"Yare yare, how much longer do I have to keep going like this?" Jotaro pressed down on his hat. After flying in the air for two or three minutes, he was already getting impatient.
He let out a sigh, closed his eyes once more, and used the little time left to desperately recover his stamina.
Bartholomew Kuma wasn't lying to him. His situation was extremely dangerous, and wanting to leave Alabasta safely was absolutely no easy matter.
For him right now, stamina was especially important.
Finally, after flying for a while longer, Jotaro noticed that he was descending.
With his current constitution, plus the defensive power of Armament Haki, even falling from such a height without doing anything would cause him no problems.
So Jotaro didn't bother too much, quietly waiting for the moment he touched the ground.
Yet what was unexpected was that although Bartholomew Kuma looked big and rough, he was actually very meticulous.
Even the landing was something he had considered. All the damage Jotaro should have taken was completely offset by his fruit ability.
'He really is a nice guy after all…'
Jotaro sighed, straightened his body, and looked toward the grand royal palace.
'Looks like he sent me to outside Alubarna's city walls.'
Originally, he had wanted to follow after Vivi and the others once he finished covering their retreat.
But too many unexpected things happened along the way, causing him to be delayed far too long.
Vivi and the others must have arrived here first.
Jotaro silently walked toward the palace. The surroundings were extremely quiet, with no sounds of fighting at all.
'Could it be that they already stopped the war?'
'No, that's not right!'
Jotaro's steps suddenly halted. The closer he got to the palace, the stronger the sense of wrongness.
The air was filled with the foul stench of blood.
Jotaro frowned, then suddenly heard a faint voice calling out from beneath his feet.
"…Give me a sip of water…"
The one calling out was covered in blood, someone with a face he didn't recognize.
But for some reason, Jotaro felt his voice sounded a bit familiar.
He frowned, then took out a bottle of water from the system space and tossed it beside him.
Seeing the water, the weak man lying on the ground had his eyes light up, pounced forward, and drank it all in one go.
"Thank you! I will remember your kindness!" His voice regained its strength. "Okama revival!!"
His appearance changed in an instant.
It was none other than the Mr. 2 from before.
"So it's you! Jotaro. You're the one who saved me. I'm so touched!!!"
Seeing clearly who his benefactor was, Mr. 2 burst into tears, running over with open arms, wanting to hug Jotaro in his embrace.
Jotaro's face darkened, standing still without moving an inch.
"Ora!"
Star Platinum's fist smashed into Mr. 2's face.
Looking at him fall to the ground, Jotaro's cold voice asked, "Why are you here?"
Covering his face, even after being punched, Mr. 2 was still extremely excited, "The iron fist of love is so passionate!"
"Tsk, " Jotaro really couldn't stand the okama type of creature.
"Don't use force, I'll explain everything!" Mr. 2 spun his body and stood back up. "Jotaro, you want to enter the city, right?"
Before Jotaro could answer, he continued, "I advise you not to go in. Right now you've already become this country's criminal."
"Of course, part of this is thanks to me. I transformed into your appearance and in Yuba massacred the families of the rebel army."
"Yare!" Jotaro grabbed Mr. 2's collar, his pale green eyes filled with anger.
"Don't get agitated, listen to me explain slowly…"
As it turned out, afterward Mr. 2 was taken away by government people.
In order to complete his deal with Crocodile and help him seize Alabasta, Spandam used every possible means.
First, he ordered the government men to massacre Yuba's residents.
Then he had Mr. 2 transform into Jotaro and Vivi, appearing before the Den Den Mushi one after another to put on a show.
"Jotaro, don't be mad, I was forced. I didn't do the killing, it was all the government people. Their cruel methods were so bad that even I couldn't bear to watch."
"His purpose in doing this was to pin the blame on you and Princess Vivi!"
Jotaro's face sank as he suppressed his anger.
"What happened afterward?"
Mr. 2 then told everything that happened next without hiding anything.
Because most of Crocodile's and the government's firepower had been drawn away by Jotaro, Vivi and the others quickly broke through the enemy's encirclement.
By the time they reached Alubarna, the royal army and the rebels had not yet started fighting.
And Vivi found the rebel leader Koza and negotiated with him!
She vividly explained Crocodile's plot, saying her father had been framed, hoping Koza could temporarily halt his actions and give her time to provide evidence.
Koza, after all, was Princess Vivi's childhood friend, so in his heart he already believed her words by seventy percent.
Yet just as the negotiations were about to end, Spandam brought government people and stormed into the meeting.
He showed Koza the footage he had prepared in advance.
Learning that his own relatives had been brutally murdered, Koza completely lost his reason.
Spandam was a government official, high in position, commanding the CP intelligence organization.
Meanwhile, the people with Vivi were all government-wanted criminals.
So Koza firmly believed Spandam's words, thinking Princess Vivi had already fallen, now becoming a cruel woman.
He no longer waited, and immediately led the rebels to war against the royal army.
At first, the royal army resisted fiercely, but in the end, seeing the two sides suffering heavy casualties, Vivi's father, Cobra, couldn't bear it and chose to surrender.
"How's Vivi now? Framed by the government, the rebels won't spare her."
Jotaro frowned, the depths of his trembling eyes full of worry.
Mr. 2 said, "After the talks broke down, the rebels tried to seize Princess Vivi."
"But among her three companions, that short woman had very strong skills. She led them and broke out of the encirclement."
'Nami…'
Jotaro let out a breath of relief. "Where are they now?"
Mr. 2, "In prison."
"Yare!" Jotaro glared in fury. "You bastard, are you messing with me!"
"Wait, listen to me explain. Really! Jotaro, you're so impatient!"
Mr. 2 threw him a flirtatious glance before continuing slowly.
"After that, another especially powerful guy showed up. All your companions were captured by him."
"I was also injured by that guy. At that time he wanted to kill me, but luckily I reacted quickly, transformed into the form of a small soldier, and slipped away into the crowd."
Jotaro didn't care what happened to him.
"Who is he?"
Mr. 2 thought for a moment and said, "He wore an extremely stylish coat, and his walking posture was arrogantly exaggerated. Of course, not as arrogant as Jotaro!"
Jotaro clenched his fist. From Mr. 2's description, he already knew who it was.
One of the Seven Warlords of the Sea.
Doflamingo!
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