"Tsck..."
Seeing this scene, Kaido's expression instantly turned ugly.
He wanted to fight Roger and enjoy a hearty slaughter, not get beaten unilaterally!!!
After so many years apart, he didn't believe that someone like Orin still had the same strength as before.
Maybe he was already as strong as Rocks now...
Back when he was young, facing Rocks' huge kicks, he had suffered quite a lot.
But Bullet showed no fear at all.
He shoved aside Kaido, whose face was sweating coldly and whose expression had turned rather unpleasant, and wore an excited smile on his face.
"Yonko Kaido, to think you'd show such an expression?"
"This nervous look is really ugly. So what if you're the world's strongest..."
"Zheng—"
"Boom boom boom crack crack crack..."
Armament Haki covered his entire body, Conqueror's Haki bursting outward like a demonic asura.
"Demon Form" Bullet!!!
"I said it more than twenty years ago, didn't I, Orin? When you become the world's strongest, I'll challenge you again."
He clenched his fists, feeling the Haki power he had cultivated through decades of hard training.
"Don't die too easily, Orin."
Kaido: ???
Orin: ???
That really is some nerve...
Orin didn't want to fight Bullet here. After all, this guy was a powerhouse from the theatrical film. Killing him wasn't easy, but if he didn't kill him, he'd just get entangled.
So instead...
"Have you ever been warped before, Bullet?"
"What?!"
Bullet, who was already prepared for battle, froze for a moment when he heard this.
Then he saw a black figure instantly appear in front of him, along with a raised foot.
Warp-Warp Fruit ability???
A sinister smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
"As a world-class top-tier powerhouse, Orin, you can't possibly not understand this. As long as your Haki is strong enough, you can negate Devil Fruit abilities."
Facing Orin's kick, Bullet neither dodged nor avoided it.
Perhaps he couldn't dodge it, but he also disdained to. He simply let the Haki on his body grow even denser.
"Is that so~"
Orin smiled as well, then said nothing more, only continuing to increase his strength.
As this kick truly landed on his body, Bullet's expression changed slightly, but before he could react,
"Bang—"
Just after a brief delay, Bullet's terrifying body instantly vanished from where it stood.
He was sent to the New World.
Raising his head to the sky, as if looking at the figure that had completely disappeared, Orin smiled and narrowed his eyes.
Kaido also gritted his teeth and looked at the spot where Bullet had been standing.
"Haki does indeed reign above everything. I've said that before, that's true..."
"But the premise is that your Haki has to be stronger than the other party's, you idiot."
...
And so, the situation on the battlefield now became—
Orin encountering Kaido and Bullet and the others,
Garp and Roger fighting to their hearts' content,
The Whitebeard Pirates crying as they were chased by the Marines,
Sengoku and Redfield locked in a stalemate,
The three brothers escaping from Akainu under everyone's cover,
Kizaru and some of the Shichibukai acting it out with each other, while Kuzan was held back by Mihawk.
It was also at this moment,
That the Blackbeard Pirates, finally no longer being watched, quietly began their actions.
Blackbeard clutched his stomach. Although Orin's kick earlier hadn't used full force, that strange brute strength still left Teach in intense pain.
He forced himself to stand up, and then the rest of the Blackbeard Pirates stood up as well, including Hades, who had hard-tanked one of Orin's shots.
"Zeh... zeh hahahaha..."
Blackbeard subconsciously wanted to laugh loudly, but then suddenly realized that there were too many high-level fighters present. Being too arrogant might draw attention again.
So he could only laugh in a low voice, looking as if he had narrowly escaped disaster.
"Come on, while these monsters aren't paying attention, let's start our plan!"
The Blackbeard Pirates pulled out a huge piece of black cloth from who knows where and covered Whitebeard's standing corpse with it.
"What is that Teach guy going to do to Pops' body?"
"Zeh hahahaha... Next, let the world open its eyes."
"A final performance that will shock the entire world!!!"
After that, they钻ed into the black cloth, drawing the attention of some people.
"What are you doing?!"
"Everyone, stay alert!!!"
Hades didn't speak. He simply crossed his arms and fixed his gaze on the black cloth, pushing his Observation Haki to the limit.
He was observing the entire process of this Devil Fruit transfer.
"Hahaha puto puto puto... I'm really looking forward to it~"
Wearing a black-and-white striped prison uniform and holding a huge wine gourd, Vasco Shot drank until his face was flushed red as he staggered over to Hades.
"Hades, you're looking forward to it too, right? As long as this succeeds, we'll be able to become the world's strongest pirate crew together..."
The other Blackbeard Pirates were also waiting expectantly, while keeping an eye out for the Marines.
But Hades, who had just had his shoulder patted by Vasco Shot, had an inexplicably calm expression, as if he were a completely different person.
Until the Blackbeard Pirates pulled away the black cloth and revealed Blackbeard himself.
"Zeh hahahahaha!!!"
At this moment, Blackbeard could finally laugh as wildly as he wanted.
The current him had finally stepped into Yonko-level combat power!!!
"Monsters of the world, let me show you my power!!!"
The Whitebeard Pirates, who had been fighting and retreating, were also drawn by Blackbeard Teach's loud laughter.
A surge of dark power was unleashed, sucking countless Marines into a black hole.
"This is my Dark-Dark Fruit ability, and also..."
"Crack crack crack..."
Countless cracks spread through the atmosphere. Everyone was drawn by this ultra-wide-range destruction.
Cold sweat appeared on Marco's face.
"That is... Pops' ability?!"
"The power of earthquakes—what's going on, Teach, you bastard!!!"
The ground shattered, and countless Marines and pirates rolled and fell amid the disaster of earthquakes.
"It worked, Captain!!!"
"That's great!!!"
Teach was also full of excitement.
"Zeh hahahaha!!! The dark gravity that can erase everything, plus the earthquake power that can destroy everything!!!"
The Dark-Dark Fruit, which naturally counters Devil Fruit users,
And the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, possessing immense destructive power and a strength that doesn't lose to Haki-based physical powerhouses,
"I've got them all now. With this, I'm unstoppable!!!"
Earthquake waves in his left hand, darkness in his right, Teach felt he had no weaknesses left.
But just at that moment, a voice came from behind him.
"Is that so~"
"Hm???"
Teach was momentarily puzzled when he heard this question and was about to turn his head,
When all he saw were two jet-black, gleaming axe arcs.
Slash—
"Puah..."
Everyone in the Blackbeard Pirates was shocked and hurriedly looked toward the culprit—Hades.
They saw him covering his face, as if stretching his muscles, with a hint of relief and a smile on his face.
"Finally took the bait..."
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