Chapter 151: What Does Your Destruction Have to Do with Me?
The Warlord of the Sea - Donquixote Doflamingo stood atop the shattered roof of the royal palace.
He stood in front of his top executive, manipulating the strings wreathed in Armament Haki to hold his own against Hajrudin's fist. Then, Doflamingo abruptly raised his hand, controlling the strings to knock Hajrudin back, forcing him to retreat several steps and kneel to steady himself.
Perhaps out of fear of the power behind Hajrudin, or perhaps still holding onto the idea of negotiating with these people who had come for an unknown reason, Doflamingo did not press his attack. Instead, he stood in the distance, coldly watching Hajrudin.
"Members of the Archangel Pirates, what is your purpose in coming to Dressrosa? What does that Archangel need from insignificant characters like us?"
In Doflamingo's view, these people would certainly not have attacked them for no reason. They must have come with a mission, wanting to get something from him, or needing him to do something for them. The sudden attack was just to establish dominance, to intimidate him with force and coerce him into working for them. To this, Doflamingo thought that he was already tired of this game; he couldn't be more familiar with it.
However, Hajrudin just gave Doflamingo a flat look and replied in a casual tone, "Our purpose has nothing to do with you."
"Nothing to do with us?" As Hajrudin's words fell, a vein bulged on Doflamingo's forehead, and he laughed out of sheer anger.
"You suddenly attack our territory, destroy our property, and then tell me it has nothing to do with us?!" Doflamingo's anger was instantly ignited. He no longer cared about anything else. The other party had already attacked his home, insulting him by name. Did he still have to worry about the power behind them? What a joke!
"Five Color Strings!"
The next moment, sharp strings extended from Doflamingo's fingers and shot straight toward Hajrudin.
Just then, the sound of heavy footsteps echoed in the smoke and dust, slowly approaching Doflamingo's direction. As the footsteps drew near, a bone-chilling cold tore through the dust, spreading from the distance. It instantly froze the strings that were slashing at Hajrudin and, with undiminished force, turned the entire royal palace into a land of ice and snow.
This scene made Doflamingo's already grim face turn as black as the bottom of a pot. He spun his head around and looked at the heavily armored figure gradually approaching with a flanged mace, almost speaking through gritted teeth, "Nation-Destroyer!"
To Doflamingo's cry, Yelena gave no response. She just stood there under his gaze, half-raising her World-Breaker war hammer and wreathing it in powerful Armament Haki and a gray mist.
With just one glance, Doflamingo's pupils constricted to the size of a pinhole. The anger and unwillingness on his face faded in an instant, and he became uncharacteristically quiet. He could feel it. That giant flanged mace, which looked like a kanabō, was giving him an extremely intense sense of crisis.
"..."
A hoarse breathing sound came from the two filters of the gas mask, and along with it, two visible puffs of white smoke.
The next moment, Yelena and her figure instantly disappeared from the spot, leaving only the disturbed airflow and shattered, flying debris. When she reappeared, her straight black oni horns and grotesque, twisted antlers were already reflected on Doflamingo's sunglasses.
Before he could react, the cold World-Breaker war hammer, accompanied by a terrifying clap of thunder and coiled with Haki lightning and a gray stream of light, was already smashing toward his body.
BOOM!
A sound like a thunderclap on a clear day was heard. A huge impact created a ring-shaped shockwave in the atmosphere. The dissipating Haki lightning and shockwave combined, shattering one side of the royal palace from a distance and turning it into flying, plate-like fragments.
With one blow, Doflamingo not only felt the pain in his body but also experienced the excruciating pain of his soul being torn apart, making his eyes roll back as he nearly fainted. Blood gushed from his mouth, spraying through the air and dyeing his clothes red.
SWOOSH—
His blood-stained body, like a piece of cloth, tore through the sound barrier and, with a piercing whistle, fell into the wilderness of Dressrosa, crashing and creating a huge pit.
Trebol struggled to his feet from the rubble that had buried him and let out a tragic cry in the direction Doflamingo had flown. "DOFFY!"
Not far away, Hajrudin saw the suddenly appearing Trebol and, without a second thought, wreathed his fist in Armament Haki and threw a punch.
The sudden sound of the wind made Trebol, who was crying out Doflamingo's name, stop. He subconsciously turned his head, only to find a giant fist once again blasting in his direction.
BANG—
Hajrudin sent Trebol, along with the ruins, flying with a single punch, causing him to fall in the direction of the town.
Yelena glanced at the Island Cloud above, then leaped up, jumping down from the King's Plateau and chasing straight in Doflamingo's direction. However, the next moment, a humanoid giant, its entire body composed of giant rocks, rose from the ground. Its height surpassed the mountain peaks, its size almost rivaling that of a town.
Its face, identical to Pica's, showed a human-like anger and a faint fear, and it emitted a sharp, comical sound. "You bastard! Don't you dare go near the Young Master!"
As its words fell, Pica's stone giant abruptly raised its huge arm and slapped it straight down at Yelena in mid-air. The hand, composed entirely of rock, was incomparably huge. It pressed down from above Yelena like a sky-blotting dark cloud, suddenly falling.
Yelena held her war hammer and crossed the atmosphere. Facing the giant hand pressing down on her, she merely glanced at it before looking away, paying it no more mind.
Pica, hidden within the rock, saw the heavily armored figure not dodging and a hint of joy flashed in his eyes. Although he didn't have the ability to cover a mountain-sized stone giant in Armament Haki, its extremely massive body was his most terrifying weapon. The mass of rock was second only to steel, and the weight of one of his arms had already reached an astronomical level. Once it landed on an enemy, it would surely defeat them.
Below in the town, the citizens who were fleeing in all directions because of the successive loud noises and tremors looked at the sky-blotting stone giant, and all of them became filled with despair. They felt death quietly approaching.
Just as Pica was sure of his victory, the unexpected happened.
One after another, clouds and mist were rapidly spreading, directly enveloping half of the stone giant's body. Then, under the despairing gazes of the citizens, from within the white clouds and mist, a giant, hard-clawed hand tore out. Its muscles and sinews were clearly visible. It grabbed the giant stone hand and pulled it into the cloud and mist.
Pica: "!!!"
The next moment, a loud crash was heard from within the cloud that almost covered the sky above the town.
CRACK—
Immediately after, under the dumbfounded gazes of the town's residents, one after another, rock fragments dozens of meters in size fell in the direction of the wilderness.
In mid-air, Yelena looked up at the successively falling giant rocks, then flipped and landed on one of them. She looked up at Hajrudin in the sky full of clouds and mist, who was wrapped around the stone giant, his four limbs rapidly tearing off one piece of giant rock after another from his opponent.
Then, she took a deep breath and, stepping on the falling giant rocks, she moved at an extremely fast speed, almost becoming a white streak of light refracting back and forth. In an instant, Yelena had crossed an extreme distance, rapidly arriving above the spot where Doflamingo had fallen.
At the same time, Doflamingo, who had been deeply embedded in the earth's crater, had also used his strings to repair his internal organs, pulling himself out of his near-unconscious state. Although the pain of his soul being nearly torn apart still made him grit his teeth in agony, he had at least recovered some of his combat strength.
Doflamingo pulled his limbs out of the crater. After coughing up the blood stuck in his throat, he abruptly looked up, his gaze tightly locking onto the rapidly falling figure. Through that single blow just now, Doflamingo already knew that this person known as the "Nation-Destroyer" was indeed an extremely powerful existence, a powerhouse on par with that Charlotte Katakuri!
Thinking of this, he dared not hold back any longer. He pressed his hand on the ground beneath his feet and used his just-completed awakened ability. The next moment, a touch of white spread out from his palm, and at an extremely fast speed, it turned the rock, soil, and trees in a thousand-meter radius into visible strings. Then, the countless strings surged, overturning back and forth like waves.
"Shield White String!" Doflamingo stood at the head of the waves, raised his hand, and lifted several giant lines woven from countless strings, extending them into the sky to spread out in a cross pattern. At the same time, Doflamingo wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, his gaze becoming more and more fierce. Then, his entire body burst forth with Conqueror's Haki, pressing down on the heavily armored figure in the sky.
One after another, black and red lightning intertwined and spread, kicking up a fierce hurricane that made the feather coat behind Doflamingo whip and snap.
In mid-air, Yelena's scarlet eyes took in all of Doflamingo's responses. "Devil Fruit Awakening, Conqueror's Haki."
The next moment, an even more powerful Conqueror's Haki erupted, black and red arcs of electricity coiling around her entire body.
The Conqueror's Haki clashed, and one after another, black and red lightning intertwined. Under the impact of Yelena's Conqueror's Haki, Doflamingo's was slowly suppressed.
Doflamingo was horrified, two drops of cold sweat trickling down his forehead. "This person has it too! And a person who bows to another has a Conqueror's Haki stronger than mine? What a joke! How can something like this be possible!"
Just then, the bone-white figure appeared in his eyes, his entire body wreathed in black and red arcs of electricity. In Doflamingo's uneasy eyes, the cold and heavy flanged mace, wreathed in a gray light and Haki lightning, was swung down with the sound of thunder toward the Shield White String.
One after another, Haki lightning pierced through the Shield White String, landing beside Doflamingo and blasting a deep pit in the world woven from strings. Immediately after, the Shield White String, which in Doflamingo's view was indestructible, was covered in countless cracks and flashed with black and red light.
Seeing this, Doflamingo subconsciously retreated, manipulating the wave-like strings to carry him away. The next moment, the defense formed from the woven strings shattered, and the war hammer, wreathed in Haki lightning and a gray light, fell with a piercing whistle.
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