"Luffy, you've grown a lot. But step back for now. You 'Sprouts' of the new era will have a much larger stage..."
Shanks drew Gryphon and pointed it at Blackbeard.
"Eh?" Although Luffy was reluctant, he still backed away. "Come to think of it, I haven't seen Shanks fight seriously yet."
That time with the Lord of the Coast didn't count... "Damn it, if straw hat is a sprout, then am I an old sprout?" Kid cursed in a low voice.
"Stop looking for death. If your arm falls off again, I won't help you,"
Law said, seeing Kid constantly testing the limits of death. He didn't want to waste all his time reattaching Kid's arm.
Shanks turned to look at Buggy. "Buggy, now it's your turn. Let me see your spirit. Don't let me outshine you..."
He once thought Buggy didn't have Conqueror's Haki, but now it seemed Buggy had been hiding it.
"How could I lose to a guy like you, Shanks? Accepting fate is for losers; it's better to grab the Goddess of Fate by the throat and screw her over."
"Can't the remnants of the old era forge a new one?"
"Shanks, feel my Dominance, my ambition!"
Buggy's Haoshoku immediately surged, exploded, and violently intensified!
Buggy's presence at this moment was more powerful than ever before.
Two forces of Haoshoku intertwined, causing the entirety of Cake Island to tremble.
The sky... split open... Black lightning struck down intermittently. Beckman reached out to feel it; even with his physique, he could feel a faint sense of numbness.
"Fortunately, the rookies are all on the ship, otherwise they wouldn't be able to take it. These two guys are both monsters!"
But Shanks, Buggy is right. With your strength, you could completely join forces to open a new era.
Is Raftel really that important?
"You..." Shanks hadn't expected Buggy's Haoshoku to reach such a level. "Don't underestimate the World Government. The enemy is stronger than you imagine!"
"So what? My strength won't stop here. If the enemies aren't strong enough, where's the fun in this world?"
"I will only become stronger than them, and then I'll blow them all away, Dammit!!!"
Under the influence of his conviction, the power of Magnetic Field Rotation merged into his Haoshoku, and the black lightning over Cake Island became ten times denser.
"I can't hold on much longer..." Usopp felt like he was about to faint.
"Wake up!" A dozen slaps in a row landed on Usopp's face.
"Hold on. Facing the pressure of the strong will benefit you in the future," Yasopp said.
"Got... it..." Usopp said slurringly.
"Are you sure you're Usopp's biological father?" Nami had already released Zeus to block the black lightning that could fall at any moment.
But Zeus took one taste and ran back into Nami's arms. "This isn't food... it's numbing..."
Zoro saw the black blade Shusui let out an excited low hum in Buggy's hand, and he felt a pang of jealousy.
"Mosshead, why does it feel like your hair color has become even more vibrant?" Sanji exclaimed from the side.
"Shut up! You idiot!" Zoro cursed.
"Is this the true power of the Four Emperors? Then what was Charlotte Linlin?" Kid felt his arm start to ache again.
"Hahahaha~ Such peerless Dominance, such peerless madness. Such a fearsome demon god... what in the world can resist him? Dammit, what in the world can resist him?!"
Crocodile laughed out loud.
Whitebeard, if only you had this kind of ambition back then, how great it would have been... "Why... why do you two shameless bastards possess Haoshoku?"
Blackbeard's face was full of madness. They were already so strong, yet they still ganged up on him two-on-one. Don't they have a conscience?
"A hyena complaining that it can't become a lion. Why don't you look at what you've done?"
Buggy sneered. "You and your subordinates are just a pack of hyenas huddling together for warmth. A guy like you wants to be a hegemon?"
"Why did it turn out like this..." Blackbeard still couldn't accept it. "I've clearly worked so hard..."
"Because your 'effort' is just a joke."
Even without eating a Devil Fruit, Blackbeard's strength was not low, and he was a veteran of the Whitebeard Pirates.
If he hadn't hidden his strength, he could have even competed for the position of first mate of the Whitebeard Pirates.
Marco's personality was such that he wouldn't have fought him for it.
Even if he wanted the Dark-Dark Fruit, if he had honestly discussed it with his good friend Thatch, it wasn't certain he couldn't have gotten it.
Thatch was a chef; what would he want the Dark-Dark Fruit for? To process kitchen waste?
Whitebeard was getting old and would eventually hand the Whitebeard Pirates over to someone else.
Would Whitebeard really choose the young and brash Ace over the powerful Blackbeard?
Blackbeard could have become a hegemon of the sea fair and square, but he gave it up because of his own selfishness.
The dark-hearted Blackbeard thought everyone was like him, so he committed all sorts of bottomless acts for the Dark-Dark Fruit.
"Whitebeard mentioned your weakness. In the end, you still died because of your carelessness and conceit," Buggy said.
Carelessness led Blackbeard to make a series of wrong choices, and conceit made him act recklessly, making countless enemies.
"In the end, you're just a fool. Send him on his way, Shanks..."
Buggy flickered next to Blackbeard and swung Shusui. Shusui drew in the surrounding black lightning, transforming into a blade of thunder that slashed toward Blackbeard.
"Kamisari!"
"Black Hole!" Blackbeard used the power of the Dark-Dark Fruit, hoping to absorb the Haoshoku, but the Haki's suppression of Devil Fruit abilities didn't let him have his way.
Blackbeard's palm was sliced open, and he screamed in agony.
"It hurts so much! I don't want to die, I still have dreams..."
But in the next moment, the same technique was used by Shanks, slashing into Blackbeard's back.
Just as Blackbeard was about to turn his head, Shusui flicked upward from below, opening a gash across his chest.
"God's Enemy!"
"If you won't let me go, then let's die together! Dark Devour!"
Blackbeard wanted to turn himself into a black hole and take them down with him.
The power of the Dark-Dark Fruit swallowed the power of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit within him. At Blackbeard's chest, a small black hole was forming, first consuming Blackbeard's own body.
Endless suction came from the black hole. "Let the world be destroyed along with me!" Blackbeard grinned hideously.
"Even at a time like this, are you still dreaming?"
Buggy poured his power into Shusui. "The final blow, Shanks!"
"You actually learned that move too?" Shanks saw what Buggy wanted to do.
"The world no longer needs pirates represented by the Blackbeard Pirates. These pirates who only know how to plunder should disappear. The Great Pirate Era opened by Captain Roger can come to an end," Buggy said.
"Starting with Blackbeard's life, are you going to throw the whole world into chaos?" Shanks asked.
"No, I'm already throwing the world into chaos. Want to join me? There's still a spot on my ship..."
All the black lightning on Cake Island gathered onto Shusui and Gryphon.
"You rejected me before, and I won't agree this time either. Regret it, Buggy..."
"You... what are you trying to do?" Blackbeard wanted the black hole to expand rapidly, but he had already lost control of his body.
The power of the Dark-Dark Fruit had gone berserk and no longer obeyed his commands.
"The Twin Stars of the Roger Pirates will send you on your way!"
Shusui and Gryphon swung simultaneously, the strike infused with all of Buggy's and Shanks' Haki colliding together.
"God Slayer!" X2.
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