After Shalmeow toyed with him and rubbed salt in his wounds like that, Heavenly Yaksha was in such a foul mood that he could barely maintain his trademark wild grin.
"Fuffuffuffuffuff! Good! Very good! You've truly angered me now!"
Doflamingo raised his hand and swept it toward the sky. Under his control, the surrounding strings all shot into the air, then rapidly spread in every direction, forming a hemisphere that enclosed him and Shalmeow.
"That's... Birdcage!"
Sengoku crushed the railing beneath his hand. Doflamingo's move brought back some very unpleasant memories.
Vice Admiral Tsuru hurriedly told Xie Wen, "Quick! Have that child turn into her element and escape the Birdcage. With Doflamingo using this move, we couldn't intervene even if we wanted to!"
"Huh? Is that move really so ridiculous? Even you can't do anything about it?"
Xie Wen had thought that, back during the fight over the Op-Op Fruit, Heavenly Yaksha had kept the Marines outside because their top fighters hadn't been there. Now it seemed this move's priority was far higher than he had imagined.
But on second thought, that made sense. Fujitora had been there during the Dressrosa arc, yet he hadn't been able to do anything about the Birdcage either. Besides Heavenly Yaksha's Birdcage, the Barrier-Barrier Fruit seemed to be a similar case: its strength was utterly unreasonable, almost as though it operated on an absolute rule.
Heavenly Yaksha's Birdcage could even block Den Den Mushi signals. That was fucking absurd!
Even more absurdly, Xie Wen discovered that the Birdcage had weakened his Observation Haki by more than half. It felt just like when Doflamingo had hidden himself in that mass of white strings earlier...
Could his method of confusing Observation Haki actually rely mainly on his Devil Fruit ability?
While Xie Wen was muttering to