Chapter 268: Awakening of the Clown Emperor (1/2)
Chapter 267: Awakening of the Clown Emperor
Everything in this world had value.
Wano Country had the value of producing Seastone crafts.
The Kingdom of Dressrosa had the value of being a World Government member nation and a key route through the New World.
And in Doflamingo's heart, his own family also had value. It was just that, most of the time, no one had offered a price tempting enough to move him.
But now, that price had appeared. Without hesitation, he abandoned his family and engaged Sabo in a fight to the death.
Sabo possessed something of immense value.
God knew how much Doflamingo resented the fact that he had eaten the String-String Fruit rather than a Logia Devil Fruit.
The String-String Fruit had limits.
Or rather, all Paramecia Devil Fruits had limits. No matter how hard he worked, those limits meant he could never defeat powerhouses like the Three Admirals.
One might say Aokiji and the others were seven or eight years older, which was why Doflamingo could not beat them. But he knew exactly where his limits lay. Even if he trained and grew for another ten years, he would never catch up to monsters like Aokiji in terms of combat power.
Was that a problem with his own abilities?
No. As a Celestial Dragon, Doflamingo firmly refused to believe it was his fault.
It was the Devil Fruits! Their Devil Fruits had to be better than his, which was why things had turned out this way. He only needed a better Devil Fruit to solve this problem!
But they had not even figured out how to artificially create and cultivate Devil Fruits. How could they possibly understand how to extract a Devil Fruit from a human body?
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