Just then, they suddenly caught the scent of roses drifting toward them. It was Cavendish.
"Cabbage!" Luffy called out to him.
Cavendish immediately leaped from White Horse onto the bull's back where Luffy stood. Holding a red rose, he sniffed it and spoke with elegant poise.
"I have rediscovered my destiny. Now I have a perfect chance to take down one of the Seven Warlords. The newspapers will report my deeds day after day, allowing me to surpass those detestable rookies in one stroke. My destiny is to become a superstar."
Then he suddenly acted out a scene from his imagination. "Wow, Lord Cavendish made the front-page headline! He's as beautiful as a painting!" That was what he imagined his fangirls saying when they saw him.
"Really? Why only one page? They might as well devote the entire paper to reporting my deeds." He then acted out his response to that reaction.
"Excellent idea! You truly are one of a kind!" He proceeded to imitate his imagined fangirls again.
"The key issue is whether they can make me stand out in the picture, because I shine even brighter than a camera flash."
Luffy could no longer stand his one-man performance and kicked him flying. "Quit getting in the way!"
"What a pain," Zoro said from the side.
"Take care!" Cavendish said.
"Fire now!" Seeing Cavendish kicked into the air, Doflamingo's men raised their weapons and opened fire at him. Cavendish immediately unleashed Beautiful Sword: Swan Lake, cutting them all down in an instant.
"Capture the prisoners! End this game already!!" The civilians nearby shouted as well. "They're here!" The civilians blocked Luffy and the others' path, but when they saw the vast crowd following behind Luffy, they were stunned.
"Small fry, stand aside!" someone in the crowd shouted.
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