Shark Chili's Great Achievement!

"Hmm?" Tsuru, who had been preparing to deal with the Donquixote Family executives, halted in mid-air using Moonwalk and looked toward the source of the sound with a puzzled expression.

Then, Tsuru saw the strange kid who had been flying with a wheelchair earlier, carrying Doflamingo as they ascended.

"Fufufu..."

"Old hag, are you disappointed to see that I'm not dead?"

Tsuru was not in the least bit angered by Doflamingo's words. Instead, she took a few extra looks at Gray before speaking to Doflamingo: "Not at all. You're not dead? It just gave me a chance to stretch my limbs a bit."

"You know how it is. When one gets old and sits in an office every day, if you don't move around, your bones tend to get rusty!"

Her tone was calm, yet she spoke words that made Doflamingo's rage flare up.

Doflamingo naturally understood Tsuru's mockery.

The subtext was clear: beating him, Doflamingo, was as simple as taking a walk after a meal.

"###" Veins bulged on his forehead. Doflamingo felt his blood pressure climbing steadily; if he weren't in a state of severe injury, he would have charged at her already.

"What, aren't you coming over?" Seeing that Gray and his companion remained motionless on the opposite side, Tsuru suddenly thought of something: "Since you won't come over, then I'll come to you!"

Whoosh.

Before the words had even faded, Tsuru's figure vanished from where she stood.

"Hey, hey! That old hag has no sense of sportsmanship!" Gray was startled and hurriedly ascended to a higher altitude, retreating backward.

Stopping at Gray's previous position, Tsuru frowned, looking up at Gray as he rapidly climbed and retreated in the sky.

"Kid! What is your ability?"

Gray: ???

"You think I'm going to explain that to you..."

"Fufufu... A Paramecia-type Spin-Spin Fruit user, a top-tier Devil Fruit that allows for free flight!" Before Gray could finish his sentence, Doflamingo had already shown off.

"Smack!" Gray covered his face in agony: "How is there someone who explains their own side's abilities to the enemy?"

"I have read the Devil Fruit Encyclopedia as well. The Spin-Spin Fruit shouldn't be able to control flight as freely as you do!" As the Marine Grand Staff Officer, Tsuru was naturally familiar with the Devil Fruit Encyclopedia sent by the World Government. She remembered every fruit's appearance and ability characteristics recorded within it clearly.

"Fufufu... well, who knows?" With a wicked smile on his lips, Doflamingo used his words to buy himself more time.

"Perhaps, this is what it means to be a genius!"

Tsuru could not let that slide. Thinking of the introduction to the Spin-Spin Fruit in the encyclopedia, then considering Gray's initial attack and his current form of free flight, it was something no previous Spin-Spin Fruit user had ever displayed.

"It is a pity to waste a genius like you here."

"Kid, are you interested in joining the Marines?" Seeing that Gray was just a child, Tsuru, who cherished talent, issued an invitation directly in front of Doflamingo.

"Hey! Inviting him right in front of me..." Doflamingo didn't finish his sentence before Gray raised a hand to stop him.

"Sorry, I've never considered the Marines."

"As the Marine Grand Staff Officer, you should know the darkness within the Marines better than we do."

"Besides, the justice of the Marines is merely the justice of the World Government." This was Gray's most honest assessment of the Marines.

He admitted that the Marines had people like Smoker who truly possessed justice, but as they rose in rank, were they still the same righteous people they once were?

Sengoku's justice was known as the justice that ruled the world!

Perhaps in the past, he had wanted to rule the world himself, which was why his Conqueror's Haki grew stronger, forming the Marines' greatest combat duo alongside Garp.

But after he became Fleet Admiral, this "ruling the world"—was the "ruler" him, or the Celestial Dragons?

And judging by the World Government's attitude toward the Marines in the original story, it was obvious that Sengoku was no longer the man he once was.

Every starting point had been completely controlled by the World Government.

The Marines were merely the World Government's Marines.

"Oh my! It seems you're a bad kid!" Tsuru naturally understood the situation regarding Gray's words. However, she would not argue with an outsider like Gray about whether the Marines were just.

As a wise woman, she only knew one thing now: they belonged to two different camps, and that was enough.

"Meteor!" Seeing Tsuru preparing to charge, a bead on the armrest of Gray's wheelchair automatically detached from its slot. It spun rapidly at his fingertip, crackling with electric sparks, before Gray launched it directly.

Feeling it wasn't enough, Gray controlled three more beads to emerge.

"Meteor!" ×3

The electric-charged beads shot toward Tsuru like rays of light.

"Useless!" Although she said it was useless, the attack power of the electric-charged beads was not as ineffective as she claimed.

Even she could not easily "wash" away the power on them while moving in mid-air.

At the very least, facing Gray's attack, she had to stop in place and fully activate her fruit ability to wash away the force.

There was no helping it; although she had developed the Wash-Wash Fruit to a mature level, it was not a direct-attack type ability. Facing a powerful direct attack from an enemy, it indeed required some effort.

What's more, she was currently in mid-air!

The combat effectiveness in the air versus on the ground was simply not on the same level.

"I told you~ it's useless!" Having neutralized Gray's attack, Tsuru immediately activated Moonwalk to give chase.

"Useless or not, catch me first and then we'll talk!" With his Observation Haki constantly enveloping this small patch of sky, every one of Tsuru's movements was crystal clear to Gray.

"If you chase me and manage to catch me, I'll let you... hehehe!" Even in the gaps between dodging, Gray still had the time to be cheeky.

On the ground, given Tsuru's strength, she would leave Gray in the dust in terms of both speed and attack power.

But this was in the air!

As Tsuru pursued him, Gray flew higher and higher.

Moonwalk, after all, was not true flight; the higher one went, the more stamina it consumed. Furthermore, because they were in the air, Tsuru struggled to fully utilize her physical attributes, which in turn hampered her speed.

"You glib-tongued brat!" Whether in the past or the present, the only people who had ever dared to flirt with her were Sengoku and Garp—after she had beaten them into submission—and now, this little punk Gray.

"Fufufu..."

"Tsuru, it seems you're nothing special after all!" At this moment, Doflamingo, seemingly having forgotten who had beaten him into such a state, still had the heart to mock her.

"That might be more convincing if you could actually stand up!" Glancing at Doflamingo, Tsuru's tongue remained as sharp and piercing as ever.

But just then, before Doflamingo could retort, the female marines below let out cries of terror: "Ah... what is this?"

"What on earth is happening?"

The three of them looked down to see that the Marine warship was taking on water and beginning to sink into the sea.

"Fufufu... it looks like the Marines you brought, Tsuru, are in big trouble!"

Just as Doflamingo said, the more they had enjoyed shelling the sea earlier, the more terrified they were now.

On the open ocean, no one knew the consequences of a ship sinking better than they did. After all, as Marines who frequently battled pirates, they often destroyed pirate ships to easily wipe out their crews.