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Now, I need to gather enough strength to raze that city on the Red Line."
He turned toward the boy, his suit utterly still in the wind.
"Straw Hat, one of the Four Emperors, would you join me?"
The air froze for several seconds.
"Attack the Celestial Dragons?"
The boy repeated the words slowly, each one as though he were chewing steel.
Luffy was not truly incapable of weighing his options.
He was simply used to keeping his judgments buried inside.
He knew better than anyone what the name Celestial Dragons represented.
After all, those bastards had once nearly dragged his entire crew into the abyss.
"It isn't just the Celestial Dragons I want to destroy,"
the young Doflamingo said with a grin, his voice carrying a rasp like metal scraping metal. "It's also the 'god' they worship behind the scenes."
The long-nosed man hiding behind a ruined wall could not help clicking his tongue. "Hey, I don't want anything to do with this topic."
Though he served as a personal guard, it was precisely because he had spent years witnessing things up close that he understood all the better how certain ** were best left unknown.
The first rule of survival in a secret agency was never to touch shadows you had no business touching-unless you wanted to undergo "processing" again.
Even the coldly poised woman beside him could not help raising her eyebrows.
Having worked alongside the greatest minds as a scientist, she naturally knew what sort of existence lurked on the world's hidden side.
What made this Doflamingo from another world think he could shake that mountain?
Just then, a moving shadow caught her eye.
"...You've got to be kidding."
There was no need to rely on any perception ability.
Anyone with normal eyesight could see