After retiring from the Navy, I became a doting husband.

"Stop them! Stop them with all your might! I'll inform the young master right away!"

"It's Lord Torrebol!"

"Diamanti, take some men to stop Martin and his gang. After briefly hindering them, lead them towards the flower field. I'll go and inform the young master to prepare."

"Why go through all this trouble, Torrebol! Just call the young master directly!"

Diamante said casually that he had always thought Doflamingo was making a mountain out of a molehill, that Martin had actually made the entire pirate crew panic.

It seems that the young master and this one of the Five Emperors have no conflict of interest.

“Diamanti, I also wanted to call the young master so that he could prepare in advance, but Charlotte Linlin asked him to leave the Den Den Mushi here so that no one would disturb her date with the young master.”

"Young Master is really too indulgent towards that fat woman. Our Don Quixote family has no need to compromise."

"Good stuff, Amanti. Keep your mouth shut. The young master has his own plans."

"Click, click, click!"

The Don Quixote family members, upon receiving Torrepol's order, raised their guns and pointed them at Martin and his companions.

The crowd on the dock instantly descended into chaos, with screams and collisions erupting all over the place. Soon after, the port fell completely silent, its once bustling atmosphere replaced by emptiness.

Martin, along with Smoothie and the others, quietly watched the commotion at the port, as if it were none of their business.

"What an ingenious welcome ceremony! I never expected Doflamingo to be so hospitable, having so many people waiting for us at the port."

Martin completely ignored the muskets raised high in the harbor and smiled as he spoke to the people behind him.

He was just passing through Dressrosa and happened to drop by to see the Joker.

Smoothie and his men also looked indifferent; these kinds of muskets were hardly going to harm them anymore.

The Donquixote Family members, seeing Martin and his group chatting and laughing, completely ignoring them, all put their fingers on the triggers. They were members of the Donquixote Family, one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, yet they were being treated like this.

"Who's interested in dealing with them!"

Martin asked the person behind him.

Smoothie, Enel, and the others looked at each other, none of them interested in making a move.

"Alright! Let's go our own way and head to the palace. Let's see who gets there first."

Martin gave the order with a sigh.

"Captain, I've noticed something's off about the buildings on this island."

Just as Martin was thinking, Smoothie came to his side and said.

"The architecture is wrong!"

When Martin heard Smoothie say that, he looked up at the island and realized that some of the buildings in Dressrosa were very similar to those on Whole Cake Island. Fortunately, only a few buildings were like that.

"Captain, could you be the Big Mom Pirates here? We stole such important items from them, and we even ransacked Whole Cake Island."

Smoothie's expression instantly turned serious. He was confident that he and his group could handle the Donquixote Family alone, but if the Big Mom Pirates were also there, or even if Charlotte Linlin, one of the Four Emperors, came in person, then it would be dangerous.

“Smoothie, don’t worry. We’re not like when we first entered the New World. So what if the Donquixote Family really cooperates with the Big Mom Pirates? We’ll just take them down.”

Since his battle with Whitebeard, Martin has been extremely confident in his own strength and the strength of everyone else.

"Let's go to the palace. We can't keep Doflamingo waiting."

Martin jumped off the ship and walked towards the city. Near the port, the Donquixote Family members all collapsed to the ground with a single burst of Conqueror's Haki.

"Where do you think you're going? How dare you cause trouble for our Don Quixote family!"

Diamanti appeared in front of Martin and his group with a group of cadres, his sword slung over his shoulder, and muttering something under his breath.

The explosion was caused by one of them, Gladius, the user of the Blast-Blast Fruit, who can expand any inorganic matter and then explode it.

Kill them immediately!

Diamante pointed his longsword at the officers beside him and shouted loudly. He didn't care about Trebol's plan. He could handle such a weak enemy on his own. There was no need to ask the Big Mom Pirates for help. He couldn't let his subordinates see the Donquixote Family.

"go to hell!"

Gladius took the lead and, upon hearing Diamanti's command, charged straight out of the crowd. His black helmet instantly began to inflate, growing from the size of a basketball to the size of a helium balloon.

"The helmet exploded!"

After the helmet inflated to its limit, Gladius shouted and pointed it at Martin and his group, preparing to blow it up.

Martin was startled by Gladius's decisive action. If the helmet exploded, his group would be severely impacted. He knew the power of this move; the shockwave from the explosion would carry the helmet fragments in this direction, and these fragments would be many times larger and more powerful than cannonballs.

Smoothie also realized something, and immediately flashed forward, forming an ice wall in front of everyone.

Seeing Martin and the others in a panic, Gladius smiled excitedly, knowing he was about to claim the top credit.

"boom!"

A loud bang was heard, and Martin and his companions thought that Gladius had launched an attack. The sound was the explosion of a helmet, but the shockwave they had expected did not appear.

Martin crossed the ice wall and then noticed that Gladiolus's broken helmet had fallen to the side. His hairstyle had turned into an afro, and his whole body was twitching and emitting black smoke. It seemed that the helmet had only exploded on his head, leaving him in this state.

"A lowly mortal dared to ambush a great god! Now he has been punished by the gods! Hahaha!"

Upon hearing the tone and laughter, Martin realized that it must be Enel who had launched the attack. His Rumble-Rumble Fruit ability was one of the fastest attack speeds. Sure enough, showing off attracted lightning strikes. Gladius had originally wanted to show off, but ended up getting struck by Enel's lightning.

"You did a great job this time!"

Martin turned around and praised Enel.

"Thank you... Dad!"

Enel was stunned when he heard Martin's praise. This was the first time he had received praise from Martin since joining the group. He had only attacked the man casually because he couldn't stand his smugness, and he had actually received praise from the god.

Chapter 221 Martin vs. Grandma

"Hmm, what happened?"

Doflamingo watched Charlotte Linlin's body rise and fall, when he suddenly heard a series of explosions coming from the direction of the port. A bad feeling instantly filled his heart.

"Damn it, damn it, how dare someone interrupt my date!"

Charlotte Linlin, who was in the process of capturing Vika, sensed two people rapidly approaching.

"Young Master! Young Master!"

"Torrepol, Diamanti, what brings you here? What happened?!"

Doflamingo looked at the two subordinates rushing over and hurriedly asked.

"Young Master, something terrible has happened! Martin and the others are here!"

"Fufufufufu! He's finally here! I've been waiting for this moment for so long!"

Upon hearing of Martin's arrival, Doflamingo showed no sign of frustration or fear; instead, he burst into laughter.

"You two bastards, how dare you interrupt my date with Ming-ge! Unforgivable! I'm going to kill you!"

Charlotte Linlin raised her fist and slammed it down.

"Whoosh!"

Doflamingo flashed forward, blocking Charlotte Linlin's path. "They are my subordinates, my family. You cannot hurt them."

"call!"

Charlotte Linlin's fist stopped just short of Doflamingo's forehead, narrowly missing his head.

The wind pressure generated by the fist caused Doflamingo's hair and cape to fly wildly, and large swathes of sunflowers in the flower field were blown down.

"Since you're so nice to Ming-ge, I'll let you off this time. Get out of here! I want to continue my date!"

Diamanti and Torrebol swallowed hard. For a moment, they thought they were going to die. No wonder Charlotte Linlin could become one of the Five Emperors; such an attack was truly terrifying.

"what is that?"

Martin, who was in pursuit, suddenly felt a terrifying aura. He had only ever felt this aura from Whitebeard before, and he never expected to find such a person here.

Thinking of the four dessert stars at the flower field intersection earlier, Martin instantly realized who was here.

Sure enough, Martin soon spotted the figure in the flower field: a tall, plump woman with pink hair. It could only be Charlotte Linlin in the whole world.

Doflamingo frowned, about to say something, when he suddenly sensed someone else approaching. He turned to look at the person leading the charge, and there was none other than the culprit who had caused his predicament.

"Martin, you're here so fast! I'll see how you die this time!" Doflamingo thought viciously.

Indeed, last time he tried to win over Martin, he ended up getting a beating and being imprisoned in Impel Down. It was only thanks to Whitebeard's attack on Impel Down that he escaped and returned to Doresrosa.

He still doesn't understand Martin's intentions, so he harbors a grudge.

Thinking of this, Doflamingo looked up at Charlotte Linlin and said, "As long as you kill Martin, I will continue to date you, and I might even consider marrying you."

"Really! Darling, if we kill Martin, we'll get married, okay?"

Charlotte Linlin was shocked that Doflamingo would suddenly agree to marry her, so she asked in disbelief.

“Of course, that’s definitely true!” Doflamingo said with a smile.

"That's great, Ming, my darling! Quick, where's Martin? I've wanted to kill that kid for ages!"

Seeing Charlotte Linlin's eagerness, Doflamingo realized for the first time how valuable his face was, valuable enough to hire one of the Five Emperors to kill for him.

"Martin is right here, can't you sense him?"

Doflamingo exclaimed in surprise, "With the power and influence of the Five Emperors, it's impossible that they couldn't sense Martin and the others' arrival."

"Right here! Martin actually dared to come here!"

Charlotte Linlin exclaimed in surprise when she heard Doflamingo say that. She was so excited that she hadn't even used her Observation Haki.

"Ok!"

Charlotte Linlin unleashed her Observation Haki, and sure enough, under the influence of her Haki, she saw several more people in the distance. Could they be Martin, Doflamingo's beloved?

Charlotte Linlin slowly turned around, her eyes fixed on the location sensed by her domineering aura. Sure enough, a person who made her grit her teeth appeared before her. This person had not only killed her cadre but also her beloved son, and had even stolen what was most important to her.

Charlotte Linlin's eyes turned extremely terrifying, and she exuded a suffocating pressure.

"Oh!"

Charlotte Linlin landed and rushed toward Martin at an extremely fast speed.

"Go to hell! You damned brat, give me back what's most important to me."