"Gravity Blade: Fierce Tiger!"
Issho bowed slightly as he drew his cane-blade at lightning speed.
In that moment, one of the world's four fundamental forces twisted in a way that defied logic.
Gravity, a subset of the universal centripetal force, suddenly shifted sideways—and exploded in intensity.
Doflamingo, charging forward at high speed, was suddenly yanked midair.
It felt as though millions of invisible hands were pulling him backward, tearing him apart.
This force wasn't just pressing against his body.It sank into every organ, every muscle fiber.
Every single cell screamed under the crushing weight.
Thanks to his mastery over Seimei Kikan, Doflamingo could even hear his... manhood crying out for help.
But would that stop him?
Hell. No.
"This? This is what you're using to try and stop me?"
Doflamingo's body dissolved into countless threads, minimizing the internal damage.
Armament Haki erupted from him like a tidal wave, doing everything it could to counteract the debuff brought on by gravity.
Like a rocket piercing through the atmosphere, he reappeared right in front of Issho.
Black-and-red Haki cloaked his twin wings, and they came slashing down like guillotine blades.
"You better get down on your knees and start repenting!!!"
"Tour of Hell!"
Gravity surged around Issho, rising, doubling, then tripling in an instant.
The surrounding seawater was compressed so violently it formed a vacuum.
At the same time, Issho and the Numancia Flamingo beneath his feet floated into the air.
The sudden spike in gravitational chaos threw Doflamingo off balance for a second.
But only for a second.
He regained his footing and charged again. His twin wings, clad in Haki, came slicing down with unstoppable momentum.
BOOM!
The wings collided with the black-bladed cane-sword.
The moment they touched, Issho's expression shifted ever so slightly.
His body arched backward from the impact of one of the strongest forces on Earth.
Even the ship below him tilted from the blow.
It was clear—that one hurt.
But Doflamingo wasn't about to let up.
He pressed the advantage.
Fists, tendrils, wings—he struck again and again.
Even under the weight of this gravity, he was still moving like thunder.
Watching Issho struggle to keep up, Doflamingo ran his mouth nonstop.
"The Golden Lion's Fruit could nullify gravity... Yours makes it worse.You two would've made quite the pair. But do you actually think...you're stronger than the Golden Lion?"
Feeling something through his ability's connection, Issho's brow twitched slightly.
"I harbor no such delusions. But for the sake of the sea itself, I must ask you to vanish, sir."
The purple glow coiling around Doflamingo's wings intensified. The tendrils spun up to maximum power.
The air above them twisted and shattered under the pressure of compressed Armament Haki.
"Fufufufufu... You know, ninety percent of the disasters plaguing the sea come from my idiot countrymen."
Doflamingo's smile twisted into something monstrous. His voice turned ice-cold.
"And instead of killing those worthless pigs, you come after me, the one rebelling against it all?
Issho, you goddamn hypocrite!!! You're a joke, you know that?! I'm not allowed, but it's perfectly fine for that bastard Luffy to rise up, huh?! What a load of crap!!!"
The tendrils on his back lashed out with explosive force.
Issho's Observation Haki could sense it coming—
—but in his current state, dodging or defending was out of the question.
Squelch!
BANG!
A chunk of flesh was torn clean off Issho's leg—visible to the naked eye.
The tendril didn't stop there. It punched straight through the Numancia Flamingo below.
And still, Doflamingo wasn't done.
Fists, wings, tendrils—his attacks blurred into afterimages.
Blood rained through the sky.
Issho, bloodied and battered, somehow smiled through it all.
"What you say holds truth, sir. But you're not someone who carries the sea in his heart.So I must act, even if it means facing you."
"...Then fall here and now!"
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