Chapter 569

Watching Lu En's retreating figure until it vanished completely.

Only then did the dozen or so pirates dare to breathe heavily.

Clearly,

their lips trembled, faces pale—obviously terrified beyond measure.

"He, he actually survived!"

"He provoked Doflamingo and still walked away unscathed!"

"My god!"

"That brat can't possibly be this terrifying!"

"That was the Donquixote Family!"

"I've never heard of anyone provoking the Donquixote Family and still walking around alive!"

"That brat did it."

One pirate after another spoke, voices filled with shock.

Beside them,

Bear's throat went dry, and he blurted out: "I told you all before. That brat isn't ordinary—he's a terrifying entity we dare not provoke!"

"Thank goodness none of you provoked him; otherwise the consequences would've been unimaginable."

With those words spoken,

the pirates nodded in grim agreement.

Indeed!

Such a terrifying entity was certainly not something they could ever dare to provoke.

After all,

he was a fearsome powerhouse who had invaded the Donquixote Family's territory, clashed with them, and still walked away unscathed!

A powerhouse of this level could kill them as easily as slaughtering chickens!

"For some reason…"

"I keep feeling that figure looks familiar."

"I think I've seen him somewhere before."

One pirate spoke weakly.

"You've seen him?"

All eyes snapped toward him.

Under the gaze of everyone,

the pirate frantically racked his brain.

After a long moment,

his pupils contracted, his face shifted slightly, and he revealed the truth in a voice trembling with horror.

"I remember!"

"The young boy who just passed by…"

"He, he's the infamous Fist Demon!"

"A legendary supreme powerhouse of the seas!"

"He once single-handedly crushed and captured Whitebeard II!"

"A being who defeated Whitebeard II at just five years old!"

The words fell.

Total silence swept the crowd!

The pirates' emotions were utterly overturned.

They all widened their eyes in unison, as if stunned into numbness.

"Y-you what?!"

"He's the Fist Demon? Fist Demon Lu En?!"

"The greatest genius in Navy history? The universally recognized most terrifying monster of the seas?"

"Are you sure?"

Everyone present turned pale with shock.

The name Fist Demon Lu En was, of course, thunderously familiar to them.

In recent days,

virtually no one along the Grand Line hadn't heard of the Fist Demon's name.

"The strongest genius in Navy history actually came all the way to our Devil's Town?"

"Could it be…"

"He came here specifically for the Donquixote Family?"

At this thought, everyone was stunned again…

At this moment,

they suddenly understood.

Why that boy had provoked the Donquixote Family yet still walked away unscathed.

Of course!

The man was none other than the famed Fist Demon!

A monster of unimaginable power!

"You all say…"

"The reason that casino opened by the Donquixote family was destroyed, and that the entire street was battered full of holes—is it because Quan Mo Lu En and the Heavenly Yaksha Doflamingo erupted into a fierce battle?"

"A clash between two top-tier powerhouses destroyed the entire street?"

Bartholomew spoke in a trembling voice.

"N-no way?"

"Two monsters going at it…"

"Even the whole street was nearly beaten into the ground?!"

"Oh heavens!"

The pirates around him all said it was hard to imagine.

Someone asked: "If it really was these two who erupted into a fierce battle, then it does explain why this entire street was destroyed beyond recognition."

"But then the question comes up again."

"In the end…"

"Did the Heavenly Yaksha Doflamingo win? Or did Quan Mo Lu En win?"

That sentence,

silenced the entire room.

"It should be Doflamingo who won, right? The Heavenly Yaksha is, after all, a Great Pirate who has been famous for a long time. And Quan Mo Lu En is only the Navy's strongest genius who rose to prominence in the last few days, and he's only five years old."

A few pirates said.

"I think…"

"If Quan Mo Lu En had lost, today he most likely wouldn't have walked out of the Donquixote family's territory."

"But just now, what did we see? Apart from some minor injuries on his body, there was not the slightest trace of bearing a heavy burden of grave wounds."

"I dare to conclude. In this battle, Quan Mo did not lose! At worst, he fought the Heavenly Yaksha to a draw, which is the only way he could have managed to withdraw unscathed in the end."

Bartholomew analyzed calmly.

"In other words…"

"Quan Mo Lu En, at the tender age of five, actually managed to fight the long-famous Great Pirate Heavenly Yaksha Doflamingo to a draw?!"

"Can you believe that?!"

"Are you insane!"

"Quan Mo Lu En is actually this terrifying?"

All the pirates completely lost their composure.

In their hearts they felt very fortunate…

Fortunately,