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The Dressrosa battle.
The fights among the officers were over.
The Donquixote Family's executives—completely wiped out.
The only one left was Doflamingo on the palace battlefield.
Everyone assumed it would be a straightforward 2-on-1: Luffy and Law versus Doflamingo.
Even against a Warlord like him, they shouldn't have had much trouble.
But things didn't go the way anyone expected.
Strong as Luffy was, he was being held back—not by Doflamingo himself, but by puppets controlled by him and the spring-loaded Bellamy.
That left Law facing Doflamingo alone.
And Law wasn't in the best condition. From the very start, he was completely outmatched.
Right now, with just Law alone, Doflamingo had the upper hand.
Of course, if it were "King of the Pirates" Law from Wano, that would be a different story.
After all, "last bit of stamina" plus the "Alphabet Awakening" buffs weren't just gimmicks.
"Ahhh!"
A piercing scream tore through the battlefield.
Doflamingo stomped on Law's arm as he fell.
Under the relentless slicing of his string blades, Law's right hand was severed.
"Do you know, Law? If that day your Ope Ope no Mi had fallen into my hands, I could've used Mary Geoise's royal treasures to seize control of the world!"
Doflamingo grinned arrogantly.
"Your power is unbelievably valuable. Its true overpowered nature—you already know that, don't you? If its wielder has enough talent, they could even achieve humanity's ultimate dream. That's why some call it the ultimate Devil Fruit!"
Across all the worlds: "?"
What the—!
King Doflamingo!
"What the hell is this Ope Ope no Mi? The ultimate Devil Fruit?!"
"It's a Paramecia-type surgical fruit—I thought it was just for doctors doing surgery!"
"But in Law's hands, it's obviously way more than a simple operation!"
"Inside the domain of the Ope Ope no Mi, the user is almost godlike—cutting, swapping spaces, nothing's impossible!"
"Even without considering the other secrets, just these abilities are already insane."
Everyone across the worlds murmured in disbelief.
Then, the answer came.
"Of course I know. The peak of this ability… is to grant eternal life through an immortality operation. But performing it costs the user their life."
Law gritted his teeth through the pain, revealing this earth-shattering secret.
"WHAT?!"
"No way!"
"Eternal life… you mean eternal life?!"
"The Ope Ope no Mi can make someone immortal, give them forever!"
"Even in the pirate world, there's a power to live forever!"
Everyone across the worlds was utterly stunned.
"Eternal life! Why is it that lowly worlds have a way to achieve immortality, but I can't find it anywhere?!"
Orochimaru's pale face in the Naruto world twisted with rage and envy.
"Give me enough time, and I could build an empire to last a thousand years… Time!"
Kings and emperors across history shook their heads in regret.
"A mortal emperor barely lives ten thousand years. If one cannot become immortal, why should they be limited by time while others live forever?!"
Cultivators in the fantasy worlds all muttered indignantly.
"Hahaha! The hope of eternal life is here!"
"Whoever brings me Law, I'll pay a billion!"
"A billion? Too little! I'll pay three billion!"
"The Ope Ope no Mi alone is worth five billion—I'll go sixty!"
The wealthy and nobles of the pirate world went wild.
"Hehehe…"
Doflamingo pulled out a pistol from his coat.
"Law, since you're as good as dead anyway, why not make a deal before you die? You perform an immortality operation for me, and I'll grant you any wish. Win-win for both of us."
Even now, he hadn't given up on immortality.
"Fine!"
Law gritted his teeth, forcing a twisted, sarcastic smile despite his severed arm.
"You want me to give you eternal life? Then bring back Colonel Kora, and you can lick clean the asses of every citizen in Dressrosa yourself!"
Bang!
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Gunfire erupted.
Doflamingo fired relentlessly, emptying magazine after magazine into Law.
Was the Warlord Trafalgar Law… dead?!
In the pirate world:
"Waaah! Captain… the captain's dead!"
Bepo panicked, jumping up and down.
"How could this happen?!"
"What is that Straw Hat doing?!"
"He's still fighting that spring-loaded guy…"
Shakki, Pekoms, and the others were stunned.
"That idiot Straw Hat… I knew I shouldn't have trusted him. By the time he finishes with that Bellamy, my body will probably be ice-cold!"
Law gritted his teeth in fury.
It wasn't just hearts breaking—
At that moment, across all worlds, people were muttering about how slow Luffy was.
Amid the complaints, Luffy finally made up his mind. He KO'd Bellamy with a single punch, scattered Doflamingo's shadow puppets, and returned to the battlefield.
"Heh, only now are you making your move? Too late—your ally's dead, and it's all your fault, Straw Hat!"
Tang San in the Martial Soul world sneered.
But in the next moment…
Tang San's grin froze.
Something no one across the worlds expected happened.
The seemingly dead Law suddenly sprung back to life, landing a brutal strike on Doflamingo.
"What the hell?! That's insane!"
"Did Law swap places with one of the grunts before getting shot?!"
"Grunt: Are you polite? Using me as a human shield!"
"Sorry, if that actually worked, what would we need cops for?"
The worlds buzzed with speculation.
"Attacking the internal organs directly through the body… this should end the fight!"
Just as everyone thought it was over…
Another twist appeared.
Doflamingo, heavily injured by Law's internal destruction technique, sat up and used his strings to repair his internal damage.
"Looks like it's my turn to send you off!"
Doflamingo lifted his beaded loafers and aimed the sole right at Law's helpless head, stomping down hard.
Law was about to be killed—humiliated, crushed under a pair of ridiculous shoes.
But at that split second, a sandal dropped between them, blocking Doflamingo's stomp.
"Why stop me? I'm only trying to smash Law's head."
Doflamingo raised his right foot again and brought it down.
Luffy said nothing. His right leg, coated in Armament Haki, whipped out in a fierce horizontal kick.
Boom!
BOOM BOOM BOOM!
Black‑and‑red streaks of Conqueror's lightning exploded across the air.
The final clash of king against king had begun.
"Fufufufu… Weak. Completely weak. At this rate, when exactly do you think you'll manage to beat me?"Doflamingo mocked him.
"The Birdcage will fully close in one hour. But long before that, people will start dying one after another. In about fifty minutes, this whole country will look like a crushed tomato… nothing but blood everywhere."
"What happens to Dressrosa might not matter to you. But all those people dying? Every single one of them will hate you for it."
"If your little group hadn't come here, Dressrosa would still be peaceful. It would've stayed prosperous. Everything that's happening now—every bit of this mess—is because of you."
Doflamingo let out a cold, jagged laugh.
"Cut the crap. That so‑called 'peace' was just a mask."
Luffy wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth.
"Fufufu… There are unlucky people everywhere in this world. You can't save them all. You're just a pirate passing through—trying to play hero? A pirate can't become a hero. Get it through your head and stop getting in my way!"
Doflamingo barked.
"No—you're the one in my way! You made my friends cry. You pissed off my crew."Luffy's voice sharpened.
"If I still can't beat you, then I'll take everything on myself. I'm not letting a single person die! You and your stupid Birdcage are what's getting in my way!"
"And what exactly do you think you can do? After all this fighting, you should've figured it out by now. Those attacks you're so proud of… they're nowhere near enough to take me down!"
Doflamingo laughed triumphantly.
"You'll find out soon enough."
Luffy raised his right hand, coated in deep black Armament Haki.
"It's not Second Gear. And it's not Third Gear."
He shifted into Gear Fourth—Boundman!
"..."
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