"Perona."
Ye Chuan suddenly spoke to Perona, who was still studying the Toy Soldier beside him:
"I'm giving you a task."
"Huh? A task?"
"Use your ghost doubles to conduct a thorough reconnaissance of all of Dressrosa."
"Remember, don't alert anyone. I need to know exactly what secrets this island is hiding."
"Tch, you really know how to order people around."
Although Perona grumbled, she obediently assumed her ghost form, passed through the wall, and disappeared from their sight.
"Now then, Robin."
Ye Chuan turned to Robin:
"It's time we went to see the show prepared for us."
Dressrosa, Corrida Colosseum.
This was the most frenzied place in the entire country, where countless gladiators fought bloody battles for honor and wealth.
Ye Chuan and Robin did not enter through the main gate.
Robin had already changed into ordinary tourist clothes. Wearing a broad sun hat and sunglasses, she quietly slipped into the stands.
Ye Chuan, meanwhile, took a jet-black Crow Mask he had obtained somewhere from inside his clothes and put it on.
Posing as an ordinary swordsman, he easily bypassed all the guards and went straight to the contestants' preparation area to register.
Meanwhile, in the monitoring room deep within Dressrosa's royal palace.
"Fufufufufu..."
Doflamingo sat on his throne, watching the masked figure registering for the tournament through a Visual Den Den Mushi, and let out a strange, smug laugh.
"The fish has taken the bait."
He spoke to the top executives beside him in an amused tone:
"He thinks he's the hunter, but he has no idea he's already prey caught in my web."
"Pass on my orders! Have Trebol personally preside over this tournament!"
"Let's see how long this monster who keeps daring to provoke me can struggle in the Heaven-and-Earth Net I've prepared for him!"