The woman's name was "Violet."
Donquixote Family belonged to assassins under the code name "Trebol Army" of the playing card suits.
However, she did not voluntarily join the Donquixote Family.
Her real name was "Violet," and her true identity was the princess of the Kingdom of Dressrosa.
Seven years ago, when Doflamingo, controlling Riku Dolde III, massacred Dressrosa and barged into the Dressrosa royal palace with the Donquixote Pirates, she was captured.
Because Doflamingo fancied her Devil Fruit ability, Violet used this to beg Doflamingo to spare her father's life. She then chose to join the Donquixote Pirates to serve Doflamingo, adopting the alias "Violet" and serving as an assassin within the Donquixote Family.
If it weren't for her, King Riku would have been killed by Doflamingo long ago.
King Riku had always thought he was well-hidden, but Doflamingo had known about him in the arena all along. It was just that King Riku had been lying low and hadn't caused any trouble, so Doflamingo, for Violet's sake, had ignored this ant that he could crush at any moment.
Just as Doflamingo, leading his family executives, stood at the elevator entrance, fully prepared.
Ding—!
The elevator in front of them suddenly stopped.
The huge iron doors slid to the right, revealing two young figures inside.
"Yo! So many people to welcome us?"
Kouta stepped out of the elevator first, with Guina closely following beside him.
"Silver hair, blue hair!"
Doflamingo's gaze swept over the two of them, stopping on Kouta. No one could tell what his eyes behind the sunglasses were like, but from his stern tone, one could hear the pressure he was under at the moment.
"Fufufuufu!!"
An abrupt laugh blew away the almost tangible tension in the air. Doflamingo burst into laughter, "Welcome, honored guests. I've admired you from afar for a long time!"
"Fufufuufu!!"
He didn't ask why Kouta was here. He wasn't an idiot. His most important task now was to stall Kouta until Kaido arrived.
If he clashed with these two brats now, he might not be able to hold on until Kaido's arrival.
"Oh..."
Kouta tilted his head, staring at Doflamingo, his lips curling upwards, and he said with a light smile, "Admired you from afar?"
"That's right!"
Doflamingo spread his arms and laughed heartily, "Who doesn't know that you dared to defy the world and even kill those idiotic Celestial Dragons."
After saying this, a look of admiration appeared on his face.
This wasn't fake. He truly admired Kouta's courage in not taking the Celestial Dragons seriously and killing them without hesitation.
The Four Emperors are powerful, aren't they?
They rule the New World, and in these waters, they are the true emperors.
But they wouldn't dare to kill Celestial Dragons. When they encountered them, while they wouldn't detour like ordinary pirates, they wouldn't actively seek them out.
At their level, they are not ignorant like ordinary pirates. Only they know the true power of the World Government.
And they know who the real ruler of this world, this sea, truly is.
If they truly angered the World Government, even if they were the Four Emperors ruling the New World, they would die.
This is an indisputable fact.
After all, they have suppressed the world for eight hundred years. Who knows how much power the World Government has hidden.
The Four Emperors have reached the apex of this world. Although they haven't seen this power, they can speculate to some extent.
They are not like Kouta. They don't have his ability to instantly teleport through space, nor his small stature.
Therefore, although they are not afraid of Celestial Dragons, they would not easily provoke them.
After all, they are not alone, but a group of people with fixed territories.
Thus, even a madman like Big Mom would not kill a Celestial Dragon without reason.
This is why Doflamingo admired the courage of the brat before him.
Moreover, it had been over a month since he killed the Celestial Dragons, and there had been no repercussions. This was enough to prove the power of the brat before him, and also the World Government's apprehension towards Kouta.
However, he didn't know that it wasn't that the World Government hadn't acted. It was that the World Government had acted, deploying their strongest forces for Kouta, but they were unable to do anything to him.
In fact, in his state a month ago.
If he continued to fight the Celestial Dragons, Kouta and his group might have been fine, but the civilians of Cocoyasi Village would have been annihilated by the aftermath of their battle.
This was also why Kouta didn't force the Celestial Dragons to stay at the time.
It wasn't that he didn't want to, but there were some things he couldn't truly be ruthless about.
With his stamina at the time, he could indeed block another cannon barrage from the Celestial Dragons, but he couldn't block the aftermath of another explosion.
Since Im didn't want to fight anymore, he just went with the flow.
Although Doflamingo had great influence, he was not yet privy to information known only to a select few within the Marines and the World Government.
Therefore, he did not know who had caused the rift that spanned the entire sky a month ago.
Naturally, he didn't know that the World Government had already made a move.
"Celestial Dragons."
Kouta stepped forward, walking towards Doflamingo.
This guy's height of three meters was actually much taller than him and Guina, but as Kouta approached, an immense pressure bore down on him, forcing Doflamingo to involuntarily bend over.
"What is this?"
Unable to maintain his smile any longer, Doflamingo's expression turned completely grim. He endured the pressure, lifted his head, veins bulging on his forehead, his eyes behind his sunglasses fixed on Kouta's slightly swirling, azure pupils that resembled a starry sky.
"This is not Conqueror's Haki, but true pressure."
He was already bending over, let alone his subordinates behind him. Except for Violet and Sugar, whom Kouta had intentionally spared, everyone else "thumped" and knelt on the ground.
Without even glancing at the ants behind Doflamingo, Kouta walked in front of him, staring at his sunglasses, as if his gaze pierced through them and saw his true eyes, mocking, "Aren't you a Celestial Dragon?"
"If you hate Celestial Dragons so much, why don't you go back to Mary Geoise and kill them."
As he said this, Kouta's eyes narrowed, and even greater pressure was applied to Doflamingo.
This guy, although he hated Celestial Dragons, cared more about his status as a Celestial Dragon than anyone else, which was very contradictory.
"You..."
Sweat poured down, and Doflamingo stubbornly lifted his head, his legs trembling uncontrollably.
Crack—!
The ground beneath his feet, like a spiderweb, cracked inch by inch.
"Is this the power of the brat before me?"
"Truly terrifying."
He was indeed incomparable to the Four Emperors, and might not even be able to withstand a single blow from Kaido. However, he was not a minor character. Among the Seven Warlords, he was confident that besides the perverted Mihawk and Kuma, he was the strongest.
Ordinary pirates were even less of a concern for him.
Yet, just by Kouta standing in front of him, he could barely withstand the strange pressure emanating from him.
"What kind of monster is this!"
At this moment, Doflamingo's mentality was somewhat broken.