Bartholomew

"Declare war on the old-fashioned Sea Emperor... You're such a madman! The world is getting more and more interesting! Hmm~ Hehehehehe~"

Doflamingo let out a maniacal laugh, having completely forgotten about the defeat in Dressrosa.

It might be a good thing that the Donquixote Family's officers were captured by the navy and imprisoned in Impel Down.

As a defeated Shichibukai and the biggest intermediary in the Underworld, he has been abandoned by the new era and can no longer stir up any waves.

There are countless people who wish they could shut up.

Doflamingo couldn't be happier to see this man turn the world upside down.

"Don't be so arrogant, brat... Boss Kaido is the strongest!"

At that moment, a purple gas drifted into the cabin, and Jack's men fled in panic.

Jack, clearly fully armed, slowly emerged from inside, a look of madness on his face.

"It's Caesar's poison gas. If you inhale it, you'll lose the ability to fight back!"

Doflamingo frowned. As the "Joker" of the Underworld and the former boss of scientist Caesar, he naturally recognized the poisonous fog.

He obtained this item through a deal with the Beasts Pirates.

"Doflamingo, are you trying to betray Kaido?!"

Jack glared at him angrily.

"That's too harsh. When did I become Kaido's subordinate? We're just partners. I cooperate with him because I value his strength and his troublesome nature!"

"But now, times are changing, and the changing of trends always brings abandonment. Kaido has been eliminated!"

Doflamingo jumped to Cifer's side, pushed up his new sunglasses that seemed to have appeared out of nowhere, and began to mock him.

He was not afraid of the poisonous fog drifting towards him, because the man's face was expressionless.

"I didn't invite you to reminisce here."

"Cero".

Cifer didn't waste any more time listening to the other's rambling. He raised his hand, and a burst of emerald green light from his fingertips pierced through Jack's chest.

The remaining force shattered the cabin behind it, and in an instant, the once respectable pirate ship, including the deck structure and sails, was completely destroyed.

"Captain Jack!"

His subordinates, though incredulous, had no choice but to quickly surround him and stand in front of him.

"I'm not dead yet!"

Jack had a large hole in his chest, and he collapsed on the deck, blood gushing from the wound.

Even if I have to die, I'll tear off a piece of your skin!

With a roar, disregarding his own injuries, he forcibly transformed into a mammoth, almost occupying the entire space of the ship, with some of his subordinates even being trampled under his feet.

"Moo~"

Blood gushed from the giant hole in front of the elephant, which let out a desperate roar and stabbed at Cifer with its crescent-shaped tusks.

"Do you think this ivory is valuable?"

Cifer leaped up and stood on the elephant's head, remaining as steady as a mountain no matter how the elephant shook its body.

"Hmm~ Hmph hmph hmph~ For some nobles, this ivory might be almost as much as their Bounty!"

With a flick of his trunk, Mingo flew onto the elephant's head, looking down at the powerless and furious Jack below, a strange feeling stirring within him.

"That's not bad."

Cifer slowly drew the Banlong from his waist.

"What do you want to do to Captain Jack?!"

At this moment, several burly men dressed in strange clothes climbed onto the elephant's back and attacked the two of them.

"Don't bother coming, you lowly lackeys..."

Doflamingo casually swung his hand, and in an instant, blood flew everywhere as Jack's men were hacked to pieces.

At that moment, amidst Jack's agonizing screams, Cifer chopped off Jack's pair of extremely valuable ivory tusks.

"Stop arguing, I'm sending you on your way."

Cifer another wave of his hand, the Banlong swept across Jack's body.

Jack Drought, one of the Calamities All-Stars the Beasts Pirates, was thus split in two.

Over the course of two years, Cifer had already granted all his companions some of his abilities (except for Kuzan), and he chose to kill any Devil Fruit User were of little use.

Therefore, a new door has been opened once again.

"This is the gift."

"Give half to Kaido and half to the Marineford in exchange for his Bounty."

Cifer put away the Banlong and threw the ivory onto Bartholomew's ship.

"As expected of Senior Cifer —so cool!"

Barto, who had just woken up, saw his idol make a move, and his eyes were full of stars.

"My name is Bartholomew. I'm just a nobody who has admired you ever since the Loguetown incident. Please, I beg you, take us under your wing!"

Barto and his men knelt down, their faces filled with worship.

"Is that so? Since you brought them back, you can make arrangements for them. Just make sure you don't violate the principles of Las Noches."

Cifer's gaze fell on Lucci and his companion.

"Senior Cifer, please rest assured! I have turned over a new leaf and become a new person since two years ago!"

Barto quickly waved his hand and explained.

He used to be a notorious gang leader, but after meeting this man and hearing about the vastness of the world, he changed.

He no longer wanted to be the kind of scum who bullied the weak; he wanted to be a real man who dared to stand up to the strong and the highest authority in the world!

The timing was perfect. He had always wanted to go to sea, but he was troubled because none of his subordinates knew how to navigate. He was also inexplicably given the infamous title of "cannibal."

Half-willingly and half-forced, he finally set sail and, with the help of his companion grandmother, made it smoothly to the New World.

She arrived first, standing before the man.

Recalling all of that, Barto was already in tears.

"A grown man crying so pathetically."

Lucci casually pulled out a handkerchief and tossed it into his arms.

"This is... Senior Lucci's handkerchief?!"

Bartholomew's cheeks flushed red, as if he had found a treasure.

"What a pure-hearted boy."

He didn't know Barto at all, but he could sense the almost fanatical worship the other had for Las Noches.

"Let's head back."

"Understood! Senior Cifer!"

With the help of Barto's gang, Jack's dilapidated ship also returned to Hachinosu with them.

"Speaking of which... what's that bow of your boat..."

When they returned to the port and were about to disembark, Cifer noticed that Barto's ship was not just a simple vessel with two horns.

From the front, the bow of the ship is made from a picture of himself in his Second Resurrección.

"Senior Cifer has finally found it! This is the ship of the Barto Club, which is full of love for Las Noches —the Forward Cifer!"

"And this..."

Barto enthusiastically told everyone which items on the ship represented members of Las Noches.

"This taiko drum is quite good."

"That's right, that's right, that's Enel -Las Noches senpai, the second-in-command of Enel..."

Barto suddenly froze, because he had never heard this voice before.

He trembled as he slowly turned his head.

Enel was sitting at the bow of the ship.

"Enel- senpai~"

Bartholomew was so excited that he almost fainted again.