Me, not good enough?
Me, not good enough!
The string puppet and Doflamingo share a view, so Doflamingo himself clearly saw the sand soldier's actions.
A bit of anger rose in his heart, and veins popped out on his forehead.
The shadow string that makes up the string puppet is one of Doflamingo's most proud moves.
This string puppet looks exactly like the power user, like a clone or an avatar.
The power user can freely control the puppet to use any of their moves, and even speak!
Doflamingo put in a lot of effort to develop this ability of the string-string fruit. Now he's being mocked by a sand soldier who can't even speak?
This kind of fragile sand avatar, with more focus on quantity than quality, can only fool ordinary people.
He wanted Ryan Rowan to see that in front of a real master, this kind of sand soldier is just for show!
He planned to kill this stupid "honor guard," then use the strings to sweep away and destroy most of the sand soldiers, and finally get into a battle of attrition with Ryan Rowan to buy time.
This was Doflamingo's plan.
— his original plan.
Several members of the Donquixote family have already been killed by Rowan, and the foundation of the Donquixote family is shaking.
More importantly, these killed family members were like "family" to Doflamingo.
So now, Doflamingo's heart is filled with unstoppable anger!
…
Inside the palace.
Caesar also noticed something was off, feeling that Doflamingo's condition was not quite right.
Looking closely, he saw Doflamingo's brow furrowed, his expression extremely fierce, and his already somewhat crazy temperament became even more frightening.
"Fuffuffuffu…"
A series of low laughter made Caesar's spine tingle.
But for the sake of his own safety as a genius scientist, Caesar thought about it and still forced himself to say to Doflamingo:
"Hey, Joker, things aren't looking good, shouldn't we prepare to get out of here…"
"Get out? Get out to where? Why get out!"
Doflamingo suddenly rushed forward and grabbed Caesar by the collar. "You think I'll lose? Huh?"
"No, no, that's not what I meant…"
Caesar's scalp was tingling.
In the underworld, Joker is a symbol of madness and strength, but Caesar is now sure that the people who say that have never seen Doflamingo in his truly crazy state!
Doflamingo is now so unstable, there's no telling what he might do.
"Just a broken toy made of sand, don't get too carried away!"
…
"Just a broken toy made of sand, don't get too carried away!"
The main body and the puppet said the same thing.
The string puppet's ten fingers opened, each pulling out a sharp string, and attacked the sand soldier.
The honor guard raised his shield to block again.
There was a "shiiiing" sound, and the string puppet's five strings left five clear scratches on the shield.
The honor guard took a few steps back and regained his balance.
The string puppet grinned and squeezed the sand in his hand. "Fuffuffuffu, just a toy…"
Suddenly, the string puppet frowned.
Because he suddenly noticed that there were a few black impurities mixed in with the floating sand.
That was… black sand?
No, it was sand covered in armored strength!
The honor guard casually dropped his greatsword and shield, stepped forward, and grabbed a few times with both hands again.
Then, of the same size as before, but pure black in color, the greatsword and shield were held in the guard's hands again.
The honor guard seemed very satisfied with his new weapons, raised the blade of the greatsword with one hand towards the string puppet and jutted his chin out, signaling the other side to come again.
The string puppet looked furious on the surface, but put one hand behind his back, extending a dark red string.
That was the string-string fruit's move with the highest single-target damage that failed to sneak attack earlier—Overheat!
In that moment, the attack could split a building in two.
Prepared with Overheat, the string puppet suddenly stepped forward, and the deadly string slashed down at the guard from above.
The honor guard raised his shield to block, and Overheat collided with the armored strength shield, creating an amazing shockwave.
"Not done yet!"
The string puppet shouted, and the Overheat in the other hand swung out again, heading straight for the guard's head.
This was the tactic he had already thought of.
The honor guard's greatsword was as tall as a person; wielding it with one hand meant that while its power was amazing, its speed would be weakened.
The string puppet - more accurately, Doflamingo - was waiting for this opportunity!
The moment the shield was blocked and the greatsword could not defend, he would deliver a fatal blow to the guard!
Whoosh!
Overheat swept across, directly cutting off the guard's head.
"Fuffuffuffu, that's all there is to it…"
The string puppet laughed softly, but the smile quickly froze.
Because the force coming from the shield did not diminish at all, and the headless honor guard's body didn't show any sign of falling!
In the string puppet's surprised gaze, the guard's severed head floated away with the wind, turning into a pile of sand and returning to its original place.
The guard was restored!
Watching this scene, the smile on the string puppet's face finally disappeared.
He re-examined the "enemy" in front of him.
It wasn't a summoned avatar at all.
It was—a part of the nature belonging to the sand-sand fruit!
Tiny grains of sand had transformed into the sand honor guard.
The string puppet created by the shadow string has a unique feature - if it suffers a fatal injury, the string puppet will lose its ability to move until the power user's main body arrives to reconstruct and reawaken it.
But what about "nature"?
Can "nature" suffer a fatal injury?
People can use water to put out fires, plants to eliminate deserts, and shadows to block light.
But no one can say that they have "killed" fire, "killed" the desert, or "killed" light.
Humans can't do that.
Nature is immortal.
So, those endless sand soldiers that stretch as far as the eye can see cannot be killed!
After realizing this, the string puppet hesitated for a moment.
In that instant, the honor guard rushed forward, first breaking the string puppet's balance with his shield, then raising his greatsword high and cleanly cutting the string puppet in half!
…
At the same time.
Rowan was slowly walking towards Pica, Gladius, and Machvise.
He also looked up at Doflamingo's main body inside the palace.
Rowan opened his mouth and shaped the words.
What he said was:
"You're next."
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