"Doflamingo really is too reckless. I'll teach him a lesson today!" Longinus's expression was indifferent. He did not actually intend to capture Doflamingo.
It was just that Doflamingo had dared to attack him. Not giving him a little "special attention" would be hard to justify.
Besides, once Big Mom attacked, Doflamingo should have no trouble escaping amid the chaos with his abilities.
On the other side, King Riku asked in disbelief, "These pirates were merely pawns being controlled by someone?"
"So that's how it is. I knew there had to be something..." Kyros's expression cleared, and he stared intently toward the demolished bar. "How could that pirate's strength have suddenly increased so much?"
"It's a shockwave! So cool!" Little girl gazed at Longinus with adoration in her eyes. "I wonder if this big brother can shoot beams of light too?"
"Fufufufu..." A strange laugh came from the blazing light of the bar, which had been blown apart and set ablaze. Then Doflamingo stepped out of the flames with an arrogant gait that would have gotten an ordinary person's legs broken. "You really can't hide anything from me, Light of the Marines, Rear Admiral Longinus!"
"Rear Admiral? Longinus?" Joseph snapped back to his senses from his shock. As a pirate who had entered the New World from the first half of the Grand Line, it would have been unrealistic for him never to have heard that name.
After all, Longinus was a terrifying figure who had single-handedly purged nearly one-tenth of the pirates in the first half of the Grand Line. He was a super-monster whom almost every pirate prayed they would not encounter while attempting to cross the sea guarded by the G2 Branch.
Joseph had celebrated for a long time when he successfully crossed that sea back then. He