This looked like a heartwarming moment. Not only Neptune, but his three sons and daughter Shirahoshi were now all crying their eyes out.
Unfortunately, the newly revived Otohime was somewhat uncooperative. She covered her cherry lips, her shoulders shaking as she desperately tried to hold it in, but in the end, she burst out laughing.
"Ha ha ha, s-sorry, but having snot running out of one nostril... looks so weird!"
Neptune and his sons looked at one another, while Doflamingo was also astonished by how carefree this princess was. Was this really how someone acted right after being brought back to life?
Well, there were more than a few thick-skinned people in the Pirate World. Most people's thought processes were probably a little off.
But Otohime's laughter infected her family as well. Before long, Neptune, his three sons, and Shirahoshi were all laughing too.
Only after their emotions had calmed somewhat did Neptune and Otohime begin thanking Doflamingo.
"Thank you for your help. Otherwise, my children might truly have lost their mother forever."
"Lord Doflamingo, from now on, you are the great benefactor of all Fish-Man Island!"
Doflamingo gave a slight wave of his hand. His gaze swept over Otohime, and rather than speaking to Neptune, he asked her, "How does it feel to come back from the dead? Your Observation Haki has grown in a truly astonishing way."
"Eh!? What?" Otohime looked at a loss. In truth, although she knew she had been born with Observation Haki, she had never trained it.
Yet just now, while she had been in a state neither alive nor dead, her Observation Haki had naturally broken through some kind of bottleneck. She could communicate mentally with others. It was no longer ordinary interference, but direct control over other people's emotions, even... direct mind