Chapter 62

Luo En's brows also knitted tightly.

Xiuzhi roared furiously at those people, "What are you doing?!!"

Those Navy students who had attacked Zefa wore expressions of sheer terror and panic:

"Sorry, Sensei! I, my body is out of control, stop!"

"Get away from me, stay far away!"

"No, don't!"

While crying and shouting, those Navy students began indiscriminately attacking their comrades around them.

"Fufufufufu, this is truly splendid, Zefa; how does it feel to be attacked by your own beloved students?"

Doflamingo gazed at Zefa and laughed sinisterly.

Bearing four gunshot wounds and three knife slashes, Zefa stared fiercely at him, grinding his teeth.

"Go die."

Doflamingo raised his hand, and several white strings slashed toward the injured Zefa.

Although Zefa raised his arm hardened with Armament Haki to block, his entire body was still pushed back several meters.

Doflamingo extended his fingers again, sending more strings onto the other Navy students, controlling them to kill each other.

"Truly a magnificent sight."

Doflamingo looked utterly delighted.

"St-stop, stop!"

Zefa could endure it no longer; dragging his aged, injured body, he charged toward Doflamingo to kill.

But soon, some Navy students controlled by Doflamingo blocked his path.

Some launched attacks against him, while others turned their weapons upon themselves.

"Does it not matter if these students you love most die, Zefa?"

Doflamingo's devilish voice rang in Zefa's ears; gazing at these familiar faces filled with panic, fear, and tears, his whole body trembled incessantly.

He could not bear to watch them die.

The corner of Doflamingo's mouth curled into a sinister, cold-blooded arc; his figure flashed, appearing before Zefa, and he lifted a leg to kick him.

"Ashura Line!"

"Thunder Breathing, First Form: Thunderclap and Flash!"

Accompanied by a thunderous boom that tore through the air, a golden flash of Lei Guang vanished instantly across the warship's deck.

The sharp white strings, stirred up by Doflamingo's foot and slashing toward Zefa, were severed in an instant.

A long blade wreathed in golden lightning blocked the foot Doflamingo had kicked toward Zefa.

Gazing at the black-haired boy holding the long blade to block his strike, his hair dancing in the fierce wind, Doflamingo narrowed his eyes slightly.

"Oh?"

54, Awakened Observation Haki, the Navy's grievous price (2/5)

With the black bangs on his forehead drifting gently, Luo En raised his eyes, staring intently at Doflamingo before him.

This enemy before him was absolutely the strongest one he had encountered so far!

"I heard the Navy specially recruited a very young intern; it must be you, brat, what was your name again?"

Doflamingo withdrew his leg, looking down at Luo En.

Luo En said nothing, merely glancing briefly at the Navy students around him controlled by Doflamingo's strings; he swung his blade through the air, severing all those strings.

Doflamingo narrowed his eyes slightly, his gaze sweeping over the Lei Qie in Luo En's hand.

"Kid, you have quite a fine blade there; let me see it, shall I?"

He reached his hand out toward Luo En.

Several thin, nearly invisible white strings from all around coiled toward him.

Doflamingo intended to capture this kid whose strength had unexpectedly surpassed his expectations.

Being specially recruited by the Navy as an intern, staying by Zefa's side, and possessing such a famous blade and such strength, he must be highly valued by the Navy.

If he were captured and used as a bargaining chip in negotiations with the Navy...

Thinking thus, Doflamingo's eyes flashed beneath his sunglasses, and the speed at which he grabbed for Luo En suddenly accelerated.

"Haki, Hardening!"

Gripping the hilt with both hands, Luo En's eyes were razor-sharp.

Facing this powerful enemy who surpassed his current stage, his heart was incredibly calm at this moment; every sound and detail in his surroundings floated into his mind.

Sun Breathing Method, Full Concentration!

"Flame Breathing, Fifth Form!"

"Flame Tiger!"

Toward the hand Doflamingo reached out to grab, he unleashed a giant slash resembling a burning fierce tiger; those fine, nearly imperceptible strings were incinerated the instant they approached Luo En.

Sensing the Haki and power contained within this slash, Doflamingo's expression changed slightly.

His hand was on the verge of being severed by this slash.

Doflamingo curled his five fingers into a claw, wrapped them in Armament Haki, and tore forward with a swipe!

"Five Colored Strings!"

Five strings of different colors collided with that giant slash condensed into a burning fierce tiger.

After stalemating for merely a few seconds, Luo En's slash was torn apart, and the Five Colored Strings continued their momentum unabated, slashing toward Luo En.

One could clearly see the gap in strength between the two at this moment.

But in Luo En's eyes at this instant, the speed of those five strings slashing rapidly toward him seemed to have slowed; a vast amount of detail fed back into his mind, including the sharpness, toughness, and speed of those five strings, as well as the killing intent and malice they contained, and so on.

"It can cut through!"

At this moment, having fallen into that wondrous state, his perception doubled, and a glint of ghostly light flashed deep within Luo En's pupils.

He raised the Lei Qie in his hand, and strands of crimson blazing fire, like the fierce flames of the sun, slowly spiraled along the hilt toward the blade.

Just one second before he was about to deliver that strike.

A pitch-black iron fist blasted apart the five-colored line that had been slicing toward Luo En.

Taking advantage of the brief moment Luo En had entangled Doflamingo, Zephyr—who had incapacitated all the Marine disciples—used Soru to appear before Luo En.

With his purple short hair and sunglasses removed, he stared fixedly at Doflamingo. Though his body was drenched in blood and wounds, his aura was terrifyingly powerful. The killing intent in his gaze as he watched Doflamingo boiled over, like a man-eating tiger!

"Fall back, Luo En. Leave the rest to this old man."

Zephyr, his pair of pitch-black arms raised, stared at Doflamingo and spoke, shielding Luo En before him.

Luo En looked at the wounds on his back and wanted to say something.

Zephyr said in a low voice, "This old man isn't so decrepit that he needs the help of a little brat like you. Get out of the way!"

Having said that, he stomped heavily underfoot, executed Soru with extremely high mastery, and instantly appeared before Doflamingo, slamming a heavy fist down.

The entire warship trembled from the impact.

Facing Zephyr's furious punch imbued with Armament Haki.

Doflamingo was sent flying by that single punch from one end of the warship to the other, piercing through countless layers of iron plating.

"Cough!"

A mouthful of fresh red blood sprayed from Doflamingo's mouth.

A shadow crashed down from above, and beneath Doflamingo's arrogant, insolent sunglasses, his pupils contracted sharply.

Boom!

Zephyr's foot came crashing down from above.

The warship sank, then tilted toward that end, and the seawater on both sides churned violently.

Doflamingo, who had barely dodged that strike, stood on the swaying warship, blood seeping from the corner of his mouth, staring fixedly at Zephyr as he slowly rose.

"So this is... the strength of an Admiral, Black Arm Zephyr. Truly, your fame is not empty."

Zephyr, his thick, burly arms completely pitch-black, said nothing, merely locking onto him with killing intent and aura.

A drop of cold sweat slid down Doflamingo's forehead.

"Fuffuffuffu, looks like I've angered a fierce tiger today…"

As his words fell.

The warship trembled once more.

Zephyr vanished on the spot.