"Just as I thought, it still seemed to be lacking by a little!" Doflamingo narrowed his eyes, tore off the clothes that had been blasted apart on his upper body, and wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth. The bluish-purple wounds on his chest were quite horrifying.
However, Kaido and Charlotte Linlin both wore grave expressions.
"This brat has gotten stronger again!" Charlotte Linlin's face was so dark it seemed ready to drip water. She had been the first to fight Doflamingo. If that battle had not taken place at sea, if all her Homies had not been hypnotized, and if she had not been ambushed at the very start, Doflamingo and Sancho would never have been her match.
Yet now, with Doflamingo and Sancho joining forces, even without factoring in either side's Devil Fruit abilities, Charlotte Linlin no longer had confidence in certain victory.
How long had it been? Those two had actually improved again!
In truth, Doflamingo's improvement had mainly come from his battle with Kaido, which had greatly boosted his confidence. As a result, his Haki had advanced by leaps and bounds. Of course, his own rate of growth was not slow either, but it was nowhere near as monstrous as Charlotte Linlin imagined.
The one who had truly improved the fastest was Sancho! Her growth during this period happened to coincide with the stage when she was realizing her potential. Her powerful physique meant that, even without much refinement, the upper limit of her Haki already surpassed that of more than ninety-nine percent of people.
And the long years inside the Illusion Space had filled up her Haki reserves.
The current Sancho could already be considered close to the baseline of top-tier fighters. Her only shortcomings were perhaps her lack of Conqueror's Haki and