Starting as a Roger Pirates Apprentice

Chapter 466: Ultimate experimental product

"After all, Trafalgar Law is a Shichibukai~"

"Shichibukai? Since when did I not know your Marines respected the Shichibukai so much?"

Doflamingo’s gaze became dangerous.

"Someone who has already been defeated and no longer holds the title of Shichibukai—wouldn’t killing him be fine?"

Doflamingo said it as a matter of course.

But Green Bull seemed to have heard something very interesting.

A defeated Shichibukai can be taken out directly without needing to capture them?

I hope that after some time passes, you can still stick to that viewpoint.

Green Bull didn’t waste more words with Doflamingo. Flowers and green grass rose continuously beneath his feet, slender vines wrapping Law’s body tightly.

"If you want to keep making moves, then come and try."

Green Bull was different from Fujitora. He wasn’t as easy to talk to, nor did he have any strong moral sense.

Unless he ran into someone like Red the Aloof or Red-Haired, otherwise, if you’re not convinced—then come and clash.

"..."

Doflamingo froze where he stood.

Moments later—or perhaps after a long while—the smile returned to his face.

"Fufufufufufu~"

"I have no intention of fighting you, Green Bull!!!"

He released Law, but for the sake of his own dignity, after retrieving Caesar’s heart, he still arrogantly laughed at Law.

"Still don’t get it, Law? Eight hundred years ago, twenty kings founded the World Government. The royal families left their homelands and went to the Holy Land Mary Geoise. And the ones who set out from Dressrosa were precisely the Donquixote family!!!"

And just as the three were within the dense forest of Green Bit, an enormous rumbling sound came from the distance.

Even the ground of Green Bit faintly trembled along with it.

"Hey... what’s going on? An earthquake?"

Doflamingo turned back, confusion on his face.

"No. The trees are telling me it’s coming from the direction of the sea."

Green Bull had his hands in his pockets, a green glow radiating from his body. The surrounding trees seemed to be communicating with him—

After all, he was the most "natural" of the Natural-type Fruit users.

On the other side...

Nami and the others, who had defeated the Donquixote Family cadres, had just breathed a sigh of relief.

Nami, Brook, and the others originally planned to look for Law’s whereabouts, but now they noticed the sea beginning to surge violently, and even the sky turning dark.

"What’s going on?!!"

Nami looked at the pointer in her hand, then at the changes in wind force, her expression strange as well.

"Strange... it should clearly be calm weather!"

At that moment, while everyone was stunned, Law grabbed Caesar and began repeatedly teleporting toward the Thousand Sunny’s direction, with Doflamingo instantly chasing behind.

As he chased—

Doflamingo noticed the Straw Hats’ ship drifting atop the distant sea.

The corner of his mouth curled up, and he immediately changed direction toward the Thousand Sunny.

But halfway there, wild winds and tsunamis surged in. The violent change caused Doflamingo to briefly lose balance, while the Thousand Sunny rocked repeatedly amid the chaos.

"What is that..."

Doflamingo gritted his teeth, staring heavily at the distant horizon.

A massive black shadow slowly emerged.

Flowers spiraled up from Green Bull’s back as he reached the sea surface, squinting toward the distant huge silhouette.

Suddenly, his eyes widened, and the cigarette in his mouth dropped into the sea.

"No way..."

From within that shadow, what first revealed itself was an unimaginably huge tsunami at the head—

And that tsunami was nothing more than splashes casually slapped up by several super-gigantic Sea Kings.

The super-gigantic Sea Kings held iron chains within their mouths, dragging forward an enormous, exaggerated ship—so large it was like an island, spanning several thousand meters.

Such a large ship—within Doflamingo’s memory—only the Gran Tesoro had comparable size.

"As expected... it’s that monster~"

Cold sweat appeared on Green Bull’s face.

He had seen it before. Fujitora, a guy not the least bit weaker than himself, had actually returned from it injured.

"A monster?"

Doflamingo noticed that giant ship and at this moment remembered the uproar across the seas regarding the Super Rookie.

"Is that experimental product, the Dark Sun, here?"

"Why would it come here??!!"

Yes—Doflamingo also knew about Sadgeo, and strictly speaking, he was even one of Sadgeo’s creators.

Back then, the Shichibukai and the titans of the underworld, all under Orin’s request—those with money provided money, those with power provided power.

Doflamingo, being both a Shichibukai and the person whose underworld business expanded the most, naturally contributed much manpower and resources to the Dark Sun God plan—

He was crystal-clear about the inside story.

So now, cold sweat appeared on his face.

After all, he knew extremely well just how much effort Orin had poured into this experimental product—

To the point of even risking a rift with the World Government, yet not feeling regret in the slightest.

"Never thought I’d meet him here... But Doflamingo, since you’re on Orin-sama’s side, you shouldn’t need to be this nervous, right?"

Aligned closely with the Celestial Dragons’ faction, Green Bull naturally knew how determined the World Government was to eliminate Sadgeo.

But he couldn’t understand why this guy Doflamingo would also break into a cold sweat upon seeing him.

"Fufufufufu..."

Doflamingo said nothing, only forcing a laugh.

Although nominally they shared some ties as allies—

When Doflamingo saw the other party, he didn’t know why, but his heart trembled, as if it were something carried in his very blood.

Law and the Straw Hat crew, of course, also noticed that absurdly gigantic formation.

The coward trio screamed in terror; Law took the opportunity to bring Caesar and, using Room, teleported onto the Thousand Sunny’s deck.

His stamina was nearly exhausted.

As for Caesar, he writhed desperately across the deck toward the edge, as if trying to crawl back to Doflamingo’s side—

But just as he struggled up from the ground and poked his head out, he saw the distant colossal formation, his face turning green with fright.

He collapsed on the deck in terror!

"H-h-h... how could this be!!!"

"That experimental product actually showed up!!!"

It wasn’t strange he was this shocked. If Doflamingo had provided the money, then Caesar had truly provided the labor—even directly participating in the research.

He clearly knew what Orin’s final positioning for this experimental product was meant to be—

It was that of the ancient...

Dark Sun God!!!

"Run, Trafalgar Law!!!"

Terrified, Caesar sobbed miserably, his expression even more dramatic than when seeing a Yonko.

"That belongs to Orin-san’s..."

"In any case, that sort of monster is absolutely impossible to defeat!!!"