Watching from a distance, Akainu finally lowered his stance.
So this is the power he obtained in the other world, Akainu thought. It feels incredibly evil.
Doflamingo coated both of his hands in the thick, black Cursed Energy. He produced another cluster of strings, but this time, they weren't white. They were an abyss-like, pitch black.
The threads radiated an aura so foul it induced physical nausea.
"Let me show you a true, higher-dimensional power," Doflamingo cackled wildly.
"Cursed Energy: Black Rope Great Snake."
Tens of thousands of black strings wove together, taking the shape of a massive, slithering black serpent. It unhinged its jaws and lunged directly at Goku.
Goku immediately sensed the unnatural wrongness of the energy.
"That's not ki," Goku muttered. "That stuff feels gross."
He didn't attempt to block. Instead, he leaped backward, putting distance between himself and the beast.
The black serpent slammed into the ground where Goku had just been standing. The impact hissed violently, instantly corroding the rock into a deep, melted crater. Even the solid stone was reduced to bubbling black sludge on contact.
"Whoa! That's dangerous!" Goku yelled out. "That stuff actually melts rocks!"
Doflamingo waved his arms, directing the snake to bank sharply in mid-air and continue the pursuit.
"Run! Let's see how long you can keep dodging!" Doflamingo roared.
"Cursed Energy: Thousand Arrows Piercing the Heart!"
The giant serpent dissolved mid-flight, splitting into countless, highly corrosive black darts that rained down on Goku.
Goku tumbled and flipped rapidly, narrowly avoiding the lethal downpour. The toxic darts grazed past him, burning several fresh holes into his orange gi.
Landing safely, Goku looked down at his ruined clothes in dismay.
"Hey, King Kai gave me these clothes!" Goku complained. "They're really hard to patch up, you know!"
Doflamingo didn't care about his fashion woes. Using the strings to propel himself, he used high-speed movement to instantly appear right in Goku's face.
His fist, crackling with dark lightning, swung straight for Goku's jaw.
Goku raised his forearm to block.
BANG!
A burst of black sparks exploded between them.
Goku suddenly felt a bizarre, penetrating force. The impact completely bypassed the dense muscular defense of his arm and struck directly at his internal organs.
Goku staggered backward more than a dozen steps, clutching his stomach and coughing twice.
"Ow, that hurt!" Goku winced. "There's something really weird about your punches."
Seeing his attack finally do real damage, Doflamingo broke into a maniacal fit of laughter.
"Fuffuffuffuffu! That's a Black Flash!" Doflamingo bragged. "It amplifies physical damage through spatial distortion! Your laughable physical defense means absolutely nothing against Cursed Energy!"
Pressing his advantage, Doflamingo swung both hands wildly.
Black strings wove together in the air, forming a massive net that dropped directly over Goku, trapping him inside.
The Cursed Energy coating the strings instantly began eating away at Goku's body. Goku felt a sharp, stinging pain burning across his skin.
He grabbed the black netting with both hands, attempting to rip it apart with brute force. But the strings had become incredibly elastic and durable. Even pulling with the strength of a Kaio-ken Times Four, he couldn't snap them.
"Don't waste your breath," Doflamingo sneered. "These are special strings—a perfect fusion of Cursed Energy and Haki. No matter how much brute strength you have, you'll never break them."
Doflamingo yanked his arms back violently. The net rapidly began to tighten. He was going to dice Goku into bloody chunks right then and there.
Goku looked at the shrinking net around him.
"Oh, I get it," Goku said calmly. "You mixed two different powers together. That's actually really smart!"
Doflamingo froze. This guy is literally seconds from death, and he's complimenting me? Is he brain-damaged?!
"Die, you wild monkey!" Doflamingo screamed as the net closed completely.
BOOM!
A blinding, crimson light violently erupted from within the net. The black strings began to shudder and groan under the extreme pressure.
Doflamingo suddenly felt an irresistible, overwhelming force yanking at his hands, threatening to dislocate his shoulders.
"What's happening?!" Doflamingo shouted in panic.
The red aura shot into the sky like a geyser of pure fire.
"Kaio-ken Times Ten!"
Goku's muscles bulged massively. The sheer, localized atmospheric pressure generated by his power forced the black strings outward, pushing them past their breaking point.
The strings let out a horrifying screech of tearing fabric.
SNAP!
The special, cursed net was violently blown to pieces. The explosive red aura instantly vaporized every trace of Cursed Energy in the immediate vicinity.
Goku stood unharmed. His orange gi was in absolute tatters, but his eyes burned with a blinding, fierce light.
"Your moves are really fun," Goku said. "But you're still just a little bit too weak."
Staring at the completely uninjured Goku, Doflamingo felt his entire grasp on reality crumbling.
This was a power he had spent over a hundred million Beri to acquire. And it had just been overpowered and popped by raw, unadulterated muscle.
How was that even possible?!
"Just what kind of monster are you?!" Doflamingo screamed.
Goku rolled his neck, the bones popping cleanly.
"My name is Son Goku," he said simply. "I'm a Saiyan raised on Earth."
Doflamingo didn't understand a single word of that. All he knew was that he was being played with.
He slammed his hands together in a specific hand sign, pushing every last drop of his Cursed Energy to the absolute limit.
"Don't think you've won just because you hit hard!" Doflamingo bellowed. "Let me show you the absolute pinnacle of Cursed Energy!"
A pool of pitch-black shadows materialized beneath Doflamingo's feet, rapidly expanding outward in all directions.
Seeing the encroaching shadows, Akainu immediately fell back. His instincts screamed that whatever was forming was exceptionally dangerous.
Goku didn't move an inch. He watched the spreading darkness with genuine curiosity.
"Domain Expansion," Doflamingo chanted darkly.
"Execution Thread Array!"
The black shadow instantly swallowed Goku whole.
The environment completely vanished. Namek's green sky was gone. In its place was a sealed, localized dimension woven entirely from black strings.
Countless razor-sharp black threads hung suspended in the void.
Doflamingo hovered in the very center of the pocket dimension, staring down at Goku like a god looking at an insect.
"Inside this Domain, I am God," Doflamingo declared. "My attacks have a guaranteed-hit effect. You don't even have the right to dodge."
Goku looked around the dark void. He could feel lethal intent radiating from every conceivable angle.
"That's so cool!" Goku marveled. "You actually made your own little room!"
Doflamingo let out a cold, mocking sneer. He snapped his fingers.
Every black thread in the dimension instantly came alive. They shot toward Goku from a hundred different angles simultaneously.
Goku darted around, his speed leaving afterimages as he dodged the barrage. But impossibly, the strings banked and turned sharply in mid-air. They locked onto his exact coordinates, relentlessly tracking him no matter where he moved.
With a sharp SNICK, a black thread cleanly cut across Goku's arm. A line of blood instantly trickled down.
Goku skidded to a halt, looking down at his bleeding arm in surprise.
"Wow, I really couldn't dodge that one," Goku said, thoroughly impressed. "This move of yours is incredibly handy! You don't even have to aim!"
Doflamingo threw his head back and roared with triumphant laughter.
"Finally understand what true fear is?!" Doflamingo mocked. "Inside this Domain, your only destiny is to be carved into mincemeat!"
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