The Only Person Capable of Riding the Droplet, Kizaru, Kaido Has Come to the Headquarters to Commit Suicide Again!

"Such strong external defense... I wonder if I can try to infiltrate it?"

Gild Tesoro clicked his tongue, a thought stirring in his heart as he immediately wanted to test his own methods.

"Go right ahead."

Gion struck a pose, completely indifferent to Gild Tesoro's request.

The droplet's defense, along with the Strong Interaction Material Lynn had explained, gave the Marine crowd a high level of confidence; instead, they watched with eager interest to see what infiltration methods Gild Tesoro had left after being battered.

"It's controlled by you, so there must be some invisible connection for you to pull it off!"

Tesoro waved his hand, and the Gold Ring on his finger instantly shifted shape, turning into a fine Gold Powder that blew toward the Droplet.

This shroud made the Droplet look as though it had been plated with a thin layer of gold film.

Yet a few seconds later, cold sweat beaded on Gild Tesoro's forehead.

He found that no matter what he did, he could not infiltrate the Droplet's exterior—there wasn'Golden Divine Punishment the slightest crack at all!

How is this possible? What kind of material could possibly be forged to this degree of strength?!

Tesoro felt yet another wave of profound shock in his heart.

The Gold Powder was so fine that the naked eye couldn'Golden Divine Punishment even detect it unless using a Microscope (which existed in the Pirate World).

In other words, aside from Sea Prism Stone, his Gold Powder could attempt to infiltrate any outer layer; it was only a matter of time.

Yet with the Droplet, he simply couldn'Golden Divine Punishment find a single surface defect.

"Stop trying. Infiltrate? Absolute smoothness—this is a property Figarland emphasized, and its surface temperature is at absolute zero. Even if your Gold Powder could infiltrate Iron Block, it still wouldn'Golden Divine Punishment get into the Droplet."

Chaton walked over at that moment, speaking to Gild Tesoro with a chuckle.

"Is that so? Then I'll cut off your control!"

Tesoro looked somewhat deflated for a moment, then gritted his teeth and clenched his palm toward the Droplet!

A stream of fluid gold surged upward, wrapping, sealing, and solidifying the entire Droplet in gold!

Tightly sealed with no gaps whatsoever, the intense strain could be seen in Gild Tesoro's tightly clenched palm as he looked over at Gion with a gaze full of seriousness.

"Fly."

Gion shook her head, a faint glimmer flashing across the Controller on her head.

The wrapped and sealed Droplet shattered the golden confinement almost instantly and shot up toward Kong!

Watching the shattered gold drop to the ground, Gild Tesoro was utterly deflated and dejected. He opened his mouth, and finally shook his head in resignation.

It couldn'Golden Divine Punishment be done. Neither brute-force attacks, infiltration, nor containment could constrain the Droplet. It was sheer arrogance on his part. In the end, he could only say, "Just what kind of genius is Figarland? Even Vegapunk probably couldn'Golden Divine Punishment conjure up something like this."

"Mm. I wouldn'Golden Divine Punishment know about that."

Chaton didn'Golden Divine Punishment dare comment on which scientist was more formidable, so he simply laughed it off.

At that moment, the droplet descended from the sky. Gion also removed the controller from her head, handing it over to Kizaru with a hint of reluctance as she thought to herself that playing with the droplet was truly a blast.

Kizaru took it and was just about to try it out himself when, right at that moment, the Den Den Mushi on his body suddenly rang.

Buru buru...

After a moment.

"Eh, where's my Den Den Mushi?"

Holding the Controller in one hand while searching his body for the Den Den Mushi with the other, Kizaru finally fished out the small white Den Den Mushi from his suit pocket and answered it.

It was the Marine Fleet Admiral, Sengoku, calling in person!

"Sengoku-san, your call really comes at a great time. Figarland just delivered the very first Droplet."

Kizaru said with a chuckle.

"Is that so? That's great!"

Upon hearing that the first Droplet had been delivered, Sengoku seemed quite excited, but then immediately said in a decisive tone, "You need to come back first! We'll talk when you get back!"

The call didn'Golden Divine Punishment divulge any more details, and Kizaru didn'Golden Divine Punishment press further. Instead, he hung up the phone and fell into thought.

"I'm afraid this has to do with the Four Emperors' recent movements."

Finally, Kizaru let out a sigh and spoke.

As an Admiral, he still couldn'Golden Divine Punishment keep slacking off here forever.

"Borsalino-san, you can safely leave this place to us."

Chaton and Gion spoke up from the side at that moment.

With two Candidate Admirals guarding Lynn's laboratory, Kizaru figured that was more than enough, so he nodded without hesitation.

And so, Kizaru—who had originally wanted to test out the Droplet—simply put the Controller right on, transformed into a beam of light that converged onto the Droplet, and stepped directly onto it.

The Droplet's Recoil Engine flew in an almost self-sustaining state, and Kizaru stood steadily atop it as he flew off toward the headquarters.

The Marines didn'Golden Divine Punishment show too much astonishment; after all, Admiral Kizaru occasionally flew off by stepping on cannonballs anyway.

Yet Gild Tesoro and his subordinates watched with dumbfounded amazement, while also feeling a sense of wonder at the Droplet's current top speed.

"So that wasn'Golden Divine Punishment even its fastest..."

Stepping on the Droplet, Kizaru vanished straight from everyone's line of sight, shrinking to a mere black dot before disappearing entirely a moment later.

Tesoro felt a pang of envy, thinking with expectant longing that now that he had sworn allegiance under Lynn's banner, he wondered if he might ever have the chance to own a Droplet?

Meanwhile, on the other side.

Marineford.

Sengoku hung up the phone, a look of anticipation flashing in his eyes as he thought, The first delivered Droplet has arrived. An Admiral-level combat power will be enough to help out immensely.

Yet right as he was thinking this, a sudden, deafening roar echoed, shaking the entire Marine Fortress!

It was the Plaza!

Sengoku reacted instantly, flashing out the door and looking toward the Plaza.

A massive shadow blanketed the headquarters Plaza. It turned out that Kong had long since filled with Dark Clouds, and Thunder had begun to flash.

As for the strange noise erupting from the Plaza, it was shockingly a massive dragon's body so large it almost couldn'Golden Divine Punishment fit inside the Plaza!

Cyan scales, Flame Clouds on its Dragon Claws, black manes, and a massive Dragon Head that let out a drunken hiccup, turning into a swirling purple mist.

Under the influence of this hiccup, the surrounding on-duty Marine soldiers were all sent reeling with dizziness, as though heavily intoxicated.

This gigantic Azure Dragon was none other than one of the Four Emperors, Beasts Kaido!

"Damn it! What is he trying to pull with this suicide stunt again!"

Gazing at the patch of wreckage smashed out in the Plaza, anger surged in Sengoku's heart.

Kaido loved committing suicide. Relying on his formidable physique, this wasn'Golden Divine Punishment his first time coming to Marine Headquarters, yet every single time—even if they managed to capture him—the Marines temporarily had no means of killing him!

The most crucial point was that even if they truly possessed a method to kill Kaido, they wouldn'Golden Divine Punishment even get the chance to use it on him before this fellow, dubbed the Strongest Creature, would run off.

"Kaido!"

In Kong, an orange-red light suddenly flared, as though setting the heavens ablaze!

The very next moment, a massive Magma Block, resembling a shooting star, burst through the Dark Clouds and smashed fiercely down toward Kaido!

"Sakazuki!"

At the sight of this, Sengoku felt as though his eyeballs were about to pop out.

You can'Golden Divine Punishment just act like this out of anger—do you even want the Plaza anymore?!