After defeating Vice Admiral Bastille, Ye Yu's Conqueror's Haki panel gained several dozen more points. Though it was not as much as he had gained from killing someone like Blackbeard, it had still successfully pushed his Conqueror's Haki past 5,400 points.
Ye Yu was quite satisfied.
Closing his eyes, he sensed that the Conqueror's Haki within his body had grown even more abundant.
"Let's go. Dressrosa, here I come to meet Heavenly Yaksha. I hear Dressrosa's red wine is pretty good, so I can give it a taste!" Ye Yu said with a faint smile.
With that, Ye Yu directly rode his Conqueror's Haki through the air and slowly descended upon Dressrosa.
The moment Ye Yu landed, a boy with fighting fish teeth appeared before him. He wore white stockings on his legs and a high heel, looking utterly bizarre.
It was Dellinger, one of the Donquixote Family's officers.
"Eeeheehee~ You're the Marine our young master mentioned, right? What business do you have with our king this time?" Dellinger asked in an effeminate voice.
It was clear that Dellinger had no fear of the Marines.
Ye Yu narrowed his eyes at Dellinger.
Heavenly Yaksha Donquixote Doflamingo really was unusually arrogant. A Marine vice admiral had come, yet he should at least have sent a top officer to receive him, shouldn't he?
Instead, he had sent one of the lowest-ranking officers in the Donquixote Family to dismiss the Marines. Perhaps Heavenly Yaksha had deliberately sent an effeminate man to disgust them.
Still, Ye Yu could not be bothered with the trouble. If he went to see Donquixote Doflamingo rashly, who knew how many fights would break out along the way?
Since he had been mistaken for a Marine, wouldn't it be better to have a little lackey like Dellinger lead the way?
Ye Yu smiled faintly. "I came under the orders of Fleet Admiral Sengoku to invite Warlord Donquixote Doflamingo to join the battle against the Whitebeard Pirates!"
Dellinger nodded. It seemed even the Marines had to come begging his young master now. Sure enough, strength was the only law in this world!
Dellinger scrutinized Ye Yu, a trace of doubt arising in his heart. "Eeeheehee~ Why don't I remember a Marine like you?"
Ye Yu slowly climbed into the toy carriage Dellinger had prepared. Still smiling at him, he said, "It's nothing. Vice Admiral Bastille has other matters to handle. I'm only a rear admiral, so it's normal that you don't know me."
Dellinger was displeased. The Marines had come to beg his young master, yet they dared send only a rear admiral?
In a while, his young master would surely make this rear admiral properly feel the pressure!
Still, he did not doubt Ye Yu's identity as a Marine.
Thus, Ye Yu reclined atop the toy carriage and, escorted by the others, traveled without obstruction all the way to Donquixote Doflamingo's palace.
Looking at the palace before him, Ye Yu had to admit that he was envious. It was far more luxurious than the villa in the Whitebeard Pirates' restricted zone. Joker, the underground arms market's clown, really was... exceptionally rich!
"You wait here. I'll go inform the young master!" Dellinger said after stopping the toy carriage, then left.
Ye Yu found it inexplicably amusing. Wherever he went, he had no need for a mere half-fighting-fish man to point fingers at him.
Since Dellinger had already brought him here and saved him a great deal of trouble, Dellinger was no longer of any use.
Ye Yu stepped down from the toy carriage and headed toward Donquixote Doflamingo's palace. He was eager to taste Dressrosa's cuisine!
This palace, the most splendid in all Dressrosa, surely served the finest food in the entire kingdom!
"Hey! You're nothing but a mere Marine rear admiral, so don't be disrespectful! Are you blind? This is Heavenly Yaksha Donquixote Doflamingo's territory. Without my report, you are not allowed inside!"
Dellinger had already taken a dislike to Ye Yu, and now Ye Yu was being so rude.
"Donquixote Doflamingo is merely Donquixote Doflamingo. I don't think there's any need to announce me." Ye Yu directly ignored a weakling like Dellinger.
"What?" Dellinger was completely dumbfounded.
He had never expected a mere Marine to be so disrespectful.
How dare he speak of his young master that way? What did he mean, merely Donquixote Doflamingo? It was simply unforgivable!
He immediately began transforming. The muscles all over his body swelled wildly, tearing his clothes to shreds.
A shark fin even grew from his back. His eyes turned blood-red as he glared furiously at Ye Yu.
Ye Yu continued to ignore such a weakling, striding toward Donquixote Doflamingo's palace.
"You fool who refuses a toast only to drink a forfeit! This is Dressrosa!"
With that, Dellinger vanished in a blur. His speed was terrifyingly fast as he raised the heel of his high-heeled shoe and aimed to kill Ye Yu.
"Just a weakling." Ye Yu spoke calmly. Without even looking at Dellinger, he released a trace of Haki, and Dellinger crashed to the ground with his head tilted aside, kicking up a cloud of dust.
Inside the palace, Joker was wearing a pink feathered coat. He had just been lounging with one leg crossed over the other, drinking red wine and mocking the Marines with a smug expression, when he suddenly sat upright.
"What is it, young master? Have the Marines arrived? Even if a Marine vice admiral came, with your status, you shouldn't react like this." Trebol, the top officer representing clubs, asked suspiciously, snot dripping from his nose.
Diamante, carrying a flexible sword and clad in strange iron clothing, slowly walked over.
"Could it be that a Marine admiral personally came to invite you, Doffy? Hahaha! Looks like the Marines think highly of us..."
"An admiral? The Marines have finally learned their lesson, hahaha." Pica, a burly man in samurai armor, said in a shrill voice.
The veins on Heavenly Yaksha Donquixote Doflamingo's forehead bulged slightly.
Behind his wine-red, flamboyant sunglasses, his eyes darted rapidly from side to side.
"It doesn't feel like an admiral. I sensed Conqueror's Haki just now!" Heavenly Yaksha Donquixote Doflamingo said in surprise.
Conqueror's Haki?
The top officers around him were stunned. There were only so many people in this world who possessed Conqueror's Haki, weren't there?
Even fewer Marines possessed Conqueror's Haki!... Could Fleet Admiral Sengoku have come personally?
But... that was impossible!
Fleet Admiral Sengoku should be arranging matters for the campaign against the Whitebeard Pirates right now. What would he be doing in Dressrosa?
"The Conqueror's Haki came from right outside our palace's main gate. Come on, open the gates. Let's go see what's happening!"
Even a highly intelligent pirate like Heavenly Yaksha Donquixote Doflamingo could not figure out who had released Conqueror's Haki at his doorstep. The only option was to open the gates and see for himself just who this person was!
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