The Pirate Princess Becomes Queen

He stormed into the kitchen like a demon, not caring whether the food was raw or cooked, and began to devour it.

The cooks were astonished to see the high-ranking Don Quixote family members devouring frozen chicken.

Diamanti spat out the chicken in her mouth: "Ptooey! It tastes awful!"

He frantically searched the kitchen, vomiting everything he ate. He had no choice but to run out of the kitchen and into the palace gardens.

Violet, the former princess of Dressrosa and now a Don Quixote family assassin, who can be considered the Dressrosa version of Princess Vivi, was taking a walk in the garden when Diamante rushed out like a demon, startling her.

"Lady Diamanti?" she called softly.

Diamanti ignored him. His eyes were bloodshot. He was very hungry, extremely hungry, but he couldn't eat anything. He felt like his heart was about to explode.

Violet's voice made him turn his head, and then his gaze became fixed on Violet... the sand at her feet.

This is it! I really want to eat this! Like a hungry tiger pouncing on its prey, he jumped over, grabbed a handful of sand, and stuffed it into his mouth.

It took Diamanti a full hour to finish the "meal" before he felt that the bottomless, ravenous urge within him had been suppressed.

"Hahahaha—I'm finally not so hungry anymore!" The words had barely left his mouth when he froze, realizing he hadn't been laughing like that before...

Ignoring the surprised looks from those around him, he quickly returned to his bedroom and carefully examined his appearance. Not bad, he hadn't turned into someone else; he was still himself.

“Sand Crocodile! I will never let you go…” He suddenly looked at his hand, which was pressed against the wall. As the sand in his stomach was consumed, the wall was rapidly turning into sand. The table, mirror, wardrobe, and even the carpet turned into fine quicksand under his gaze.

He was startled by the thought that popped into his head. What was wrong with him?!

Even more horrifying was that he could no longer sense the power of his Fluttering Fruit.

Where did my Devil Fruit power go? Why did it turn into sand-turning ability?

Chapter 222 Assassination Operation

Diamanti felt that he was no longer himself, but merely wearing a shell, and underneath that shell was another person...

With his mind in a daze, he walked out of the room, wandering through streets and alleys, turning east and west, until he arrived at the processing factory where Doflamingo manufactured artificial Devil Fruits.

When he got here, he was stunned for a moment. What was he doing here?

"Fufufufu—you're definitely up to something." Doflamingo emerged from the shadows, and the other executives surrounded Diamante from several directions.

“Dover… since you’ve said so, I’ll accept it, moo ha ha ha ha—” Diamanti burst into a fit of maniacal laughter.

"Diamond, how dare you betray the young master!" Baby-5, a maid and assassin belonging to Spade, transformed her arm into a rocket launcher and fired at Diamanti without saying a word.

Diamanti instinctively tried to use his Flutter-Flutter Fruit ability to dodge, but his ability, which he used to control with ease, was completely useless today. He no longer had that ability. Instead, his body instinctively opened his mouth, trying to swallow the cannonball along with its tail flame.

The shell was only half swallowed.

A loud "boom" was heard, and the explosion still occurred, filling the scene with smoke and sending sparks flying.

"Damn it! Baby-5, are you crazy?! Diamanti is a member of the family, he just acted impulsively!" Diamanti's subordinates yelled at Baby-5, thinking she was too reckless. "You know nothing, yet you still tried to kill someone? Are you stupid?"

"Shut up, all of you!" Doflamingo shouted sternly, his sunglasses-wearing eyes fixed on the figure behind the smoke. He had noticed the anomaly much earlier than the family executives.

"Huh?" Several arguing cadres looked at the smoke. At this level, their five senses are several times stronger than ordinary people. They could even hear the sound of fine sand falling on the scene. What was going on?

Doflamingo waved his hand, and a few threads stirred up a gust of wind. The smoke and dust from the explosion dispersed, and Diamante's cheeks, neck, and a small part of his shoulder were within the range of the previous explosion. However, he was not injured. The area affected by the explosion showed very obvious elemental phenomena, and a large amount of fine sand was uncontrollably sliding off his cheeks.

"Elementalization!?" Several family officials felt that what was happening before their eyes was beyond their expectations.

Everyone knows Diamanti's abilities inside and out. Some have known him for almost thirty years, while others have known him for nearly ten. Everyone is well aware of his abilities.

Where did this elementalization ability come from?

"Sand Crocodile!" Doflamingo gritted his teeth and said, enunciating each word clearly.

He never believed that his subordinates, who had followed him for thirty years, could betray him in just two days. Now, these traces of sandification were very telling. It must be that Crocodile used his Devil Fruit power to corrupt and change the mind of his subordinates. He himself had the ability to create clones, and he believed that this might be a sand clone.

"I'm so hungry, so hungry!" Diamanti's body was completely out of his control. He didn't have the ability of the sand crocodile to turn matter into sand. The sand he was using now was the sand he had eaten before. Once the sand in his body was depleted, he would be unable to use his ability.

He doesn't produce sand; he's just a sand transporter.

"What's wrong with me?! I'm so hungry, so hungry!"

The Don Quixote family's officers were dumbfounded.

Only Doflamingo could think calmly.

After Diamanti swung his rapier and managed to unleash a slightly deformed desert sword strike, he became even more certain of his idea.

"Arrest him!" He didn't want to kill his important subordinates unless absolutely necessary. Several cadres hesitantly went up to attack Diamanti. With his devouring ability and sandification ability, even though he was in a daze, Diamanti still managed to fight the cadres.

Doflamingo watched from afar, without making a move.

He contacted his partner Caesar Clown using a Den Den Mushi, believing that Diamante was ill and that only this evil scientist, with his superb medical skills and deep understanding of Devil Fruits, could save her.

the other side.

In order to counter the Pirate Expo in the Kingdom of Prodens, and perhaps also to ride the wave of popularity, the Heavenly Quixote Family has been conducting various auctions in the underground port of Dressrosa for the past few days.

Many wealthy people watch the arena matches in the Kingdom of Prodens during the day and then come here to attend the auctions at night.

They traveled in small groups, following the underground river into the underground trading port of Dressrosa.

Vivi's assassination squad also disguised themselves and infiltrated the area.

When it comes to assassinations, Lao Fan is a professional.

Doflamingo used Sugar's Hobby-Hobby Fruit ability to turn all his opponents into toy soldiers and rule the country through this terrifying method. This ability is indeed overpowered, but its weakness is also obvious. Once Sugar, the Devil Fruit user, falls into a coma or dies, those opponents who have lost their consciousness and become toy soldiers will instantly return to their original state.

Doflamingo spared no effort in protecting Sugar. Even though he was going to hold an auction and capture Diamante tonight, he still left people to protect Sugar.

Trebol, one of the four executives, is the bodyguard. He ate the Sticky-Sticky Fruit, which turns everything he touches into slime. The slime is extremely tough and flammable. Once a target is stuck with the slime, there is basically no chance of escape.

"Wow, there are so many people here!" Brooke found everything fascinating.

Princess Mononoke kicked him hard in the shinbone: "You pervert, get out of here!"

Old Fan was extremely talented in infiltration, finding targets, and assassinating targets. Even though the Don Quixote family was heavily guarded in the underground trading port, he still led the two out of the port and into the secret passage, following the map that Vivi had previously sent the bat zombies to draw.

They spotted their target in an extremely spacious room with an elevator. At the very top of the elevator was Doflamingo's artificial Devil Fruit processing factory.

Trebol was an obstacle, but because he had been protecting Sugar for many years, he had become incredibly dull. His Devil Fruit ability lacked training, and he had no practical combat experience, so the others didn't take him seriously.

Old Van beckoned to Brooke, and Brooke's soul left his body, transforming into a sinister spirit with two will-o'-the-wisps on either side of him.

"Hehehe—I'm a ghost!—The ghost is here, the ghost is here—" He floated in front of Sugar and Torrepol, trying to scare Sugar into fainting.

Sugar may look like a little girl, but she's actually over twenty. Her mental fortitude isn't that bad. She reacted quickly and took two steps back warily. Torrebol, who was always by her side, immediately reacted and threw a large ball of brownish slime to the side.

Chapter 223 Explosion

Torrepol's tried-and-true trick failed this time. Brook is a spirit, and passing through walls and floors is common for him. The slime in the material world has no effect on him.

"Hehehe—I'm so scary—aren't you afraid? Did they see through my disguise? I'd better run!" Brook waved his arms and legs wildly, then noticed that Torrepol and several guards were looking at him warily. He paused for a moment, then turned and ran.

While Sugar was slowly retreating, and Torrepol and the guards were focused on Brook, Old Van made a hand gesture to Perona.

Princess Mononoke spread her arms wide, her palms glowing white. As her strength waned, she suddenly pushed the air, and a white ghost resembling Pac-Man appeared out of thin air. This creature was about the same height as a normal human, with a large mouth and two black eyes.

This is the ultimate move that Princess Mononoke specially developed to deal with Crocodile: "Super Ghost. Kamikaze Bomb".

The enormous, cartoonish-looking ghost let out a silent laugh before flying toward Sugar, who had his back to them.

This move doesn't have many tricks up its sleeve. Princess Mononoke only gave it one function: explosion! Simple and direct, the more violent the explosion, the better.

Sugar was too complacent. After Brook appeared, Torebol assumed that the strange spirit in front of him was the enemy and lost the necessary vigilance. They didn't even see the Grim Reaper suddenly appear behind them.

The kamikaze bomb, with a seemingly slow but actually fast speed, arrived behind Sugar in the somewhat delirious gaze of Princess Mononoke. It embraced her like an intimate lover before suddenly detonating.

A deafening roar followed, and the immense tremor was felt not only by the underground base and the distant trading port, but also by the artificial Devil Fruit factory on the surface and half of Dressrosa.

The ground shook violently for a full three seconds. Doflamingo, who was on the phone, reacted quickly. He looked down at his feet, and for a moment he hoped that he had misjudged the situation. He hoped that nothing bad had happened down there!

The information detected by his Observation Haki told him that his hopes had been completely dashed. It was impossible to rely on divine protection, and it would be naive to expect the enemy to be merciful.

The enemy launched a decisive attack at this critical moment.

He rushed into the gate of the artificial Devil Fruit factory, used his String-String Fruit power to cut several men who had just turned back into their original form from toy soldiers in half, and then, without looking back, rushed into the elevator and headed down to the underground.

The Don Quixote family's officers also had a sense of the big picture and knew that there were priorities in the current situation. Apart from the clueless Baby-5, the other officers quickly discussed the matter, and some rushed to the palace, some went to the military camp, and others went to blockade the docks.

Diamanti dealt with the situation for a moment, unleashing a sword aura that forced back the foolish woman, Baby-5, before turning and running away. His head was spinning; the suggestion implanted by Vivi had been activated the instant he heard the explosion.

Reclaim him! As a prototype Desert Guardian, he is a vital asset to Vivi's small team; we can't let him get killed.

Amidst the deafening explosions, Old Van, along with Princess Mononoke and Brook, retreated along the pre-planned route. When it came to escaping, he was a professional. The three of them quietly left the Dressrosa palace, arrived at a flower field, took away the seemingly foolish Diamante, and then rushed to the seaside, where the duck Karoo met them. Together, they dived into the stomach of the whale Laboon and sank into the deep sea.

They left without a trace after they had done their job, and what happened next was none of their business.

Before leaving, Lao Fan took one last look at the chaotic port and city, growing more and more satisfied with the sight. This was true destiny! He could only target one person, while the princess could hide in the shadows and silently target an entire nation!

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Chaos! If Dressrosa has a permanent population of 200,000, then the number of opponents who were turned into toy soldiers by Sugar's Devil Fruit powers is also around 200,000. People in the pirate world are generally strong-willed and unyielding. Now that these 200,000 opponents have been freed, turned back into humans, and regained control of their bodies, they will naturally seek revenge against the Donquixote Family.

Having already received instructions from her father, King Riku, Violet, the former princess of Dressrosa and now an elite member of the Don Quixote family, immediately defected.

She left her family's residence to find her confidants, and within fifteen minutes of the explosion, she raised the banner of rebellion against Doflamingo.

There are only two people in the world who would abandon the etiquette and dance they learned from childhood, throw away their violin and pick up a dagger to become an assassin as a princess. Compared to Vivi, Violet only lacked some opportunities, but she herself was very decisive.

She found her brother-in-law, Cyrus, a legendary gladiator who maintained an undefeated record of 3000 fights in the Dressrosa Arena.

Cyrus's ability to maintain an undefeated record of 3000 matches in the New World arena demonstrates that his strength is comparable to that of a naval rear admiral. Although he has lost a leg and has been tormented as a toy soldier for ten years, his fundamental abilities remain intact, and he joined the resistance immediately.

The captain of the palace guard, who had once been turned into toy soldiers, along with the generals, ministers, and officers who had also been turned into toy soldiers, rallied around Violet. They surged forward like a torrent, storming the palace in Dressrosa.

The aging King Riku also gathered a force, joining forces with his daughter and son-in-law to attack the palace.

Vivi's plastic sister, the commander of the Eastern Army, Belo Betty, who ate the Encouragement Fruit, activated her fruit power in the face of the apathetic masses. One by one, the civilians were as if they had been injected with chicken blood, picked up weapons, and went to attack the dock with the elite of the Revolutionary Army.

The whole city was in chaos. King Riku and his group reached some kind of tacit agreement with the Revolutionary Army to first drive out Doflamingo's forces, and then deal with the rest later.

Even with Doflamingo's resourcefulness and ruthlessness, he was powerless to reverse this carefully planned and deadly situation.

In the rubble of the explosion, he found the bodies of Sugar and Trebol. The Kamikaze Bomb was a killing move prepared for the Seven Warlords of the Sea, and its power was truly formidable. Sugar was blown to pieces on the spot. Trebol tried to create a barrier with his own slime at the last moment, but unfortunately, he ate the Sticky Sticky Fruit, not the Barrier Fruit. Facing Perona's ultimate attack, he died from excessive blood loss before Doflamingo arrived at the scene.

Rao G, Sugar, and Trebol—in the past six months, Doflamingo has lost three important executives. If we include Diamante, who seems to have betrayed the family, and Violet, who has already betrayed them, the Donquixote Family's 15 executives are now down to one-third, a truly devastating loss.

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