"Doflamingo, surrender. All the members of your Donquixote Family have been defeated. Now, you are all alone."
"Fuffuffuffu~ You want me to surrender? Absolutely impossible! Let's see what's really going on!"
Doflamingo spread out his hands, which were filled with extremely dense silk threads. With such a quantity, he must have been accumulating strength since he stopped in the beginning!
He threw it to the ground, and the thick ball of thread unfolded with a bang before it touched the ground. Countless silk threads continued to spew out into the air like a volcanic eruption. Until they reached a high point, they scattered all at once, splattering around Dressrosa like a meteor shower.
"Birdcage!"
"300 Million Volt Thunderstorm!"
Hikaru waved his hand and there was the sound of thunder and lightning. The thunderstorm exploded on the thick ball of thread, instantly destroying and burning it on the spot. Only a few sparse threads were left in Doflamingo's Birdcage, which was not enough to pose a threat to the person in the cage.
"Want to race me?"
"Fuffuffuffu~ Spring Line!"
Hikaru turned his head slightly and easily avoided Doflamingo's attack.
"What speed are you competing for? No matter how fast you are, how are you going to break through these layers of 'defense' around me?"
As Doflamingo moved his fingers, more civilians appeared around him, protecting him in three layers inside and outside, leaving no room for him even above.
"Oh? This is what you rely on? How boring!"
How could Hikaru be stopped from killing by mere "innocent people"? If they want to blame someone, they should blame themselves for being controlled by Doflamingo! After all, he was the culprit for the death of the "innocent person."
If I hide in the crowd... won't there be nowhere to hide?
What is string most afraid of? Fire!
Hikaru transformed himself into a dragon man, took a deep breath, and the hot breath condensed in his mouth.
"How could this be... How is it possible to be in this form!!"
Ignoring Doflamingo's fear, Hikaru finished his preparations, opened his mouth and spurted out a thick yellow column of fire that shot out from his mouth. In the blink of an eye, it formed a large force that rushed towards Doflamingo.
"Divine Dragon: Small Brilliant Flame!"
Doflamingo's face changed drastically and he said, "No, brother, I thought you cared about civilians like Jinbe."
He hurriedly pointed his toes, and the awakened power of the String-String Fruit spread around him. Then the ground turned into silk threads and rose up from the ground, forming a fire line with Armament Haki in front of him.
"Shield White Line!"
The civilians he used as a shield against disasters were pierced by the threads, and screams could be heard one after another.
The yellow column of fire hit the white line of the shield and was stopped for just a breath before being easily burned and flattened.
But this one breath was enough for Doflamingo to run to the side, brushing against the edge of the yellow column of fire.
"You don't care about the lives of civilians... How did you get together with Jinbe!?"
Hikaru did not answer. His eyes flashed red, and he swung his dragon tail, smashing it down in the path that Doflamingo had to take.
Doflamingo's heart clenched as a white line of wild waves spiraled up from under his feet and hit the dragon's tail, but the power of the two seemed to be on a different level...
The dark dragon tail (wrapped with Armament Haki) flashing with electric light continued to grow larger in his eyes, and he and the white line of wild waves were smashed into the silken ground beneath him.
Zzzzz...
The electric current on the dragon's tail seemed endless and was continuously increased and injected into Doflamingo's body. In less than a moment, there was no life under the dragon's tail.
This crushing situation was completely within Hikaru's expectations.
You know, he has not been idle during this period!
Ever since he captured three "heavyweight" goddesses, Nami, Robin, and Vivi, he would basically get along and chat happily with them whenever they were around.
With their mutual efforts, their relationship has made a qualitative leap.
In such a warm atmosphere, Hikaru benefited greatly, and even his physical fitness improved incredibly!
The improvement in physique is more reflected in physical strength and Armament Haki.
Today, his physical strength is enough for him to fight with those people from the Shrine for seven days and seven nights without falling, and the strength of his Armament Haki is no longer at the level that would be consumed after a short fight with Beckman.
He estimated that he had almost reached the top level of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, and should be even better than Doflamingo's Supreme Thread.
Of course, it is definitely not as good as Hawkeye.
At present, his fighting methods are varied, there are few natural enemies, and the use of Armament Haki is also very limited. However, he can achieve good results when combined with the power of the Float-Float Fruit.
In the later stage of the top battle, everyone used the ability of the Devil Fruit and Haki. The only use of Armament Haki was to harden the body and defend. He was the incarnation of lightning and his speed was so fast that no one could launch an effective attack on him.
What Hikaru needs to do now is to obtain more powerful Devil Fruit abilities and figure out the tricks of Haki entanglement.
A Discussion on Power Systems in One Piece
[Again, let's have a rational discussion! Everyone's opinions are correct! The power system and a character's combat power—which one is stronger—isn't solely determined by Oda's (WT's) words, right?]
In fact, even if Haki is entangled in the end, it may not still be in a dominant position. After all, who knows whether Oda will add some more settings. For example, adding a Conqueror's Haki Super Shock Wave, concentrating all Conqueror's Haki and bursting it out, to the point of affecting the entire world...
"Haki overrides everything" is just a battle line, and it is only the opinion of the loser Kaido. It may be okay for Shanks and Roger to say it, but Blackbeard still thinks that the power of Devil Fruit overrides everything!
After Kaido said this, he was knocked unconscious by Luffy, who had awakened Nika. Wasn't it mainly because of Nika that Luffy defeated Kaido? You don't really think that the newly learned Haki can defeat Kaido, who has been skilled in using Haki for many years...
When you mention Whitebeard, the man known as the strongest man in the world, what do you think of? Isn't it the power of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit that Sengoku exclaimed was enough to destroy the world? What is the reason Kaido is known as the strongest creature? Doesn't this title mean he relies on the Devil Fruit?
Law also said that strong enough Haki can break the influence of Devil Fruit ability. So, if he uses his Devil Fruit ability to affect Big Mom, isn't that just slapping himself in the face? You can't say that Big Mom's Haki is not enough, right?
[These words are from characters in One Piece and cannot be regarded as Oda's definitive settings, unless he specifically wrote it in the narration that Haki is better than Devil Fruit abilities, technological abilities, and other power systems.]
After all, those who truly transcend everything are those who use "power"! (Or maybe it's the plot that Oda wants to show. Whatever he says is awesome is awesome. His fighting power collapsed at the beginning when Shanks' arm was bitten off by the little Sea King.)
Haki, Devil Fruits, physical skills, swordsmanship, and even technological capabilities are all means of attack in this world. No matter which aspect, if you practice and develop it to a certain level, you can be ranked among the top powerhouses!