Turn the World Upside Down

With a vicious grin, his pale fingertips danced, invisible strings controlling...

King Riku's body!!!

"All right—!! The night's just beginning! Soldiers, why don't you dance too?"

As he spoke, countless strings extended from his fingers again, latching onto soldiers across the country.

Parasite String!!!

The soldiers ran wild, swinging their weapons and hacking at the civilians beside them!

Before, even he might not have been able to control people across all of Dressrosa on such a scale.

But ever since that man had thrown him into prison, his Devil Fruit Ability had unexpectedly brushed against the threshold of Awakening.

He had grown increasingly adept at using and developing his power.

Soon, he was sure, an entirely new world would open before him!!

And then... the Marines?

Fuffuffuffuffu!!!

"Why is my body moving on its own?!!"

"Was that what happened to His Majesty just now?!"

"Huff... huff... I get it!!"

Feeling an outside force control their bodies, the soldiers finally understood what King Riku had been going through.

But it didn't do a damn bit of good.

The civilians' misunderstanding only deepened.

Sometimes, what people saw was far more convincing than what they heard.

"Now this is interesting. Once you've completely lost your people's trust, I can take the throne as if it's rightfully mine."

"You naive fool. You actually believed I'd buy a country for ten billion Beli? Dressrosa can't be left in the hands of an idiot like you!!"

Doflamingo laughed under his breath, openly mocking everything King Riku had done.

Just as in the original timeline.

Doflamingo had chosen the most insidious way to seize the country, but this time, he had no Hobby-Hobby Fruit to help him.

Nor did he have the protection of his status as a Shichibukai.

Take Dressrosa fair and square?

Heh. That depended