Donflamingo was very polite.
In this vast sea, what is the most important thing to survive safely? Besides the beatings and killings of the weak, there are also the ways of the world toward the strong.
Donflamingo was also one who played by the rules.
As the King of Dressrosa, Donflamingo diligently built his pirate kingdom, but he accidentally offended the Konoha Pirates. If just one of their people casually came to Dressrosa, years of painstakingly accumulated assets would go up in smoke...
A little politeness...
Can reduce troublesome enemies.
Donflamingo didn't even dare to offend the lunatic Four Emperors Kaido, let alone the Konoha Pirates who were even more reckless than Kaido?
A pirate crew like that...
Is not to be offended.
Endure a moment of calm, take a step back and see the vast sea.
Donflamingo lowered his voice, trying to speak in a manner that was neither servile nor overbearing, but deliberately placing himself in a humble position as he spoke.
"If it's about you wanting to auction off the Celestial Dragons at my Slave Auction, I'll just give that auction house to you..."
"We are not people who seize by force or deception."
Red Sand Sasori's voice was also very polite over the Radio Snail, sincerely inviting, "I am merely inviting you to participate in this auction, lest our slave prices fail to reach a high price..."
"..."
Donflamingo frowned, and then, as if he remembered something, showed a strange smile: "Fufufufu... Okay, I agree."
Let him think about it...
The arrogant bastards who once wouldn't allow him to return to Mary Geoise are now like slaves waiting for this outcast from Mary Geoise to bid on them at auction...
Donflamingo couldn't help but feel secretly pleased in his heart.
Moreover, he could tell the Five Elders that he was participating in the auction to rescue those Celestial Dragons, using this as a bargaining chip for negotiations with the Five Elders...
"Then help us with a bit of publicity too..."
Red Sand Sasori casually put forward his request, "I heard you have a good relationship with the people of the Underworld, spread the news of the Celestial Dragons being auctioned... This business deal, let it be an apology from you, the behind-the-scenes owner of the Slave Auction, for not hosting us personally."
"Fufufufu... Okay, I'll help make it happen."
Donflamingo agreed without hesitation, grinning broadly as he nodded.
This kind of slave auction will definitely throw the world into chaos...
Donflamingo also enjoys causing such enormous turmoil!
However...
After Donflamingo hung up the Radio Snail, he immediately redialed it to Admiral Sengoku, informing Sengoku the Buddha of the Konoha Pirates' requirement for him to attend the Celestial Dragons' slave auction and their coercion for him to spread the auction news.
Playing both sides...
Is something Donflamingo was particularly good at.
When Admiral Sengoku heard this news, his attitude was noticeably strange. Perhaps even that Naval Admiral had never heard of the Celestial Dragons being auctioned off as slaves!
Shampodi Islands, Island No. 1.
A few members of the Konoha Pirates stood here, dozens of Celestial Dragons bound with chains followed them timidly, not daring to boast anymore.
A group of Shampodi Islands residents stayed here, cautiously standing around to watch. The Celestial Dragons, whom they had always had to greet on their knees, were now being displayed with chains around their necks like slaves.
This feeling...
Invariably, it makes one feel a little satisfied.
As the Shampodi Islands are extremely prosperous commercially, this place could be considered the endpoint of the First Half of the Grand Line and the starting point of the latter half.
Naturally...
The visits of Celestial Dragons are not rare here.
The Celestial Dragons are even the most generous customers of the Shampodi Islands, though their visits are usually accompanied by violence, often dragging away ordinary citizens' wives or directly killing husbands who dare to resist, or capturing pirates they find interesting to serve as slaves.
"Give me my son back!"
An elderly man picked up a stone, tears brimming in his eyes as he threw it at a Celestial Dragon: "I remember your face! It was you who killed my son!"
"And my child!"
Another voice of agony soon followed from the crowd!
Stone after stone continued to fly towards them!
"Bunch of lowlives... do you want to die?"
A Celestial Dragon's head got struck and bled, turning back angrily, causing the crowd to jump in fright, instinctively wanting to kneel!
"Who allowed you to speak?"
Accompanied by a cold voice, a sharp blade flashed!
The head of this Celestial Dragon suddenly fell to the ground, and blood immediately poured out!
The onlookers were instantly in an uproar, feeling some inexplicable astonishment, fearing an Admiral would come rushing over, yet not wanting to miss the sight of the Celestial Dragons in such a miserable state!
After all...
This scene is truly a once-in-a-century sight.
Punish one to warn a hundred others.
Seeing their kin's death, the other Celestial Dragons immediately dared not make a sound.
After all...
The Konoha Pirates truly dared to kill.
Moreover, many Celestial Dragons had become their experimental subjects; those who became such died in an even more miserable state than the slaves they used to torture to death.
Of course.
There was still one not willing to yield.
The Commander of the Divine Knight Order, Saint Figarland Garling.
This proud Celestial Dragon, like his hairstyle, stubbornly refused to submit to the Konoha Pirates, continuing to regard himself as a high-and-mighty World Noble.