North Blue, Donquixote Family Base.
Doflamingo sat in his chair with one leg crossed over the other, looking lazy and careless as he read a piece of paper in his hand.
"Young Master, is that an order from that lord?" Vergo asked curiously from the side.
Doflamingo grinned and nodded. "That's right, but it is not an order. My uncle asked me to help search the North Blue for any fighting methods or techniques that can store Haki or physical strength."
"What a coincidence…" Vergo froze for a moment, then smiled.
Doflamingo also laughed. "Fufufufufu, that really is a coincidence. Lao G can do something like that, right?"
"That is right. His family's Jio-Ken (Earth Old Man Fist) can do it, but for the details, it would be better for you to call him over and ask him yourself," Vergo said.
Doflamingo did not delay. He quickly used a Den Den Mushi to call Lao G and told him to come over.
After the call ended, Vergo spoke again. "Speaking of which, the master lost his temper again this morning. He said you should stop selling weapons to the people on the island. This makes…"
"Tch…" Doflamingo clicked his tongue in displeasure. "My father is good in every way, but his heart is too kind. Can't he see how chaotic the sea has become? Ever since Pirate King Roger announced the existence of Laugh Tale and said that the great treasure and his sixty billion Berries were there, pirates have appeared everywhere. The golden age of pirates is about to arrive, and this is the best time for our arms business. If those people want to go out to sea, don't they need to buy weapons to arm themselves?"
Doflamingo and his father had completely different views on many things, but he did not hate his father. He always remembered that, back then, his father could have taken the family back to Mary Geoise, yet for Doflamingo's sake, he had willingly stayed in the North Blue and suffered with him.
Because of that alone, Doflamingo respected and loved his father from the bottom of his heart.
However, respect was respect. Doflamingo was not the kind of person who would blindly obey his family. He had his own view of the world and the sea. He believed that the coming era would belong to villains, and that it would be an era where the meaning of justice would be rewritten.
The sea was gathering a terrifying force strong enough to overturn everything, so he had to become part of it too.
On this point, his views could not match his father Homing's at all. Even after suffering like a beggar, Homing was still somewhat naive. He still believed that as long as people could understand each other, they could live together in peace.
But the problem was, who could truly understand each other?
A child who grew up in a peaceful country and a child who grew up on a battlefield would have completely different ways of seeing the world. It would be impossible for them to truly understand each other.
Take Bullet as an example. At eleven years old, he had already been a veteran soldier for six years and had killed countless people on battlefields. Could he understand the son of a noble from the capital of Goa Kingdom in the East Blue?
Of course not.
As Doflamingo took bigger steps, as his business grew stronger, and as he went deeper into the underworld, his relationship with his father had become more and more unpleasant recently.
Lately, he had even been thinking about whether he should find a way to send both his father and mother back to Mary Geoise.
As for Rosinante, he could stay by Doflamingo's side. Doflamingo still favored this younger brother of his, and Rosinante was still young with a rather soft personality. At least for now, there was no conflict between them.
While Doflamingo was thinking about these things, Lao G walked in and asked with some confusion, "Young Master, did you call for me?"
"Come here," Doflamingo said, pulling his thoughts back. He waved Lao G over and asked, "Tell me everything about your Jio-KenStyle."
Seeing that the Young Master was interested in it, Lao G immediately became happy.
"No problem. Do you want to learn it, Young Master? I told you long ago that my fighting style is very strong…"
Soon, Lao G began explaining it to Doflamingo.
The Jio-Ken was a fighting style passed down in Lao G's family. By his generation, it had been passed through twelve people. Tracing it back, around five hundred years ago, his family had found some broken pages in ancient ruins. Over the next five centuries, each generation studied and improved it until it became the Jio-Ken of today.
"The most important secret within it is Battle Preservation Fist. It can turn one's usual stamina, strength, and Armament Haki into an energy called Ki, then store it inside the body. When it is needed, it can all be released at once, allowing the body to return to its peak state in an instant!" Lao G explained.
"Can Conqueror's Haki also be stored with this method?" Doflamingo asked curiously.
Not long ago, while fighting some people from the underworld in the North Blue, he had awakened Conqueror's Haki by chance, so he was naturally curious about this.
"I really do not know…" Lao G said, looking a little confused. "Jio-Ken has been passed down through twelve people up to my generation, but including me, none of us had Conqueror's Haki. Because of that, we do not know whether it can store Conqueror's Haki."
Doflamingo felt a little regretful after hearing that, but he quickly adjusted his mood and said, "Write down the training method for Jio-Ken in detail and organize it properly before handing it to me. I want to send it to my uncle. You do not mind, do you?"
After all, it was Lao G's family technique, so Doflamingo still had to ask.
Lao G did not mind at all and said with a smile, "I have no children, and I probably cannot have any. By my generation, my family line will come to an end, but if Jio-Ken can be passed down, that is a good thing. If it can be used by you, Young Master, that is even better!"\
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At the same time, in the New World.
The Oro Jackson was sailing across the sea.
Clearly, since Master Tom had not yet built the flagship for the Valthior Pirates, Valthior had taken the Oro Jackson out again.
"We finally went out to sea again. To be honest, I was already getting tired of staying on Frost Island. A few days ago, I was even talking with Buggy about asking Big Brother Valthior whether we could go out for a trip…" Shanks said excitedly as he climbed on the mast.
He was like a monkey, full of energy and unable to stay still.
Compared with him, Buggy was also full of spirit, but Buggy had his own work to do on Frost Island. When he had nothing else to do, he would guide the craftsmen in making bombs. Not long ago, he had even gotten close to Caesar, and the two of them spent every day working on strange things.
It had to be said that Buggy and Caesar truly got along well, because both of them had cruel sides to their personalities.
In the original story, Buggy had never done anything good in the East Blue. He often shelled civilian ports without much thought, so it was easy to imagine that he and Caesar would have plenty to talk about.
When they left Frost Island a few days ago, Buggy really did carry a box of his newly developed bombs onto the ship. According to him, once these things exploded, they would mix white phosphorus and poison gas while burning, creating a large amount of toxic smoke.
As long as one shot hit an enemy ship, and the other side had no good way to deal with it, then within ten minutes, the enemy ship would either burn to ashes or everyone on it would be poisoned to death.
He had even thoughtfully prepared some easy-to-carry special bombs for Bullet. After all, Bullet had the Phoenix ability supporting him, so he did not need to worry much about hurting himself.
"Big Brother Valthior, who are we going after this time?" Buggy asked curiously.
Valthior sat at the edge of the deck, fishing, and answered casually, "Chinjao the Drill."
"Huh? Not Captain John?" Buggy said with some regret. "I heard that guy has a lot of treasure…"
"Chinjao also has plenty of treasure. In the West Blue, he has a hidden treasure ground called the Jewel Ice Sheet. I am going to find him this time so I can make him talk and learn where the Jewel Ice Sheet is," Valthior replied.
Valthior also wanted to see the Jewel Ice Sheet for himself and find out what was so special about that ice sheet that made it so hard.
Perhaps it could even help him develop his own ability.
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