"I'm a Flag Man Who Ate the Flag-Flag Fruit!"

Meanwhile.

Inside the castle on the island.

The other Donquixote Family underlings naturally heard the booming explosions from the harbor docks too. Every one of them looked shocked and incredulous!

"Enemy attack!!!"

"Enemies are attacking!!!"

"Move out!!!"

The castle instantly erupted into panic!

Likewise.

Diamante was utterly shocked too!

"Which bastard dared to target our Donquixote Family?!" Diamante cursed and immediately rushed to the window to look toward the harbor.

At the harbor,

Thick black smoke was billowing upward.

Raging flames dyed the sky above the harbor red!

"Damn bastard!"

Diamante cursed.

The next moment, he leaped straight out of the window!

He intended to deal with the attackers himself.

Meanwhile.

Arthur and Alfred had already landed on the docks.

As a few pirates occasionally charged over,

Alfred easily dealt with every pirate who rushed at Arthur.

At that moment, Arthur and Alfred strolled leisurely, their expressions calm, as though they were walking through their own back garden, without the slightest tension.

"Diamante is coming."

"Alfred, I'll leave these to you."

Arthur spoke as he casually glanced at the pirate lackeys around them.

Within his perception, a powerful presence was rushing toward them.

"Yes, Prince Arthur."

Alfred nodded.

Then fierce killing intent surfaced in his eyes.

He charged straight at the surrounding pirates.

Then,

Arthur stood where he was and waited for Diamante to arrive.

Only a few dozen seconds later, Diamante arrived at great speed, his figure suddenly appearing opposite Arthur with a swish.

He wore a fur-trimmed hat and had red stripes painted on his face.

A red cape hung over his shoulders.

His appearance was quite outlandish.

At that moment, Diamante sized up Arthur, who stood opposite him.

Looking at Arthur's face,

He knew at once.

The brat standing before him

Was none other than Arthur D. Dragonier, whom he had put a bounty on to have killed!

But Diamante had never expected this.

Before he could go after Arthur, Arthur had come to him of his own accord, wrecking his docks and costing him a considerable quantity of weapons.

"Well, well, you Dragonier brat..."

Diamante spoke darkly, his eyes fixed on Arthur.

By then, ten thousand ways to kill Arthur had already surfaced in his mind.

Yet when Arthur heard him,

His expression remained unchanged.

"We finally meet, Diamante."

"Unfortunately, today will be the day you die."

Arthur spoke calmly.

He seemed entirely unaware that Diamante, standing before him, was a core officer of the Donquixote Family, and that even on the Grand Line,

Diamante was quite a major figure.

Hearing those words,

Diamante could not help laughing aloud.

"Hahaha!!!"

"You clueless little brat, so you really do want to kill me?"

Diamante said with an irrepressible laugh.

He had roamed the Grand Line for over a decade and had never encountered such an arrogant brat!

As for Diamante's mockery,

Arthur did not care in the slightest.

He continued watching Diamante with a calm expression.

Silence suddenly fell for a moment.

Perhaps Diamante felt awkward.

He stopped smiling.

"Damn brat, since you've delivered yourself right to my door, you can just die!" As Diamante spoke, a vicious look suddenly appeared on his face.

Sword: Longsword!!!

Without warning, Diamante suddenly drew his sword!

The rapier he drew from his waist abruptly lengthened and shot toward Arthur!

The long blade pierced the air with a shrill whistle.

But of course, Arthur had remained on guard against Diamante all along.

He immediately covered both arms in Godzilla Scales.

Crossing his arms,

He blocked Diamante's surprise attack head-on!

Clang!

Metallic sparks flew.

At the sight, Diamante's pupils narrowed.

"A Zoan Devil Fruit user?"

"Is that what you're relying on?"

"You clueless little brat!" Diamante mocked Arthur again, not at all surprised that Arthur was a Devil Fruit User.

Because he was a Devil Fruit User himself.

Sword: Snake Sword!!!

Diamante attacked again.

The rapier in his hand suddenly became light and fluttering like cloth.

With a fierce flick, he sent the rapier flying toward Arthur, like a silver snake weaving through the air, carrying the breath of death.

More importantly,

Even though the rapier had turned into a slithering snake,

The strength and sharpness of its "blade" had not changed in the slightest!

At the sight of this move, Arthur's pupils narrowed too.

He unleashed his Observation Haki!

He perceived the path of this erratic attack.

With a slight turn, he easily dodged it. At the same time, he seized the opening to close in, charging straight toward Diamante!!

"He dodged it?!"

Diamante was secretly startled.

At the same time, he sensed a familiar presence from Arthur.

He immediately sneered. "I didn't expect a brat like you to know Observation Haki." He felt slightly startled, but it did not affect him much.

At that moment.

Arthur paid no attention to Diamante's words at all.

The scales on his arms transformed again.

They covered his hands as well, his fingers turning into sharp claws.

"There's still plenty you haven't seen!" Arthur said. Having used that opening to rush in front of Diamante, he fiercely swung his claws!

Swish, swish!

Although both claws raked across Diamante's body,

Yet,

They produced two showers of metallic sparks.

It was as though Diamante's entire body had been forged from steel.

"Haha!" At the sight, Diamante retreated, declaring loudly, "You're not the only one who's eaten a Devil Fruit!"

"I'm a Flag Man who ate the Flag-Flag Fruit!"

"I can make anything I touch become light and fluttering like cloth!"

As he spoke.

Diamante lightly tapped the ground with the tip of his sword.

Then, in an instant,

The ground beneath their feet, which should have been solid, began undulating like the sea. Even the earth had been turned light and fluttering like cloth!

Arthur nearly stumbled and fell.

Fortunately, he had already been on guard against this move of Diamante's.

However,

He was still surprised by this power.

At that moment, the entire stretch of ground around them rose and fell unevenly.

Such power was simply astonishing.

It also made one feel that power of this caliber truly deserved to be called devilish power!