<The world was shocked!! The battle for the world's strongest had come to an end!!!>
The clash between the old and new eras!!!
<Warp Fruit VS Tremor-Tremor Fruit—which was the strongest Paramecia Fruit???>
<The coming era could be foreseen: it would be called the Black Emperor!!!>
As news-delivering seagulls flew across the seas, public opinion and excitement instantly exploded!!!
Although the news stated that the final visible outcome of the battle was that a gigantic deserted island had been shattered into an archipelago, with the two ending in a draw,
the enormous, glaring image printed across the newspaper's front page gave people a very clear impression:
[Black Emperor] had clearly held the upper hand!
That handsome, imposing, terrifying figure and gaze, compared to Whitebeard on the other side, drenched in blood and missing half his beard, easily gave people a mistaken impression.
That was, their true strength should not have been evenly matched!
Inside the royal palace of Dressrosa, a figure draped in a pink cape sat with his legs crossed, a sinister smile on his lips.
He held a glass of red wine in one hand and a newspaper in the other, carefully reading through it.
It was none other than Doflamingo, who had successfully usurped the throne in advance and had already become the King of Dressrosa.
"Fuffuffuffuffu... As expected of Lord Austin. He actually beat that Emperor of the Sea, Whitebeard, into such a state!!!"
"Fuffuffuffuffu, hahahaha!!!!"
His irrepressible laughter echoed through the palace, making it clear just how excited Doflamingo was.
He admitted that when he had first been forced to submit to Austin, Doflamingo, with his naturally rebellious nature and kingly bearing, had believed he was only temporarily beneath another.
But as the gap in strength between himself and Austin grew more and more outrageous,