This time, Doflamingo had entered full combat mode, quickly dodging.
Using his String-String Fruit ability, he retreated to a corner of the palace.
Good's punch smashed the palace floor apart, cracks spiderwebbing outward.
Doflamingo's face was ashen. Did this idiot not understand how serious this was?
Marine admirals answered directly to the World Government, and thus to the Celestial Dragons.
If Doflamingo truly exposed this matter, Good would be in deep trouble.
This guy was completely brainless!
Damn it!
Annoyed, Doflamingo saw Good moving in for another attack and decided to strike first.
"Overheat!"
From his palm, a golden-glowing string shot out like a bullet straight at Good.
Good grinned, reached out, and grabbed it. "I'll take that!"
The moment he gripped the scorching string, he yanked hard.
A massive force pulled Doflamingo's body toward him.
That startled Doflamingo—he had no confidence in close combat with this Reckless Maniac admiral.
He immediately abandoned the attack and instead tried using Parasite to control Momousagi, forcing her to fight Good.
But Momousagi, a candidate for admiral and one of the strongest vice admirals, was impossible to control.
In the past, this cool and proud beauty would have drawn her blade without hesitation. But perhaps due to spending so much time with Good lately, with him always doing the fighting, she now subconsciously complained to him instead.
"Admiral Good, Doflamingo just tried to sneak attack me!"
Good's expression darkened. "Doflamingo, you fight me, you fight me—but you dare sneak attack my vice admiral? Do you think I'm not worthy to fight you, or that my vice admiral is easier to bully?"
"I'll kill you right now!"
Furious, Good infused the string in his hand with his own Conqueror's Haki and lashed it at Doflamingo.
Behind him, Momousagi chimed in, "Just wait until Admiral Good kills you!"
If tea-loving Tokikake were here, he'd be heartbroken, grinding his teeth in hatred toward Good.
Had Momousagi… become "Good-ified"?
A proud, self-reliant female powerhouse like her, actually… tattling?
Tokikake had worked missions with her for years and never seen this side of her.
Thankfully, he wasn't here to take the blow.
Doflamingo quickly used "Spider's Web" to block.
But the gap between their Armament Haki and Conqueror's Haki was vast.
Ever since his clash of Conqueror's Haki with Bullet in Impel Down's Level Six, Good's Haki might not be as overwhelming as Shanks's, but it was among the world's top tier.
And his Armament Haki was already high-level from the start, gifted to him as part of his "newbie package."
With his War God System, every battle refined both his Conqueror's and Armament Haki. He even began copying Doflamingo's String-String Fruit ability—though he didn't care much for it.
Good's strike tore through Doflamingo's defense, forcing him into a hasty retreat.
Seizing an opening, Doflamingo used "Five Color Strings."
Good didn't dodge, meeting the attack head-on with Armament Haki.
The strings scraped against his hardened body with a grating sound.
And then… nothing. The attack didn't hurt him at all.
Nearby, the injured Donquixote officers were recovering. Seeing even their young master's attacks fail, they now grasped the true extent of Good's strength.
His combat power in close quarters was on par with the legendary Marine hero Garp—monstrously strong.
Doflamingo unleashed attack after attack—"Foot Thread," "Sea Current: White Out," "Flap Thread: Thousand Arrows Piercing Feathers"…
But the techniques he prided himself on couldn't even break Good's defense.
Shame and frustration burned in Doflamingo's chest.
He couldn't believe he couldn't even scratch this newly promoted admiral.
Good's grin and his look of amused disdain, as if watching an annoying little brat, only enraged him further.
"God Thread!" Doflamingo roared.
His most powerful technique—using his awakened Devil Fruit powers to transform the surroundings into endless white threads like a surging sea.
In an instant, the palace vanished. The battlefield was now a vast white sea.
Behind Doflamingo, countless dark-purple threads, each armed with Armament Haki and infused with Conqueror's Haki, emerged.
They wriggled like countless tentacles, stabbing toward Good.
Good laughed loudly, standing proud and unmoving.
The next second, dozens of those threads slammed into him, Conqueror's and Armament Haki clashing in a thunderous explosion.
A shockwave spread outward, sending waves rolling through the seas near Dressrosa.
Far off, on a pirate ship, Jack stood at the bow watching. "What's that guy Doflamingo doing?" he muttered, too far to see clearly, and dismissed it coldly. "Just a Marine admiral. And he thinks he can make me stop at sea? No chance."
Back in Dressrosa's palace, Doflamingo gritted his teeth and poured more and more threads into the attack.
When he'd gathered a full hundred bundles, he finally pierced Good's Armament defense.
Blood flowed from Good's body.
Seeing this, Doflamingo laughed viciously.
Once you break the defense and draw blood, the rest is easy.
The Donquixote officers brightened at the sight.
But Momousagi, standing beside Good, was completely calm.
Looking at the gloating Doflamingo, she couldn't help but silently mourn for him.
You must not know how fierce Admiral Good really is.
(End of Chapter)
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