Conqueror's Haki Awakens

"So, now you've finally taken another look at me."

Doflamingo strode forward with an arrogant swagger, his pink feather coat billowing behind him as threads continuously emerged from his fingers.

He looked at Wilton with a cruel smile.

Not far away.

Wilton rose from the ruins, gripping two dumbbells with his head lowered as Doflamingo's Overlord Will battered him without pause.

How many times had this been?

The third time, probably.

The first had been Dragon, the second Ace, and the third Doflamingo. Every last one of them wanted to crush his will.

So what if they had Conqueror's Haki?

Making him submit and bow his head was impossible. Forever impossible.

Veins bulged across Wilton's body as the rage in his chest grew fiercer and fiercer. When it reached its limit, something suddenly exploded in his mind.

In an instant.

Wilton's presence abruptly changed. His thunderous fury shot into the sky, while a primordial beast seemed to break free from its cage within his heart and fire its first shot at the world.

"What the hell are you barking about?"

He raised his head.

Wilton's eyes widened slightly as a savage, violent, utterly domineering will that recognized no one but itself spread like a tornado, crashing fiercely and brutally into Doflamingo's Conqueror's Haki.

At that second.

The heavens darkened as Lightning and Thunder erupted. Countless Black and Red Lightning bolts seemed frozen in midair, and Doflamingo stopped in his tracks, his expression shifting.

How could this be?

This was...

"I asked what the hell you were barking about."

Wilton marched toward Doflamingo in great strides, his furious face filled with savage madness.

After the repeated provocations and stimulation from Dragon, Ace, and Doflamingo, combined with the blazing rage and ambition in his heart, his Conqueror's Haki had awakened.

Arrogant, unruly, contemptuous of all others—those who obeyed prospered, those who defied perished. Even though he had only just awakened it and it was nowhere near as powerful as Doflamingo's Conqueror's Haki, he showed no sign of retreat in spirit or will. If anything, he was even more vicious.

At the same time, he possessed the superior confidence of a transmigrator.

With his advantage of knowing the plot and his Golden Finger, he looked down upon this world like a god. Deep down, Wilton held a certain disdain and contempt for the people of the pirate world.

It was as if he stood above everyone else.

Perhaps even Wilton himself had never noticed this mindset.

Doflamingo's expression was ugly. This truly was an unexpected surprise. He had never expected his opponent to possess a King's Qualification.

And to awaken it under his stimulation.

What Doflamingo did not know was that his provocation had merely been the final straw. Dragon and Ace's earlier Conqueror's Haki assaults had already begun awakening Wilton's own.

He had only lacked that final push.

Doflamingo's third provocation had been exactly that.

The first two had helped Wilton strengthen the ambition in his heart.

As a transmigrator, he could never live beneath another person, much less submit to anyone. When an ordinary man was enraged, blood would be spilled within five steps.

He had already suppressed himself for far too long in his previous life.

"So what if you've awakened Conqueror's Haki?"

Doflamingo sneered. With a flash, he vanished and appeared before Wilton. A thick thread column condensed around his right hand, its pointed tip coated in Armament Haki as it clawed toward Wilton.

Sparks flew everywhere.

Wilton swung his dumbbell, its weight boosted to eleven tons by the Ton-Ton Fruit.

"Foot Shave Thread."

Transparent threads spread from Doflamingo's toes, the kicking equivalent of Five-Colored String. Coated in Armament Haki, it came rushing in so fast that Wilton narrowed his eyes.

Today, he would show Doflamingo what it meant to fight without caring whether they both died. The fierce feared the reckless, and the reckless feared those who had nothing to lose.

His Iron Body swelled, and Armament Haki covered him.

Wilton abandoned any attempt to dodge, leaving himself wide open as Doflamingo's kick struck his chest. At the same time, veins bulged on his right hand as he gripped the dumbbell tightly and poured all his strength into smashing it toward Doflamingo's head.

In that instant, Doflamingo's eyes beneath his sunglasses contracted sharply. He truly had not expected Wilton to be this violent.

He was actually using such a suicidal fighting style.

The attack could no longer be withdrawn.

He had been caught completely off guard.

Left with no choice, Doflamingo raised his hands to shield his head. But when that heavy blue-black dumbbell came crashing down, his entire face turned green.

The force was beyond imagination.

He could not block it at all.

Time seemed to slow at that moment. The dumbbell crushed through Doflamingo's defense, bending his right arm before slamming heavily into his face.

The ground within several hundred meters instantly shattered.

Doflamingo grunted and shot away, explosions erupting wherever he passed. Wilton was likewise sent crashing through building after building before finally falling amid the ruins, blood spilling from the corner of his mouth.

However, his Iron Body and Armament Haki had done their job. Wilton quickly got back up and spat the blood from his mouth to the side.

It had not injured him at the core.

His eyes were filled with ferocity, while his savage and domineering will spread outward with unrestrained brutality.

In the distant ruins.

Doflamingo stood up with a twisted expression. Several threads extended from his left hand and connected to his right arm, healing the injury.

His head was still spinning.

Stars danced before his eyes.

He coughed and spat out the blood in his mouth.

What was wrong with this guy? He had never seen such a fearless fighting style before. And why were his defense and strength so powerful?

"Explosive Double Axes."

The ground beneath his feet exploded.

Wilton launched himself forward, shooting through the air like a missile. He abruptly accelerated midair before plunging downward. The Ton-Ton Fruit and Explosive Double Axes were simply a match made in heaven.

It was just a pity that he only weighed eleven tons. If he weighed a thousand or ten thousand tons, he would crush Doflamingo to death today.

"You've successfully enraged me."

"Today, I'll show you what real strength is."

Watching Wilton descend from the sky, Doflamingo's face darkened. His pink feather coat fluttered as he raised his right foot and stomped heavily on the ground.

He could not be bothered wasting any more time.

In an instant.

With Doflamingo at the center, the ground and surrounding buildings rapidly transformed into threads. They then surged upward, forming two enormous walls of thread that shot into the sky and crossed before him.

"Shield White Line."

Bang—

Wilton smashed heavily into the two thread walls as though he had struck an impenetrable wall of metal. He only forced them down a short distance before he could no longer advance.

An afterimage flashed.

Wilton compressed Armament Haki into his feet, then released it in an instant. It formed a technique similar to Shave, allowing him to disappear at high speed. When he reappeared, he was already beside Doflamingo, both hands raised with dumbbells as he gathered all his strength.

After learning that his talent in the other Six Powers was nothing special, he had begun thinking of other methods.

After all, a living man could not let himself be suffocated by his own piss.

And Armament Haki, known for being universally useful, was undoubtedly the best choice. More importantly, his talent for Iron Body and Haki was exceptional.

Even so, mastering this Haki technique had cost him a tremendous amount of time and effort.

Its weakness was that it consumed Haki very quickly.

Facing Wilton's attack, Doflamingo seemed to have anticipated it. He crossed his hands and activated the awakened power of the String-String Fruit.

"Double Dumbbell Impact."

"You're seeking death, Thousand Arrows Piercing Heart: Feather Strike: Thread."

Two six-hundred-meter dumbbell-shaped Haki shockwaves cleaved toward Doflamingo with the force to split heaven and earth. At the same time, two streams of thread shot out from the ground on Wilton's left and right.

Their tips were both wrapped in Armament Haki.

There was no doubt they could easily pierce steel.

At the same time, a wall of white thread columns rose before Doflamingo, all in the blink of an eye.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

Amid ear-piercing bursts of sparks, thread columns pierced Wilton one after another, while the massive dumbbell shockwaves forcefully destroyed the thread columns.