Chapter 790

A wild cheer greets Luffy's reentry, yet his foe scoffs at the staged comeback and insists the pirate can hardly keep his feet, a verdict Luffy turns back on Doflamingo himself. The warlord opens with strings, sending a strand at Rebecca, whom Law spirits to safety by trading her position with a heap of debris. Aware now that Law lurks close by, Doflamingo barks at him to remain seated and merely look on. He then dissolves a wide swath of the city through Ever White, shaping it into a thousand Flap Thread shafts.

The volley overwhelms Luffy's defenses. His Haki buckles, several arrows run him through, and he slams hard into a wall while the warlord taunts whether his strength has genuinely come back. A memory of Rayleigh's tutelage surfaces, the mentor chiding his pupil over a worthless Kong Gun and cautioning that Gear 4 grinds the body down far too much, pressing him to invent something better.

Puppeting the beaten pirate with Parasite, Doflamingo forces Luffy to step toward him, sneering that meek obedience could have spared everyone the carnage. The jab breaks something loose. Luffy surges into Gear 4, shreds the strands gripping him, and rockets aloft, leaving his opponent stunned at how readily the bonds parted before he recovers to mock how short this second transformation will hold.

The warlord climbs after him, ridiculing the choice of an aerial bout. Luffy snaps back that the man's lust to crush every life within his grasp makes the whole place unbreathable, while Doflamingo brands ordinary people as garbage and credits his own lineage. Spider Nest cannot pin Luffy, who forces fresh air into his already bulging muscles. King Kong Gun then smashes through God Thread's sixteen sacred strands, pulping both the threads and the warlord caught in them.

So fierce is the impact that the lenses in Doflamingo's shades burst instantly and he is driven straight into the earth, the resulting shockwave razing the nearby district and scattering terrified onlookers. Gazing at the ruin, Law remembers Rosinante speaking of those who brand the D bloodline a foe born to oppose God. The chapter marks the first escape from Doflamingo's Parasite, and his cracked glasses recall how Kuro's broke under Luffy's finishing blow.