Shadow Rider String, an ultimate technique Doflamingo had created by developing the String-String Fruit to its fullest.
It could coil the fine threads he created around and around in midair, binding them tightly together to form a puppet clone made of strings.
The puppet could speak, fight, and even simulate the breathing and heartbeat of human organs. Its effect rivaled that of a shadow clone.
"A fake body?"
Garen stared at the false body that had scattered into a mass of white threads, slightly shocked.
Garen suddenly understood why Doflamingo had not resisted at all earlier, instead wasting time chatting nonsense in front of him. It had all been to buy time for his real body to escape.
Garen immediately felt annoyed:
He had always been the one using chatter tactics to stall for time, recover health, and trick people. He never expected someone to turn those same tactics around and trick him today.
But—
"How did Doflamingo escape?"
Garen carefully examined the mass of white threads as they gradually withered away, countless doubts arising in his heart:
He had been watching Doflamingo's movements the entire time. When had that bastard slipped away and placed this fake body in front of him?
Had he done it while Garen and Jack were fighting at close quarters, when Garen's attention had been focused on Jack?
But their exchange had lasted only an instant. After setting up the clone, how could Doflamingo have had enough time to escape Garen's sight across these wide-open Royal Capital ruins?
"Boss?!"
His great vengeance had seemed within reach, only for his enemy to suddenly vanish without a trace. Luo's emotions, which had only just calmed down, immediately surged again.
"Don't panic."
Garen casually reassured him, then said calmly:
"Doflamingo shouldn't have gotten far. Let me sense where