Victory, Compensation, and Increased Karma Points

Seeing Katakuri just walk away like that, Doflamingo was somewhat surprised. "What the hell is going on? Could it be that Kaido and Whitebeard attacked the Charlotte Pirates? Or did the Navy launch a raid on them?"

Gurgle, gurgle, gurgle. Hearing the Den Den Mushi's ring, the exhausted and severely injured Doflamingo furrowed his brow and opened it. On the other end came Sugar's tearful voice.

"Young Master! Those bastards from the Charlotte Pirates have looted our entire treasure vault!"

Doflamingo froze for a moment, veins bulging on his forehead. Already gravely wounded, he directly spat out a mouthful of blood. "I &%*%! Damn Charlotte Pirates! After robbing us, they still dared to make me pay 10 Billion Berries! Simply shameless!"

"Also... the Riku Royal Family and their guards have been rescued too! Baby5 has defected, and all our intelligence is now leaked. All the toys have turned back to normal!"

"Young Master, are you still listening? Hey!?"

A flustered voice came from the other end. Then, Sugar heard shouting.

"Someone come quick, the Young Master has fainted from anger!"

"Brother, we've hit the jackpot this time!"

Charlotte Daifuku and Charlotte Oven were beaming with joy as they opened one chest after another. Massive amounts of gold, silver, treasures, and Berries nearly filled the entire deck.

Katakuri still wore a cold expression. Though a pirate, he wasn't obsessed with treasure. But as the Charlotte Pirates' vice-captain, he naturally understood the benefits of such wealth for the crew's development. With this huge haul coming in, his mood was still quite pleasant.

As for that 10 Billion Berries he'd demanded from Doflamingo... that was compensation. This was battlefield spoils. How could they be the same?

Not capturing Doflamingo's men and demanding ransom from him was already doing him a favor!

To put it simply, no matter how generous or loyal a pirate might be, they were still pirates. Faced with an opportunity like this, Katakuri wasn't foolish enough to cling to principles.

But that wasn't all. Katakuri's gaze swept over, landing on the somewhat dazed Riku Royal Family, his eyes lingering especially on Violet.

A Glance-Glance Fruit user—she counted as a top-tier support. Even though both Minos and Brulee could substitute for her Clairvoyance and mind-reading abilities, Katakuri wouldn't underestimate the power of this Devil Fruit because of that.

As for Baby5, who was circling around Minos, she made Katakuri frown slightly.

Truth be told, the Weapon-Weapon Fruit was anything but weak. In terms of direct combat capability, few Devil Fruits on the entire Cake Island could match it.

It was just that Baby5's development level wasn't high enough, and her strength was insufficient, which gave people the impression that she was very weak.

Of course, picking up a Devil Fruit user for free—Katakuri had no complaints about that.

"I just wonder... what about Brulee?"

In truth, ever since Minos joined the Charlotte Pirates and displayed his potential, combined with his identity as a member of the Three-Eyed Tribe, Charlotte Linlin had wanted to marry Brulee off to him.

This was the Charlotte Pirates' usual tactic—using daughters to forge marriage alliances. Of course, Charlotte Linlin might also have been considering the issue of preventing the Three-Eyed Tribe from going extinct.

In a way, this Big Mom was "thoughtful" in her efforts to maintain racial diversity in the Pirate World.

But Brulee was only six years old right now. Though a ten-year age gap meant nothing in the Pirate World, Charlotte Linlin surprisingly adhered to the rule of waiting until adulthood for marriage.

"Forget it. This kind of thing isn't something I should be worrying about." Katakuri finally shook his head. As much as he doted on his little sister, he couldn't exactly help his six-year-old sister eliminate romantic rivals right now!

Besides, the Pirate World wasn't the Naruto world. People here didn't go in for early romance. His little sister had a good relationship with Minos, but that was only because they were of the same tribe. At least seven or eight years would pass before it could develop into a romantic relationship.

As for Minos, he was currently reviewing his own actions and the Karma Points he'd earned.

Stealing Violet and Baby5, who should have belonged to the Doflamingo Pirates, plundering the entire Donquixote family's treasure, rescuing the Riku Royal Family...

It was certain that the entire Dressrosa storyline had been massively derailed because of Minos. But this influence hadn't fully fermented yet.

A concrete example was that Minos, looking at the Karma Points in his Golden Paradise space, saw them still increasing continuously. Clearly, the aftermath of this incident wasn't over yet.

Minos naturally didn't know that because of his actions, Doflamingo had developed immense doubts about Sugar's ability—Sugar's Hobby-Hobby Fruit was, of course, an incredibly powerful ability when no outsider knew about it.

But once it was leaked, this ability immediately became a target that everyone on the sea wanted to eliminate.

Had his own memories been affected? Had any of his family been turned into toys? What was the original truth of things?

No one could tolerate having their memories tampered with, having their subordinates, friends, and family turned into toys while all memories of them were erased.

For many people, suspicion alone was enough to make them act!

Given that, it was easy to imagine what choice Doflamingo would make.

Perhaps Doflamingo would still occasionally have Sugar use the Hobby-Hobby Fruit for certain tasks, but he would absolutely never mass-produce toys again—that would be practically declaring war on the world.

This was precisely why Minos found his Karma Points still increasing—after his upheaval, the entire situation in Dressrosa had changed. At the very least, the so-called "Land of Toys and Passion" would never appear again.

"The Karma Points are still increasing. At this rate, by tonight, I should be able to do a material exchange!"

"This time, what I can exchange won't be illusory things like memories and knowledge, but actual physical items. They'll be modified by the world's Laws, but that's still far better than pure knowledge or memories."

"But the key problem is, I don't seem to have anything worth exchanging!"

Minos looked himself over. Aside from a Ryokai-to, he had nothing of value. As for using the Ryokai-to for a trade? Sorry, he really couldn't bring himself to do something that wasteful.

What good stuff could a Ryokai-to exchange for? Probably just some ordinary sharp blades from a martial world. It might not even reach the level of the Heaven-Reliant Sword or the Dragon-Slaying Saber. Naturally, he wouldn't waste it like that.