Excite Bullets

The crew's plague specialist, Queen, is credited with these rounds. Small enough to chamber and discharge from a plain flintlock, they behave like standard shot on the way out, but each one deposits a lab-grown pathogen into whoever it strikes. The wound itself tends not to kill; the danger lies in the infection. A telltale skull shape scars the skin wherever a round lands. The anime color-codes them, tinting Mummy rounds dark red and Ice Oni rounds blue.

Every disease crammed into these bullets is built to jump from host to host on contact, which multiplies the reach and death toll while burning through fewer rounds. Because of that, a marksman need not strike the true target at all; hitting the people around them turns those victims into living carriers, the exact ploy Daifugo ran against Luffy by infecting nearby prisoners. Scaled up, a cannonball-sized round known as the Excite Shot packs two hundred doses in one shell. Babanuki tried to launch one through his elephant's trunk at a crowd, but Luffy knotted the trunk and forced the shell to rupture inside Babanuki's own chest.

The Beasts Pirates field these rounds, and Daifugo first showed them off within the Prisoner Mine. One strain, the Mummy virus, works quickly and spreads fast, opening with fever and heavy bleeding before it withers the host into a dried, shriveled husk locked in perpetual agony rather than granting death. The other, Ice Oni, was Queen's proudest creation; it plunges a victim's temperature, wraps them in demon-shaped frost, and inflates their strength, after which reason collapses and the afflicted strike at anything near them until the cold and strain finish them off in roughly an hour.