Chapter 8 - Two Sides of The Same Coin

After calming and clearing his mind, Spandam turned his attention back to the fight between the slaves in the lower arena.

As expected, the big guy's movements grew stiff and uncontrollable. The big guy can only randomly hit the air around him to protect himself, He just randomly hits in a panic and has no intention of attacking his enemy again.

Meanwhile, the skinny guy kept dodging and waiting for an opportunity to attack. Not a single attack from the Big guy landed on his body since the start of the fight.

Despite his extremely thin appearance due to malnutrition and not appearing to have any muscles in his small body. Thus making him an unfavorable contestant.

However, the skinny guy turned out to be able to perform beyond expectations and be able to defend against fighters who had won many battles in this colosseum.

The big guy stopped his attack when he saw the skinny guy taking some distance back. This gave him some time to calm his rough breathing. On the other hand, there is not the slightest gap from the skinny guy. With a steady breath, a neat stance, and sharp eyes that keep looking for the enemy's gap.

The two of them looked at each other under the ridicule shouts and insults from the audience, Tenryuubito. No one dared to lower their guard.

When the skinny guy's noticed the big guy's arms and legs trembled. He knew that he had won this fight. With a plan in mind, he dashed straight for the big guy.

Seeing him coming from the front, the big guy gritted his teeth and raised his stiff hands to prepare to defend or attack.

It's not just thin men who have plans. But the big guy has it too. Even though he wasn't a smart man, he was still able to gather information during battle.

Ever since the battle started, he had always been paying attention to the direction the skinny guy was going to dodge his attacks and he had known the pattern.

The skinny guy will always dodge in the direction of his attack blind spot. Every time he hits with his right fist, the skinny guy will dodge to the right as well so he can prevent further attacks from his left fist. Due to the massive momentum of the big guy's attack, he couldn't make a follow-up attack with his right fist quickly.

Sweat dripped down his muscular body, his breathing was heavy and erratic. Despite that, he still gritted his teeth to prepare to fight his enemy. There is no grudge between them. But he wanted to survive, he wanted to live.

With a loud roar "ORAAAaa!" the big guy took a step forward and swung his left fist at the skinny guy. But if you look closely, there is no momentum in the big guy's punch.

The skinny guy noticed this, but he thought his punches were weak because his joints had been hit so many times. The skinny guy subconsciously underestimated him because he saw the victory in front of his eyes.

As the big guy suspected, the skinny guy chose to dodge a blow to the left side of his body. Without thinking any further, the big guy pulled himself into position easily because there was no momentum from his initial attack and he immediately moved his right hand towards the skinny guy.

"Wha-" With a large open palm pointing at him, the skinny guy was immediately taken aback and there was no time to dodge. The skinny guy gritted his teeth and raised both his hands in front of his head, preparing to take the impact of a blow from his enemy.

The Skinny guy thought it would be fine to take a hit or two from his enemy. Especially with the big guy's body condition that has weakened and is not at its peak. One or two hits wouldn't hurt him badly. 'I will jump back to reduce the impact of the attack. what...?! I'm screwed-!' The skinny guy's mind was disturbed because it wasn't what he expected, not an attack coming from his enemy. Instead, the big guy gripped his left arm tightly, as if he had been planning to catch him from the start.

"Ahh~ he's reckless. What a fool." Spandam said when he saw the skinny guy's mistake.

Spandine also nodded and said "most people become careless when approaching victory. Too bad, it's going to be difficult now..."

"Ehh~ too bad... but now my guess is correct! hehe~" Valerie actually laughed at that because she thought that her initial guess was correct.

"Haha~ That's not necessarily true, it's the deciding moment now! My choice still has a chance, we'll see." Spandine denied it because he did not want to lose to his wife. Where Spandam only thinks that his parents are childish.

Ignoring the debate of his parents, Spandam again watched the fight in the arena below. He was quite interested in watching fights that had only appeared in movies in his past.

If you ignore Spandam's original memories, this was the first time he'd seen a fight that defied logic. There couldn't be a fight like this on earth, not even an underground battle. After all, the human physic in this world is many times higher than the human on earth. So that's normal.

After watching a few death matches which weren't as exciting as the first match. Spandam and his parents returned home and of course, were followed by Laskey who took care of Spandam's two slaves.

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After returning to their residence, Spandam chose to spend his time in his room while waiting for dinner. Meanwhile, his parents went somewhere together and Laskey also returned to work after putting the two slaves in the residence's underground prison.

Spandam chose to take care of the two slaves tomorrow and would figure out how to do that later. Will he have to be an 'evil lord' by threatening Tessoro with Stella or be a 'good lord' to gain their trust.

Both had a high risk that, in the short term, being the 'evil lord' would be easier and more effective, but Spandam had to 'clean up' them after a while so as not to bite him back.

Whereas in the long term, gaining their trust by being a 'good lord' is more effective but difficult to do, especially in the beginning. Because Spandam is a descendant of the Tenryuubito which is definitely the thing they hate the most in this world. That alone was the reason that prevented him the most from gaining their trust.

"Haa~ this is really hard. I want their loyalty. So I guess being honest and playing the 'good lord' is the only option. But still... how should I do it." Spandam who was sitting at his desk scratched his head in confusion. 'If I don't have a relationship with the world nobles or the world government, it might be easy...'

Spandam again scratched his head in confusion as he failed to think of a good plan 'Haa~ I guess I'll just think about it tomorrow. Otherwise, I'll just have to talk and figure out a way on the spot.'

Taking his mind off the dizzying problems for tomorrow, Spandam is back thinking about a different problem, he actually thought of a troublesome character in his own way. His strength might not be on par with the future Yonkou, but he was a character who was extremely cunning and slippery like a snake.

Spandam didn't really want to deal with someone like him. This troublesome thing will give him a headache. But, Spandam doesn't have the slightest bit of information about him or his group at this time. So Spandam decided to gather the information himself.

'If I let him build up his strength now, he might be a thorn in my side in the future. Although it will be taken care of by Mugiwara in the future. Still, it's a long future, there are 22 years to go and I don't know what the future will change. No, that will definitely change. I just don't know where it's going.' Spandam sighed and picked up his personal book while contemplating. 'There used to be a theory that the world of One Piece follows the destiny of two sides of the same coin. Each character is related to the other characters and contradicts each other as if they are 2 sides of the same coin... Somehow I feel he is the one who is on the same coin as me...'

'I am not a pure-blood Tenryuubito, but instead, I have more authority than a pure-blood Tenryuubito. Whereas he is a pure-blood Tenryuubito who lost his authority as a Tenryuubito itself.'

'As if we were people on two sides of the same coin...'

Spandam didn't want to stick his nose into troublesome matters like this. But in the future is an age of chaos, with his identity, inevitably Spandam will be dragged into it. So he decided to build up his strength from now on in order to survive a little longer. "Huu~ in the end... this world is about fate huh..."

'After all, there is a devil fruit that I really want from him in the future... the most important devil fruit in helping him control Dressrosa.' So in the end, Spandam was still going to face him sooner or later.

Spandam has already decided to do it and he will do it to the fullest that he can. 'He was an insignificant character when he was young. That's why the world government doesn't care about him... but one day he will attack the Tenryuubito ship and discover a taboo secret that allows him to blackmail the world government into making himself a Sichibukai.'

'That's what I can remember... as long as I prevent him, he won't be able to threaten and gain the Gorosei's support... But I don't know when and where... I need information, even if possible I will annihilate him as soon as possible, for the sake of my peace of mind.'

Spandam looked for the den-den mushi and planned to contact one of his agents. 'There's nothing wrong with gathering information for the future.'

He took the den-den mushi from his desk drawer and started dialing his agent's number. After waiting for a short moment, the den-den mushi connected and a polite voice called out his name.

"Hello, Spandam-san." The den-den mushi which is a snail imitated the sound that was heard right now. He's Roy, the agent who acts like Spandam's secretary and is the spokesperson at times.

"...Roy. I want you to gather information about someone from the North Blue." Spandam leaned back in his chair while opening his personal book. "I don't care how... collect all the information about him, important or not, everything he does... all the members of his group... I want all the information you can find."

Spandam kept turning each page of his book until he stopped at a certain page "Tell CP1 and CP2 too to collect information... you can use my name if necessary..."

"...Yes Spandam-san! If you don't mind, what's the name of this person sir..?" (Roy)

Hearing that, Spandam who was still staring at the information was writing in his book nodded and said "His name is-"

"Doflamingo..." (Spandam)

"Donquixote... Doflamingo" (Spandam)

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