Dressrosa.
It was now completely shattered.
Even the royal palace highlands were, in Gu Yina's earth-shattering magnetic storm, their buildings swept away by the shockwave of the explosion.
Doflamingo and Ah Hua and the other two were in a battlefield. The four of them had temporarily stopped fighting, after all, the previous explosion was too powerful, and even they had been affected.
As the commotion gradually subsided, Ah Hua and the others attacked first. They wouldn't give Doflamingo a chance to catch his breath.
"You guys..."
Doflamingo looked at Ah Hua and the other two, who, after a brief silence, charged at him again. His tone was urgent, and he didn't know what to say.
"What, Seven Warlords, is this all you've got?"
Ah Hua mocked Doflamingo, then rushed in front of him and, without hesitation, raised his huge white beast fist, smashing it down towards Doflamingo's head.
"If this is all you've got, then die!"
"Brat, don't be too arrogant."
*Bang—!*
Fist met fist, erupting with a powerful shockwave.
Doflamingo looked up, staring into Ah Hua's blood-red eyes, veins bulging on his forehead. "Who do you think you are? If it weren't for your bizarre radish, could you still stand before me?"
"Indeed not, but what can you do to us!"
At this moment, A Tao's massive body appeared behind Doflamingo.
He grinned and said arrogantly, "You're indeed very strong, the strongest enemy we've encountered since we set sail, but you're just a whetstone for our growth. Do you really think you're still the king of Dressrosa, a Seven Warlord?"
"You're just a sandbag left for us by Kong Tai, an experience bag. What are you being so arrogant about here?"
Without hesitation, he raised Mirror Flower Water Moon high and chopped down at Doflamingo.
*Clang—!*
The blade struck the silk threads Doflamingo had raised with his other hand.
These threads were very thin, but all black, and exceptionally tough.
Neither A Tao's slash, nor Ah Hua's fist, nor A Luo's bullets could break them, which was miraculous.
Doflamingo dared not linger, especially with A Tao. He even dared not answer A Tao's words, nor look at him.
He had been tricked once by this brat with cat eyes.
If he hadn't developed the String-String Fruit to awakening and been able to stitch up his wounds, he might have died long ago in that first gaze with this brat.
While dealing with the close-quarters combat of A Tao and Ah Hua, and dodging the occasional bullets fired by A Luo, he looked anxiously towards another direction of the royal palace highlands.
"What's going on?"
He could still sense the battle with Kaido, but Charlotte Linlin...
This was the freaking Yonko, Charlotte Linlin!
Who knew that as soon as she arrived in Dressrosa, she would be hit by such a powerful move from that blue-haired brat.
And she was hit head-on.
Thinking of the earth-shattering explosion earlier, the explosion that would have killed even him, he couldn't help but worry about Charlotte Linlin.
Not out of concern for Charlotte Linlin, but rather, what would happen to him if Charlotte Linlin and Kaido were defeated?
After so long, the Marines had arrived, but hadn't made a move.
Having not acted for so long, he knew that the World Government must not have given the order.
An order for the Marines to act against Silver Hair's group.
He probably knew what the Marines were here to do.
"To watch the show!"
"Good, good, good, very good."
At this moment, Doflamingo no longer had any侥幸心理.
With the Marines inactive and the Yonko at a disadvantage, his chances of survival were now close to zero.
"Since I can't escape, I'll make you all accompany me to hell!"
Doflamingo's heart hardened. He no longer dodged, but fought with all his might, engaging in a true life-or-death battle with Ah Hua and the other two.
Initially, facing the suddenly changed Doflamingo, the three were caught off guard and fell into a disadvantage for a time.
But after the three adapted, their battle gradually approached equilibrium.
After all, Doflamingo couldn't instantly kill one of the three, so he couldn't break their tacit balance.
In fact, this battle was decided from the moment Ah Hua and the other two broke through. It was a battle of attrition.
After all, neither side could defeat the other in a short time.
...
On the other side of the highlands.
"Kong Tai, this aura?"
"Food addiction!"
Kong Tai looked down at the crater where Charlotte Linlin had fallen. He could sense the extreme evil aura emanating from the crater, an aura of utter chaos and brutality.
In his perception, it was as if a real beast resided in the crater, and this beast was slowly awakening, ready to come out and feed.
"What is food addiction?"
Gu Yina asked in confusion, "I feel her aura is even more terrifying than when we fought before. It's just that this aura is too chaotic. I suspect she has lost all reason at this moment."
Kong Tai raised his right hand, rubbing his chin stubble with his thumb. After a while, he replied, "Actually, I don't know what this thing is. You can just think of it as a mental illness. The cause of this illness is unknown, and when it strikes, it causes an extreme craving for certain specific foods."
He lowered his hand, picked up his wine gourd, took a drink, and then looked down at the crater, smiling. "It's probably because your previous explosion exhausted her too much, causing her to fall into a brief coma. Who knows what she saw in her coma that triggered the food addiction!"
"Her strength does increase when this condition flares up, but she loses all reason. Only when she eats what she craves will she recover."
"Strength increases?"
Gu Yina looked at the crater, a fighting spirit flashing in her eyes. "It's good that her strength has increased. It's a better way to train my Haki."
"Heh heh!! You still need to be careful," Kong Tai chuckled. "Although she has little reason now, she will attack anyone who stands in her way without hesitation. And those instinctive attacks are even more to be wary of, and not to be underestimated."
"Increased strength, instinctive combat, perhaps she is even more dangerous now than when she had her reason."
"Mhm!" Gu Yina glanced at Kong Tai as he spoke, smiled gently, and nodded, "I understand."
...
"Food addiction, food addiction, it's food addiction."
Perospero and the others stopped, no longer daring to advance.
As Charlotte Linlin's sons and daughters, no one knew better than them how terrifying their mother's illness was.
Once their mother's food addiction erupted, she would turn into a mindless monster. Even if they were Charlotte Linlin's children, their mother would attack them without hesitation and kill them.