The Glare-Glare Fruit is an extremely BUG strategic Devil Fruit.
When not using its ability, its constant effect can even allow one to peep over super long distances of up to four thousand kilometers, and it even comes with an X-ray-like penetration effect.
When the ability is used, it also has a 'mind-reading' effect.
However, this mind-reading effect is not complete; she can only read what the target is thinking, not their memories.
But she can transmit her own memories to others.
Shin took advantage of this side effect of the Glare-Glare Fruit.
She could only read what No. 5, as the 'Prayer Hand' transmission target, was thinking, which was what Shin wanted her to see.
"Show me your memories!"
With a grim face, Doflamingo reached out to Viola, who had no choice but to immediately transmit all her memories to Doflamingo.
A moment later, Doflamingo opened his eyes, looked at the smiling Shin, and with a dark expression, removed the parasite strings attached to him.
"After wasting so much time, you finally want to talk business."
Shin twisted his wrist, smiling with pleasure.
"As you can see, No. 5 standing here is a No. 5 puppet created by the 'Puppet-Puppet Fruit' I ate. In a sense, he is me."
"How did you know those things?!"
A vein throbbed in Doflamingo's temple, as he suppressed the urge to slice the person in front of him into fine shreds.
"Let's talk slowly. Aren't you going to invite me to sit down and offer me some tea?" Shin pleasantly sat opposite Doflamingo, smiling.
He had completely seized the initiative in this negotiation.
The vein near Doflamingo's temple throbbed even more fiercely, but he could only wave his hand, signaling Baby-5, who served as a maid, to bring a cup of black tea.
"Thank you, you did wonderfully. But I need a little sugar, please? If possible, I'd also like you to dance for me~~~"
"What, you need me~~~~~ Then, I'll dance right away~~~"
Shin happily extended an invitation to the beautiful maid who couldn't refuse anyone's request.
Baby-5 covered her face shyly and began to tap dance with her long, slender legs.
"Enough!"
Doflamingo slammed the table, his voice filled with suppressed fury.
His subordinate was being teased right in front of him, and most importantly, this bastard clearly knew all the secrets of the Donquixote family!
"Don't be angry, it's bad for your health~~~" Shin pleasantly raised his cup, took a sip of black tea, and smiled.
"To be honest, what you've done in Dressrosa, as a morally sound adult, I condemn you! But from the perspective of a fellow Warlord, I don't seem to have the right to condemn you."
"Doflamingo, you're a good partner. After all, you were once a Celestial Dragon, so I presume... you must know the secret of 'Im-sama' on the Empty Throne, right?"
Doflamingo's eyes narrowed slightly, the bulging vein near his eye suddenly subsided, and his eyes under the red sunglasses looked at him thoughtfully.
"You actually know of 'his' existence? Could it be... you were once a Celestial Dragon too?"
"Don't compare me to those inbred imbeciles!"
A vein popped out at the corner of Doflamingo's eye again.
After all, in every sense, his Donquixote family was also one of those inbred imbeciles...
The twenty Celestial Dragon families, excluding the Nefertari family who descended to the lower world, only married within their own families.
After eight hundred years, the Celestial Dragons born were basically imbeciles with various ailments.
Although he and his brother Corazon inherited the superior genes from their inbreeding, ultimately, tracing back their balding bloodline, one would always find some unseemly ancestors.
"I'm not a Celestial Dragon, but what does that matter? Doflamingo, there's one thing we can agree on, because we-have the same enemy."
Shin raised a finger and smiled.
"Those five old men in Mary Geoise are quite an eyesore, aren't they? And the Marines, their lapdogs, I think if given the chance, you'd be more than happy to dance on their graves."
Doflamingo was silent for a moment.
Shin was right, of course.
If he had the chance, he'd love to grind all his Celestial Dragon 'compatriots' to dust.
Forget dancing on their graves; he'd open a nightclub on the graves of those imbeciles.
Shin looked at the silent Doflamingo, smiling as he continued,
"Don't worry, I haven't told the Five Elders about your affairs. But in reality, except for Vergo's matter, the Five Elders already know most of your other secrets."
"...What did you say?" Doflamingo narrowed his eyes.
"The World Government knows all about your SMILE dealings with Kaido," Shin revealed.
"In fact, it was Vinsmoke Judge who told me about it. Kaido has CP0 agents under him, and samples of those SMILEs you sold have long since fallen into the hands of the World Government."
"They only need to reverse-engineer it to figure out who's doing this shoddy imitation work. As for the secrecy of your dealings, you don't actually think the World Government doesn't know your alias in the underworld, do you?"
Doflamingo's face alternated between green and white.
After a long silence, he gritted his teeth and said, "Then why haven't they shown any reaction?"
"Because those SMILEs you sold have effectively appeased Kaido," Shin ruthlessly exposed the truth.
It seemed that the SMILEs Doflamingo and Caesar experimented with and created were amazing, but if you calculate it, you'd realize that SMILEs were extremely crappy.
The success rate of SMILEs, made by imitating Vegapunk's finished products, was ridiculously low.
Doflamingo and Kaido had been doing business for almost eight years, yet how many Gifter armies did they manage to create?
It took a lot of time to create one of these things, and the annoying part was that even if one was finally made, there was only a one-tenth chance of success when someone ate it.
If it failed, they would become a useless person who could only laugh.
And even if it succeeded, the randomly generated Animal-type Devil Fruit abilities were far inferior to genuine Animal-type Devil Fruits.
Not only were the randomly generated Animal-types completely random, but even if a useful one was successfully created, there would be all sorts of flaws.
Kaido's Beast Pirates, the strongest never came from these Gifters, but from pirates who had truly eaten Devil Fruits and served Kaido.
These Gifters were at most a group of mediocre elite grunts.
Under the same technology, the modified humans created by Germa 66, which focused on cutting-edge fields, basically completely outmatched those Gifters.
"The World Government knows that the SMILEs you and Caesar created pose no threat, so they let you do it, using it to stall Kaido and prevent him from causing trouble."
Kaido was probably a collector and a compulsive.
Just because his pirate crew was called the Beast Pirates, he felt compelled to turn all his subordinates into Animal-type Devil Fruit users.
And he clearly couldn't find enough suitable Devil Fruits, which led to the SMILE business.
While he was getting some results, Kaido forced himself to remain quiet for eight years.
This was actually a public scheme by the World Government.
Those Gifters posed no threat in their eyes; they were basically trash that could be effortlessly defeated by a Pacifista.
Allowing Doflamingo and Kaido to do business was simply using him to keep Kaido in line and buy the World Government time.
As for Kaido and Doflamingo collaborating to overthrow the World Government?
Pfft, don't be ridiculous.
Even if those two collaborated, it's questionable whether they could get past the three Admirals.
Challenging the World Government alone?
After having so many of his conspiracies exposed as mere clown acts in the eyes of others, Doflamingo was beyond mere anger.
The suppressed atmosphere and his twitching fingers, along with the faint emanations of Conqueror's Haki, indicated that he absolutely wanted to kill someone to vent his frustration.
"It's because Caesar Clown is a good-for-nothing," Shin shrugged, offering what might or might not have been a comforting remark.
Caesar was indeed a good-for-nothing; Vegapunk and Judge's evaluations of him were consistent.
An incompetent good-for-nothing with grand ambitions, an arrogant fool, a cowardly pervert, and yet an idiot who thought himself the best in the world.
As a fellow scientist, even without comparing him to Vegapunk, what were his accomplishments in the past decade compared to Judge? Replicating Vegapunk's SMILE, failed human gigantification experiments, and that H2S poisonous gas that seemed impressive but was actually a joke.
If any weapons expert in this world developed a foolish poison gas that didn't kill immediately upon inhalation but could instead be 'deciphered,' he would certainly become a laughingstock.
Honestly, the H2S Caesar created wasn't even as good as the chemical formula H2S (hydrogen sulfide).
At least hydrogen sulfide itself is a highly toxic gas that causes death within seconds at 1G concentration and is also flammable and explosive, whereas his H2S...
Wasting ten years to create only useless or shoddy imitations, this guy compared his talent to Vegapunk's, yet the results were terrible.
Not only was his talent lacking, but he completely lacked self-discipline.
Big Mom provided him with funds to conduct human gigantification, and this idiot agreed without a second thought, creating a bunch of bobbleheads before realizing he couldn't do it.
So he just used Big Mom's funds to go drinking every day.
Actually, if you can't achieve your experimental goals, that's fine, but you're spending precious research funds on carousing.
Such a comprehensively incompetent fellow truly doesn't deserve to be called a scientist.
Doflamingo trusting such an imbecile and wasting eight years with him was truly awful luck.
The World Government next door was already busy researching three advanced weapons with Vegapunk, while this guy was still churning out ghouls.
"So you can rest assured that even if the Punk Hazard incident is exposed, the World Government will help you suppress it."
Shin said, simultaneously comforting and twisting the knife, taking a sip of black tea as he continued,
"As for the Hobby-Hobby Fruit, it's the same principle. The Devil Fruit Encyclopedia in the World Government's hands is much more complete than the one the Marines have. But you capturing people to make them toys and use them as labor in Dressrosa, the Five Elders couldn't care less about that."
Shin put down his teacup and smiled, patting Doflamingo's shoulder.
"So as long as your covert operations within the Marines aren't exposed, the Five Elders won't do anything to you."
"And if it is exposed... what then?"
"You'd die. Assassinated by CP0, or captured by the Marines and sent to Impel Down."
Shin admired Baby-5's sexy long legs, saying carelessly.
Back then, Fujitora was able to bring down Doflamingo in Dressrosa for two reasons: one was the live broadcast of the Birdcage and the truth about the toys, which made it difficult for the Five Elders to control public opinion; the other was his infiltration of the Marines with spies.
How could one tolerate someone sleeping soundly beside one's bed? Regardless of future plans, at least the Marines were still the fundamental force maintaining peace for the World Government.
It was reasonable for an emperor to place spies in the armies of his generals, but for a bandit who was temporarily collaborating with the emperor and also plotting rebellion to infiltrate the Marines and play a double agent, no one could tolerate that.
Especially since Vergo, who was placed in the Marines, had even risen to the rank of Headquarters Vice Admiral, independently guarding the G-5 Marine branch.
Even if he was still far from being an Admiral, Vergo was practically a high-ranking Marine officer holding military power.
If the Five Elders found out about this, no matter how much leverage Doflamingo had, he would be finished.
"Politics is like that, Doflamingo."
Shin looked at the grim-faced Doflamingo and said flatly,
"The art of compromise is precisely this. What you consider a serious matter, the World Government sees as mere leverage. What you consider not serious, however, has already crossed the Five Elders' bottom line."
"And... this has been known to you."
Doflamingo twitched his five fingers, his face expressionless, but his words were full of killing intent.
"What do you want to threaten me with?"
"Threaten? No, no, no, didn't I say it? We have a common enemy." Shin smiled, pointing to the sky, and said playfully.
"The sunset is the law of nature, but no one can resist a new sunrise."
"But whether you want to be that sunset, or that new sunrise, depends on your choice and...courage."
"Tell me your terms, Poltorto." Doflamingo crossed his arms and narrowed his eyes.
"Since you've come directly to me, you must have the confidence to shake the World Government."
Shin smiled slightly and repeated what he had said to Judge verbatim.
Ace's true identity, the impending Summit War, the leverage Shin was confident he could bring in.
Doflamingo listened in silence, only his constantly tapping foot betraying his agitated thoughts.
"Not enough, far from enough." Doflamingo frowned.
"Kaido, Big Mom, you can only bring them personally from the New World to Marineford. Relying solely on these two isn't enough to overthrow the Marines. Besides, you might not even be able to bring both of them to Marineford intact."
"Red-Haired Shanks wouldn't just sit idly by while you severely disrupt the New World's balance."
"Heh, that guy who always asks for favors and is keen on pushing the Five Elders around, he'll definitely use the banner of peace to persuade either Kaido or Big Mom to go back."
Doflamingo sneered.
He disliked Shanks, or rather, anyone ambitious in the New World disliked Shanks.
This young Yonko's favorite thing to do was maintain the balance of the New World.
The structure of the Yonko was almost completely solidified after his involvement.
Any battle that had the potential to break the balance would be stopped by him.
He was diligent and effective in his actions, making people even suspect whether this Pirate Emperor was actually working for the Five Elders.
"Don't worry, Shanks won't stop them." Shin smiled pleasantly.
"Not only Roger D. Ace will be executed, but there will also be someone Red Hair absolutely must protect who will be put on the execution platform by the Five Elders."
Telling Luffy that Ace was captured and sent to Impel Down was indeed a whim, but he had considered the possibility of using Luffy to restrain Shanks.
Shanks was the only unstable factor among the Four Emperors that he couldn't control.
To maintain the balance of the sea, he might genuinely lead his crew to prevent Shin from luring Kaido and Big Mom to Marineford.
But if Luffy was added to the execution list, everything would be different.
Shanks risked an arm for Luffy.
Shin didn't believe Shanks would sacrifice Luffy to maintain peace.
As long as he didn't stop Kaido and Big Mom, even if he came to Marineford to cause trouble and save face, that would be enough.
"And... how do you plan to enter Level 6 of Impel Down? That's not just a simple small prison, fufufufufu?"
Doflamingo asked with a strange laugh.
Impel Down was not easy to break into.
Simply destroying it and rescuing the prisoners from Level 6 were completely different levels of difficulty.
"Don't worry, I'll have a way when the time comes." Shin said calmly.
"However, I need a little help from you here-please help me find someone named Blueno, a former CP9 member. If nothing unexpected happens, he should be in the Spring Queen's City now."
"By the way, the owner there, Stussy, is a hidden CP0 agent, and the former CP9 members should also be there. It's highly likely they've come under Stussy's radar. If you're bringing him over, remember to do so when Stussy isn't around."
"Also, please help me find the Sea Songstress 'Ann'. This should be no problem, after all, for the King of Dressrosa, it's just a matter of spending some money to invite her for a performance."
"Alright, if it's a request from an 'ally'..." Doflamingo said in a long-drawn, odd tone.
"But as allies, shouldn't you also show some sincerity?"
"What do you want?" Shin said calmly.
"The weapons you used to kill Moria!"
"Not bad, you have good taste, don't you?" Shin smiled playfully, looking at Doflamingo, crossing his arms and tilting his head.
"I can give them to you, but I can't give you physical weapons. I can only give you the blueprints and relevant manufacturing knowledge. You can take them to Caesar and have him help you."
"Is that all you're giving? You're quite stingy for an ally."
"If I gave you the actual goods, would you dare to take them?" Shin said with a sideways glance.
"If I give you usable goods, where would you use them? Would you dare to accept them? Can you ensure that the place where you hide them is absolutely free from CP agents' surveillance?"
Doflamingo: "..."
Shin was right.
He could ensure that no one in his Donquixote family would betray him, but it was pure fantasy to think that there wouldn't be a single CP agent in all of Dressrosa.
The Five Elders were most uneasy about him among the Warlords, and since he carried the secrets of the Celestial Dragons, Dressrosa was bound to be full of CP informants.
Shin glanced at his watch.
Twenty-four hours had passed since his 'kidnapping.'
He had five more hours of optimal time left.
Thinking this, he said to Doflamingo,
"Do you have the Golden Emperor's Den Den Mushi?"
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