A few days later, aboard the Flame Tank Battleship Castro.
Capone Bege watched the man wolfing down meat, his expression conflicted.
Was this guy brainless, or just arrogantly overconfident?
How dared he?
How dared he declare war on the Celestial Dragons!
With that, he had offended the World Government and Marine Headquarters. The CP Agents and Marines would never let them go.
He had also drawn the attention of every bounty hunter. Even pirates would come after them, hoping to kill them and make a name for themselves.
"Bo... Boss, this is your latest Bounty Poster!"
Capone Bege handed the Bounty Poster to Dongye Huanglong with slightly trembling hands. He still could not quite accept that this man was now a world-class, heinous criminal.
"Five hundred million Berries? Looks like those bastards still underestimate me!"
Dongye Huanglong ignored the Bounty Poster. Still, the photograph of him burning the World Government and Celestial Dragon flags had come out rather well. The Marines actually dared to release it.
"Boss, you don't really intend to kill the Celestial Dragons, do you?!"
Capone Bege asked stiffly. He had discovered that he was a little more timid than he had imagined. Dongye Huanglong had thrown him straight into the highest-level game from the very beginning—against the entire world.
"What? Scared? You'll get to see Celestial Dragons die."
Dongye Huanglong smiled bloodthirstily. Over the past two days, they had taken out several groups of pirates and seized plenty of loot, but they had not encountered West Blue notables like Bonney or Lafitte. That disappointed Dongye Huanglong somewhat.
After all, even if he could not recruit them, he could still use their Slicing-Slicing Fruit ability and Bird-Bird Fruit ability as experimental material for Vegapunk.
The Seraphim Mihawk from the original story had used Paramecia Green Blood infused with the Slicing-Slicing Fruit.
"I am afraid. I'm afraid that if I follow you, I won't survive two years!"
Capone Bege said it without any attempt at concealment. He was genuinely panicking now. How were they supposed to evade the World Government and Marine Headquarters' pursuit from here on out?
"In another two days, we'll head to North Blue!"
Dongye Huanglong gazed out at the sea. The World Government and Marine Headquarters' forces should be gathering in West Blue now, so he would shift locations again and see whose speed was faster.
Now that they had Capone Bege, a Castle-Castle Fruit User, to carry Vegapunk and the others, Kuma's Paw-Paw Fruit ability would let them flee even faster.
When Kuma was nine years old, he had used the Paw-Paw Fruit to send himself from God Valley in West Blue back to the Sorbet Kingdom in South Blue, with the Red Line in between.
Now, sending themselves from West Blue to North Blue was only a minor problem, even with the New World and two Calm Belts between them.
The Paramecia Paw-Paw Fruit ability was just that unreasonable and overpowered!
"Doctor Vegapunk said he needs a stable base so Bonney can receive better treatment. Besides, his head is getting bigger and bigger. Before long, even the castle won't be able to hold his huge head."
Kuma spoke to Dongye Huanglong. Constantly moving from place to place was not a solution. They had to settle down before they could develop their forces properly.
"I know. Once we recruit an important person in North Blue and raid Germa 66 for some cloning equipment, we'll head to the Grand Line and establish a territory of our own!"
Dongye Huanglong said seriously. Trafalgar Law's Ope Ope no Mi ability would make it easier to separate Vegapunk's constantly growing head, and it could also split off other personality clones.
So he had to bring this user of the Surgery-Surgery Fruit into his forces.
"Alright!"
Kuma smiled again. As long as Dongye Huanglong had a plan, that was enough.
Huanglong really was as dependable a man as Dragon!
What Dongye Huanglong did not know was that after doing something as insane as declaring war on the Celestial Dragons, he had earned the admiration of many people.
Among civilians, criminals, and pirates alike, some had become admirers of Dongye Huanglong.
On an island somewhere in West Blue, Devil Sheriff Lafayette read the news and studied Dongye Huanglong's Bounty Poster, a crazed smile appearing on his face.
Dongye Huanglong was lawless enough, crazy enough. He was qualified to be Lafayette's captain.
Smiling, he set out to find Dongye Huanglong.
Meanwhile, Daz Bones, who had only recently entered the Grand Line, had already accepted Baroque Works' recruitment when he saw the news. He had become Mr. 1 of that criminal organization and thus missed his chance to meet that madman.
Aboard the Gran Tesoro in the New World.
Golden Emperor Tesoro watched the news of Dongye Huanglong declaring war on the Celestial Dragons without expression. Looking at Huanglong's Bounty Poster photograph, he clenched his fists, and the wounds on his back faintly ached.
His courage was actually inferior to that of an experiment subject who had escaped from the World Government!
Yet now, he had even reached a partnership with the Celestial Dragons and become the lofty Golden Emperor of this world.
"Brat, I hope you don't die so quickly!"
Tesoro snorted, but deep in his eyes, he seemed to have placed a tiny bit of hope in that experiment subject he did not even know.
Inside the palace of Amazon Lily on Amazon Lily.
For the first time, Pirate Empress Boa Hancock read the entire newspaper Gloriosa had handed her.
"Dongye Huanglong? I'll remember you!"
Boa Hancock stared at the photograph of Dongye Huanglong setting the World Government and Celestial Dragon flags ablaze. Only after a long while did she toss the Bounty Poster onto the table.
No one knew what she was thinking behind those complicated eyes.
On Onigashima in the New World.
"Brother Kaido, he's actually a Mythical Zoan Dragon just like you, only a different color!
"And he even dared to declare war on the Celestial Dragons!"
Queen of Plague shouted dramatically at Kaido of the Beasts. Beneath King the Conflagration's mask, his gaze was incredibly complicated. That experiment subject actually dared to oppose the World Government.
Even he had to cover his entire body to evade the World Government's pursuit, never allowing his brown skin and white hair to expose his Lunarian Tribe identity.
"Wororororo! Then recruit him into our Beasts Pirates!"
Kaido of the Beasts was briefly stunned when he saw Dongye Huanglong's Crimson Giant Dragon form, but he quickly burst into laughter. He liked subordinates with Zoan Devil Fruit abilities, especially Ancient Zoans and Mythical Zoans.
"If he enters the New World, I'll recruit him personally!"
At that moment, King the Conflagration spoke. He truly wanted to meet this arrogant experiment subject who seemed to possess Lunarian Tribe blood.
Seeing that Dongye Huanglong even dared to threaten the Celestial Dragons made King the Conflagration admire the brat even more.
The news of Dongye Huanglong's exposed dragon form and his declaration of war against the Celestial Dragons made Big Mom Charlotte Linlin, the other Four Emperors, and the other Shichibukai pay close attention to this newcomer.
Dongye Huanglong did not seem so simple. He might become a top-tier figure who surpassed even the Shichibukai.
Within the Royal Plateau of Dressrosa.
"Fuffuffuffu~, an Artificial Azure Dragon Fruit ability. This is simply perfect!"
"Vergo, find a way to rescue Caesar. We need to obtain the Artificial Devil Fruit technology too!"
Doflamingo laughed madly. The existence of Experiment Subject 88, Dongye Huanglong, proved to him that Artificial Devil Fruits were real.
That bastard Caesar had not lied after all.
Then he would use every means possible to help Caesar escape from the Marines' prison!
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