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After returning to the laboratory, Ace placed Caesar and Monet on the ground and greeted everyone.
Luffy, who had just ransacked Caesar's kitchen, immediately shared his large pile of plundered food with Ace.
When Caesar saw his supplies being raided, he could only seethe in anger but dared not speak out.
"There's so much food here, let's have a party!" Luffy shouted, holding up an oversized piece of meat.
When Law heard about a banquet, he immediately objected.
"No... I think Doflamingo will be here soon!"
Hearing Law's words, Ace shrugged and said, "If Doflamingo dares to come while we're here, he'll be killed on the spot! What are you afraid of?"
"No... Doflamingo isn't the real trouble. The real threat is Kaido who works with him! If we kill Doflamingo, then... Kaido will direct his anger at us!"
"So, our best choice is to leave here first, then sneak into Dressrosa to destroy Doflamingo's factory and let Kaido target him."
In truth, Law didn't really understand the Straw Hat Pirates.
Any plans involving the Straw Hats would inevitably fall apart.
The best way to work with the Straw Hats was to have no plan at all and just follow your instincts. Simply put, just go with the flow and don't overthink things.
This was the lesson Law would come to understand in the future.
...
Luffy pouted, refusing to give up on the idea of a banquet.
But Law didn't care. He opened his largest "ROOM" space, encompassing the entire laboratory.
He then began searching for all surviving people in the facility and transported them to the central laboratory.
In an instant, hundreds of people filled the main hall.
Among them were G5 Marines who had been searching the laboratory, Chopper and Nami who were looking for the giant children, staff from the experimental base, and Caesar's men.
There was also Momonosuke, who had been wandering blind in the garbage dump, and Kin'emon's separated legs and head, which had been brought in with Luffy but discarded along the way.
Momonosuke was stunned when he saw so many people around him.
But when he spotted Nami, Tashigi, Robin, and other beautiful women, he trembled constantly, looking terrified.
Ikki also noticed Momonosuke and, seeing his current state, thought to himself, 'The treatment is working well. I'll reinforce it when I have time. He should be completely healed soon.'
"Is that you? Momonosuke..."
At that moment, Kin'emon's voice rang out. His head had been chopped into many pieces by Law, like building blocks.
Hearing Kin'emon's voice, Momonosuke snapped out of his panic.
But before he could say anything, Luffy approached Kin'emon's head with a look of surprise and started playing with the pieces.
Soon, Kin'emon's head was reassembled in a complete mess.
In the end, Law couldn't stand it anymore and used his abilities to properly restore Kin'emon's head. Otherwise, Luffy and the others might have played there all afternoon.
Kin'emon's head had to be connected to his legs since his upper body was still out in the ice and snow, beyond the reach of Law's Devil Fruit powers.
....
After getting everything settled, Law went to the control room of the experimental base. He planned to activate the timed self-destruct mechanism before leaving with everyone.
But before he could press the button, a Den Den Mushi from the G5 Marines started ringing.
Tashigi answered in confusion.
As soon as she picked up, the caller's panicked voice burst through.
"Captain Tashigi... Vice Admiral Smoker... hurry... come save... save Mr. Rogers..."
At the same time, Ikki's internal system received news of the death of Captain America, Steve Rogers.
Hearing this news, Ikki felt a sense of dread...
.....
Ten minutes earlier.
On the coast of Punk Hazard, the G5 Marine warship and the Straw Hat Pirates' Thousand Sunny were anchored.
Rogers and several G5 Marines had made a fire and were grilling fish together on the shore.
Because it was too hot on the fire side of the island, they had sailed to the ice side, preferring cold to unbearable heat.
After chatting for just a short time, the Marine soldiers were won over by Rogers' charisma.
Rogers also felt that these Marines, despite looking like gangsters, weren't bad peopleâjust a bit rough around the edges.
While Captain America and the Marines were eating and chatting, a figure suddenly appeared. He was very tall, wearing sunglasses and a pink feather coat, resembling a flamingo.
This person was none other than Donquixote Doflamingo, who had been enraged by Law.
The reason he arrived so quickly was because he hadn't come aloneâhe had ridden on Buffalo with his Spin-Spin Fruit powers.
In the original timeline, Buffalo and Baby 5 would have arrived first but were caught by the Straw Hats. After the phone call, Doflamingo arrived later, but failed to capture Law and the Straw Hats. Instead, the G5 branch and Smoker suffered.
This time, he rode the helicopter-like Buffalo and arrived first, determined to intercept Law completely.
Upon seeing Doflamingo, the G5 Marines immediately recognized him.
"You... you're one of the Seven Warlords..."
Before the Marine could finish speaking, a string bullet pierced his head.
Just as Doflamingo targeted a second Marine, a shield blocked his attack, and the bullet bounced off the star-patterned shield.
"That man had no quarrel with you. Why did you kill him?" Captain America lowered his shield and asked coldly.
"Ants have no quarrel with your shoe either!" Doflamingo replied.
As he finished speaking, Doflamingo unleashed his five-colored strings, intending to slice Captain America and his shield into pieces.
But what Doflamingo didn't expect was that his supposedly indestructible strings couldn't cut through Captain America's shield...
Captain America raised his shield and shouted to the G5 Marines behind him, "Go and get help! I'll hold him off!"
Just as Captain America finished speaking, another powerful attack hit him from the side.
It seemed Doflamingo would win this exchange, but somehow Captain America's shield blocked his attack again, as if it had a tracking function.
The few G5 Marines standing behind Captain America didn't stay to help, knowing that staying would only make things worse.
Except for one Marine who remained frozen in place, the others rushed to their ship, and one managed to escape.
This Marine pulled out a Den Den Mushi.
Just as the call connected, a gunshot suddenly rang out. Everyone saw that the Marine who had been standing motionless had shot Captain America in the back.
This wasn't because the Marine had gone mad, but because he was being controlled by Doflamingo.
The shot came from point-blank range and hit Captain America directly in the chest.
Seeing this, the Marine holding the Den Den Mushi cried out:
"Captain Tashigi... Vice Admiral Smoker... hurry... come save... save Mr. Rogers..."