One Piece: Under the Throne

Dressrosa King's Highlands.

The sleeping King Riku suddenly felt a chill. He was so scared that he sat up from the bed, breathing heavily and cold sweat had soaked his clothes.

"Why do I feel like a disaster is about to happen? Ah... who is there?"

When King Riku looked towards the window, he was startled. There was a man sitting cross-legged there. The man's body blocked the moonlight and cast a shadow on King Riku.

"Hey! King Riku, do you still remember Don Quixote, the former owner of this place?"

The bad premonition came true. The person who came was Don Quixote Doflamingo. King Riku certainly knew this new Shichibukai, and he also knew what the surname Don Quixote meant.

"Thank you for watching over this land for my family for 800 years. Now its owner has returned."

After a brief moment of surprise, King Riku roared angrily: "How can I hand over the country to you? I will definitely protect my people."

"So you don't plan to return my country to me. Are you going to go to war with me?"

"You..." King Riku was speechless. He knew that he was no match for Doflamingo. Not even if he assembled all the royal troops. These people were villains and executioners on the sea, and they also had official identities recognized by the World Government.

What King Liku fears most is the surname Don Quixote, which represents the former owner of this land and the celestial dragons of the 20 royal families of creation.

King Riku could not return the country to Doflamingo. He was afraid that the other party would turn Dressrosa into the Pirate Kingdom. He was also afraid to go to war with the other party, which would plunge the country into war and kill many citizens. For a time, King Riku was in a dilemma.

Looking at the silent King Riku, Doflamingo's lips curled slightly: "Of course, it's not impossible to negotiate. I'll give you two choices. The first is to return my country to me, and the second is that I will sell my country to you for 100 billion Baileys."

"100 billion berries? Where can I get so much money?" King Liku thought Dover was simply crazy. Even a lion would not ask for as much as he did.

But Dover didn't think so. "Just because you don't have it doesn't mean your people don't have it. I think they are quite rich. No matter if you rob or borrow it, you have to give me 100 billion Baileys before dusk tomorrow. We will leave immediately after getting the money. Otherwise, I will take back my country by force."

After saying this, Doflamingo didn't give King Riku time to think, he turned around and jumped off the balcony and left.

At this time, King Liku had completely lost all sleepiness. He immediately summoned his ministers and the royal army. After a long discussion, King Liku decided to send the army to various places to convey his request to borrow money from the people.

His captain of the guards believes that pirates cannot be trusted, but King Keriko has realized this. He hides explosives on his body and threatens to die together with Dover if he cannot keep his promise.

Soon the king's army went to various places with orders. When the aggressive army knocked on the doors of the people late at night, everyone was confused. However, when they heard such a ridiculous order, the people could not believe their ears, and everyone questioned the soldiers loudly.

"Not only did you wake everyone up in the middle of the night, but you also asked us to take money?"

"What does His Majesty need so much money for?"

"How could His Majesty issue such a ridiculous order? You must be deceiving everyone."

The soldier who came to deliver the order had a hard time speaking out. He remembered what His Majesty said, that even if everyone did not understand it temporarily, the order must be carried out. The important thing was to resolve the current crisis, and the debt owed to everyone could only be repaid slowly in the future.

Seeing the soldiers remain silent, the people became even more agitated, and their questioning became louder and louder, threatening to turn into a riot.

But at this moment, the image of King Riku suddenly spread to every corner of the kingdom through the projector Den Den Mushi. In the image, King Riku knelt on his knees and kowtowed to his people, begging for everyone's trust. An unexpected scene appeared. After 800 years of peaceful rule, the people trusted the Riku family very much. Without asking the reason, everyone handed over their family savings, a silver coin, a bag of Baileys, and everyone took out all their savings.

But what King Riku didn't expect was that everything that happened before his eyes was in Doflamingo's plan. The fundraising continued at dusk the next day. Doflamingo directly used the String-String Fruit to control King Riku, letting him ride on a warhorse and slash at his people with a sword.

Dover still felt unsatisfied, and used his ability to control the king's army, and a massacre took place.

King Riku cried out for everyone to flee, but he used rockets to set houses on fire. The people's trust in the Riku clan was completely burned out with the fire. That night, peaceful Dressrosa became like purgatory.

Amid the people's desperate cries, Doflamingo appeared. He first knocked out the mad King Riku, and then eliminated all the king's troops.

Then it was announced to all the citizens that the owner of this land had returned, and Doflamingo ascended the throne amid the cheers of all the citizens with the credit of stopping King Riku's torture.

"Fffffffff, the plan is going well. Diamanti, Torrebol, you continue to wipe out the remaining forces of King Riku. I don't want to hear any more resistance before dawn."

After hanging up the phone, Dover stood on the terrace of King's Heights, with his arms open as if he wanted to embrace everything in front of him.

Suddenly a strange voice came into Doflamingo's ears, and the voice appeared so abruptly.

"You really made me watch a disgusting puppet show. Dover, you bastard have such bad taste."

"who is it?"

Leo crossed his arms and walked out of the shadows. He looked at Doflamingo with disgust. "This boring show almost made me vomit my dinner. How are you going to compensate me, Doflamingo?"

"You... why are you here?" A face that often appeared in Dover's nightmares came into his eyes, but he quickly restrained all his emotions and looked at Leo vigilantly.

My plan was leaked? Seeing Leo, Doflamingo's first reaction was that the information was leaked, but he immediately denied this possibility. The whole plan was arranged on the ship, and then directly came to Dressrosa. The whole process was on the sea and no one could pass the information under his nose.

Is it a coincidence? But why does the Water Angel always come to ruin his good deeds, the surgery fruit that time and today, why does he always appear in the important moments of his life? Thinking of this, Doflamingo is going crazy.

Once people are angry, they can do irrational things. After a brief silence, Dover took action.

[Line Bullet], Dover's fingers were like guns, and several invisible bullets shot towards Leo in an instant.

But this was useless, as all the bullets hit the water mirror and apart from causing some ripples, they could not hurt Leo himself at all.

[Five-Colored Lines] Seeing that his attack was ineffective, Dover curled his fingers into claws and rushed towards Leo like a giant bird with bared fangs and claws.

But before he could get close, he was slashed away by a deep blue water blade. Leo was in a bad mood today, and his attack was a little heavier than usual.

"Has your anger made you lose your mind? Have you forgotten the gap between us?"

Doflamingo, who was knocked flying, somersaulted in the air and landed steadily on the ground. Before he could continue to attack, his body froze, cold sweat dripped down his cheeks, and his nervous eyes kept darting around in the air.

Countless water swords were aimed at the King's Highlands. The most terrifying ones were mixed with a few strange triangular objects in the middle of the water swords, reflecting cold light under the moonlight. Doflamingo remembered that the thing seemed to be able to shoot lasers.

"Sui Angel, you... you don't dare to kill me. We are all Shichibukai. The Five Elders will not allow a fight between Shichibukai."

"That's right. I won't kill you, but not because we are all Shichibukai. You know those things can't bind me."

Dover was relieved to hear that Leo would not do anything, but he became nervous again after hearing the second half of the sentence: "Don't like my behavior? What's the problem with me taking back my own country? Even if it comes to the Five Elders, those five old guys can't do anything to me, so Lord Water Angel, you'd better stop interfering."

Damn, Leo has seen through Doflamingo. He always acts like he is the only one who matters, but he knows how to deal with things in a timely manner. If he can do something, he will beat you as much as he can, but if he can't beat you, he will talk to you reasonably. Maybe we can even become friends.

Leo's expression became a little strange for a moment: "Doflamingo, I remember you are a few years older than me, but why are you like a child who never grows up? In just these few sentences, you mentioned the Five Elders twice. You are really a little baby of the Celestial Dragons. Are you going to complain to the adults at home after kicking off the iron board? I can't bear to bully you."

"Don't mention the Celestial Dragons to me, you bastard. Do you want to fight me to the death?"

"Oh! Now you are like a rebellious teenager again, enjoying the convenience brought to you by the Tianlongren surname, but refusing to face the sadness behind the convenience."

Doflamingo felt like he was about to explode. His chest rose and fell violently, and the sound of his breathing was like a bellows: "If you don't want to stop me, then get out of here. Stop disgusting me."

Leo suddenly felt a little bored. When he watched anime in his previous life, he felt that Dover was a man with a heroic temperament, and among the villains, only he and Crocodile were pleasing to him. But now it seems that is not the case at all. Crocodile is still Crocodile, and Dover is simply a scumbag who plays tricks.

Leo didn't want to cooperate with him anymore, so why not kill him here?

A moment of thought made Leo's eyes become dangerous, and when Doflamingo saw Leo's appearance, he also took a posture to meet the enemy.

"Hey! Forget it, there's no point in killing you. I don't have much friendship with the Riku clan, and I don't bother to care about your trivial matters. I'm here to tell you that Greenbit Island will be my territory from now on. If you occupy Dressrosa and dare to harass there, it means you are declaring war on me."

"Greenbit? Dwarf people? Why? The Tontata people have been slaves of Don Quixote's family since ancient times. Do you think I will agree to your request?"

Before Doflamingo finished speaking, an explosion sounded behind him. All the floating guns entered the charging state. Leo also put his hands down and no longer looked leisurely: "I will protect the Tontata clan. Do you understand?"

The atmosphere suddenly became tense. Doflamingo's sunglasses blocked his eyes, making it impossible to see what he was thinking.

After a while, Dov stopped attacking and chuckled, "Okay, I agree, Fffffffff, but I've already sent my family to attack the Tontata Kingdom. If you don't go back quickly, you'll have no choice but to collect the bodies of the dwarfs."

Leo sneered disdainfully: "Coincidentally, my companion is also there. Your plan will fail."

"Oh? How about a bet to see whose companion is more powerful? The winner will get the Tontata clan."

"Okay, but those guys don't know how to control their strength. If they accidentally kill your family, don't be too sad."

Leo looked at Dover confidently. Both Alfu and Will gave Leo great confidence. He believed that his companions were the strongest.