"Pluck all my feathers?"
Doflamingo listened to Lorne's roar and let out a burst of shrill, wild laughter as he hung in midair.
He abruptly pressed all ten fingers downward. Awakened strings coated in pitch-black Armament Haki stabbed straight at every part of Lorne's body.
Shhk! Shhk!
The sounds of blades piercing flesh rang out in rapid succession.
Dozens of Armament Haki-coated strings drove viciously into Lorne's thighs and shoulders, drawing great splashes of warm blood.
The muscles in Lorne's arms suddenly bulged. He gritted his teeth and forcibly clamped the strings embedded in his body between his swollen muscles.
"Fuffuffuffuffu!" Doflamingo's fingers flicked wildly. "What good is all that strength? Against the power of Awakening, a brute like you who knows nothing but hand-to-hand combat is just a lamb waiting for slaughter!"
Doflamingo spread his hands apart.
The strings embedded in Lorne's body instantly branched into countless finer barbs, twisting and churning wildly through his flesh.
"Argh!"
Lorne threw back his head and roared.
He swung his right fist up and grabbed the black strings in his shoulder.
Pitch-black Armament Haki instantly coated Lorne's palm. With a shout, the veins in his right arm bulged, and he wrenched outward.
Snap! Snap! Snap!
Lorne tore the tough Armament Haki-coated strings apart by force. A sizable bloody hole was ripped open in his shoulder.
The next second, Battlefield Valor's passive effect went into overdrive. New flesh writhed rapidly around the bloody hole, and the wound closed in an instant.
Doflamingo stared at Lorne's healed shoulder, his pupils abruptly contracting.
This brat... my Armament Haki-coated strings actually failed to slice through his bones immediately!
Shock surged through his heart, but his hands only grew more ruthless.
"You can tear apart ten strings, but can you tear apart ten thousand?"
Doflamingo rapidly crossed