Doffy's Artificial Fruits Were About to Get More Expensive! Lynn's Conqueror's Haki Had Grown Stronger Again?!

Several days later.

Onigashima, Beasts Palace.

Kaido had gotten drunk again and gone off alone to amuse himself by attempting suicide, leaving the vast palace temporarily under the management of the All-Stars.

And black flames had actually ignited around King's body!

Cold sweat poured from him.

He tried to use the flames innate to his Lunarian race to contend against the protagonist's black Amaterasu flames.

The Beasts Pirates officers around them watched from a distance, each one scarcely daring to breathe.

"Yaaah!"

Seeing Amaterasu's destructive power steadily rising, Lynn took the initiative to withdraw it.

King lowered his head and looked.

There were already scorched black marks on his shoulder... Every Beasts Pirates officer who saw it felt their hearts pound in terror.

If they had faced those relentless flames, there would have been no way to put them out without cutting off flesh!

Young Master Lynn's ability was too terrifying!

Just then.

"Big Brother King! Big Brother Queen!"

Jack's muffled roar exploded like a thunderclap from flat ground, making everyone's eardrums buzz!

"That damned Doffy! That son of a bitch Doflamingo!"

"He's raising the price!"

"Huh?!"

King and all the officers present immediately changed expression.

"Raising the price?! Has that pink-haired flamingo Doflamingo eaten a bear's heart and leopard's gall?!"

"How dare he pull this kind of stunt on the Beasts Pirates?!"

"Is he tired of living?!"

The officers' anger instantly flared.

King's brow furrowed almost imperceptibly.

"SMILEs are getting more expensive? By how much?"

"That's right!" Jack roared, spittle flying everywhere. "That bastard said that starting with the next batch, every SMILE supplied to us will cost twenty percent more!"

"Twenty percent?!"

Queen immediately blew up. "Doflamingo must be tired of living! My technology is part of SMILE too, and he dares raise the price by twenty percent?!"

"I'll take men to Dressrosa right now! Tear that dump of his apart and chop him up to feed the Sea Kings!"

Queen cursed furiously. Judging by his posture, he was even more agitated than Jack and could not wait to kill his way over there.

Jack's eyes had turned bloodshot as well. He spun around and was about to rush out. "Damn it! I'll gather the men right now!"

"Calm down, Queen. Jack."

King's voice was not loud, but it carried unquestionable authority.

"Doflamingo has recently latched onto the World Government and become a Shichibukai. His wings have indeed grown a little tougher."

"But tearing our faces apart directly won't benefit us."

"The supply of SMILE Fruits cannot be cut off for now."

Compared to Queen and Jack, King was clearly much calmer. "Jack, go to Dressrosa yourself and negotiate with him."

"He can raise the price, but try to keep the increase within ten percent."

"That's the bottom line."

"Ten percent?!" Jack was still burning with rage, but he knew King's decision could not be changed. He could only grit his teeth and say, "Understood, Big Brother King!"

"I'll definitely give that pink-haired bastard a proper lesson!"

Just then.

A small figure flew in front of Jack and blocked his path.

"Young Master Lynn! What's wrong?"

Everyone's gazes gathered there.

It was Lynn.

He looked around, picked up a roasted meat bone that someone had apparently gnawed clean and tossed aside, dipped it in some dust on the ground, then began writing crookedly on the mirror-smooth stone floor.

Very quickly, three characters resembling ghostly scribbles appeared before everyone.

[I.]

[Want.]

[To go.]

Three simple words, yet they made both King and Queen frown.

"No!"

King refused without hesitation, as though he had not even needed to think about it. His tone was firm and left no room for negotiation.

"Young Master Lynn, a place like Dressrosa is full of all kinds of people. Doflamingo isn't a good person either—he's extremely cunning and treacherous. It's too dangerous!"

"You're still young. You can't go to a place like that!"

Queen repeatedly nodded at the side and earnestly persuaded him, "Right, right, right! Little Lynn, listen to Uncle Queen. That place is a filthy mess, full of bad people. It's not fun at all, and it isn't suitable for a good little boy like you!"

"Just stay obediently on Onigashima. Uncle Queen will make you delicious takoyaki! And cotton candy too!"

Lynn's little brows instantly knitted tightly together.

Clearly, he was extremely dissatisfied with that answer.

He had not decided on this trip on a whim. He had thought it through carefully.

Artificial Devil Fruits.

They still counted as Devil Fruits, right?

There was a system mission to "eat two different Devil Fruits"!

Didn't that line up perfectly?

And besides.

That Doflamingo was a Shichibukai too!

Wasn't that convenient?!

Defeat two individuals with Shichibukai-level strength or above!

Face a Shichibukai-level or stronger opponent head-on without fighting back, withstand their full-force attack, and last for one minute!

There were three missions in total.

Two and a half of them could find a solution through Doffy.

No matter what, he had to go on this trip!

His pitch-black eyes rolled around as he seemed to consider a strategy.

Very quickly.

He had an idea.

Suddenly!

Bzzz—!!!!

An invisible aura, more condensed, more tyrannical, and more suffocating than any previous eruption within the palace, suddenly burst forth from Lynn's small body!

Conqueror's Haki!

This time, his Conqueror's Haki was no longer merely wild and disorderly pressure like before.

It carried a highly condensed will to reign over all beneath heaven!

Like a tangible shockwave, it spread madly in every direction!

The air inside the palace seemed to be sucked dry in that instant, then filled with heavy mercury!

Under that incomparably terrifying Conqueror's Haki impact, the weaker Beasts Pirates members felt as if an invisible giant hand had fiercely gripped their hearts, making even breathing incredibly difficult!

Their faces turned deathly pale, cold sweat streaming down from their foreheads like waterfalls!

Some were even worse off. Their legs went limp, and with a thud, they fell directly to their knees, their bodies shaking like sieves!

From Lynn as the center, dense spiderweb-like cracks spread across the incomparably hard stone floor with a series of crack! crack! crack!

Even disaster-level All-Stars like Queen and Jack had their bodies stiffen and go numb, leaving them temporarily unable to move!

Even King, who had always remained calm and composed, could not help revealing an incredulous expression!

"Th-this..."

Everyone could feel it with absolute clarity: the Conqueror's Haki Young Master Lynn released this time was stronger than anything he had displayed before!

This meant—

In just these few short days, the intensity and range of Young Master Lynn's Conqueror's Haki had risen by an entire level!