Doflamingo's Misery

Thanks to the News Coos' hard work, people all over the world read the newspaper carrying that explosive news, and everyone was thoroughly stunned.

Meanwhile, Su Yu and his Wish-Granting Bar gradually became widely known.

Although Kaido had lost, his standing had not fallen. He remained a feared emperor of the seas, simply because Su Yu had beaten him so effortlessly and overwhelmingly that people felt the two were not even in the same league.

Gradually, people began to regard Su Yu as an emperor above the Four Emperors-the White Emperor, because he had been dressed in white when he beat Kaido. As soon as the phrase "Four Emperors and One Supreme Emperor" was proposed, it met with immediate approval, and it gradually became an accepted fact.

Su Yu did not care about any of that, though. What mattered to him was the Wish-Granting Bar's real business, and only now had he truly opened up a market for it.

Because Su Yu had defeated Kaido, people gradually began to accept his earlier claim that he could grant wishes. After all, in a world where strength commanded respect, the words of the powerful were always more convincing.

Basically, Su Yu collected a few little blobs every day-the wish power customers generated when their wishes were fulfilled. They were neither very large nor particularly numerous, but over the months and years, this was still a very respectable rate of collection.

As for the other person involved in the news, Kaido of the Beasts, after leaving the Sabaody Archipelago, he had not returned straight to his base. Instead, he first paid a visit to Dressrosa.

According to the spectators, a savage, terrifying dragon suddenly flew onto the island that day and blasted the royal palace into ruins with a single Dragon Breath. Then the Azure Dragon actually took human form, and after that... their king, Doflamingo, fought valiantly against the invader, but was utterly powerless against him. He took a horrific beating, and even his beloved sunglasses were shattered.

After beating their king, the invader turned back into a monstrous dragon and flew away. He took not a single cloud with him, but left behind a field of ruins and a king who had swollen a size larger.

Doflamingo had absolutely no idea why Kaido was beating him. He had been savoring some delicious wine in his palace when a Dragon Breath descended from the sky, blasting him senseless and turning his palace into an open-air swimming pool.

Not only Doflamingo but all his officers were stunned. What the fuck was going on?

One blink, and the palace was gone?!

And now they were coughing up blood for no reason?!

Had they done so many bad things that heaven was punishing them?!

Before they could figure out what was happening, an even greater disaster descended-a very much alive and kicking Kaido, one of the Four Emperors, dropped from the sky!

Although Kaido's clothes were still in tatters, there was no blood left on him. Clearly, he had taken a bath in the sea before coming.

With a boom, Kaido landed amid the ruins, the remains of the palace crunching beneath his feet.

The surviving officers were scared out of their wits. They froze like statues, their minds completely blank.

Pica and the other senior officers fared much better. They had seen their share of the world, after all, and had been close to Kaido before. Although they felt uneasy, they worked up the courage to approach him slowly. Halfway there, however, they did not dare move another step and froze in place just like the ordinary officers.

They could tell that Kaido seemed a little irritable today. The fury roiling like magma in his eyes, his cold, grim face like that of an unrivaled god of slaughter, the oppressive atmosphere he constantly exuded, and the Conqueror's Haki he unleashed without restraint all showed that he was in an exceptionally foul mood.

As Kaido slowly approached, the lower-ranking officers lost consciousness one after another, their eyes rolling back as they collapsed. Only Pica and the others remained, struggling to hold on.

Just then, Doflamingo crawled out of the rubble. Although he was the strongest among them, he was also in the worst shape, because Kaido had aimed that Dragon Breath directly at him. Had his Observation Haki not screamed a warning, allowing him to shield himself with Armament Haki-coated strings at the last instant, he might already have been half-dead.

Doflamingo could also sense that someone had been locked onto him the whole time. That person's presence was exceptionally violent, and his current state of mind was clearly far from calm...

That presence was so distinctive that he immediately recognized its owner. The thought that this lunatic had come to his island-and was clearly in the middle of another rampage-made him inwardly curse his rotten luck. He could already feel a headache coming on.

At that moment, Kaido spotted Doflamingo as well. His aura immediately erupted even more violently, and he charged straight at him.

"Kaido, what the hell has gotten into you?!"

Although Doflamingo knew he was no match for Kaido, he was not about to sit around and wait to die. He unleashed his full strength, and a strange pulse spread from his body, affecting his surroundings. Everything nearby turned into impossibly fine strings, forming what looked like an ocean of thread. Those strings gathered into thick pillars and hurtled toward the rampaging Kaido.

The tips of those white string pillars gleamed black and looked incredibly powerful. Unfortunately, Kaido was even stronger. When the pillars struck him, he did not step back; his charge merely slowed slightly, while the pillars were smashed apart.

Damn it! Doflamingo cursed inwardly, shocked by Kaido's formidable physique. But it was already too late to change tactics, so he could only release countless strings to wrap around himself, hoping to soften the impact of Kaido's charge.

Yet the fierce collision Doflamingo expected never came. Kaido charged up to him, then stopped of his own accord and reached out to grab one of his legs. An ominous premonition suddenly welled up in Doflamingo's heart.

Then Kaido heaved, yanking Doflamingo high into the air before slamming him viciously into the ground. Considerately, Kaido even coated the ground with Armament Haki to prevent further damage to its already battered surface.

One slam certainly would not satisfy him, so Kaido did it more than a dozen times. By then, Doflamingo's consciousness was fading, his sunglasses had long since shattered, several teeth were missing, and his face had swollen a size larger.

This was Kaido's special treatment for him: he deliberately made sure Doflamingo landed face-first every time.

Once Kaido had enjoyed himself enough, he casually tossed aside the man in his hand and left. He had not said a single word the entire time.

Only then did Pica and the others, who had been watching in dumbfounded shock, hurry over to Doflamingo and scramble to help him...