The moment the door opened, Heavenly Yaksha Donquixote Doflamingo and his top officers all stared in shock, their mouths hanging open.
Trebol's snot dripped as he said, "Doffy, Doffy, look, it's Dellinger. Was he beaten flat by this guy?"
"You idiot Marine, this is Dressrosa! Even if you're from Marine Headquarters, we won't let you off!" Pica said in his shrill voice.
All he needed was an order from his young master, Donquixote Doflamingo, and he would transform into a massive stone giant to deliver a terrifying blow to Ye Yu.
Veins bulged across Donquixote Doflamingo's face. He narrowed his eyes, fixing his gaze on Ye Yu as he slowly spoke.
"You bastard... you're not a Marine. You're... the captain of the Whitebeard Pirates' Zero Division?" Doflamingo stared at Ye Yu and slowly spoke.
Just yesterday, the Donquixote Family had received news that Ye Yu had wiped out the Blackbeard Pirates. He had not expected this newcomer to the seas to arrive on his turf so soon!
And... there was no doubt about it. That Conqueror's Haki from earlier had been unleashed by the brat standing before him!
Damn it! Doflamingo clenched his fists tightly. This sea did not need so many Conqueror's Haki users! He instinctively rejected any newcomer who possessed Conqueror's Haki!
"Looks like you received news about me too, Doflamingo." Ye Yu smiled faintly.
Upon hearing that the man before them was the Zero Division captain, the top officers exchanged glances.
"Doffy, are you saying he's the protagonist from yesterday's newspaper?" Diamante asked in shock.
"That's right. The brat in the newspaper looked very much like him! The site where Blackbeard was wiped out isn't far from Dressrosa, and he unleashed Conqueror's Haki just now..." A white gleam flashed across Doflamingo's sunglasses as he spoke gravely.
Ignoring their shocked expressions, Ye Yu had grown used to the astonishment of those around him over the past several days.
"Enough with the pleasantries. As the hosts, where are your manners? I heard Dressrosa's wine is good. Bring it out, now," Ye Yu said without the slightest courtesy.
He had not even eaten lunch today and had gone hungry all this time. Wasn't it so he could enjoy himself on Heavenly Yaksha's territory?
With that, Ye Yu swaggered past everyone and headed straight toward Heavenly Yaksha Donquixote Doflamingo's palace!
It left Doffy thoroughly embarrassed.
The underlings nearby were already cursing under their breaths.
Pica flew into a rage and screeched at Ye Yu in his shrill voice, "Bastard, Ye Yu! You only wiped out a newly appointed Seven Warlord, yet you dare be so disrespectful to our Donquixote Family?"
Diamante gripped his flexible sword tightly and said to Doflamingo beside him, "Doffy, this brat is too rude. Let's kill him right here and hand him over to the Marines!"
Trebol had already assumed an attacking stance.
The Donquixote Family's top officers did not think highly of Blackbeard, who had only recently become a Seven Warlord. They even believed that Blackbeard had only managed to capture Ace by outnumbering him!
So Ye Yu could not be all that strong either. If the Donquixote Family attacked together, they were confident they could take Ye Yu down!
Yet the cunning Doflamingo was still weighing things up. The captain of the Zero Division of the world's strongest pirate crew, someone who had wiped out the Blackbeard Pirates and possessed Conqueror's Haki—he could not gauge the brat before him at all!
Just as he hesitated, overwhelming pressure suddenly descended. Heavenly Yaksha Donquixote Doflamingo's sunglasses shattered on the spot!
That terrifying sensation... Heavenly Yaksha fixed his eyes on Ye Yu. That was right! It had been unleashed by the young man before him, who looked utterly incapable of fighting!
Doflamingo hurriedly used his own Conqueror's Haki to resist, but it achieved very little. Before Ye Yu's vast and dense Conqueror's Haki, Doflamingo's was like that of an infant.
Its only effect was to ease the terror deep within him and keep his hands from shaking quite so badly...
Doflamingo was utterly shaken. Conqueror's Haki... could actually be this powerful?!
He possessed Conqueror's Haki himself, yet this brat had suppressed him to such a miserable state?
Wasn't Conqueror's Haki only for clearing out fodder? How could it affect me too? It seemed my understanding of Conqueror's Haki was still far too shallow...
Ye Yu's very presence made even the usually arrogant and tyrannical Heavenly Yaksha feel ashamed of himself!
If Heavenly Yaksha was already in such a state, the officers beside him were even worse off!
Trebol struggled for a moment before collapsing unconscious onto the ground, spilling a huge puddle of mucus that looked utterly disgusting.
Diamante, the arena champion, toppled into a wine vat headfirst, his feet sticking up in the air in a thoroughly miserable sight.
Only Pica held out a little longer, but he ultimately suffered the same fate and fell.
The pirate guards nearby had collapsed in all directions as well.
Their expressions still revealed the complicated emotions they had felt before passing out: unwillingness, shock, confusion, and deep terror!
Thus, every pirate around Donquixote Doflamingo's palace was knocked unconscious!
"Hey, Doffy, your subordinates were far too noisy, so I let them rest for a while," Ye Yu said expressionlessly.
After stopping his Conqueror's Haki, Ye Yu strode past Doflamingo and entered Doflamingo's palace.
Heavenly Yaksha was still gasping beside him. The release of Conqueror's Haki... had finally ended. Donquixote Doflamingo felt as though he had been freed.
"Who the hell are you, brat? Your Conqueror's Haki is even stronger than Whitebeard's!" Donquixote Doflamingo roared at Ye Yu after steadying his emotions.
By then, Ye Yu had already seated himself without ceremony upon the throne of Dressrosa's king and begun tasting the food.
Chewing on the food, he casually picked up a bottle of wine and muttered, "Mm... didn't I tell you? I'm the captain of the Whitebeard Pirates' Zero Division."
"Impossible. Your Conqueror's Haki is stronger than Whitebeard's. I can still tell that much!" Heavenly Yaksha said seriously, his eyes fixed on the young man before him.
When he had first entered the New World in his early years, he had experienced the Conqueror's Haki of Four Emperors such as Whitebeard and Kaido!
Even a man as powerful as Whitebeard, the strongest man in the world, did not possess Conqueror's Haki as formidable as this young man's!
Perhaps... this brat was stronger than Whitebeard! How could someone so young, with such accomplishments, possibly be just a captain in the Whitebeard Pirates?
Ye Yu waved a hand. "What's so strange about that? I only joined the Whitebeard Pirates to eat and drink for free. Besides, I only know Conqueror's Haki. I don't know Observation Haki or Armament Haki at all."
He did not know Observation Haki or Armament Haki?!
Hearing this crucial information, Doffy narrowed his eyes as calculations began running through his mind.
Noticing Doflamingo's reaction, Ye Yu smiled faintly. "Let me warn you, Heavenly Yaksha. Last time, Blackbeard heard that I didn't know Armament Haki or Observation Haki and attacked me. He died... very badly!"
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