Incompetent Doffy

The escapees were extraordinarily powerful, and he didn't think he could handle them alone.

But with the Five Elders threatening him, he had no choice but to come.

So Doflamingo's plan was to put in a token effort if the group hadn't left by the time he arrived.

Whether he came or not was a matter of attitude.

But whether he could stop them was a matter of strength. The government couldn't blame him too harshly if he wasn't strong enough, right?

That was what he thought.

But just as he arrived over the island, a shadow came hurtling through the air nearby.

Doflamingo's eyes narrowed behind his sunglasses.

It was a group of people flying through the sky by some unknown means.

The one leading them was-

"Byrnndi World!"

Doflamingo's expression darkened.

Had he arrived just as they were leaving?

What rotten luck!

Naito brought the invisible hand to a stop and studied the flashy figure in the red suit ahead with interest.

"Shichibukai, Heavenly Yaksha, Donquixote Doflamingo,"

Naito said slowly. "Are you here to stop us?"

The man had arrived faster than he expected.

Then again, Dressrosa wasn't very far from Punk Hazard, and the man was highly mobile.

The timing was perfect.

"Fuffuffuffuffu."

Though he felt considerable pressure, Doflamingo still wore a carefree smile. "Starting a fight with you now wouldn't be a good idea. How about you pretend you didn't see me?"

He was good at keeping up appearances.

Naito smiled. "If you can stay alive."

He tilted his head slightly. "Luna, test your abilities on him."

"Yes, master."

Luna answered respectfully, then flapped her wings and flew toward Doflamingo.

Doflamingo's expression visibly darkened.

They weren't willing to let it end there?

This was a little troublesome.

But-

He studied Luna as she flew silently toward him.

Though this woman was a Lunarian, her bounty was only five hundred million. She should-

The next instant, Doflamingo's mouth fell open in shock.

He saw the white-haired woman's body swell and stretch in an instant. Red scales grew across her skin, her body kept lengthening, her limbs became claws, her face stretched forward, and horns grew from her forehead.

"Th-this-"

Doflamingo cried out, "How is this possible?!"

Before him now was a crimson dragon hundreds of meters long, coiling through the sky!

"Kaido's ability?"

Apart from its different color and the pair of broad black feathered wings on its back, it was exactly like Kaido's Fish-Fish Fruit, Model: Azure Dragon!

Was this woman a Mythical Zoan user with an ability similar to Kaido's?

Chapter 30: Incompetent Doffy (please keep reading!)

"She really turned into a dragon!"

Anthony swallowed, his face full of shock.

So it really was an artificial Mythical Zoan?

"Vegapunk,"

Buckingham, a genuine scientist, understood even better what the sight before her meant. "Just how far has your research into the Lineage Factor gone?"

Naito nodded slightly as well.

Didn't that form look cool?

A dark red divine dragon, with a pair of broad black wings on its back that seemed to blot out the sky.

Should this be called a Yinglong?

"What tremendous power!"

Luna's whisper now rumbled like muffled thunder.

Her body glided through the air. Since it was her first time using the ability, she didn't create flame clouds, instead flying by flapping her wings. Every beat whipped up a fierce gale.

When the gale struck him head-on, even Doflamingo's hair, held in place with a great deal of wax, trembled slightly.

The Shichibukai's expression was exceptionally dark.

The newspapers hadn't said this woman was a Devil Fruit user!

Had she only just gained the ability?

But still, as he'd said, he couldn't lose face!

"Fuffuffuffuffu."

Doflamingo chuckled under his breath. "You really are looking down on me! Who the hell do you think I am?!"

A brilliant pillar of fire answered him.

Luna opened her monstrous jaws and blasted a torrent of flames straight at Doflamingo.

It wasn't the Lunarian Tribe's innate flame, but the elemental power of the Azure Dragon—no, the Red Dragon Fruit itself!

Doflamingo abruptly soared upward like a great bird, easily avoiding Luna's attack as he swung his right hand toward her.

"Super Strike Whip!"

A mass of strings gathered in his palm, forming a whip hundreds of meters long. He coated it in pitch-black Armament Haki and lashed it viciously at Luna.

Luna showed no intention of dodging. She simply watched as her breath crashed into the shore of the island below.

Boom!

With a deafening explosion, a dazzling flower of flame bloomed on the coast. That stretch of shore was blasted apart, and the spreading flames swallowed an area several hundred meters across.

At the same time, Doflamingo's string whip struck Luna with tremendous force.

But then.

Clink.

With a crisp sound, the string whip bounced harmlessly away.

"..."

Doflamingo froze.

It... it didn't work?

Behind Luna, Naito smiled faintly.

As everyone knew, Doflamingo had plenty of tricks and could take quite a beating, but his attack power was pitiful. He couldn't even do anything to Luffy in Gear Fourth.

The Lunarian Tribe's defense surpassed even Charlotte Linlin's, and Luna now had the added protection of the Red Dragon Fruit's scales. Even if Doflamingo fought until he collapsed, he probably wouldn't be able to harm a hair on her head.

"After fire comes wind."

Luna whispered.

The wings on her back beat, and the air instantly churned.

Her flapping black wings sent out wave after wave of enormous wind blades, sweeping toward Doflamingo in an overwhelming barrage.

"Overheat!"

Doflamingo formed another string whip, this one much shorter.

A fighter worthy of his Shichibukai standing, Doflamingo shattered a wind blade with a single swing.

His string whip whirled into another storm, carving out a safe haven for him amid the torrent of wind blades.

"In that case-"

Luna opened her mouth again and drew a deep breath.

"Roar!"

The red dragon roared.

In the next instant, the roar became thunder. Bolts of lightning danced like frenzied dragons as they closed in on Doflamingo once more.

"Spider Web Wall!"

Doflamingo hurriedly thrust both hands forward. Countless strings grew and formed a massive wall, which he coated in Haki and placed in the path of the lightning.

The lightning slammed into the string wall again and again, setting off one explosion after another.

"Did he block it?"

Luna took another deep breath. "What would happen if I combined different elements?"

The Lunarian Tribe's innate flames began gathering in her mouth, and the fiery breath granted by her ability surged alongside them.

The two flames began to merge.

Flames glowing a rich golden yellow burst forth, so dense they seemed almost solid.

But that wasn't all. The black wings on the red dragon's back beat as well, and a gale began to howl!

Wind and fire became one!

A raging tornado of flame swept across the sky, as though it would burn the whole world to ashes!

Doflamingo's expression abruptly changed.

The attack hadn't even reached him, yet the scorching heat had already made his body feel as if it were burning, while the swirling wind gave him the illusion that it was slicing him apart.

Boom!