"Follow your beliefs, Rebecca!"
Seeing the unyielding Rebecca, Yamato felt as if she were looking at her former self.
Without saying another word, she left Diamante for Rebecca to deal with alone and went off to fight the other members of the Doflamingo Family.
"Utterly foolish trash!"
Once Diamante saw Yamato walk away, he finally let out a sigh of relief.
Then he couldn't help but start mocking Rebecca.
If it were him, he would've called his comrades over to finish off the enemy together.
What's the point of holding on stubbornly?
Did she believe that sheer willpower could defeat an invincible enemy?!
"Die already!!!"
Diamante no longer wanted to see Rebecca alive.
He channeled the power of the Flutter-Flutter Fruit into his rapier.
At once, the blade floated forward with incredible speed, stabbing toward Rebecca.
In the blink of an eye, the sharp blade was already in front of her face.
Despite her weakened state, Rebecca struggled to lift her longsword, wrapping her still-awkward Armament Haki around it.
Then she used brute strength to slash at the incoming blade.
With a mighty swing, she smashed the blade into the ground, creating a crater.
But the sword, knocked into the ground, floated back up immediately and shot toward her again.
Already weak and having just exerted herself, Rebecca didn't even have the strength to dodge.
"Is it impossible for me to avenge my mother?!"
Tears streamed from her eyes as she gritted her teeth in frustration.
The deadly blade flew toward her tender neck. Diamante intended to finish her off with one strike.
Just then, a strange figure suddenly appeared in front of Rebecca.
With one sword slash, he knocked Diamante's blade back toward him.
"Soldier-san?!"
Seeing the familiar toy figure, Rebecca gasped in surprise.
This toy man had raised her and even taught her swordsmanship.
She never imagined he would be the one to save her life today.
"Rebecca! I'm sorry I couldn't protect your mother, but I swear I will protect you with my life!"
The toy turned around and looked at Rebecca with firm determination.
At that moment, Rebecca seemed to understand something.
Tears streamed even more furiously from her eyes.
"What a touching little scene! You two might as well die here together!"
Seeing his sword deflected by a seemingly useless toy, Diamante felt utterly humiliated.
He unleashed even more power from his Flutter-Flutter Fruit, sending his rapier blade flying faster and deadlier toward the toy and Rebecca.
As the fatal strike approached, the toy quickly adjusted his stance and stood between Rebecca and the blade.
He swung his longsword in a broad, powerful arc to clash with the incoming weapon.
But as the blades clashed in mid-air, there were two swords.
Rebecca had rushed forward at some point.
"Father! I'm a swordswoman now, too!"
"Rebecca!"
Hearing her call him "father," a rush of emotion overwhelmed the toy.
After hiding his identity for so many years, it suddenly no longer mattered.
"Disgusting sentimentality! Worthless! In the face of absolute power, all of this is useless!"
Witnessing the scene, Diamante felt like vomiting.
He immediately amplified his sword's power.
He smashed both Rebecca and the toy away in one brutal strike.
Rebecca had never been a match for him, and the toy man, with his minimal strength, couldn't change the outcome either.
But both of them stood back up from the ground.
Their resolve had never been stronger than in that moment.
In the distance, after slashing Doflamingo away with one mighty blow, Zoro had a moment to glance at Rebecca and the toy.
Thinking for a second, he tossed the Erza template toward Rebecca.
"Rebecca! Use this to cut that heartless bastard in half!"
"Master?!"
Confused, Rebecca reached out to catch whatever it was her master had thrown.
But the mysterious object simply phased into her body.
Suddenly, her mind filled with the memories of a powerful mage named Erza.
"Heaven's Wheel Armor!!!"
With Rebecca's shout, a magnificent set of armor appeared on her.
Her body was now adorned with steel, from the twin blades to the metal wings.
From that moment forward,
Rebecca became the invincible War Goddess.
"Rebecca?!"
Standing next to her, the toy man was stunned.
In the blink of an eye, she had gone from frail to radiant with might.
He couldn't fathom how the thing Zoro had thrown could have had such a miraculous effect.
"Father! Let's kill the man who murdered Mom, together!"
"Yes!!"
Rebecca's sharp eyes locked onto the stunned Diamante.
After a glance at her father, she charged forward, wearing the Heaven's Wheel Armor, sword slashing.
"Heaven's Wheel: Trinity Sword!!!"
Her steel blade sliced in a triangular trajectory, catching Diamante completely off guard.
The astonishing speed sent him flying dozens of meters.
Before he could recover, the toy man, once dismissed as weak, appeared beside him.
"After all these years, I can finally avenge my wife, DIE, DIAMANTE!!!"
With seething hatred, he slashed at Diamante from close range.
But despite his rage, the toy's strength was limited.
Even with the perfect opportunity, he only managed to sever Diamante's right arm.
Diamante scrambled away, disheveled and shocked.
"Unforgivable! Unforgivable!!!"
Now armless, Diamante snapped.
The power of the Flutter-Flutter Fruit erupted chaotically from his body, affecting everything around him.
Objects nearby floated into the air and began flying around in all directions.
The nearby toy was moments away from being struck down.
"Heaven's Wheel: Sword Storm!!!"
Rebecca, clad in her armor, leapt into the sky and summoned dozens of steel swords.
She launched them at the frenzied Diamante.
In an instant, the steel swords pierced him all over.
He collapsed lifelessly to the ground.
The floating debris fell, becoming inanimate once again.
Worried about her father, Rebecca rushed to his side.
At that moment, the toy's body began to glow strangely.
Two or three seconds later, the glow faded,
A tall, strong man missing one leg stood before Rebecca.
"Papa? Papa!!!"
Seeing her real father for the first time in years, Rebecca couldn't hold back anymore. She broke down in tears.
The Heaven's Wheel Armor returned to the magical dimension.
Without its power, Rebecca was just a girl, one in need of care and love.
Why did the toy turn back into Kyros?
Because just moments ago, Sabo's Fire Fist knocked out Sugar, who had turned Kyros into a toy using the Hobby-Hobby Fruit.
With her unconscious, her powers vanished from Kyros, and every toy-turned-human across the entire Dressrosa Kingdom.
With Sugar down, the Donquixote Family's members had all either been defeated or killed.
Only Doflamingo, the clan's now-isolated head, remained.
"Still struggling, Doflamingo?"
Zoro asked mockingly.
After over thirty minutes of fierce battle, Zoro was scratched and slightly bloodied by Doflamingo's threads.
But Doflamingo had been cut dozens of times; hardly a spot on him remained intact.
"Fufufufufu!!!"
Hearing Zoro's taunt and realizing his entire family was gone, Doflamingo suddenly let out a maniacal laugh.
Even more deranged than Diamante after losing his arm.
In that insane laughter, Doflamingo suddenly launched a massive pillar of string into the sky.
Within seconds, it exploded hundreds of meters above Dressrosa, spreading strings like meteors to the kingdom's coasts.
A gigantic Birdcage snapped into place, trapping the entire Dressrosa Kingdom.
"Let's all die together! You! Dressrosa! Everyone DIE!!! Fufufufufu!!!"
He pointed toward Sero.
Toward Hancock, Yamato, Sabo, Rebecca, Kyros.
Toward the entire Dressrosa Kingdom.
Screaming, hysterically, for death to take them all.
"You've gone insane..."
Zoro looked at Doflamingo with indifference.
And also at the Birdcage, now beginning to shrink inward with deadly intent, without a second's pause.
The people of Dressrosa were thrown into chaos.
From his high vantage point, Zoro saw thousands frantically running through the streets below.
Cries and screams echoed throughout.
A scene of a kingdom on the brink of annihilation.
As the former princess of Dressrosa, Rebecca cried out to her master in desperation.
"Master! Please save the Kingdom of Dressrosa!!!"