Chapter 510 - 350

Chapter 351: birdcage Decisive Battle (I)Dressrosa is being dismantled.Looking down from the sky, that massive web made of white silk threads is shrinking toward the center at a steady and cold speed.birdcage... the word exploded in the minds of every Dressrosa citizen, bringing not hope, but a despair deeper than ten years of enslavement.On the streets, the chaos had already escalated into a massacre.But the strange thing was, the ones doing the hacking weren't the people from the Donquixote Family, but the citizens themselves.A man with no light in his eyes swung a kitchen knife at his neighbor.A nurse who was originally saving people suddenly picked up a scalpel and stabbed the patient beside her.Pirates, Marines, and civilians... at this moment, identities no longer mattered.They had all become marionettes.Countless invisible threads fell from the sky, connecting to their spines and controlling their limbs, forcing them to perform a bloody farce of mutual slaughter."Hahaha! Stay back! Stay the hell away from me!!!"A pirate brandished a cutlass, looking in horror as his former comrade pounced on him like a rabid dog."We're brothers!!!"Answering him was the eerie, uncontrollable grin on his comrade's face and the knife plunging into his chest.And in the central district of the kingdom, the scenes of destruction were even more direct.RUMBLE—!!!A ten-story building, like a cracker smashed by a giant's fist, snapped right down the middle and collapsed.Dust and smoke instantly shot into the sky.Within the smoke, a stone giant hundreds of meters tall slowly stood up.Its features were crude, its limbs made of countless stones and construction debris; with every step, the earth let out an unbearable groan.One of the top officers of the Donquixote Family, the Stone-Stone Fruit ability user, Pica."Hehehehe... Everyone must die! The Young Master's orders are everything!!!"Pica's high-pitched and piercing voice spread across half of Dressrosa through the resonance of the stone.The stone giant raised its massive foot and stomped down hard toward a plaza where people were being evacuated.A shadow covered hundreds of people.Desperate screams were everywhere... Kings Plateau, Royal Palace terrace.Doflamingo leaned back against his throne, his feet resting on a broken railing, rainwater making his scarred upper body shine brightly.He had the expression of someone watching a good show as he looked down at everything happening below.Watching the city burn in flames, watching lives vanish in mutual slaughter, watching the large-scale destruction caused by Pica.That face, which always wore an arrogant smile, was now filled with a sickly, frenzied enjoyment.This was his final dance.Using the entire country as a stage and hundreds of thousands of lives as backup dancers, a grand funeral dedicated to the world."Fuffuffu... Fuhahahahaha!!!"Doflamingo spread his arms and laughed wildly."That's it! That's it! Struggle! Scream! Destroy each other in despair!!!""This is the true face of the world!!!"He slowly stopped laughing, his eyes behind the sunglasses scanning the chaotic battlefield as if taking stock of the final guests."Now then... next, who exactly will come to take my life?"His voice echoed eerily in the torrential rain, carrying a hint of playful anticipation."Is it that overconfident brat, Trafalgar Law?""Or that Revolutionary Army Chief of Staff who doesn't know the heights of the heavens?""Or perhaps~~~ CP0, the World Government's strongest lapdogs, hiding in the shadows with their signals cut off by me?"He paused, his lips curling into a smirk with maximum mockery."Besides those, who else is there?"Just as he finished speaking.A flash of golden lightning exploded behind him without any warning!That lightning was so fast the eyes couldn't keep up, carrying the determination and fury of ten years of blood-deep hatred, stabbing straight toward Doflamingo's heart!"Thunder Destruction Sword!!!"Kyros's voice sounded like a roar squeezed out of hell.Doflamingo didn't even turn his head.He just casually raised his right hand and lightly hooked his index finger.CLANG—!!!!That longsword, imbued with all of Kyros's strength and conviction, was stopped firmly by a transparent thread nearly invisible to the eye, less than ten centimeters from Doflamingo's back.A ring of dazzling sparks exploded where the sword tip met the thread.The blade shook violently, letting out an overwhelmed wail, yet it could not advance even a fraction of a millimeter more."Fuffuffu... Or it's you, Kyros."Doflamingo slowly turned around, a playful smile like a cat catching a mouse on his face."The legendary hero of Dressrosa, the myth of three thousand undefeated matches in the Colosseum. What, did killing one Diamante give you the illusion that you could defeat me?"Kyros's eyes were bloodshot, his teeth grinding audibly.Without saying a word, he abruptly pulled back his longsword and used his one leg as a pivot to rotate explosively.The sword light turned into a circular storm, slashing toward Doflamingo's neck from another angle!"It's useless."Doflamingo wagged his finger, and more threads sprang from his fingertips, weaving a fine net in the air.Kyros's sword struck the net as if hitting the toughest spiderweb; its speed instantly slowed, and its force was neutralized layer by layer."Do you still remember, Kyros?"While easily controlling the threads, Doflamingospoke in an aria-like tone."That rainy night ten years ago, I was standing right here, watching Diamante pierce your wife's chest with a sword."Kyros's pupils constricted sharply, and his breathing hitched."The way she looked at me then was full of hate. But so what? The hatred of the weak is the most boring thing in this world."Doflamingo controlled a thread and lashed it out like a whip.Crack!The thread accurately lashed Kyros's sword-wielding wrist, leaving a bloodstain deep enough to see the bone."Ugh!"Kyros groaned in pain, nearly losing his grip on the longsword."You couldn't protect your king, you couldn't protect your wife, you didn't even dare to acknowledge your own daughter! For ten years, you hid inside that ridiculous Toy Soldier shell, living like a coward!"Doflamingo approached step by step, his words like the sharpest knives, scraping Kyros's heart piece by piece."You... shut up!!!"Kyros roared, swinging his sword again regardless of the consequences.However, all his attacks appeared so clumsy and laughable before Doflamingo.After only a few rounds.Doflamingo lost his patience."The game is over."He suddenly raised a leg, the tip of his foot wrapped in Armament Haki, and kicked Kyros hard in the chest.Thud-!Kyros flew backward like a cannonball; the iron armor on his chest instantly dented and shattered, his body crashing through half of the throne and falling heavily into the puddles on the terrace.He struggled to get up but coughed up a large amount of blood, his vision darkening in waves.His physical strength, along with the hope in his heart, was rapidly vanishing.Utter despair.Doflamingo walked up to him step by step, looking down at him like he was looking at a dying ant."Fuffuffu... This is your end, Kyros. Just like this country of yours—powerless, pathetic, and destined to be finished."Just as he raised his foot, preparing to crush Kyros's head—"Father!!!"A shrill scream from a young girl came from the terrace entrance.Doflamingo's movement paused, and he turned his head impatiently.Sabo, bringing Rebecca, had just rushed onto the terrace.Seeing her father lying in a pool of blood, Rebecca's tears fell instantly, o(╥﹏╥)o.But Sabo's gaze, the moment it swept over the situation on the field, was as cold as frost."Oh? Two more coming to deliver their heads."The corners of Doflamingo's mouth curled up again, and with a flick of his fingers, several threads shot toward Sabo and Rebecca.However,Sabo moved.In one step, he crossed the distance of dozens of meters, appearing directly in front of Doflamingo.That speed was so fast that even Doflamingo's Observation Haki only caught a blurry shadow!"What?!"Doflamingo's pupils shrank drastically.Greeting him was a steel pipe wrapped in pitch-black Haki.Dragon Claw: Dragon Breath!!!BOOM—!!!!!!!!!A deafening roar.Doflamingo took the hit full-on; the sunglasses on his face instantly shattered, and that always arrogant smile completely contorted for the first time due to intense pain.He was like a baseball hit for a home run, flying backward and crashing through three palace walls in succession before coming to a halt in a cloud of rolling dust.The entire terrace instantly fell silent.The rain was still falling.Sabo withdrew his steel pipe and rested it on his shoulder."Father!"Rebecca cried out as she threw herself beside Kyros, supporting his battered body."Rebecca..."Kyros looked at his daughter before him, then at that back as reliable as a mountain not far away; a glimmer of light reignited in his clouded eyes.Father and daughter embraced.And at this moment, the tide of battle had completely turned.