"How are we supposed to stop those strings? What can we do?" Franky asked. Then, all of a sudden, he thought of a way.
Meanwhile, on Central Street, Luffy and Doflamingo were fighting. Doflamingo lay on the ground, with massive gouges scraped across the surface beneath him. Lying there, he said, "Using Armament Haki to freely control the stretching of rubber... Is this the fusion of Haki and rubber?"
"If we keep dragging this out, Gear Fourth's time limit will be up," Luffy said.
"Though you seem to have made excellent use of your own ability, the strain must be considerable. There should be quite a bit of risk involved too," Doflamingo said.
Doflamingo placed his hand on the ground, then raised his head and said to Luffy, "Straw Hat, how many more seconds can you hold out?"
Luffy flew toward Doflamingo from midair and launched a double attack.
Doflamingo's hand touched the ground, and it suddenly turned into a mass of white strings. "But my strings are inexhaustible." Suddenly, Doflamingo used Shield White Thread. The entire town turned into his strings.
"Wh-why are strings bursting out of the ground? What did you do to this street?" Luffy asked. Doflamingo grinned. "Listen up, brat. Devil Fruit abilities have an even higher level: awakening."
In an instant, every building in town turned into Donquixote Doflamingo's white strings. Luffy was utterly shocked. "The buildings turned into strings!"
"Abilities rarely awaken, but once they do, they begin to affect the things around them," Doflamingo said. In an instant, he controlled all those strings and sent them rushing at Luffy.
"So many things have turned into strings. This doesn't look like a Paramecia Devil Fruit ability at all," Luffy said.
"Everything you have will become strings," Doflamingo said as he controlled the strings and