"Can we finally breathe easy?"
Watching Lin Ye's drifting figure depart, Doflamingo let out a long breath.
That invisible, suffocating pressure had finally vanished, making his whole body feel much more relaxed.
Pica, Diamante, and the others standing beside him also breathed sighs of relief in unspoken unison.
"Damn it... One day! I'll make him pay!"
Doflamingo gritted his teeth, his gaze beneath his gold-tinted sunglasses filled with hatred.
But soon, he recalled Lin Ye's terrifying Conqueror's Haki.
That level of Conqueror's Haki had already surpassed the limits of his understanding.
Not only could he not withstand it, even his strongest officers could not bear it.
Even Pica, known as the "Steel Fortress," had seemed like a fragile doll beneath that pressure.
"Is this the power of the Four Emperors?" Trebol muttered. "Unbelievable. Just standing there was enough to make pirates with bounties over a hundred million feel suffocated."
Thinking of this, Doflamingo could not help feeling discouraged.
That gap in strength was not something time alone could bridge. No matter how hard he worked, he probably would never reach that level in this lifetime.
"Young Master, we should leave." Trebol's sticky voice rang out.
The family's strategist reminded him, "We're still surrounded by the Marines. We can't delay any longer."
"Fuffuffuffu..." Doflamingo sneered and nodded, veins throbbing on his forehead. "You're right."
"Let's leave first. We're still surrounded by the Marines, after all."
Just then, a sharp glint suddenly flashed through the sky!
The light was so dazzling that it seemed to eclipse even the Sun!
"That's..."
Doflamingo's pupils contracted sharply, as though an invisible hand had viciously gripped his heart. An unprecedented sense of danger surged through him!
A slash powerful enough to split heaven and earth descended from above, as if it would cleave the entire sea