"Th-This... is this Aokiji's Ice-Ice Fruit?" Shanks' mouth hung wide open, his eyes bulging in utter disbelief.
"No, it's only an illusion." Doflamingo waved a hand as if it were nothing. "Turning the cold into something tangible and freezing the sea isn't difficult."
The hell do you mean, 'isn't difficult'?! Shanks felt a complaint lodged in his throat, unable to spit it out. For no reason at all, he finally understood what it meant to show off in the most pretentious way possible.
In truth, this really was not particularly difficult for Doflamingo. After all, the cold current he created was not permanent; it had merely been brought into existence temporarily.
Though it had only been created temporarily, the damage and effects caused by the cold would not disappear because of that. In other words, although the cold current would soon return to nothingness, the frozen sea would not revert to its original state.
This was the best method Doflamingo had learned after repeatedly using Illusion - Materialization.
Rather than directly creating objects that existed permanently, he used Illusion - Materialization as a one-time attack—cold, blazing flames, lightning, earthquakes, magma, beams of light, even meteors and shooting stars.
Even if the illusions he created vanished soon afterward, the destruction they inflicted would not be weakened in the slightest.
And because this move was extremely similar to one used by a certain True Ancestor from Type-Moon, he named it Ideation Materialization.
"All right, the arena is ready. Let's fight!" Doflamingo spoke as though he had merely done something trivial, then turned to look at Shanks.
Shanks really wanted to say, Can we not do this? Unfortunately, under the watchful eyes of everyone present, this Face-Face Fruit ability user ultimately could not let go of his pride. He could only console himself