Birdcage!

"Doflamingo, please, stop this!" At that moment, the former King Riku lay sprawled over a rock and pleaded with Doflamingo. "Stop hurting this country!" In the next instant, Pica threw the former king from the palace as well, sending him plummeting onto the King's Plateau below.

The former King Riku, Luffy, Trafalgar, Violet, and Cyrus fell together from high above the palace. Luffy hurriedly used Gum-Gum Balloon to catch them.

Doflamingo twitched his fingers, then pulled out the puppet strings that had formed his human-shaped puppet. "All right, let's end this!" His fingers suddenly stretched toward the sky, and all the puppet strings shot upward.

The people who had been thrown onto the Prince's Plateau looked up. "We got thrown into the courtyard of the outer-wall tower," Luffy said.

"As long as Pica is around, we can't get close to Doflamingo," Violet said, sitting on the ground.

Everyone looked toward the palace overhead. Trafalgar suddenly spotted a mass of thread-like strands flying into the sky. His face instantly turned horrified. "It's starting... the Birdcage!"

In an instant, those threads shot from the center of the palace into the sky, spreading around Dressrosa and blanketing the entire heavens. Everyone was trapped inside the Birdcage!

The threads were as sharp as blades. The slightest touch would cause endless bleeding, and escaping was completely impossible. Even cannons would be sliced into pieces if fired at them. There was no way to break through.

"Birdcage!? What does that even mean, Tra-guy!?" Luffy asked, pressing down on Trafalgar, who was tied to a chair.

Trafalgar lay on the ground, toppled over together with his chair. "Before the truth about this country is exposed, Doflamingo intends to kill everyone currently on this island." It was rare to see Trafalgar show such fear. His pupils had shrunk,