"Nani?!!!"
The clash continued in the sky.
Five-colored strings coated in Armament Haki shot from his fingertips, directly blocking the distant slash.
The smile vanished from Doflamingo's face. Instead, he frowned as he looked toward the distant clouds, vaguely sensing that something was wrong.
A dragon tail emerged from the clouds, making his pupils shrink sharply, though he quickly returned to normal.
"Kaido... no, that's not right."
"Who could it be?"
Using the force of the slash, Doflamingo retreated several dozen meters. His strings latched onto the clouds, allowing him to stand steadily in the sky.
The figure who appeared atop an auspicious cloud was, astonishingly, a long-haired woman.
She held a black blade imbued with Armament Haki, her vertical pupils fixed tightly on Doflamingo. The contours of her face shifted as pink dragon-human traits emerged across her body.
"This is Teacher Austin's battle. No one is allowed to interfere."
"Fuffuffuffuffu, Teacher Austin? So he even has a female disciple I've never seen before?"
Having spent many years in the underworld, Doflamingo certainly had a sharp eye, especially when it came to rare Devil Fruits. He knew them all like the back of his hand.
Aside from the wrong color, the form of the person before him was almost no different from Kaido's dragon-human form, except that she was somewhat smaller.
But that alone was shocking enough.
"After a seagull, now even a female disciple possesses the power of a legendary Mythical Zoan Type Devil Fruit... fuffuffuffuffu!!!"
"Should I say that it's no wonder he's Mr. Austin? When he makes a move, it's always on such a grand scale."
The enormous pink dragon tail behind Kuina swayed from side to side as she walked forward with her black blade in hand, staring at Doflamingo.
"Whether in swordsmanship or in life,