Come, Repeat After Me: ROOM

Dangerous. That was Trafalgar Law's first impression.

The man before him was extremely dangerous. Even though Law wanted nothing more than to immerse himself in grief right now, the person before him—who wanted to use his life to perform the Eternal Youth Surgery—was countless times more dangerous than Doflamingo.

The Fleet Admiral stood before him wary and timid, while Doflamingo could only earn the appraisal of "brat." This guy...

"What are you talking about? Wasn't Doflamingo captured by the Fleet Admiral and locked away in Impel Down? How could he possibly...?"

"Why not? As long as Doflamingo demonstrated to the Fleet Admiral's superiors—the Five Elders, the World Government's nominal highest rulers—that he had an irreplaceable use, why wouldn't he be released?"

Hua Yue watched Law with an interested look, his smile radiant. The boy before him was the key to opening the path to immortality—and possessed an exceptionally rare value: scalability and reproducibility.

"How could this be?!"

Law's face was filled with disbelief. The Fleet Admiral was Mr. Corazon's adoptive father—yet even that could not keep Doflamingo locked in the great prison beneath the sea forever?

"The Navy's justice is malleable. The authority to define justice is firmly held in the World Government's hands. You could also call that authority to define justice the final right of interpretation."

"The Navy answers to the World Government, and the World Government answers to the Five Elders and the Celestial Dragons. Your Mr. Corazon probably never told you that he and his brother, Donquixote Doflamingo, were once nobles of the world—the Creator's descendants, Celestial Dragons."

At that moment, Law's pupils trembled. The news exploded in his ears.

That man, who had been so gentle, had once been a Celestial Dragon. To Law, it was simply unimaginable.

"So, let's make a deal, Trafalgar D.