Doflamingo exhaled heavily and focused completely.
"As expected…"
"A monster who defeated and captured Whitebeard Jr. alone…"
"He's terrifyingly strong!"
"He has mastered all three types of Haki to an incredible level."
"It's hard to imagine that a five-year-old brat could reach this point."
He stared at Kai, not daring to relax for even an instant.
At that moment, Kai, whose arms were wrapped in Armament Haki, smiled faintly.
"Next, it's my turn."
The moment his words fell—
"Shave!"
Kai's body vanished.
Only a blurred afterimage remained.
When he appeared again, he was less than half a meter from Doflamingo.
Doflamingo's eyes visibly sharpened with surprise.
Kai clenched his right fist.
His fist, coated in Armament Haki, contained overwhelming power.
He smashed it straight toward Doflamingo's head.
The punch tore through the air.
A terrifying sound boom exploded.
The strike carried monstrous speed and devastating force.
The pressure from the punch twisted the surrounding air so violently that it seemed as if space itself might shatter.
"Spiderweb!"
Facing Kai's terrifying punch, Doflamingo did not dare be careless.
He immediately activated his Devil Fruit ability and swung his left hand forward.
Countless spider-silk-like threads burst out and quickly formed a massive web in front of him.
Kai's punch slammed into the spiderweb.
Boom!
Terrifying power erupted from his fist.
Violent.
Overwhelming.
Like a tidal wave crashing forward.
The sound was like rolling thunder.
The Armament Haki wrapped around Kai's fist poured into the web of threads like an erupting volcano.
The moment the two forces collided, a violent shockwave exploded.
A storm of air swept in every direction.
Crack!
Crack!
The floor beneath Kai and Doflamingo shattered under the impact.
Dense cracks spread outward like a spiderweb.
The sight was horrifying.
Rumble!
The ground shook violently.
More and more cracks appeared, and the floor beneath them caved in, breaking into countless fragments that shot outward.
Under the surging wind, stone debris and dust flew wildly through the air.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Broken stones struck nearby objects, creating a chaotic series of explosions.
"What terrifying strength."
Doflamingo raised an eyebrow.
He pushed his Devil Fruit power to the limit, pulling more threads together to make the spiderweb in front of him even denser.
He had to prevent Kai's punch from breaking through the defensive net.
In the end—
The spiderweb's immense elasticity reflected Kai's power back at him, sending his body flying dozens of meters.
However, Kai stepped on the air with Moonwalk and quickly steadied himself.
Standing above the ground, he looked down at Doflamingo.
"A very strong Devil Fruit."
"As expected of a pirate with a bounty of 340 million berries."
Kai sighed in admiration.
Crimson light flickered in his eyes, and his fighting spirit burned hotter than ever.
The stronger Doflamingo was, the more excited he became.
His blood boiled.
"Good! Very good!"
"Fighting someone like you is what makes this interesting."
Kai laughed loudly.
Then—
Using Moonwalk, he activated Shave again.
Whoosh!
His figure vanished from the air.
In an instant—
He flashed forward like a teleporting shadow.
Before anyone could react, he appeared beside Doflamingo.
With a thought, Armament Haki gathered around his leg.
His right leg, clad in black armor, swept fiercely toward Doflamingo's waist.
"Hm?"
Doflamingo's expression barely changed.
He also raised his right leg.
Armament Haki gathered.
A layer of black armor wrapped around his leg as he kicked toward Kai's attack.
Boom!
The two attacks collided violently.
The sound was deafening.
Armament Haki clashed against Armament Haki like steel striking steel.
The noise echoed throughout the hall.
At the point of impact, sparks erupted.
Dark red flashes like electricity crackled in the air.
Crack!
Crack!
The floor beneath Kai shattered again.
The ground under Doflamingo also collapsed.
"Doflamingo, your Armament Haki…"
"Still needs work."
"Since that's the case, I'll show you the true power of Armament Haki!"
Kai grinned.
Then his right leg erupted with force.
Boom!
A terrifying wave of power burst from his kick and slammed into Doflamingo's right leg.
The impact threw Doflamingo backward, sending him tumbling through the air for dozens of meters.
The force carried him nearly a hundred meters away.
Although he was not injured, the sight was undeniably humiliating.
At the critical moment, Doflamingo's forehead veins bulged.
His face darkened with anger.
"Sky Path!"
His fingers moved, controlling the threads that filled the air.
Using those threads as footholds, Doflamingo stabilized himself in midair and stopped flying backward.
He stood in the air, stepping on invisible threads, and stared coldly at Kai.
Kai's words echoed in his ears.
His right leg throbbed faintly.
That pain had come from the clash of Armament Haki.
In that collision, Kai's Armament Haki had clearly been stronger.
Doflamingo's face sank.
Just as Kai had said—
His Armament Haki was strong, but compared to Kai's, it was slightly inferior.
Doflamingo's greatest strength had never been Haki.
It was the Devil Fruit he had developed to the extreme.
That was his true trump card.
"Arrogant brat!"
Doflamingo snorted coldly.
Being told to his face that his Armament Haki was lacking made his expression turn ugly.
"Parasite String!"
He struck in anger.
Threads hidden throughout the air shot toward Kai.
Dozens of them swept across his body from different directions.
They sealed off nearly every possible escape route.
Finally—
The threads wrapped around Kai's limbs completely.
"Got you!"
Doflamingo smiled.
In the next second, his fingers danced, trying to control Kai's body through the threads.
But then—
Nothing happened.
Kai remained standing exactly where he was.
"Hm?!"
Doflamingo's expression changed slightly.
He tried to control the threads.
But the threads had gone rigid.
He could not move them at all.
It felt as if the strings had been fixed to something completely immovable.
No matter how much force Doflamingo used, he could not make Kai move.
"Damn it!"
"This brat…"
Doflamingo's face darkened.
At that moment, Kai slowly raised his head.
His limbs were wrapped in dozens of threads, almost completely bound.
Yet he looked toward Doflamingo and smiled faintly.
"That's it?"
He twisted his arm slightly.
One of the threads wrapped around him snapped under brute force.
Then another.
And another.
Kai broke free from Doflamingo's control with raw physical strength.
"Your Devil Fruit ability…"
"Doesn't seem all that impressive either."
Kai looked Doflamingo in the eye, a playful smile on his face.
Those words struck Doflamingo's pride hard.
His anger surged.
"Today…"
"I'll kill you right here!"
Doflamingo was furious.
He immediately manipulated more than a hundred threads and slashed them down toward Kai.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Countless razor-sharp threads cut through the air like blades.
They produced a shrill slicing sound.
It seemed as if even space itself was being torn apart.
"Shave!"
Facing Doflamingo's attack, Kai remained calm.
His figure flashed.
He vanished from where he stood.
The instant he disappeared, more than a hundred threads shredded the place where he had been standing.
Boom!
Boom!
Thunderous impacts rang out.
In the blink of an eye, the ground was carved into a ruin.
Savage gashes stretched across the floor.
They extended more than a hundred meters away.
The deep cuts tore through the ground for dozens of meters, like dark, bottomless abysses.
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