Destined Retribution, Kyros Wins
On the screen, a barrage of horrified comments immediately appeared: {Holy crap, if someone were hit by so many of these thorny iron balls, who could possibly survive?!}
{There's nowhere to escape! Kyros are in danger!}
What a beautiful view! It's just too awful! I don't like it at all.
{No, Diamante himself is also within the attack range of the thorny iron balls. Isn't he worried at all? Or do those thorny iron balls somehow recognize a master?!}
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The next second, faced with the confusion in the comments, Diamante immediately provided the answer in the video.
He pulled a piece of black paper from his pocket, removed the power attached to it, and the paper instantly transformed into a black iron umbrella.
Then, with a smug look on his face, he opened the iron umbrella, looked at Kyros with great interest, and said, "Farewell! Death Star Dust."
As soon as he finished speaking, countless iron balls of thorns rained down like a torrential downpour, crashing down on the crowd below.
Because Diamante was holding an iron umbrella, the falling thorny iron ball did not cause him any harm.
On the other side, Robin and Rebecca relied on Robin's ability to use a large umbrella made of sunflowers in the Flower Field to barely avoid the thorny iron balls falling from the sky.
Only Kyros himself stood upright in the rain of thorny iron balls, relying on his superior Observation Haki and swordsmanship to deflect the numerous falling thorny iron balls one by one.
Not only that, he jumped up and charged towards Diamante.
Seeing this, Diamante pulled out a gun from his pocket and shot Kyros in the undamaged thigh.
Kyros immediately fell to the ground, and thorny iron balls rained down on him.
This scene caused Rebecca, who was inside the umbrella, to feel a pang of heartache and anger. She gripped her sword tightly, ready to rush out and fight Diamante to the death.
But Robin stopped her firmly, telling her to calm down. The rain of thorns and iron balls outside hadn't stopped yet, and if she went out now, she would only be throwing her life away.
Rebecca was well aware of this, but seeing her father suffering under the rain of thorny iron balls and hearing Diamante's triumphant laughter still filled her with immense anger.
At this moment, Diamante, still gripping his gun tightly, mocked Kyros, "Hey! Kyros, do you know? Your wife, Scarlet, also died from this gun. But that's fine, since you two can both die by my gun."
Upon hearing this, Rebecca's anger finally reached its limit. She almost broke free from Robin's grasp and roared at Diamante with wide eyes, "Diamante, I will never let you get away with this! I will never!"
"Yes! That's it, Rebecca." Diamante provocatively said with a look of enjoyment, "Don't let me go! Come on, let's fight! Then I can kill you with my own hands, just like I killed your mother."
On the screen, a massive barrage of curses immediately appeared: {This is disgusting! This is the first time I've ever felt someone could be so disgusting. Just die already, Diamante!}
{That Diamante is absolutely disgusting! He's utterly depraved! He should just die!}
{No wonder he's Doflamingo's subordinate; birds of a feather flock together! Damn it, Diamante.}
Kyros! Defeat him! I can't stand his arrogance.
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The New World, Dressrosa, King's Plateau, Inside the Royal Palace.
"Diamante, your verbal attack was very well done! Perfectly executed." Doflamingo glanced at Diamante behind him and praised her.
"Don't say that, I didn't do that well!" Diamante said modestly.
"No, you do," Doflamingo retorted.
"No, that's not true, Dover," Diamante shook his head.
"No, you really do," Doflamingo continued, trying to persuade him.
"Since you've put it that way, I'll accept it. Once we capture Kyros and his daughter, I'll give them a good beating. Just you wait and see, Dover," Diamante said cruelly.
"Fuck, well then I'll be waiting to see your show, Diamante." Doflamingo also revealed a sinister smile as he spoke.
A small path leading to the King's Plateau.
"Diamante," Kyros gritted his teeth, "I will never let you get away with this."
The Grand Line, somewhere in the sea, the Thousand Sunny.
"Ugh! Ugh! This guy is disgusting! I really want to punch him away!" Luffy clenched his fist and said angrily.
"Count me in, Luffy, I want to beat him up too!" Chopper, Usopp, and Franky chimed in.
"You guys, calm down!" Nami stepped forward to soothe the agitated Luffy and his crew, saying, "We need to believe in that soldier's strength; he'll definitely win."
"That's right, soldier, he's not as weak as we thought," Robin agreed.
"Hey! Mina, look! That soldier's standing up!" Brook shouted, pointing at the screen.
"What?"
In the video footage, Kyros is seen slowly standing up, bearing the rain of thorny iron balls falling from the sky, as if these thorny iron balls were truly just raindrops.
This left everyone present completely dumbfounded. "Father," Rebecca asked in shock, "Why?"
"This is my battle, Rebecca," Kyros said in a deep voice. "Throw away your sword. You've endured so much these past ten years, trying to uphold your mother's wish to the very end, haven't you?"
Upon hearing this, Rebecca, who was hiding under the parasol, was startled. The words her mother, Scarlet, had told her to not hurt others flashed through her mind, and her hand holding the sword wavered involuntarily.
Then Kyros added, "Even if you stood in that bloodthirsty arena, didn't you still not harm a single person? Your hands are still pure and beautiful, so don't let this bastard's blood taint you. Your hands hold the soul of your mother, Scarlet."
Upon hearing this, Rebecca was struck dumb, slowly releasing her grip on the sword, which fell to the ground with a metallic clang.
This sound was like a bugle call to arms. Kyros, despite the excruciating pain throughout his body, charged toward Diamante at incredible speed, and before Diamanti's utterly shocked eyes, slashed his sword at him.
Diamante hurriedly drew his sword from his bosom, using it to parry Kyros iron umbrella. He exclaimed incredulously, "Kyros, you bastard, is your body made of iron? Don't you feel pain?!"
Kyros ignored him and forced him back with a single sword strike, creating distance between them. Amidst the rain of thorny iron balls, he raised his sword, letting the iron balls pelt his body, cutting bloody gashes into his skin.
"Pain, of course," Kyros said slowly. "But pain is the best proof of being human. You would never understand the despair of being forgotten by a loved one."
As he spoke, the image of himself as a toy, holding his wife's gradually cooling corpse and feeling utterly powerless, flashed through his mind. He gritted his teeth and said, "You would never understand the kind of pain that comes from not being able to feel anything no matter what you touch."
With that, he raised his sword and slashed at Diamante, "Compared to the countless tragedies that have befallen Dressrosa, my pain is nothing."
"Bang bang bang..."
Kyros and Diamante's swords clashed repeatedly.
Suddenly, Diamante lost his footing, and Kyros found an opening, slashing at his face with his sword.
Diamante quickly held up the iron umbrella he was holding to shield himself.
The iron umbrella shattered in two, but it bought him time. He forced Kyros back with a single sword strike, then raised his sword high, saying, "Don't underestimate my genuine swordsmanship, you bastard!"
With that, he swung his sword at Kyros, shouting, "Half-Moon Funeral!"
"Call out!"
A sharp sword aura slashed down the ground towards Kyros, but he leaped high into the air to dodge it, shouting, "Diamante!"
"Kyros!" Diamante shouted in return.
And so, the two clashed once again.
However, due to his injuries, Kyros soon became exhausted. More fatally, the wound on his thigh, which had been caused by Diamante's gun, suddenly flared up, causing him excruciating pain. He was unable to exert any strength for a moment, and immediately knelt down on one knee.
"Hehehe, finally reached your limit, Kyros." Diamante grinned smugly, gripping his sword tightly as he walked towards Kyros, saying, "The iron balls have all fallen, so let me send you on your final journey!"
As he spoke, he had already reached a short distance in front of Kyros, raising his sword high, "Just like when I ended the life of Scarlet, the love of you and your daughter."
Upon hearing this, Kyros's pupils contracted, and a surge of power welled up within him, allowing him to stand up despite the excruciating pain. He brandished his sword and once again engaged Diamante in battle.
"Kyros, you loser, stop struggling here! You were defeated ten years ago! Losers should scatter like losers!" Diamante taunted as he fought Kyros.
"That's precisely why I'm willing to risk everything. This sword bears the weight of all the suffering this country has endured for the past ten years, and that's why I'm giving it up!" Kyros tightened his grip, forcing Diamante back, and shouted, "I will reclaim the peace of this country!"
With that, he charged towards Diamante, leaping high into the air and slashing his sword at Diamante, shouting, "Thunder Destruction Sword!"
"Half-Moon Funeral!" Diamante gripped his sword tightly and slashed at Kyros, shouting.
"Bang!"
Their swords clashed once more, but this time, Diamante's sword was cleaved in two by Kyros's sword, and his body was also struck by Kyros, causing a stream of bright red blood to gush out.
He immediately fell backward, his head hitting a wooden tombstone—the tombstone of Scarlet, Kyros's wife and Rebecca's mother.
Diamante vomited a large amount of blood on the spot and fainted.
This scene left Kyros and Rebecca, father and daughter, dumbfounded, as if it were a preordained retribution.
With Robin's permission, Rebecca immediately ran toward Kyros, who was sitting in front of the tombstone.
Rebecca and Kyros then looked at the tombstone with expressions of relief.
At this moment, the system's text appeared. "Kyros, former commander of the Dressrosa Army Commander, versus Diamante, the highest-ranking officer of the Donquixote Family."
"The victor Kyros, the former Army Commander of the Dressrosa army."
The screen was instantly flooded with a massive amount of excited comments: {Hahaha, well done, Kyros! I declare this to be the happiest day of the year!}
{Wow, Kyros! This is what the legendary invincible hero of the Corrida Colosseum should look like. Diamante, that fraud, is no match for him at all.}
{Karma, this is karma! Diamante, serves you right for your foul mouth and personal attacks! You got what you deserved! Satisfying.}
{Well done, Kyros! See? Even the dead won't let you go! Hahaha.}
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The New World, Dressrosa, King's Plateau, Inside the Royal Palace.
"Kyros, just you wait!" Diamante's face darkened, and he said angrily, "Soon, I will make you and your daughter pay."
No sooner had he finished speaking Senor Pink's voice came from outside, "Young Master, I've brought Rebecca."
A small path leading to the King's Plateau.
"Scarlet, so you've been protecting Rebecca all along!" Kyros said emotionally. "Then please protect her and this country for a while longer! I will save this country from Doflamingo."
The Grand Line, somewhere in the sea, the Thousand Sunny.
"We won! Well done, soldier!" Franky and Franky, along with the rest of the Luffy, raised their hands and cheered.
"That's wonderful! Rebecca, I hope you can be freed from that nightmare in real life soon too!" Robin smiled and prayed.
"Hey! You stinky Moss Head, everyone else has already taken care of their opponents, but you haven't even finished off that big guy yet. Are you even capable of anything?!" Sanji suddenly shouted at Zoro, who was standing to the side, mocking him.
"Shut up, you damn cook! Just watch! I'll take care of that damn rock in no time," Zoro said, glaring at him.
"Really?! You're not kidding..."
Sanji had barely finished speaking when Brook shouted, "Hey! Everyone, look! That stone golem is on Robin's floor!"
"What?!"