But the next moment, something even more astonishing happened!

boom! ! !

As bright red liquor mixed with shards of broken glass splattered everywhere, Luffy's straw hat was instantly dented.

The refreshing liquor dripped from the brim of the straw hat, falling drop by drop onto the hotel floor.

Luffy looked up, puzzled, and took off his straw hat. He gently brushed away the shards of glass while muttering under his breath with a frown:

"What's going on?!"

"Honestly, you've gotten my straw hat all dirty!"

"Don't you know that straw hats are very difficult to clean?!"

At this point, Luffy suddenly stopped what he was doing, raised his head, and looked directly at Bellamy.

"besides……"

"What new era pirates... what nourishment... I don't understand any of this!?"

"However, I can tell you with certainty..."

"Sky Islands are real!"

"Because that's what Crimson said! Crimson would never lie to me!"

"And... I will definitely become the Pirate King!!!"

Luffy didn't seem to care at all about Bellamy smashing his bottle over his head. Instead, he put on a serious expression, as if he were about to lecture Bellamy.

However, his naive expression instantly enraged Bellamy, who had already faced reality and abandoned his dreams.

When someone is stuck in a quagmire, what they like to see most is another person stuck in the same quagmire.

It's definitely not about seeing others effortlessly emerge from the mire!

"What a hopeless idiot!" Bellamy grinned angrily.

"Then let me tell you..."

"What is the real world, then?"

Peng~

The moment he finished speaking, he raised his arm high again.

With a slight sound, his arm suddenly transformed into a magical spring shape, and then his fist forcefully compressed backward.

"Naive brat, go home and play your dream game!!!"

A fist, imbued with terrifying elasticity, suddenly swung down, piercing the air with a whistling sound.

Everyone stared in shock, completely bewildered by the situation.

And just then...

A strange yet familiar fist suddenly flew out in front of Bellamy and then slammed into his face.

The terrifying force swept over his entire body like a storm, smashing his head so hard it caved in.

boom!!!

Immediately afterwards, Bellamy, caught off guard by the sudden attack, was sent flying backward like a cannonball.

After smashing through the hotel wall, his speed did not decrease at all. He flew out of the hotel's accommodation area and crashed heavily into a large tree, falling unconscious.

"If you manage to land that punch, then I, as the first mate, will truly lose all face!"

Red slowly walked to Luffy's side, looked at the shards of bottles scattered on the ground, waved his hand to dispel the dimensional rift in mid-air, and then looked at Luffy with a puzzled expression:

Why didn't you dodge just now?

"Hide? Why should I hide?" Luffy, who was still cleaning up the debris, looked up in confusion. "He can't hurt me."

"You kid..."

Upon hearing this answer, Crimson paused for a moment, then chuckled and said:

"I really don't know if you're faking it or not, you're actually trying to look so cool in front of me!"

As he spoke, Akane stepped forward, picked up Luffy's straw hat, and then summoned a dimensional portal connecting to the lake outside. He then plunged the straw hat into the water and vigorously splashed it twice.

When he retrieved the straw hat, all the crumbs and liquid that had been left on it had disappeared.

"Ace, it's all yours now~"

After tossing the wet straw hat to Ace to dry, Akane quickly fixed her gaze on Sakis, the vice-captain of the Bellamy Pirates, amidst the horrified stares of the pirates.

"Hey?! Is your head even functioning properly?!"

Crimson strode up to Sachis, and without a word, placed his hand on Sachis's throat, looking at him coldly, and slowly lifted him into the air.

“I don’t want to waste too much time on you guys, so you’re the one who tells me how to contact Doflamingo…”

"Should we send someone else?!"

The crimson voice grew deeper, and the pressure on his fingers intensified.

Sachs's face quickly changed from a horrified paleness to a flushed red.

"Ugh~!!!"

A terrifying force tightened around Sarkis's neck in an instant. Just as he was about to lose consciousness from difficulty breathing, the female pirate next to him hurriedly shouted loudly:

"On...on our pirate ship!!!"

"The Den Den Mushi that contacts the Donquixote Family is in the captain's office on the pirate ship!!!"

Peng!

Having gotten the answer he wanted, a slight smile played on his lips. He tossed the Sarchus in his hand onto the sofa and then grinned at the girl who had spoken to him.

Thank you for your cooperation!

"Then, could you please take me to find it?"

"The ship is at the port of Mogu Town, right?"

The female pirate nodded fearfully.

The next second, Crimson summoned a dimensional portal connecting to the port in front of him, and pulled his female companion up in front of Sarchus, leading them into the mysterious tunnel.

……

……

A dozen minutes later.

It was still in a lakeside hotel.

Near a crimson round table that the Bellamy Pirates had cleared out.

Luffy, Ace, and Red sat at three corners of the round table.

With a nod from Akagi, Ace picked up the Den Den Mushi and dialed the only number it could connect to.

After a period of busy signal, a hoarse voice quickly came from the other end:

"Hey?"

Although it was only one word, it was easy to hear the confusion in the voice, as if the speaker had forgotten whose Den Den Mushi it was.

After all, it was many years ago that Doflamingo allowed Bellamy to carry his flag.

So much time had passed that he had almost forgotten he even had such an incompetent subordinate.

It wasn't until much later that Doflamingo finally remembered the original owner of the contact number and asked in confusion:

"Bellamy?"

However, the Den Den Mushi quickly replied:

"I am not Bellamy."

"That guy is asleep now. If you want to find him, you might have to wait a few days."

"Um!?"

The unexpected news from the Den Den Mushi made Doflamingo, who was far away in the Dressrosa Palace, sit up straight instantly.

He didn't care about Bellamy, his subordinate.

But this guy is, after all, carrying his own flag on his back.

To dare to attack one's own flag is something that no pirate can tolerate.

Before Doflamingo could even get angry, Ace on the other end of the phone said directly:

"Doflamingo, I am the second division commander of the Whitebeard Pirates—Fire Fist Ace!"

"I think you should know my name!"

"Come visit Mogok Town on Gaya Island!"

"I have a deal I'd like to discuss with you!"

"Fire Fist...Ace!?"

Upon hearing this name, Doflamingo was stunned for a moment, but then he let out a burst of his signature laugh:

“Fufufufu”

"A member of one of the Four Emperors' pirate crews actually came to the first half of the Grand Line, and he's even here to talk business with me...?"

"This is truly unexpected."

"Stop pretending with me. I don't believe that with your intelligence network, you wouldn't know why I came to the first half of the Grand Line!"

Ace remained expressionless and did not respond to Doflamingo's words. Instead, he directly continued to ask questions:

So...you'll come, right?

After a moment's thought, Doflamingo nodded and said:

"Interesting~"

"I will arrive in Magic Valley Town in three days!"

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