The vast arena fell into a dead silence.
Sensing the inexplicable pressure pervading the heavens and earth.
At this moment, it felt as if an invisible giant hand was tightly gripping their hearts.
It made them feel suffocated.
Their gazes towards Kai were filled with not only disbelief but also fear and apprehension.
Especially Chinjao and Old Cai, who arrived late due to Garp and Zephyr’s appearance.
At this moment, they felt a sense of relief.
They were fortunate not to have rushed onto the stage to challenge for the Mythical Zoan Devil Fruit, nor to have acted recklessly due to their past status as pirates with bounties of 500 million.
Facing Jack, whose bounty was 1 billion, and who couldn’t withstand even one punch.
They dared not act rashly.
Especially after seeing Kai’s unadorned fists.
They finally understood who the Hero of the Marines, Garp, and the former Marine Admiral Zephyr had been talking about with such high praise.
The One-Punch Man!
This title was incredibly fitting.
"1 billion Beli, still not enough to withstand a punch!" Kai retracted his fist, having expected this outcome.
He glanced down at the arena floor, which was already covered in spiderweb-like cracks.
The muscles in his right hand tensed like rock once more.
The moment his fingers clenched, Doflamingo, who was lost in thought on the broadcast stage, suddenly snapped back to reality.
"No!"
"Five String!"
"Foot Razor String!"
Urgent roars sounded one after another.
However, Kai seemed to pay no attention to these attacks.
As his entire body was covered in Armament Haki, he clenched his right fist and slammed it down towards the arena below.
Boom!
One punch unleashed!
A violent gust of air and shockwaves rolled out like a raging tide.
The attacking threads, which were the first to be hit, were instantly repelled.
The massive arena, at this moment, seemed like paper, shattering with a resounding boom.
The residual power of the fist aura, undiminished, struck deep into the underground city.
Accompanied by a series of explosions, seawater splashed, debris flew, and the entire ground seemed to shake violently.
Ace, caught in the impact, his expression changed, and he immediately activated his elementalization to its extreme.
Transforming into a pillar of fire reaching the sky, he escaped the arena.
However, compared to Ace, Blackbeard’s Dark-Dark Fruit, although also a Logia-type.
It did not possess the ability of elementalization, and he, along with Cracker, who had not yet made a move, were directly engulfed by the blast wave.
The immense impact directly pierced and shattered the ceiling of the underground city hidden beneath the arena.
Trebol, who was secretly protecting Sugar below, and Sugar, who was eating purple grapes.
Facing the impact and seawater pouring down from the sky, they had no time to react and were directly submerged.
Within the Donquixote family, Sugar was protected like a trump card.
But this also meant she lost the opportunity to fight. It could be said that Sugar’s ability to adapt to life-or-death situations was close to zero.
She could be described as completely useless.
Now, facing this sudden disaster, her consciousness was instantly overwhelmed by the incoming seawater and impact.
"No... don’t!" Doflamingo roared hysterically.
Amidst the chaotic battlefield, he quickly soared into the air, looking down at the collapsing arena below, his face becoming extremely grim.
Especially seeing the people around him, who had been turned into toys by Sugar’s ability, gradually regaining their original forms.
The grimness on Doflamingo’s face deepened.
By the end, his eyes seemed to be spitting fire.
His knuckles were almost crushed.
This was all he had spent ten years building.
Now, it was being destroyed by someone he had planned to eliminate as prey.
If he hadn’t seen it with his own eyes, Doflamingo would never have believed it.
His lifelong reputation would be ruined by a bald man.
"Brother-in-law Kyros, you’ve finally recovered! Lord Saitama really did it!" Violet suddenly cried out urgently.
"You’ve recovered too. Then everyone else who knows about this country’s corrupt regime under Doflamingo must have also recovered."
"Vice Admiral Garp, as a Hero of the Marines, I beg you, uphold justice for our Riku royal family. King Riku’s so-called madness and slaughter of his people that day were all orchestrated by Doflamingo. There are many people in this country who know the truth and were turned into toys by him."
"He deceived the entire world with this method!"
Urgent pleas came from Violet’s mouth.
Seeing her kneel on the ground with a thud, Zephyr and Garp’s expressions also changed.
They had both retired from the front lines and didn’t pay much attention to the affairs of Marine Headquarters.
However, the matter Violet had just revealed was truly shocking.
Garp didn’t dislike pirates, but he couldn’t tolerate such actions.
As for Zephyr’s family, they had been killed by pirates, and facing Doflamingo’s actions, his expression also turned grim.
Seeing the situation change drastically, Doflamingo’s expression twisted, and he roared angrily.
"Issen, don’t forget that you Five Elders are also involved in this. If you don’t help me clean up this mess, don’t blame me for revealing the Celestial Dragons’ biggest secret. I will continue to be the King of Dressrosa, and I want everyone who knows this secret to die here!"
"Birdcage!"
Doflamingo roared repeatedly.
The white threads in his hand pierced through the heavens and earth.
In the next moment, before everyone’s eyes, they scattered in the sky like fireworks.
Like a giant umbrella, it enveloped the entire Dressrosa.
"Vice Admiral Garp, this is bad! the Den Den Mushi signal has been directly intercepted. We can’t contact Marine Headquarters to inform Fleet Admiral Sengoku about what’s happening here," a vice-admiral couldn’t hold back and rushed to Garp’s side.
Hearing this, Zephyr and Garp’s faces turned ashen.
Facing the collusion of a Seven Warlord, the Five Elders, and pirates.
These two old veterans were already accustomed to it.
Decades ago, when they were suppressing the world-destroyer Wald, they had already used similar tactics.
It was just that Garp and Zephyr never expected that after agreeing to Saitama’s proposal to become a Seven Warlord, the Five Elders.
Would then collude with Doflamingo and plot to assassinate Saitama.
If this plan had succeeded, it might have been a good thing for the World Government and Marine Headquarters.
But now that the assassination had failed, and they had personally witnessed Saitama’s immensely powerful strike.
Such a failure was fatal to the Five Elders and the World Government behind them.
This would provoke a terrifying enemy and force him to stand on the opposing side.
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