Goku settled into the opening stance of the Turtle School. A fiery white aura drifted slowly around his body.
Akainu gripped Ryujin Jakka tighter, the dark red flames on the blade flaring wildly. He was just about to swing the sword down on the arrogant, spiky-haired fool.
But Doflamingo struck first.
"Fuffuffuffuffu. This little monkey is mine! You just stand there and watch, Marine Dog!"
Doflamingo's fingers twitched with blinding speed. Dozens of transparent threads crisscrossed through the air. This was his most reliable slicing technique, instantly boxing Goku in and cutting off all routes of escape.
Goku's heightened senses caught the subtle distortions as the air itself was sliced apart.
He didn't attempt to tank the attack. Pushing off the ground with incredible explosive force, he vaulted high into the air.
The strings sheared right through the exact spot he had been standing. The glassy Namekian rock was cleanly diced into perfectly even cubes.
"You're pretty fast," Doflamingo noted, staring up at the airborne Goku. His hands never stopped moving.
"Furuito!"
A relentless barrage of strings shot upwards in hot pursuit.
Goku twisted and somersaulted repeatedly in mid-air. He quickly realized that these invisible threads were dangerously sharp—one of them even managed to slice a shallow tear into his heavy martial arts gi.
"Your attacks are really weird! Are you fighting with strings?" Goku asked, landing lightly on an elevated ridge.
Doflamingo pushed his red sunglasses up his nose. "What does a country bumpkin like you know? This is the majestic power of the String-String Fruit. Be a good boy and hand over your life."
Doflamingo swung his right arm down viciously.
"Penta-Chromatic Strings."
Five sharp strings, blackened with Armament Haki, shot straight for Goku's throat.
This time, Goku didn't dodge. He brought his hands together, instantly condensing a sphere of blue ki in his palms.
"Haa!"
He thrust the energy ball directly into the path of the five strings.
With a deafening explosion, the ki blast and the strings detonated in mid-air. The shockwave blew a massive crater into the rocky terrain.
A cold glint flashed across Doflamingo's sunglasses. To fire off energy blasts of that magnitude without a Devil Fruit... this native actually has some skills. But this is where it ends.
Doflamingo kicked off a string and lunged directly into the air, aiming to carve the spiky-haired annoyance into minced meat in close-quarters combat.
Seeing his opponent charge, a wide, thrilled smile broke across Goku's face.
"You look pretty strong! I won't hold back then!"
Goku dashed forward to meet Doflamingo head-on. Their fists collided violently in mid-air.
Doflamingo's knuckles were completely sheathed in pitch-black Armament Haki. Goku's fist was wrapped in a dense layer of white ki. The resulting concussive blast blew away every loose rock in the vicinity.
Doflamingo felt like he had just punched a solid block of the densest steel imaginable. How the hell is this kid's physical durability so utterly absurd?
Goku shook his hand out, wincing slightly. "Your punches are really hard! That actually made my hand sting a little. And you're wearing a giant coat made of pink feathers... aren't you hot in that?"
Doflamingo's face twisted into an ugly, furious scowl.
"You dare mock my fashion sense? You flashy country bumpkin!"
He whipped his right leg around, the heel trailing a lethal string coated in Haki. It was a direct strike aimed at Goku's waist—Athlete.
Goku crossed his arms to block.
Bang!
The heavy impact forced Goku to slide backward more than a dozen paces, his boots carving two deep trenches into the earth.
"Whoa, that was close! I almost got chopped in half." Goku patted the dust off his gi, completely unfazed.
Doflamingo didn't give him a second to breathe. He slapped both hands against the ground.
Devil Fruit Awakening.
The rocks surrounding Goku instantly transformed into thousands of white threads.
"Shield White!"
Two massive tidal waves of compacted strings surged from the left and right, threatening to crush Goku between them.
Seeing the sheer volume of threads closing in, Goku realized that dealing with such a wide-area attack in his base form would be a hassle. He clenched his fists, the atmosphere around him immediately shifting.
"Kaio-ken!"
A violent, crimson aura instantly overwrote the white ki. Goku's muscles visibly bulked up, his combat power doubling in a fraction of a second.
Boom!
Goku charged straight through the left wave of strings, shattering the blockade with his bare body. He became a streak of red lightning, closing the distance to Doflamingo instantaneously.
Doflamingo only saw a flash of red. Before he could react, Goku's fist was already buried in his face.
Too fast!
Doflamingo hurriedly covered his entire body in Armament Haki.
With a sickening CRACK, the punch landed squarely on Doflamingo's cheek. He was sent flying backward like a cannonball, skipping and tumbling across the ground repeatedly before finally skidding to a halt. His red sunglasses flew off and clattered against the rocks.
Spitting out a glob of bloody saliva, Doflamingo snatched his sunglasses and shoved them back onto his face.
"You bastard... you actually hit me in the face."
Goku stood calmly, the red aura still roaring around him. "That last move of yours was pretty tough. But my Kaio-ken isn't bad either, right?"
Doflamingo let out a strained, psychotic laugh. "Fuffuffuffuffu... You just got a little faster and hit a little harder. You think that's enough to beat me? You're incredibly naive."
Doflamingo threw his arms wide. Tens of thousands of strings gathered above his head.
"Thousand Arrows Piercing the Heart: Flap Thread!"
Every single string was heavily coated in high-density Armament Haki. They transformed into a localized meteor shower of black arrows, raining down relentlessly on Goku.
Goku looked up at the blackened sky. The red aura flared violently once more.
"Kaio-ken... Times Two!"
His speed skyrocketed yet again. He weaved effortlessly through the suffocating barrage of arrows. The black strings couldn't even graze his gi.
Watching the display, Doflamingo's expression finally broke. His speed actually went up again?! What the hell kind of technique is this?!
Goku dodged his way closer, finding an opening and vanishing, instantly reappearing directly behind the Warlord.
Doflamingo's Observation Haki screamed a frantic warning. He spun around, his right hand slashing out with Penta-Chromatic Strings aimed straight for Goku's heart.
Goku leaned back, casually sidestepping the lethal sweep, and drove a brutal elbow straight into Doflamingo's stomach.
Doflamingo choked out a muffled groan, his eyes bulging. It felt as though his intestines had just been ruptured.
How did his physical strength increase this much?!
Using the momentum from the blow, Doflamingo launched himself backward, putting distance between them as he gasped heavily for air.
Goku didn't press the attack. He stood his ground, the crimson aura slowly pulling back into his body.
"Your reflexes are really sharp. But it looks like your stamina isn't very good."
Hearing those words, the veins on Doflamingo's forehead threatened to pop.
"You flashy country bumpkin! You dare lecture me on my stamina?!"
Doflamingo's fingers moved in a frantic, frenzied blur. The ground around him began to rapidly convert into a sea of white strings. He was going to crush this spiky-haired freak under absolute, overwhelming numbers.
Akainu watched the exchange coldly from a distance. Noting the red aura surrounding Goku, he mentally calculated his options.
No Devil Fruit. No Haki. Pure physical strength combined with some bizarre energy flow. It's similar to Vice Admiral Garp's martial arts... but fundamentally different.
This native's strength was far beyond what was expected. That idiot Doflamingo is actually being pushed back.
Akainu tightened his grip on Ryujin Jakka. He decided to let the pirate burn away the opponent's stamina first. He would wait for the perfect opening and deliver a guaranteed, fatal strike.
Oblivious to Akainu's scheming, Doflamingo's mind was entirely consumed by the desire to shred the wild monkey into microscopic pieces.
"Ever-White!"
Tens of thousands of threads surged toward Goku from every conceivable angle.
Looking at the overwhelming tide of strings, Goku didn't show a hint of fear. Instead, his smile only grew wider.
His Saiyan blood was boiling.
Doflamingo's Awakened powers were aggressively assimilating the surface of the planet. For miles around, every rock, crag, and patch of vegetation was converted into white string. It became an endless ocean of threads.
Standing at the epicenter of this white hell, Doflamingo manipulated the environment with wild gestures.
"Die! Billow White!"
Countless threads surged upward, forming a tsunami of razor-sharp string dozens of meters high. It crashed down, threatening to bury Goku entirely.
Taking in the majestic, terrifying sight, Goku's eyes sparkled with raw excitement.
"That move is awesome!"
The crimson aura exploded from Goku once again.
"Kaio-ken Times Three!"
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