"Come on, then! Fuffuffuffu!"
Doflamingo laughed wildly and snapped his ten fingers open.
Countless transparent threads, fine as hair, shot from his fingertips. They spread into a vast net that blotted out the sky and surged toward Shanks.
"Parasite String!"
The threads caught the sunlight in tiny glints. They looked light and delicate, but the air shrieked as they sliced through it.
Shanks did not slow down.
His grip tightened around his sword.
Fine arcs of lightning raced up the arms that had once belonged to Rayleigh, then along his wrists, over the hilt, and onto the blade.
Boom!
As he swung, a lightning slash dozens of meters long tore across the arena.
The blow split the vast net apart.
Under the combined force of lightning and Haki, countless threads snapped like broken strings and scattered in every direction.
The slash kept going, hurtling straight toward Doflamingo.
"Fuffuffuffu!"
Doflamingo laughed and darted upward. Pulled by his threads, he hung in midair.
The lightning slash roared beneath his feet and struck the edge of the platform.
Rumble!
The blow carved a trench dozens of meters long through the solid stone.
Broken rock flew skyward, and dust billowed out.
Gasps swept through the stands.
"Freedom?"
Suspended in the air, Doflamingo looked down at the red-haired figure and curled his lips in a sneer.
"What has that ridiculous freedom of yours ever given you?"
His ten fingers danced again!
Countless threads twisted together in the air, forming a gigantic spear.
Its surface was coated in dense, black Armament Haki.
"String Spear!"
Boom!
The spear fell like a meteor, plunging toward Shanks.
The air tore around it with a piercing shriek.
Shanks looked up, his gaze calm.
He gripped his sword with both hands and raised its lightning-wreathed blade high.
Boom!
Sword and spear