Chapter 868: Birdcage Appears
Luffy wanted to support Zoro and Law, but he found that the guardrails outside the arena were made of seastone. He had no choice but to find another exit, so he and Bartolomeo said goodbye to Zoro temporarily.
"Straw Hat Luffy! Long time no see!"
"You? Who are you?"
While looking for a way out, Luffy was blocked by a strange guy wearing a gentleman's hat with goggles on it. Although Luffy felt that the person in front of him looked familiar and his aura was very close, he just couldn't remember who this person was!
Bartolomeo, who was standing next to him, didn't recognize the man at all and thought he was looking for trouble again. He went up to the strange man and wanted to attack him, but he was pushed away by him.
The man blocking the road was none other than Luffy's sworn brother Sabo. The top hat and goggles on his head seemed to embody his inner character!
Sabo also mixed into the arena at this time. Although he did not participate in the ring competition, he also had ideas about the Tremor-Tremor Fruit.
Luffy always thought that Sabo was dead, so he never thought of Sabo as the one who came, until Sabo mentioned his name.
"who the hell are you?"
"Don't you recognize me yet?"
"I don't know you! Come on, I'll knock you out!"
"Straw Hat Luffy! Fire Fist Ace! You should have another brother!"
The words of the person in front of him instantly reminded Luffy of Sabo who was bombarded by the Celestial Dragons. The pain in his heart was also aroused. His speech became incoherent and he couldn't say anything like "Sabo is dead"!
"He has already..., he has already..."
While Luffy was still repeating what he had said, the man opposite had taken off his hat, revealing a head of blond hair and scars from burns on his face. This face instantly resembled the Sabo that Luffy had just recalled, which made him a little unbelievable!
"you…"
From this face and the previous conversation, Luffy already had the answer in his heart. His eyes were instantly blurred by tears, his mind went blank, and he felt dizzy!
"Long time no see! Luffy!"
Luffy jumped directly onto Sabo and hugged him tightly, fearing that he would lose him again if he let go! Tears flowed uncontrollably, and Luffy couldn't say anything at the moment, he just kept sobbing, his whole body was filled with joy!
Knowing that Luffy's companions were in danger, the two of them had a brief reminisce. Sabo took on the responsibility of seizing the Tremor-Tremor Fruit. Anyway, he could also dress up as the swordsman Lucy. Then Luffy left the Colosseum with the help of the Revolutionary Army, while the battle in the Colosseum continued!
"Vic! The Straw Hat has already left here, should we follow him?"
"Don't worry, the decisive battle is about to begin. I want to see if the prize is Whitebeard's Tremor-Tremor Fruit! If you want to go, go ahead!"
Both of them used their Observation Haki to notice that Luffy's breath was fading away, and knew that Luffy had left the beast fighting arena. Aokiji was not here to watch the competition, and as for the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, he was not interested in it. He was only interested in the Straw Hat Boy, and he wanted to observe his every word and action, and finally decide whether to join the Straw Hat Pirates!
Vic knows that there is no need to rush now. Once Doflamingo's birdcage appears, there will be huge broadcasts and videos in Dressrosa. Along with the bounties for those who rebelled against the Don Quixote family, the darkness of this country will surface. Then all he needs to do is watch the final battle!
Aokiji's IQ is not low, he can analyze the cause and effect based on these, but Vic will not stop Aokiji from observing closely, it depends on his own choice!
"Okay then! Let's go after we finish watching."
Doflamingo captured Law but did not kill him. Maybe he still wanted to get Caesar's heart back, or he wanted to get the surgery fruit in Law's body through some means. After all, when the ability user dies, the fruit ability is very likely to attach to the nearest fruit. This is common sense, and Doflamingo must know it.
5 billion Devil Fruits are rare, and can be used to establish good relations with the World Government. Of course, there is another possibility, which is the immortality surgery of the Operation Fruit!
Immortality is the ultimate pursuit of those in power, and Mingge is no exception. He may want to wait until things are resolved before finding a way to let Luo perform the operation on him. Of course, only Mingge himself knows what his specific thoughts are.
At this time, a rebellion of the dwarfs was taking place in the underground engineering corps of Dressrosa. Luffy, Zoro and Kin'emon, led by the dwarf scouts, went to the Royal Palace Hills to rescue Law. Sanji took Nami, Chopper and Brook to Zou. This was the first time that the Straw Hat Pirates split up!
Since there were more people participating in the Arena Battle this time and there were more matches, Doflamingo used the Birdcage before the final battle came.
He had to use it. Usopp had already scared Sucrose unconscious once, and all the toys turned back into humans. All those who had lost the memories of their loved ones remembered them again, and the secret of Dressrosa was exposed!
Many people already know about the darkness in Dressrosa. Mingo knows that he must not let anyone spread what happened in Dressrosa. So there is only one way, to trap everyone here and make the Den Den Mushi that communicates with the outside world useless!
"Hmm? What's that in the sky?"
"Fireworks? Why is there no sound? The game isn't over yet, are they setting off fireworks already?"
“It looks like a big internet cafe!”
"It's definitely not fireworks. How can it take so long for it to dissipate? It's blooming towards us!"
"It looks familiar. I seem to have seen it somewhere before! Is it Beihai?"
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Doflamingo rarely uses the birdcage. After all, it is a tactic for large-scale blockade and silencing. There are not many opportunities for him to use this tactic, and there will be no survivors after using it!
However, the Don Quixote family had used bird cages several times when developing in the North Sea, so the pirates coming to the Grand Line from the North Sea felt somewhat familiar with it, but they just didn't remember it for the time being.
But more people don’t recognize it. Some people even mistake the initially blooming birdcage for fireworks. As time goes by, the area covered by the birdcage becomes larger, and the outline of a large inverted net can be seen.
"Look up in the sky, that's Doflamingo's ultimate weapon, the birdcage. The island's secret must have been exposed, and he's going to kill people to silence them!"
"Ah la la! Is a fight about to break out outside? The Blackbeard you care about is now in a double cage. Congratulations, this feud is about to end."
"Shut up!"
The Colosseum is open-air, and Doflamingo's birdcage will also pass over the Colosseum. In some places, you can directly see the starting point of the birdcage. After all, it is a big move that covers the entire Dressrosa!
However, Vic and Aokiji were not worried at all. They were just creatures created by the power of the fruit, and there was still a level difference between them. It was a bit wishful thinking for Mingge to hope to keep the secret by this trick.
Even if Admiral Fujitora is trapped in a birdcage in the original work, it doesn't explain the problem. If even the admirals of the navy can't break the birdcage, then wouldn't Doflamingo be invincible when he uses the birdcage outside the island? Because no one can run out of the birdcage to knock Doflamingo out, and no one can contact the outside world to report the news, then the birdcage cannot be released, and the people inside will become lambs to be cut?
Unless Doflamingo can only use the bird cage in the center of the cage, locking himself in it, but this is obviously illogical. It's just releasing some lines, there's no need to stand in the middle, right? Can't he release it diagonally upwards? Mingge is an awakened fruit!
Vic would rather believe that Fujitora did it on purpose. It's not that he couldn't break the birdcage, but that he didn't want to. He wanted to take this opportunity to make a big deal out of it and then abolish the power of the Seven Warlords of the Sea. The bigger the matter gets, the more concerned the other member states will be. Which king wouldn't worry about his country being stolen by such pirates?
Judging from the results of the subsequent World Conference, Fujitora did it, so the probability that he was putting on an act is very high!