One Piece: Under the Throne

"What was that vibration this morning?"

"I know, I know. I heard from the fishermen that the island that suddenly appeared yesterday was blown up."

"How could the stupid island explode?"

"Hmph! What an ignorant bunch! It was clearly an underwater volcanic eruption. Otherwise, how can we explain the shaking in the capital this morning?"

Leo shrugged and smiled secretly, letting everyone use their imagination to make up their own minds, so as to save Flamingo from spreading rumors to cover up the facts.

……

The morning breeze is blowing gently and the morning light is dim, and a new day has begun.

Leo was not in a hurry to see Doflamingo today. The threats for two consecutive days were more and more shocking. He had to give the little turkey some time to digest it.

At this time, Leo and his group were watching Victoria explaining plant weapons to Manshirley.

"This is what you call the IQ plant. It doesn't look anything special." Man Shirley looked around at the lantern-shaped flower and said with some confusion.

Victoria, a plant expert, immediately gave her some scientific advice: "The scientific name of this plant is actually moonlight lily, or moon flower. Many people call it that because it looks like an IQ. Manshili, don't be fooled by its graceful appearance. The stamens of unflowered moonlight lilies secrete a special liquid that has the same effect as a powerful stimulant."

"Strong stimulants? What are those?"

Leo and Victoria looked at each other and decided to tell Manshirley about the characteristics of this secretion: "Let's call this secretion lily honey. People who take lily honey will enter a state of excitement for a short time, greatly improving their physical strength while eliminating pain. If lily honey is directly injected into the body, it can even change the gene sequence."

Seeing that Manshirley was becoming more and more confused, Victoria had to give an inappropriate example: "If the dwarfs were injected with lily honey, they might become adults, or bees, or it is not impossible for men to become women. In short, the direction of evolution is uncertain."

Hearing this, Man Shirley was so frightened that she hid behind Victoria and asked, "Why did you bring such a scary plant to Greenbit?"

At this time, Leo spoke up: "Princess Manshirley, I want to hire the Dwarfs to use your ability to speed up plant growth to help me cultivate moonlight lilies."

"The juice of the moonlight lily is a must for another research project of mine. You are only responsible for cultivating it and not collecting it, so there is no need to worry about harming the dwarf people."

After hesitating for a long time, Princess Manshirley finally agreed. The dwarf people's characteristic of trusting people made her choose to believe Leo.

After the matter was settled, Leo left Victoria behind to recruit the dwarfs, and he took Will to the King's Highlands again.

Leo is angry with Doflamingo and has scared him enough. Today it is time to show him the carrot. Leo is confident that the little turkey will open his mouth if the carrot is placed in front of him.

It was already afternoon, and Leo remembered that Doflamingo liked to drink while overlooking his kingdom at this time every day, so now was a good time to go and get some wine.

The process was still the same. Monet took the two to the reception room, sent them to Doflamingo and then closed the door outside.

Dover seemed much calmer today, and even raised his glass to Leo when he entered the room.

Seeing him like this, Leo raised his eyebrows and said, "You're pretending to be like that, eh? Well, I don't plan to scare you on the third day, so I'll show you something else."

Leo came and sat in front of Doflamingo. Just as the other party was about to speak, Leo interrupted him with a wave of his hand.

Leo picked up the wine glass and took a sip, then took out the Den Den Mushi.

"Hey, Lao Sha, I heard that you have been trying to get your hands on something lately. Ha! You are a pirate and you want to usurp the country. Don't try to invade the country economically. The water treatment plant is my business. I will give you 10% of the profits and you are responsible for guarding the plant for me."

"What do you mean 20%? If you ask me, I will lose more than 10 billion Baileys a year. I can only ask for 15% at most."

"That's right. We do things for the sake of profit. If we can make money, we shouldn't do anything else. By the way, I'll give you some information. Recently, a reckless boy is going to your territory. You'd better be careful. Don't wait for him to capsize and ask me to go to the city to rescue you."

After hanging up the phone, Leo continued to make calls without waiting for Doflamingo to speak.

"Thank you for what happened last time. Okay, no problem. I'll have big news for you soon. Don't worry, the navy didn't know this news earlier than you did."

Leo made more than a dozen phone calls in a row, without avoiding Doflamingo. Although he could only hear Doflamingo intermittently, Doflamingo could get a lot of information from some words. Some of Leo's calls were about discussing business, and some were about exchanging intelligence or resources. The amount involved in just a dozen minutes was as high as 10 billion Baileys.

As for the intelligence, just by revealing one or two words, Dover could determine that it was related to some major forces at sea.

What on earth does he mean by coming to my Versailles? The more Doflamingo listened, the angrier he became. Veins bulged on his forehead and his head began to become congested again.

"Tezoro, you bastard, you haven't invited me once since you opened your entertainment boat. How come our relationship has faded after not seeing each other for so many years?"

"Don't talk about that useless stuff. You talk to me about business all day long. Now I want to talk to you about something useless."

Dover finally couldn't help it and slapped the table: "Water Angel, you bastard, what do you mean, do you still want to..."

Leo interrupts Dover again and throws him a newspaper.

Dover unfolded the newspaper in confusion. The front page was a joint statement from all the kingdoms of the West Sea. The title was [Awarding the Water Angel the Title of Guardian of the West Sea]. The content was basically thanking the Water Angel, Lord Leo, for his indelible contribution to the peace and stability of the West Sea. The royal families of various countries were willing to work with Lord Water Angel to build a more prosperous home. There was a lot of official language, but the only important information was that the Water Angel was awarded the title of Duke by all the kingdoms of the West Sea.

Then Dover continued to flip through the pages, and there were a lot of content praising Leo. The forces involved were spread across the four seas, and even the Alabasta Kingdom and Fishman Island in the Grand Line issued statements.

Leo was still holding onto the microphone and chattering non-stop, but Doflamingo was silent.

After a moment of silence, Dover threw down the newspaper and leaned back in his chair resignedly: "Tell me about your plan."

"Really? That girl from Tezulo is pretty, you're so kind, bro, wait a minute, Dover, what did you say just now?"

Dover suddenly yelled, "Tell me your damn plan."

"Tsk! Why are you so anxious? Tezulo won't talk to you anymore. I'm drinking here. See you later."

After putting down the microphone, Leo showed a mysterious smile: "Brother, do you want to join the third force alliance plan I proposed at sea?"