Subduing the Donquixote Family

"Hee hee hee, Sister Violet, there’s no need to be afraid. After all, no matter how scared you are, it won’t do you any good."

Sugar let out a shrill laugh. Like an ordinary child imitating a great demon king, she seemed less sinister than adorable.

But there was nothing adorable about the words coming out of her mouth.

"If I remember correctly, Sister Violet joined our Donquixote Family to save her father’s life, right?"

"Now that you’ve decided to betray the Donquixote Family, there’s naturally no need for us to spare your father anymore."

"How about I turn Sister Violet into a toy, then have you kill King Riku, who’s locked up in prison? What do you think!?"

"How should we kill King Riku? Sister Violet probably won’t be very strong after becoming a toy, so perhaps poison him to death!"

"Or we could use a gun. Better yet, let’s just burn him alive with gasoline!"

As Sugar spoke those horrifying words, she stretched out a hand and slowly reached toward Violet.

Violet desperately tried to struggle, but her lower body had already been frozen solid. She had no way to retreat. As Sugar’s hand drew closer and closer, she thought of those people Sugar had turned into toys and played with at will. At last, her mental defenses completely collapsed.

"Don’t come any closer… No… Don’t! Don’t! I’ll talk! I’ll tell you everything!"

"So, Young Master and the others were all captured by that Yota?"

Monet’s face was pale, and she looked ready to collapse. "How could this happen? That damned fat man clearly isn’t with the Beasts Pirates anymore, yet he still dared to trick us!"

Yes, Monet now knew Queen’s true situation. After all, as one of the giants of the underground world, the Donquixote Family’s intelligence network was no joke. Although Wano Country had only recently begun to change and still remained closed off without truly opening its borders, they had still obtained quite a bit of intelligence.

They did not know much about the exact course of the battle. However, they knew that Yota, Ace, and Yamato—the former main forces of the Spade Pirates—had led the remaining forces of Wano Country’s Kozuki Clan to utterly defeat Kaido and the Beasts Pirates, and that Queen had already surrendered.

Their intelligence agents had also investigated Wano Country and learned that Yota had been the main force against Kaido. He had even subdued Queen and the siblings Ulti and Page One.

The only problem was that this information had arrived far too late. Monet had only received the news through a Den Den Mushi moments ago. If it had come even half an hour earlier, the Donquixote Family would not have ended up with all its main forces wiped out.

"There’s no point thinking about that now." Sugar spoke directly to her sister. "The most important question is, what do we do now?"

"We have to rescue Young Master!" Monet said without hesitation.

Sugar bit her finger and frowned. "But now… with just the two of us?"

"The remaining officers are Baby 5 and Buffalo… They went to entertain that dead fat bastard Queen, so they’ve probably already been captured."

"Picca and Machvise are out on a mission… but neither of them is considered particularly strong among the officers!"

"Perhaps we can notify Lord Vergo first and have him use the Marines’ power."

Monet spent a long time calculating the Donquixote Family’s remaining strength, but she could not think of any way to break the deadlock. Then her gaze fell on Sugar.

Sugar suddenly felt a chill run through her body, and a huge danger sign seemed to appear over her head. Seeing her sister’s gaze, she forced a smile onto her face.

"Hehe… Sister, you don’t mean to send a helpless little girl like me to deal with that vicious, terrifying pirate, do you?"

Monet sighed. "Other than your Hobby-Hobby Fruit, there probably isn’t any other way to turn this around, is there?"

"No, Sister! With these tiny arms and legs of mine, if I get exposed, I’m dead for sure!!"

"Besides, those Great Pirates all have pretty good Observation Haki. No matter how powerful my ability is, it’s useless if I can’t touch them."

Seeing that things were going badly, Sugar immediately began to plead tearfully.

"He probably doesn’t know your identity right now. You can disguise yourself as an ordinary little girl…" Monet tried her best to persuade her.

"That guy caught all the Donquixote Family’s main forces in one sweep. Someone might have leaked the information already!" Sugar shook her head like a rattle drum, utterly unwilling.

"Even if you don’t want to, there’s no other choice. Young Master has already been captured, and I don’t think that man will overlook a target as large as King’s Heights," Monet said directly.

"Over the years, your ability has never been exposed, and there’s no one in Dressrosa who can threaten us. But don’t forget that the Donquixote Family is not only the ruler of Dressrosa—we are also kings of the underground world!"

"Do you think those underground forces will let you go after learning about the Donquixote Family’s current situation?"

Sugar’s face immediately fell. She knew perfectly well that simply because she was a member of the Donquixote Family, those dark forces would never spare her, even if they did not know what her ability was.

If she did not want to be captured by other forces and used as a tool, the only option was to rescue Doflamingo.

Meanwhile, after Yota beat down the Doflamingo who had come to provoke him, he had initially planned to extract all of their Devil Fruits.

But after thinking it over, those Devil Fruits were not particularly useful to him. Their identities, on the other hand, were highly valuable.

As the head of an underground organization, Doflamingo possessed resources that, in a sense, exceeded even those of the Four Emperors.

It was only because his talent was somewhat lacking, and the String-String Fruit he had eaten was far inferior to the top-tier Devil Fruits, that he had failed to build a force on the level of the Four Emperors.

With his brains and business ability, if he had possessed equal strength, he would definitely have done far better than the other Four Emperors.

However, Yota only needed to use Doflamingo’s status in the underground world to gather Devil Fruits and obtain intelligence. He did not need Doflamingo to be especially strong; maintaining his current combat strength was enough.

Of course, with Yota’s personality, he would not cooperate with Doflamingo as Kaido had. Giving every one of them a Kotoamatsukami would immediately subdue them all.