited voice rang out nearby.

"You idiot, what are you doing!? Quit gawking and take care of that big red-nosed freak already!" Alex shouted.

Only then did he realize Luffy was standing right beside him, completely fascinated by Alex's shifting face and totally forgetting about Buggy, who was still incapacitated on the ground.

"Oh, right! I almost forgot about him," Luffy said cheerfully, stretching his arms and heading toward the still-struggling Buggy, who was locked in a wrestling match with Chouchou.

"You're so weak. You're losing to a dog," Luffy said bluntly after watching Buggy get chomped on multiple times while Chouchou remained unfazed.

"Shut up! If you guys hadn't hit me where it hurts, I'd have taken care of this mutt already!" Buggy growled, enduring the pain as best he could.

"Ohhh, I get it now. You actually can beat a dog," Luffy said innocently, twisting the knife further. Buggy's body throbbed in rage.

"You damn Straw Hat brat! You mocking me!?" Buggy's upper body shot into the air as he launched into a wild flurry of attacks against Luffy.

As they clashed again, Alex looked to Nami and asked, "So? Do I look normal now?"

Nami glanced at him. "Your face stripes are finally symmetrical again… but your hair? It's standing straight up like you got hit by lightning. You look even more ridiculous than before, moron."

"Whoa, Alex, your head looks like a broom! Bwahaha!" Luffy laughed hysterically after glancing back mid-fight.

While Luffy laughed away, he didn't notice Buggy's lower half sneaking up behind him.

Buggy's legs approached silently, and one shoe extended a hidden blade—slicing toward Luffy's back.

"Whoa—close one!"

Luffy barely dodged the surprise attack, though he did get nicked, drawing a small cut.

"You dumbass! That's what you get for laughing at my hair instead of fighting properly!" Alex yelled, his blood pressure spiking from frustration.

At that very moment—psssht!—blood spurted from the wounds on Alex's body again.

Someone was seriously about to give him a stroke...

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