Chapter 504: Chapter 504: Doflamingo! Barehanded Crushing of the Destructo Disc

Krillin felt unprecedented pressure. The man in the pink feather coat possessed absolutely no ki, yet his condescending mid-air posture was more unnerving than any enemy they had ever faced. It was even more spine-chilling than that horned, purple-skinned monster, Dodoria.

Krillin knew he couldn’t afford to hesitate. The man clearly possessed the power to snatch the radar by force, yet he chose to look at them with the gaze of a predator toying with its prey. It was an awful feeling. Pulling Son Gohan behind him, the sweat from Krillin’s bald head rolled down his cheeks, dripping onto Namek’s parched green soil and forming tiny puddles.

"Listen to me, Gohan. This guy’s ki is too weird; I can’t read him at all. I don’t even understand how he’s flying. You take the Dragon Radar and run. I’ll hold him off!" Krillin whispered, his voice laced with unquestionable resolve.

Taking a deep breath, he bent his knees into a solid horse stance and raised both hands high above his head. All the ki in his body frantically converged into his palms. The white light grew blindingly bright, the high-density energy warping the surrounding air. Accompanied by a piercing, grinding screech, a golden disc with a razor-sharp edge materialized in his hands.

Destructo Disc.

This was Krillin’s ultimate killing move. Back on Earth, even a terrifying Saiyan like Nappa didn’t dare take this attack head-on, and just grazing his cheek had left a bloody gash. He was pinning all his hopes on this golden disc. As long as it hit, it would be a guaranteed one-hit kill, regardless of the gap in their strength.

Hovering in the air, Doflamingo looked down through his red sunglasses at the bald man raising a glowing disc, a sneer of utter contempt curling his lips.

"Fuffuffuffu... Trying to run? Under my watch, not even a fly escapes."

As a former Warlord of the Sea with a bounty of 340 million Beri and the underworld ruler of Dressrosa, he knew exactly how to handle weaklings trying to make a desperate last stand. The cruelest method was to offer them a sliver of hope, only to crush it to dust with his own hands, forcing them to recognize reality in absolute despair.

Doflamingo swung both hands upward, fingers spread wide. Countless thick, transparent threads shot into the sky from his fingertips. Expanding outward like the ribs of a massive umbrella, each thread was coated in incredibly potent Armament Haki, gleaming with an icy chill under the sickly green light.

The threads plummeted downward at an absurd speed, piercing deep into Namek’s hard crust and entirely sealing off a radius of several miles.

"Birdcage." The word slipped slowly from Doflamingo’s lips.

As his voice faded, the inverted dome of threads began to slowly contract. The towering, dozens-of-meters-high green stone pillars were sliced into perfectly smooth blocks the moment they touched the threads—like tofu meeting a blade, facing zero resistance. The chunks of rock crashed heavily to the ground, but the massive clouds of dust were trapped within the giant semicircular cage, unable to escape.

Watching the massive pillars around them get diced to pieces, Krillin’s face went deathly pale. He could sense an energy he completely failed to comprehend clinging to those transparent threads. Their escape route was utterly sealed off. In this death trap known as the Birdcage, they had been stripped of even the right to run.

Doflamingo walked down the invisible threads step by step, his leather shoes clicking against the air.

"Now, you can hand over the toy, right? Or would you prefer a taste of being sliced into cold cuts?" His voice dripped with arrogant superiority. He viewed these two brats as nothing more than playthings he could manipulate at will, unwilling to spare them even a shred of extra patience.

Krillin gritted his teeth. With nowhere to run, his only choice was to fight. He refused to believe anyone possessed a physical body capable of withstanding the cutting power of the Destructo Disc. It would absolutely cleave this arrogant bastard in two!

"Stop looking down on us!" Krillin roared, hurling his arm forward.

The golden disc left his hand, spinning through the air at high speeds and emitting a scalp-numbing, piercing hum. Tracing a vicious arc through the sickly green light, it shot straight for Doflamingo’s neck, moving so fast it left a trail of afterimages in its wake. The air along its path was sliced open, leaving a visible vacuum in its trail.

Krillin kept his eyes glued to the rapidly approaching disc. Just hit him. No matter how weird this pink-coated freak was, his head was definitely going to roll. He was even prepared for the enemy to dodge; the moment the man moved, he would grab Gohan and look for a flaw in the Birdcage.

But Doflamingo stopped in his tracks. Looking at the glowing disc flying toward him, he showed no intention of dodging. In fact, his smile grew even more savage.

"Interesting move. Compressing energy into such a sharp form... In a world without Haki, it’s a clever trick. But that’s all it is."

Raising his right hand, Doflamingo coated his entire palm in Armament Haki, turning it pitch-black. In an instant, his slender hand became as hard as steel, emitting a chilling metallic luster. As the Destructo Disc closed in with world-cleaving momentum, Doflamingo effortlessly reached out and grabbed its razor-sharp edge.

"What?!" Krillin’s eyes practically popped out of his skull. He couldn’t believe what he was seeing. That Destructo Disc—an attack even Saiyans had to dodge—was caught single-handedly!

A deafening screech of grinding metal exploded in the air as sparks showered wildly from the collision between Doflamingo’s palm and the ki disc. Doflamingo’s skin didn’t even sustain a scratch. A flash of profound boredom passed through the eyes hidden behind his sunglasses.

"Is this your trump card? You thought you could kill someone with this soft garbage? How utterly disappointing."

Doflamingo violently clamped his fingers down, fully unleashing his Armament Haki.

Crack!

With a sharp, crisp sound, the golden disc—formed of highly dense ki—was brutally crushed to pieces, dissolving into motes of golden light that vanished into the air.

Krillin stood there as if struck by lightning. His ultimate move... was nothing more than a joke to this man. A deep sense of powerlessness and despair washed over him like a tidal wave. He couldn’t even fathom how the man had blocked it. What the hell was that black hardening?

Hiding behind Krillin, Son Gohan watched it all unfold. Seeing his Uncle Krillin’s desperate, all-out attack casually neutralized like a crumbling cookie, and seeing the enemy looking at them with the mocking gaze of a butcher inspecting lambs, the primal rage buried deep within his Saiyan blood completely overpowered his fear.

"Don’t you hurt Uncle Krillin!" Gohan released a heart-wrenching scream.

An incredibly terrifying ki erupted from his small body, enveloping him in a white aura that flared like a volcanic eruption. The shockwave sent the surrounding rubble flying in all directions, even causing Doflamingo’s carefully laid threads to tremble slightly.

Stomping hard, Gohan cratered the ground and launched himself like a white comet straight at the hovering Doflamingo, moving at a speed completely disproportionate to his age. He channeled all his fury into his right fist. If this punch connected, it could level a small mountain. The punch howled through the air, aimed straight at Doflamingo’s face.

Krillin tried to stop him, but it was too late. "Gohan, come back! You can’t beat him!" Krillin’s voice was thick with panic, but Gohan couldn’t hear him. The only thought in the boy’s head was to punch this arrogant bastard away, to protect Uncle Krillin and the Dragon Radar.

Watching the charging brat, Doflamingo’s smile turned exceedingly cruel.

"Quite the spirited little brat. This power is definitely a step up from the bald guy’s. A burst of combat power far exceeding your base state? However... no matter how loudly a wild dog barks, it can’t bite a bird flying in the sky."

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