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Out on the open sea, Doflamingo stood at the prow of his ship, his face a grim mask against the wind. G-5 had been prepared—they'd set up an ambush on the perimeter.
What the hell?
His first thought was a traitor. It was Doflamingo's favorite game to play, after all.
But he couldn't pinpoint who. Everyone who knew the plan had been with him for years.
Click-clack... click-clack...
Doflamingo picked up the Den Den Mushi.
"Is there a problem, Joker?" Kaido's booming voice echoed through the receiver.
To ensure Doflamingo could deal with the G-5 problem, Kaido himself had come to the area to oversee the operation.
"I told you," Jack's voice grumbled in the background. "Forget the damn gas bomb, just charge in and kill them all. Joker is useless."
He was a brute, pure and simple—he had no patience for Doflamingo's schemes.
In his mind, it was easy.
"Just sail the ship over there and get it done."
A vein throbbed on Doflamingo's forehead, but he kept his composure. He wouldn't dare lose it in front of Kaido. "No," he said smoothly. "Everything is going according to plan."
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High above, Buffalo, clad in a thick flight suit, cut through the clouds. Slung beneath him was a one-ton tank of highly concentrated hydrogen sulfide gas.
All he had to do was drop it.
It would mix with the air, forming a volatile compound. A single spark, a bit of heat, and it would ignite.
One cannonball was all it would take.
BOOM!
The island housing G-5 would become another Punk Hazard.
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Down in the small town, the lights flickered.
Jin and Reiju were in the middle of a game of shogi, waiting for word from Gion.
Suddenly—
A primal sense of danger shot through Jin. He looked up, his Observation Haki flaring, and a vision flashed through his mind.
A massive tank, falling from the sky. It explodes in mid-air, a cloud of toxic gas blanketing the entire island.
Fire. Explosions.
People running in terror, then falling, their agonized screams drowned out by their own choked gasps for air.
A vision of the future.
The sky?
Jin looked up.
Damn it.
Doflamingo really did have a backup for his backup.
He set his game piece down and stood. "One-Two-Seven." He crouched low, his legs coiling into a series of tightly compressed springs—the power of the Paramecia Spring-Spring Fruit.
BOOM!
His legs unleashed a terrifying burst of kinetic energy, launching him straight through the roof and into the sky at incredible speed.
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At that moment, Buffalo released the chains, letting the gas tank plummet. He heard a whoosh as something tore through the air below him.
He looked down. A black dot was shooting up from the ground like a cannonball, leaving a visible trail in the air.
"What is that?" he muttered, thinking his eyes were playing tricks on him. "It looks like... a person?"
He was four thousand meters up. What kind of person could reach this altitude?
The whistling gas tank and Jin met in mid-air. The moment Jin's hand touched it—
Paramecia: Ton-Ton Fruit!
The ten-ton tank's weight was instantly reduced to almost nothing. Jin held it aloft.
Buffalo was stunned.
'Is that even human?'
He fumbled, pulling a rocket launcher from his back. He locked onto the gas tank and fired.
Jin kicked the now-featherlight tank away as if it were a balloon. A pair of feathered wings unfurled from his back—the Mythical Zoan Pegasus-Pegasus Fruit.
He beat his wings and flew straight at the incoming rocket. When he was close enough, he lashed out with a Tempest Kick.
The rocket exploded.
A fireball blossomed in the sky.
"What kind of monster are you??" Buffalo stammered, terrified.
He spun around, his propeller whining as he accelerated, and fled.
But Jin was faster. Like a bolt of lightning, he appeared in front of him.
"Sudden Wind: Matasaburo!"
Buffalo's head transformed into a propeller, spinning at high speed and unleashing a violent, high-pressure windstorm.
Jin pushed through the gale, his fist cutting through the spinning blades.
WHAM!
A single punch.
Blood erupted from Buffalo's nose and mouth. He was out cold, his body falling from the sky.
Jin beat his wings, caught up to him, and with one hand, opened a pocket dimension from his Munch-Munch Fruit and tossed him inside.
With Buffalo taken care of, Jin stored the gas tank in the same dimension.
According to Caesar, the gas was primarily hydrogen sulfide. Industrially, it could be used to produce sulfur and sulfuric acid.
Ten tons of the highly concentrated gas was worth a fortune.
'Thanks for the generous donation, Doflamingo...'
The crisis was averted. Jin breathed a sigh of relief. Doflamingo was a cunning bastard. The first wave had just been a feint to draw out the Marines' forces. Buffalo's high-altitude strike was his real move. If Jin hadn't been here, it would have worked.
Jin looked down. If Buffalo was here, then Doflamingo had to be nearby.
He thought back to the direction Buffalo had fled and began to search.
A short while later, about thirty nautical miles from G-5, he spotted a large ship shaped like a flamingo. Its hull was a garish pink, its bow a giant flamingo head, complete with Doflamingo's signature sunglasses.
It was an ostentatious, unmistakable vessel.
"Law," Jin said, activating the seal on his insignia. "Doflamingo is confirmed. You're clear to move."
On the distant island of Dressrosa, Law replied.
"Understood, King-ya."
He pulled up his hood, shadowing his face, and stepped out of the alley.
Earlier that day, by observing Trebol's movements, Law had found a location very close to the colosseum. The wounded from the arena were taken there... and they never came out. Instead, new toys would appear.
It had to be where Sugar was hiding.
"Calm-Calm Step."
Law activated the Calm-Calm Fruit's power, muffling all sound as he silently approached and eliminated the guards. The Op-Op Fruit combined with the Calm-Calm Fruit had transformed him into the ultimate assassin.
Before the other guards could even react, they were cut down.
He'd almost reached his goal when he passed a giant teddy bear. As he walked by, it suddenly swung a massive fist down at him.
Law's Observation Haki flared, and he dodged easily.
The bear's fist slammed into the ground, shaking the underground fortress.
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