Smoker's purplish-black lips parted, letting out a hoarse voice. Smoker suddenly raised his hand, and a purple smoke arrow shot towards the rock wall three hundred meters away.
Boom!
Amidst the stench of melting rock, the terrified face of Sugar, the user of the Hobby-Hobby Fruit, who was hidden behind it, was revealed.
"Got you." Smoker's terrifying purplish-black expression directly scared Sugar unconscious.
At the same time, the live broadcast switched to Dressrosa, where the Marine high command saw an even more shocking scene—
As Sugar fainted, white light suddenly erupted from all over the island!
Soldiers and civilians who had been turned into toys for years all returned to their original forms, including...
"Is that... Kyros of Dressrosa?!" Someone stood up abruptly, "The hero of the Coliseum who disappeared ten years ago!"
Doflamingo's roar echoed across the island: "Smoker—!!"
The Marine Vice Admiral in the purple poisonous fog sneered in response, suddenly transforming into an overwhelming torrent of poisonous smoke that rushed towards the flamingo executives.
Diamante's long sword corroded and broke as soon as it touched the purple smoke, and Trebol's sticky body sizzled from the poison.
"Now..." Smoker's cold face emerged from the poisonous fog, "It's time to settle the score for turning living people into toys."
Smoker's arms suddenly spread wide. In an instant, the sky-obscuring purple poisonous fog roared like a tsunami, sweeping across the entire battlefield!
That was no longer just simple smoke, but a deadly poison gas fused with the essence of the Death Land. Every wisp of purple smoke twisted and writhed as if it had a life of its own.
"Cough... Cough cough! What the hell is this?!" Trebol was the first to fall to the ground. His sticky body actually sizzled as it was corroded by the poison gas, and his originally bloated body shriveled at a visible speed.
"Young Master... Help...!" Diamante's golden armor quickly oxidized and turned black in the poisonous fog. He watched in horror as his proud sword blade shattered like rotten wood.
A spiderweb-like crack appeared on Doflamingo's sunglasses with a "click." He tried to create a barrier with the String-String Fruit, but the tough fine threads melted into a viscous liquid the moment they touched the purple smoke.
"What a joke...!" His forehead bulged with veins, and he unleashed his full Conqueror's Haki to try and disperse the poisonous fog, only to find that he could only avoid the poison gas, but couldn't stop it from invading other parts of his body!
Audiences worldwide saw a horrifying scene:
The once formidable Doflamingo Family executives were now convulsing violently in the poisonous fog like stranded fish.
Diamante barely maintained his Armament Haki, but the black hardened skin was being corroded inch by inch by the poison gas;
Baby-5 also retreated in horror, and even the supreme executive Pica was knocked back to his original form from his stone giant state, clutching his throat and rolling on the ground in pain.
"Damn it!"
"These poisonous gases are everywhere, there's no way to resist them!"
"..."
Zephyr's New Navy troops watched all this in silence. Ain unconsciously pressed the arm that had been burned by the poison gas: "Teacher, we..."
"Hmph, the Marine got a big bargain." Zephyr left with his men, speaking at the same time: "However..." He looked towards Dressrosa in the distance, "The aftermath work in the country will still be up to us!"
As the last Donquixote member fell, the purple smoke suddenly began to retract, and Smoker's figure re-condensed,
"Quick! Sea Stone handcuffs!"
When the last Doflamingo Family member was escorted onto the Marine warship, the entire Dressrosa seemed to have been put on pause,
Immediately after, earth-shattering cries and cheers erupted.
"Papa! I remember! I remember everything!" A thin boy suddenly knelt on the ground, clutching his hair tightly with both hands, "All these years... All these years you've been by my side as a toy!"
The live stream was instantly flooded with overwhelming bullet comments:
"My brother! My brother was turned into a teddy bear!"
"No wonder I always felt like someone was missing at home..."
"Mama, I was wrong! I shouldn't have thrown away that old Toy Soldier! That was Grandpa!"
The camera swept across the palace square, and the shocking scene sent shivers down the spines of people worldwide:
- The rusty toys flashed white light and turned into human bodies
- A certain noble young lady suddenly screamed and pounced towards a toy horse in the corner—that was her "missing" fiancé
- The streets were filled with people kneeling and weeping, frantically kissing their relatives who had just regained their human form
In front of the live broadcast stand,
Rebecca's tears fell in large drops onto the microphone. Through her blurry tears, she saw the one-legged Toy Soldier on the screen glowing.
After the light dissipated, the face she had only seen in portraits appeared: Kyros, the legendary warrior of Dressrosa!
The old toy that had always silently protected her turned out to be her father, whom she thought had already sacrificed himself!
"Soldier-san... No... Papa..." She choked, barely able to make a sound.
Kyros dragged his injured body, searching with difficulty among the crowd. When the father and daughter's eyes met across the distance, this tough man who had once single-handedly fought the entire Donquixote crew, cried like a child.
....
Marine Temporary Command Post,
Smoker sat against the wall. The changes in his body made the people around him dare not approach, and even sometimes food would rot when he ate, but he didn't care about these, staring intently at the human tragicomedy on the projection.
"Is it worth it?" Tiana's voice trembled in the video call, "Turning yourself into this state..."
Smoker tilted his head back and gulped down the bitter liquid: "See that?" He pointed to a corner of the screen—
In the picture, an old man who had just regained his memory was wailing and crying while holding his granddaughter who had been a toy for twenty years. The old man's wrinkled hands desperately stroked the child's cheek, as if to confirm that this was not an illusion.
"That's enough." Smoker grinned with his purplish-black lips, revealing a smile uglier than crying.
.....
The dawn in Dressrosa was exceptionally clear. Sunlight pierced through the shattered palace dome, scattering onto the scarred streets.
The New Navy soldiers were lined up neatly, preparing for the final withdrawal.
Zephyr stood at the port, his brows relaxed, his gaze sweeping across this newly reborn kingdom.
"Zephyr-san!" Rebecca ran up, followed by King Riku and Kyros. Her eyes were still a little red, but her gaze had become firm: "Please wait a moment!"
Zephyr turned, frowning slightly: "Does the princess have something else?"
Rebecca took a deep breath: "Punk Hazard... is now ownerless land. It was once Caesar's laboratory, but now the poisonous gas has been cleared, and the facilities are complete..." She raised her head, her voice clear and strong: "I hope the New Navy can be stationed there."
Ain, who was originally directing the soldiers to board the ship, felt her fingers tremble slightly upon hearing this.
She looked at Zephyr, a complex emotion flashing in her eyes. Without a fixed base, the New Navy was indeed like rootless duckweed, and even recruiting new soldiers was extremely difficult.
"Punk Hazard..." Zephyr pondered.
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