Chapter 334: A Cruel Multiple Choice!

On the steel suspension bridge, a wisp of pungent smoke was rising from the barrel of a specialized flintlock pistol.

A breeze blew past, and the smoke gradually dissipated.

The cruel, hideous grin on Donquixote Doflamingo's face froze.

He saw that Trafalgar Law, who should have been under his foot, had vanished into thin air.

In his place was a stone that had been shattered on the spot by the lead bullet!

"Law!" Doflamingo gritted his teeth.

In the ruins of the bridge deck dozens of meters away from where the shot was fired, Law—who had nearly fallen unconscious from overdrawing his life force—slammed heavily onto the cold steel plate.

In that microsecond between life and death just now, Doflamingo had been distracted for an instant by a massive explosion coming from the city center.

Law had precisely seized this fleeting opening, using the last of his strength and the heavy price of severely overdrawing his life to forcibly activate his ability.

He swapped positions with a piece of rubble dozens of meters away, narrowly escaping the clutches of the Shinigami.

"Cough... cough cough..."

Law lay prone on the ground, vomiting mouthfuls of startlingly red blood.

Consecutive heavy injuries had caused his vision to be eroded by bloodstains and darkness.

He bit his teeth and propped his hands against the ground, trying to force himself up to continue his escape.

Suddenly, a familiar purple gravity wave descended once more, silently.

This gravity didn't carry destructive killing intent; instead, it acted like an invisible giant hand, gently pressing him flat against the steel plate and stripping away his ability to resist.

Accompanied by the crisp sound of geta treading on rock, Fujitora leaned on his ordinary shikomizue and flew through the air atop a floating piece of rock.

He slowly landed in front of Law: "My apologies, Trafalgar."

"As a Marine, I cannot allow you to continue your escape any longer."

Seeing his prey fall into the hands of the Admiral, Doflamingo's expression turned grim.

Just as he was radiating killing intent, prepared to rush over and take the man from Fujitora by force—

From the direction of Dressrosa's urban area, another series of continuous, terrifying tremors rang out, and one could even faintly see lightning soaring into the sky.

Sensing this unusual commotion, Doflamingo halted his steps and let out a cold snort.

With such a huge disturbance, he suspected it was highly likely that the brats from the Straw Hat Pirates had entered into full-scale war with his top executives.

Doflamingo gritted his teeth, his mind quickly calculating the current situation.

He had spent far too much time here trying to kill Law, far exceeding his initial tactical estimates.

As the King of Dressrosa, he knew he couldn't be trapped here now.

He needed to personally return to clean up his subordinates' mess and stabilize the situation.

The most pressing task now was to take Law—the perfect bait to restrain the Straw Hat crew—and quickly return to the royal palace to take charge.

Having made up his mind, Doflamingo's fingertips twitched slightly, preparing to act.

However, Fujitora's shikomizue unceremoniously barred his path.

Simultaneously, that suffocatingly heavy gravity field ruthlessly locked onto the space where Doflamingo stood.

"Where do you think you're going?"

Fujitora turned toward Doflamingo expressionlessly, his low voice echoing in the sea breeze.

"According to your public statement in the newspapers earlier, you have resigned from your title as one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea."

"In other words, you are now just a dangerous pirate, Heavenly Yaksha."

"As a Marine upholding the justice of the sea, I have no reason to let you leave this place."

Hearing these words, Doflamingo looked at the stubborn, blind Marine before him, the veins on his forehead throbbing like enraged earthworms.

"Damn Marine..." he cursed inwardly.

Doflamingo knew that if he went head-to-head with an Admiral candidate here, he would definitely be bogged down.

His gaze swept coldly across the surroundings, looking down at the steel bridge spanning the strait beneath his feet.

This originally magnificent structure was already teetering after the repeated gravity pressure and Haki collisions from earlier.

It was emitting a series of tooth-aching, shrill groans, as if it would disintegrate at any moment.

Finally, Doflamingo's gaze crossed the bridge and landed in the distance at the bridgehead.

Stationed there was a large number of ordinary Marine soldiers waiting in full battle array.

They were clutching their muskets, looking nervously toward the battle in the center of the bridge.

Looking at those ordinary Marine soldiers, the corners of Doflamingo's mouth slowly curled upward into a cruel smile.

Since a head-on confrontation will get me stalled by you, blind man, then I'll give you a multiple-choice question.

Let's see which weighs more in your heart: your so-called justice or human lives!

Doflamingo suddenly crouched down, his hands pressing firmly against the crack-riddled steel bridge surface.

The eyes hidden behind his sunglasses flickered with manic killing intent.

He spread his ten fingers, and the sharp thin lines—capable of cutting gold and breaking jade—instantly shot out, frantically slicing through the bridge's structure:

"Choose wisely! Marine!"

"Screeech— Crack!"

Accompanied by a series of extremely ear-piercing metallic snapping sounds, sparks flew everywhere.

Doflamingo had actually used those indestructible invisible strings to directly sever the underlying main load-bearing structure of this massive cross-sea bridge connecting the two islands in the blink of an eye!

Losing the support of its main structure, the already riddled cross-sea bridge could no longer sustain its own immense weight.

The massive bridge body snapped from the middle, and along with sky-filling steel debris and wind-force winds, it crashed straight down toward the surging sea below!

Feeling the massive bridge deck falling frantically beneath his feet, Fujitora's usually calm face was instantly filled with shock and fury.

He roared angrily in Doflamingo's direction:

"You lunatic, what have you done!"

"This is an important facility!"

If such a massive bridge body were allowed to crash into the sea, the terrifying waves triggered would directly swallow the ordinary Marine soldiers at the bridgehead who had no time to retreat.

To prevent the soldiers on the bridge and the perimeter from falling into the sea and ending up in the bellies of fish, Fujitora had no choice.

He could only grit his teeth and forcibly shift the direction of the shikomizue in his hand, instantly reversing the massive gravity originally used to suppress the enemy into an upward 'lifting force' that could hold up all things.

The purple glow surged as Fujitora exerted all his strength, using invisible gravity to death-grip the falling wreckage of the massive bridge, attempting to make it hover in mid-air.

However, Doflamingo obviously wouldn't just stand by and watch Fujitora save people.

He let out a mocking laugh, curled his fingers into claws, and swung forward violently.

He shot five 'Five Color Strings'—capable of shredding steel—at Fujitora, who was struggling to maintain support in mid-air!

These five lethal strings carried a whistle that tore through the air, heading straight for Fujitora's vitals.

Fujitora was forced into a corner.

If he didn't defend himself, he would surely be sliced into pieces.

He could only spare one hand to swing his shikomizue to parry the incoming lethal strings.

"Clang—!"

Blade and strings collided, sparks flying everywhere.

But this parry inevitably caused Fujitora's focus to waver; the gravitational lift, which was already difficult to maintain due to the bridge's sheer size, instantly spiraled out of control.

Having lost part of the gravitational support, the massive steel bridge wreckage lost its final obstruction and, like a falling star, slammed heavily into the deep sea.

"BOOM—!!!"

The deafening, terrifying impact force felt as if a super bomb had been detonated on the sea surface.

The sea surface instantly caved in, and then, the compressed seawater shot into the sky, kicking up a massive tsunami wave dozens of meters high!

This tsunami, created by the massive steel object, was like a wall of water blotting out the sun, roaring as it swept toward the Marine positions at the bridgehead.

Taking advantage of the chaos as the sky-filling mist obscured vision—

Doflamingo moved like lightning, quickly reaching Law's side and grabbing him as he lay completely unconscious from heavy injuries and exhaustion.

"The prey is mine."

Doflamingo didn't linger for a second.

"Farewell! Marine!"

His fingers flicked repeatedly, shooting countless invisible thin lines into the clouds in the sky.

Then, treading on the strings in the clouds, he let out bursts of wild laughter and flew at high speed toward the city center of Dressrosa, vanishing from sight in an instant.

On the ruins of the bridge, the sea breeze howled.

Fujitora's face was taut as he heard the terrified cries of the soldiers facing the massive tsunami in the distance.

Between pursuing the pirate and saving the lives of his innocent subordinates, he gave up on chasing Doflamingo.

"Ha!"

Fujitora took a deep breath and swung his shikomizue violently.

He released the massive gravity field within his body without reservation to forcibly suppress that terrifying tsunami disaster,

protecting the ordinary Marine soldiers on the bridge's perimeter from being swallowed by the destructive aftermath.

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