Chapter 231: A Fated Deathmatch! The Ineffective Dark-Dark Fruit and the Blackbeard with a Severed Arm
The prison-break team was like a sharp blade, cutting back through the fourth level—the Blazing Hell—which had been cleaved open, creating a vacuum rift, with unstoppable momentum.
Just as they were stepping over the scorching rubble, preparing to make a single push toward the third level...
They ran head-on into a group of uninvited guests who had swaggered into Impel Down—the Blackbeard Pirates.
Upon seeing the toothless, arrogant-looking man leading them, Luffy and Sabo completely lost their composure in an instant.
He was the culprit who had handed Ace over, triggering this entire catastrophe.
"Blackbeard——!!"
Without a word of nonsense, Luffy activated Gear Second without hesitation.
Steam rose from his entire body, his fist wrapped in rich, profound Armament Haki, and he threw a heavy punch that whistled through the air, smashing fiercely toward Blackbeard.
Sabo transformed into a sharp afterimage, following closely behind, his hands turning into the fierce Dragon's Claws.
Blackbeard's originally arrogant smile froze abruptly; he had severely underestimated the current combat power of these two brothers.
Under the bombardment of Luffy's violent Haki and the heavy, powerful combination of Sabo's Dragon's Claws, Blackbeard was caught off guard on the spot.
His massive body, as if struck by a battering ram, let out a muffled grunt as he was sent flying by Sabo's strike, slamming heavily into the hard stone wall behind him and creating a human-shaped crater.
Meanwhile, Knight of the Sea Jinbe and Sand Crocodile Crocodile were not idle.
The two former Seven Warlords of the Sea each unleashed their ultimate techniques, with water waves and wild sand flying about.
With great tacit understanding, they engaged Burgess, Doc Q, and other Blackbeard Pirates officers who were attempting to move forward to provide support.
The scene instantly descended into a fierce melee of flying sand and stones.
Just as the melee erupted in full force.
Tatsuya's keen gaze pierced through the smoke, instantly locking onto the sniper hiding far in the back of the enemy ranks, holding a special rifle and attempting to fire a cold shot.
"Supersonic" Van Auger.
Tatsuya stood motionless, his Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan casting a cold glance from within his eye sockets.
Accompanied by the instant activation of the Dōjutsu [Futsu-no-Mitama].
The world lost its color in Tatsuya's eyes, and a "Line of Death," representing fragility and mortality, appeared precisely on Van Auger's body.
Facing the sniper in the distance, Tatsuya did not even make any wide swinging motion with his blade.
He merely tapped his fingertip lightly against the blade of the black blade shusui.
"Clang."
An almost imperceptible sound.
In the distance, Van Auger was preparing to pull the trigger, but he didn't even have time to react.
His body was already relatively weak in front of these true monsters.
Only a strange, soft "shhh" sound was heard, and a blood line deep enough to see bone appeared out of thin air on Van Auger's chest.
The next second, his body was actually severed at the waist on the spot by this invisible strike!
His two severed halves fell into a pool of blood; the monocle over Van Auger's right eye shattered, and his eyes still held extreme shock and confusion.
Until his death, he never understood how he had been split in two from such a great distance.
[Ding! Congratulations to the host for successfully killing the core sniper of the Blackbeard Pirates,'Supersonic' Van Auger. Significantly changed the direction of the world line.]
[Obtained high-value exclusive reward: 8000 Ninja Points.]
This scene, which was terrifying to the extreme, was like a basin of ice water poured over their heads.
Both sides, who were in the midst of a fierce melee, were completely stunned, and the air in the entire corridor seemed to freeze completely at this moment.
Blackbeard, who was struggling to crawl out of the crater in the wall, watched helplessly as his most capable sniper was instantly killed.
His eyes instantly turned blood red.
"Auger——!!"
Blackbeard roared madly, ordering his subordinates to kill everyone in this group.
He himself went completely berserk, and a dense darkness that blotted out the sky surged suddenly from his massive body.
That was the power of the Dark-Dark Fruit, capable of swallowing even light; he vowed to unleash "Dark Emperor" to avenge his fallen comrade.
"Black Hole!"
Blackbeard roared, opening his right hand, and aimed the dark vortex, filled with terrifying suction, directly at the culprit, Tatsuya.
He attempted to forcibly pull him over and use the power of the Dark-Dark Fruit to completely strip away the opponent's Devil Fruit ability.
However, facing this massive gravitational force capable of distorting space, Tatsuya did not make any defensive moves at all.
On the contrary, he went with the flow, and with a terrifying speed several times faster than the suction, he transformed into a streak of pitch-black lightning, actively charging toward Blackbeard.
During the high-speed sprint.
The pair of crimson Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan in Tatsuya's eye sockets slowly swirled, carrying a cold mockery as if looking at a dead man.
"Got you! You arrogant bastard!"
Blackbeard's large hand grabbed Tatsuya's shoulder tightly.
He was just about to grin and let out a triumphant roar, preparing to savor the enemy's panic after losing their powers.
However, the next second, the expression on Blackbeard's face completely froze, and an unprecedented sense of horror shot straight to his scalp.
He discovered in horror that the physical strength and sharp, terrifying aura of the black-haired youth before him had not been affected in the slightest.
The corners of Tatsuya's mouth curled into an arrogant and unbridled arc.
The black blade shusui in his hand was instantly covered in dazzling, eerie blue lightning and deep, profound high-level Haki.
He stared fixedly at Blackbeard's fat face, which was twisted in shock, and smilingly whispered a line:
"Who told you... that I've eaten a Devil Fruit?"
The moment the words fell.
The Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan in Tatsuya's eyes erupted with a strong mental fluctuation, directly launching a high-level visual genjutsu on Blackbeard.
Meanwhile, Shusui transformed into the ruthless scythe in the hand of the Grim Reaper, slashing mercilessly toward Blackbeard's thick neck, vowing to behead him directly.
At this critical moment, in a hundredth of a second.
The terrifying combat instinct that Blackbeard had honed through countless life-and-death battles played a crucial role in this desperate situation.
He bit his tongue hard without hesitation.
The intense pain, like a heavy hammer, allowed him to forcibly wake up from the mire of the genjutsu instantly.
Seeing the blade of the Black Blade that was already close to his skin and exuding an aura of death, Blackbeard's eyes widened suddenly.
Driven by the desire to survive, his massive, bloated body forcibly twisted backward at an angle that broke his own bones.
"Puchi——!!"
In the end, this fatal sword strike narrowly missed Blackbeard's carotid artery.
But with unstoppable momentum, it directly severed his right hand, which had been gripping Tatsuya's shoulder... right at the root!
Scalding blood, like an out-of-control fountain, surged into the air, staining the surrounding stone walls red.
He didn't give Blackbeard any chance to scream or catch his breath.
Tatsuya immediately engaged his waist, and flew up with a kick.
This kick contained violent, raging Lightning-style Chakra and indestructible high-level Haki.
Like a heavy cannonball fired from a chamber, Tatsuya kicked fiercely onto Blackbeard's broad chest.
"Bang!!!"
The fatal side effect of the Dark-Dark Fruit, "receiving double the pain," became a death warrant that Blackbeard could not escape at this moment.
The extreme pain of the severed arm, mixed with the agony of violent lightning and Ryou Haki raging madly within his internal organs.
All erupted with double the intensity!
Blackbeard threw his head back and let out a scream as shrill as a pig being slaughtered, his voice hoarse and desperate.
His eyes rolled back, and his massive body flew backward like a kite with a broken string.
With destructive kinetic energy, he smashed heavily through several thick stone walls of Impel Down in succession.
Finally, he was deeply buried in a large pile of rubble, his life or death unknown, and there was no more movement.
Seeing their Captain, who had always claimed to be invincible, get instantly killed and blown through in a single exchange by that black-haired youth who was like a demon god.
Burgess, Doc Q, and the other Blackbeard Pirates officers were so scared that their souls were frightened away, and their guts were almost split open.
Where would they have any courage left to continue fighting? They hurriedly scrambled over, frantically trying to salvage the unknown-if-dead Blackbeard from the ruins.
They huddled in the corner, fully alert, not daring to look at Tatsuya even one more time.
Let alone muster the courage to block his path forward.
The entire battlefield was silent.
Everyone was stunned by this clean and decisive instant kill.
Even Luffy stood rooted to the spot, staring wide-eyed at Tatsuya.
Tatsuya's expression was cold and stern; he flicked his wrist, casually shaking off the warm blood stains from the blade of Shusui.
He glanced coldly at the remaining members of the Blackbeard Pirates, who were facing a great enemy, and did not choose to continue pursuing to finish them off.
Because at the bottom of the abyss that had been cleaved open behind them, a terrifying red tide of poison, even more violent than before, was surging up madly accompanied by a violent roar.
That was the severely injured Magellan.
This highest warden of Impel Down, in order to maintain the final dignity of this number one prison, had completely liberated the ultimate form of the Venom Demon.
He vowed to transform into a red poisonous demon, dragging the entire prison and everyone with him to mutual destruction.
There was no time to delay.
Tatsuya turned around and immediately issued a retreat order to everyone around him who was still in a daze:
"Forget about these clowns!"
"Everyone, head for the surface at full speed immediately!"
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