Bara Bara no Mi

Buggy carries this Paramecia fruit, which he ate by mistake. The power divides the body into separate parts that hover and move at the wielder's command, and it grants total immunity to slashing and piercing, defining its owner as a Splitting Human. Western manga and dubs call it the Chop-Chop Fruit.

The oval, orange-red fruit is made of small round segments dotted with swirls and topped by green leaves, small enough to sit in one palm and resembling an outsized raspberry or a little pineapple. Its power first showed when Buggy choked one of his men with a detached hand, though the mechanics stayed unclear until later.

Blades and points simply cannot harm the user; instead of being truly severed, any cut piece stays under full control and can attack independently or snap back into place. The wielder may also split apart on their own, without an outside strike, letting them slip through blocks or dodge blows they see coming, and they can survive detached from vital limbs for long stretches. The levitation extends to held items, so Buggy can hoist foes far larger than himself.

Blunt force still hurts, since only edged attacks are negated, though flying a struck part away can absorb some impact. A separated piece still transmits sensation, so tickling, pinching, or restraining scattered parts is a real weakness. Control also fades past a fixed radius, a sphere 200 Bara Bara wide centered where the user stands, and the feet alone cannot float and must stay grounded. The usual Devil Fruit weaknesses apply as well.

Buggy first meant only to sell the fruit and adapted to it after the accidental swallowing, reaching a competent if unremarkable level of skill. He fights with it, guards himself by ejecting parts or grabbing human shields, and punishes underlings with a floating hand. Because cuts trigger his defense automatically, he shows no fear of swordsmen despite his general cowardice.

His techniques include Bara Bara Ho, firing his knife-wielding hands, and Bara Bara Festival, scattering into countless spinning fragments to swarm a target. After the timeskip he wore an oversized cloak to loom larger as a Warlord and later, through the Cross Guild formed with Crocodile and Mihawk, was accidentally counted among the Four Emperors. Long ago, as a Roger Pirates apprentice, he faked eating a replica to keep the real fruit, only for Shanks to startle him into gulping it down.