Comic series: Starting from Pirates to Cultivate the True Self

The sun began to set in the sky. After several hours of fighting, Luffy and Sanji finally defeated the "Seven Warlords of the Sea" clones in front of them. They stopped where they were and gasped for breath.

When Crocodile saw that the battle here had come to a temporary end, he quickly retreated back to the camp. From then on, the world was completed where only Zoro was being beaten.

Doflamingo looked at Luffy and asked with a slightly helpless expression:

"How's it going? Did you vent your anger?"

"No, I will beat you up!"

Luffy answered without thinking, and Doflamingo was speechless about this stubborn young master. He could only sigh sadly, looked up at the sunset in the sky, and said again:

"I think it's almost time for today. Why don't we eat first, have a good sleep after eating, and then play tomorrow?"

Luffy was about to refuse, but his stomach started growling. So he bowed politely to Doflamingo.

"Thank you!"

Doflamingo, who saw this scene, once again covered his forehead with his hand, and kept squeezing his temples with two fingers. He now felt his head buzzing and extremely painful.

If I had known that I could solve the problem with a meal, why would I stand here for hours like a fool?

Doflamingo had such a headache that he didn't want to talk anymore. He snapped his fingers at the executives of his family and turned to walk towards the villa.

Vergo and the others immediately understood and invited Luffy and the others into the villa, while Baby-5 went to arrange matters related to the banquet.

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Everyone else at the banquet had already eaten and drunk their fill and sat down to rest. Only Luffy was still stuffing food into his mouth, mumbling:

"Doflamingo, you're not a bad person! By the way, why do you have to rob Cyrus and his people's country?"

Hearing Luffy's question, the Straw Hat Pirates looked at Doflamingo who was sitting at the head seat. He shook his red wine glass and laughed:

"Fufufufufu~ What is the definition of the word rob? It means to take something that does not belong to you from someone else.

This country belonged to my family 800 years ago. If there is any robbery, it is these people who stole the country from my family.

I just took back what belonged to me.

Of course, the question of a country's ownership cannot simply be a matter of whoever it belongs to is naturally on the side of justice.

If you want to blame someone, blame the previous king for not being able to protect his kingdom. If he had the ability, he could have defeated me and taken it back."

"I don't agree! It was your Don Quixote family that abandoned this country and its people 800 years ago. It was the Riku family that took on the responsibility of the royal family.

And you turned those who resisted you into toys, making them work day and night.

Is this what a king should do?"

Cyrus, who had turned into a toy soldier, stood on a chair and refuted Doflamingo's previous remarks with righteous words.

Doflamingo carefully looked at the toy soldier in front of him and thought for a long time, but he still couldn't figure out his identity.

Suddenly I remembered that this was the ability of the Childlike Fun Fruit of my subordinate, Sucrose. Anyone who was turned into a toy by her would be automatically erased from other people's minds, and all memories of that person would be erased.

So he gestured to Sugar, who was sitting below and eating grapes, to remove the man's toy form.

Sugar slowly stood up from her seat, walked to the toy soldier, and patted it gently with her little hands.

Cyrus, who was originally a toy, regained his human form at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The memory of Cyrus instantly emerged in Doflamingo's mind. He smiled disdainfully at the former captain of the Dressrosa Kingdom Army and said contemptuously:

"I have already said that no one is absolutely righteous. To you, I am evil. On the contrary, to me, I am the king of this country. Those who oppose me are evil.

Forget it, I don't want to argue with you about this issue, because I think your thinking is stupid,

But since you are Luffy's friend, I can give you a chance.

Now that you have regained your human form and your memory has been recalled by everyone, I will give you three days to persuade the civilians of this city to oppose me.

As long as more than half of the people support you, I will return this country to King Riku. Friendly reminder, I didn't kill him, he should still be in the arena now.

Fufufufufufu~ What do you think? You always say you are for the common people, so let them decide for themselves who will be their king! "

At the end, Doflamingo laughed arrogantly, then stood up and left without caring about other people in the banquet hall.

Doflamingo didn't care about this seemingly ridiculous bet. Having experienced darkness, he had a deep understanding of human nature, not to mention that he had been following Mo Xingchen for the past few years.

It is no exaggeration to say that the living standards of the entire Dressrosa population are quite high compared to the entire ocean.

His safety is guaranteed by his title as one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, and no blind pirates will come to harass him.

From the perspective of happiness index, people only need to do four or five hours of simple work every day, and the rest of the heavy work is done by those sleepless toy people.

As long as they are obedient and don't commit crimes, they won't be turned into toys, so how could they give up their comfortable lives and come and join you, Cyrus, to oppose them?

Of course, no matter how well you do, there will always be dissatisfied people, but the vast majority of people are definitely satisfied with the status quo, so do you want to exceed half of the number?

Doflamingo could only say: Haha!

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Sure enough, early the next morning, Cyrus and the Straw Hat Pirates went to the town to lobby the people against Doflamingo's atrocities.

But after three days, they ran all over the capital and gave speeches countless times, but the total number of people they attended did not exceed a thousand, and the people who supported them the most were just a group of dwarf humans.

Cyrus also found King Riku Dord III in the bullfighting arena, who was disguised as "Riki", but King Riku persuaded him to give up.

Because Doflamingo is not just a tyrant. He only punishes criminals and those who resist him, but the ones who benefit are the civilians of Dressrosa.

King Liku also told him that the demands of the common people were actually very simple. They would support whoever made their lives better, and oppose whoever made their lives miserable.

King Doflamingo did no worse than himself, and even better.

So he can’t attract anyone!

Luffy silently looked at Cyrus who broke down and cried, then looked at the dwarfs beside him, the expression on his face kept changing.

Sometimes violent, sometimes thoughtful, and sometimes happy, this time not only Zoro, but also other members of the Straw Hat Pirates noticed that something was wrong with Luffy, and hurriedly asked with concern:

"Hey! Luffy, are you okay?"

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