Chap 698 Spoiler

Chapter 698 - Doflamingo appears!
The old granny sends off Caribou to the port

The weakness to Caesar's gas is that, it takes half a day for the poison to kill someone after it petrifies them.
As long as they release them from the gas shells before then, they can be saved
Smoker let Brownbeard go get his men... Brownbeard thanks him and promises he'll return to be captured once he saves his men.
The G-5s have the headless bodies of Buffalo and Baby 5.

Right in front of the marines' eyes, the heads of Buffalo and Baby 5 comes flying to the body, reattaching themsleves!
It was Doflamingo who arrived with the heads. He instantly takes out chunk of the G5 using unseen methods, simply flying past them.
He used the Coqueror's Haki!

The marines question why a Shichibukai is attacking the marines, and pulls out their guns.
Smoker tells his men to stop it, but too late... Doflamingo shoot out strings at the G-5, slicing at their weapons and bodies.
Smoker retaliates, but pissed off Dofla simply demands to know where Luffy and Law escpaed to.
Smoker tells him he doesn't know, "Joker". He also brings up Vergo, letting Dofla know that he has the knowledge of who he really is....
Doflamingo attacks, and following panel is nothing but smoke and blood....

Meanwhile, the Strawhats and the Sunny is going down a "Sea Slope".
According to Law, that's nothing unusual lol.

Franky is explaining to Brook (who insists on calling Mini Merry 2 "little Sheep") how he used the waterways in the lab to get Sunny to Mini Merry 2 and recover it. Meanwhile, Nami tells Luffy they are heading to Dressrosa, in a roundabout way per Law. Kinemon is surprised at this, that's exactly where he was heading as well.
Luffy asks Law who he was talking to, and he replies Doflamingo. Usopp screams "Isn't that the most dangerous Shichibukai!?"
Law tells them the operation has already started. Zoro asks him "what operation?" Luffy ask Law to explain his plans.

Those who didn't know yell "What!? Form an alliance to take down a Yonkou!?"
Zoro smiles, he likes the idea. Luffy expalins he's allied with Law's crew, so let's get along well.
Usopp and Nami are still against the idea, but the others seem unconcerned, including Sanji and Brook.
Sanji advises Law that the "Alliance" he has in mind is probably not going to be the same as Luffy's idea of one. LOL.

Sanji says "Oh so that's why Luffy was going on about kidnapping. That's so unlike his style, I was wondering.
Good, if I was supposed to cook this strange looking goat here (pointing at CC) I wouldn't have known what to do."

CC tells them you fools don't know what you're messing with, there will be bigshots coming for their heads now.
Know your foolishness and die!
Sanji immediatesly beats him up, to which Chopper complains CC is still being treated. "Do it after he's recovered!" LOL

Law continues to explain. He asked for them to kidnap CC, while he destroyed the facility to create SAD.
Major pirates in the New World controls a turf, and countless subordinates. They rule the sea like massive crime syndicates.
This is unlike the first half of grandline, going against them as a single pirate group, you won't even get to see the bosses' faces!
(which is kinda funny Law says this... since that's exactly what Straw Hats have been doing lol)
However, they are still underground society. To not be seen by the marines, most dealings happen in the dark.
Doflamingo has the most power and influence among them. His name in the crime world is "Joker".
And Joker's biggest client is the Yonkou, Kaido of Hundred Beasts.

Kinemon and Momo reacts to that name with surprise. But when asked, they feign nothing and ask them to continue...
Kinemon: Whoa!? What's this dragon!? Where's Momonosuke!?
Luffy: You're talking to him
Kinemon: WHAT!? Oh yeah... I see. So that's how it is.

Law continues, he is going after Kaidou's head. The key to defeating him is lessening his power.
Right now Kaidou is buying massive amounts of SMILE devil fruits from Joker.
Usopp: Wait, artificial? Doesn't that mean they can increase the number of devil fruit users limitlessly?
Law: That's correct. Because it's artificial, apparently there are some risks to it... but using this, Kaido currently has over 500 devil fruit users in his crew.
Usopp: Anyone wants out? Me!
Chopper: Me!
Nami: Me!
Zoro: Shut up.

Law: But there won't be any more increase in devil fruit users.

Sanji and few others approach CC.
Sanji: This guy created them!?
Chopper: (sparkly eyes) Ww you made those devil fruits? SAD is awesome!
CC blushes
Usopp: WIL YOU STOP COMPLIMENTING HIM!?

Law explains CC was adopting the "Linage Factor" found by Vegapunk
Sanji and Chopper leaves CC's side "Oh, so the great one is Vegapunk afterall"
CC: Shut up! Can you make them? No? you idiots!

Somewhere in Dressrosa is the SMILE factory. They need to find it and destroy it.
Luffy asks Kinemon he is heading there as well, to which Kinemon confirms.
A comrade of them is captured there!!!

Meanwhile... Dofla is near finishing off Smoker.
The G5 pleads him to spare Smoker, but Dofla says not to worry...
He doesn't know who knows what, so he's simply going to kill every last one of you
And he also vows to find where Law and Straw Hats are before this day is over.

Aokiji appears behind Doflamingo, telling him to get off of Smoker.
He's a friend of his.

End...
No chapter next week.

One Piece
Chapter 698
“Doflamingo Appears”
Cover Story:
“Caribou’s Kehihihihi in the New World”
“Volume 20”
“To the harbor“
Page 2:
Editor blurb: “What has G-5 noticed…!?”
Marines: “The gas has no effect!?”
“This protective gear was developed by Vegapunk”
“He’s really way smarter than Caesar!”
“But Caesar knew that. That’s why…”
“That’s why he said the gear wouldn’t provide protection”
“He told them to strip it off in order to run away at full speed”
“So that’s why his men got petrified”
“Hey, hurry up!!”
“Our hardened friends are all still paralyzed, in a state of suspended animation. They’re not out of the woods yet”
“Ah… but”
“Because of that, they’ve only got another half day or so before they absorb the poison and die…!! We’ve got to find them and break those shells!!”
Page 3:
BB: “Uoh ho, thanks for this. To think you’d give us permission to head back into the island…!!”
“I won’t forget your name…!!”
“Now I can save my men…!! But I’ll definitely come back here so you can arrest me!!”
Smoker: “Whatever. This the only exit… hurry up and go now.”
Marines: “What do we do now… all we have to take in are these.”
“Are these guys pirates?”
“Well…”
“This is kind of creepy…”
Buffalo sfx (x2): *thud* *thud*
B5 sfx (x1): *wiggle wiggle*
Page 4:
Marine: “Hmm? Ah!!”
“Huh!? I see a head, incoming!!”
“Eh? What are you…”
“Y…”
“You’re right, they’re heads!!!”
Buffalo: “Oof”
“They came flying down!!!”
B5: “Ah!!!”
Page 5:
Marines: “Eh!?”
Sfx: *whoosh*
Smoker: “That’s…!!”
Marine: “Do-!!”
“Doflamingo!??”
Page 6:
Marines: “Why…”
“Why is he here!?”
“Uhh…”
Page 7:
DD: “Fuffuffuffu!!”
Marines: “…!!!”
“That was Conqueror’s Haki!!!”
“What do you think you’re doing!!?”
DD: “They’re all gone, huh…”
“No ship either…”
Marines: “Why’s a Shichibukai attacking Marines!!?”
DD: “But I’m sure there were pirates here… just a little while ago.”
“Now where have they gone…”
Marines: “How dare you do that to our comrades!!!”
Smoker: “Look out, you guys!!!”
DD: “Smoker…!!!”
Page 8:
DD: “Law aside”
“Strawhat is just a common pirate!!”
“Now where have they run off to!!!”
Marines: “Gyahhh!!!”
Page 9:
DD: “What direction did those brats head in!!?”
Law: “I’m planning on heading to Green Bit now, but…”
Smoker: “…Well, I don’t really know.”
“Joker.”
“They slipped right through our fingers… I’ll have a lot to answer for to Base Commander Vergo…”

DD: “…So they’re gone then!!?”
“But you… it seems like you know a bit too much…!!!”
Marines: “Smo-ya…”
“Vice Admiral Smo!!!”
Page 10:
“Hyahh!!”
“Keep your eyes peeled for reefs!!”
Luffy: “It’s like we’re going down a slope!! What’s with these waters!?”
“The ship’s going real fast!!”
Law: “It’s a “Seaslope.” There are plenty of them.”
Usopp: “Never heard of them!!”
Franky: “No, Brook. It’s not a lamb. It’s “Mini Merry #2.”
“Incidentally you’re the eighth person who’s asked”
“You see, there was a channel right near the lab, yeah?”
“So I took Sunny and escaped from there.”
“After hitting the ocean, I went right back to the entrance in order to retrieve the Mini Merry.”
Map notes:
Top: “Laboratory”
Bottom: “Entrance”
Brook: “Ah, I see. So in the end,”
“Lamb-chan was alright. Thank goodness.”
“Yohoho”
Page 11:
Luffy: “Nami!! Where was it again? Where’re we going now?”
Nami: “Somewhere called “Dressrosa””
“Tora-man-kun said that we’ll arrive there…”
“…Not by following this middle needle directly, but by taking a roundabout route.”
Kinemon: “D…Dressrosa!?”
Luffy: “You know it?”
Kinemon: “The… the island that we… errr… that I wish to go to”
“Is just that, that it is!! Do you people also have business there!?”
Luffy: “Yeah, probably! Tora-man!”
“Who were you talking to before!?”
Law: “Doflamingo.”
Usopp: “Doflamingo!? The guy known as the worst of the Shichibukai!!”
Law: “The plan is already in motion.”
Zoro: “What plan are you talking about?”
Luffy: “Oh yeah, tell us the plan!! Everybody, gather round!!”
Page 12:
All: “We’re in an alliance in order to bring down a Yonkou!!?”
Zoro: “A Yonkou, huh! Sounds good.”
Usopp: “Nothing good about it!!”
“Hold on now!! Everyone just calm down”
“Luffy! Did you really just go ahead and ally yourself with some mysterious guys?”
“Yup! We’re in alliance now!”
“Our crew and Tora-man’s!! So let’s all be friends!! Shishishi!!”
Usopp: “One member is opposed to this motion!!”
Brook: “What’s the point of opposing?”
Sanji: “Luffy’s already decided, right?”
“I’m warning you now. Your idea of an “alliance””
“And Luffy’s version are probably a bit different. So be careful.”
Page 13:
Sanji: “So that’s why Luffy was going on and on about “kidnapping”…”
“Because if you were about to tell me to cook up this weird sheep that you’ve caught”
“Even I might have taken issue…”
CC: “…Shurororo. Don’t think you all are going to get away with what you’ve done…!!”
“You’ll have some real big players after you now, you fools!!!”
“You will come to understand how stupid you’ve been…!!!”
“And you will die!!!”
“Dapeh!!”
Chopper: “Sanji!! I’m in the middle of fixing him up!!!”
“You can have at him when I’m done!!”
Sanji: “When you’re done, huh.”
Law: “On Punk Hazard, I asked you to kidnap Caesar.”
“And I destroyed the equipment used to produce the chemical known as S.A.D.”
Page 14:
“The big pirate crews in the New World have divided most of the sea”
“Into spheres of influence, where they command countless underlings.”
“They reign over like a giant crime syndicate.”
“The current scale of this setup is unprecedented!!”
“If just a single pirate crew were to rise up to challenge them, you wouldn’t even get an audience with a captain…!!”
“But it really does function like the underworld.”
“Without attracting too much attention from the Marines”
“They conduct their necessary dealings in shadow…!!”
“The most trusted and powerful dealer is Doflamingo.”
“In the shadows, he goes by “Joker.””
“Moreover, Joker’s biggest client is currently the Yonkou, “Kaidou of the Hundred Beasts.”
Page 15:
Kinemon: “Nnahh!!!”
Zoro: “What’s wrong?”
Kinemon: “No…!!”
“It’s nothing, that it’s not…!!”
“Please go on!”
“Wahh!! What on earth is this, this dragon!!”
“Wh…where’s Momonosuke!?”
Luffy: “That’s him”
Kinemon: “Wha!?”
“Ahh!! That’s right, that it is”
“I see… so he came to be like that!!”
Law: “What we’re after is none other than the head of the emperor, Kaidou…!!!”
“The key to doing this is to reduce the strength of his forces!!”
“Kaidou has recently put in for a large purchase of fruits from Joker”
“The artificial zoan type devil fruits known as “SMILE””
Page 16:
“If they’re made artificially… there’d be no limit to the number of ability users he could have!!”
Law: “Yes, that’s correct.”
“But it seems that there’s a risk in using these artificial ones”
“At present, Kaidou has over 500 ability users on his crew.”
Usopp: “All those in favor of quitting!!!”
Chopper: “Me”
Nami: “Me”
Zoro: “Be quiet.”
Law: “But that number won’t be increasing anymore.”
Sanji: “Eh”
“This guy!?”
CC: “Shu…Shuroro…”
Sfx: *blush*
Chopper: “You’re the one who made the source of those devil fruits, S.A.D.? Amazing!”
Usopp: “He’s the culprit here! Don’t praise him!!”
Page 17:
Law: “It was simply a practical application of the “lineage factors” that Vegapunk discovered.”
Chopper: “That Vegapunk is really amazing…”
CC: “Shut up! Let’s see you idiots try making it!!”
“Morons that you are!!”
“Joker is done for. Now we just have to move onto our next step.”
“Somewhere in Dressrosa is the factory where they produce “SMILE”s”
Franky: “So we should go and destroy it, yeah?”
Law: “That’s right… but our enemy is a business mastermind… so don’t get careless.”
Luffy: “And that’s also where you want to go, Kin!?”
Kinemon: “Indeed I do!”
“A comrade of mine…!!!”
“Is captured there!!!”
Page 18/19:
Marines: “Please stop!! Smo-yan is gonna die!!”
DD: “Don’t worry. I’ll be killing you all as well!!!”
“There’s no way of telling how much each of you know…”
“And then Law, and Strawhat too!!!”
Smoker: *cough*
DD: “I’ll find them before this day is through!!!”
Big top panel:
Kuzan: “Arara… Sorry about this, bro”
“But I’m gonna need to you get off of him.”
Bottom panels:
Marines: “Eh…EHHHH!!?”
Smoker: “Haa…”
“Haa”
Kuzan: “…Off of my friend, there.”
Editor blurb: “Why’s the man who retired from the Marines here…!?”