I have the Flame-Flame Fruit, I'm invincible!

After obtaining the Dark-Dark Fruit, he also had to become Whitebeard's son.

Didn't that mean the Dark Fruit was eaten for nothing?

“Teach, come back, come back quickly,” Marco said, his face ashen.

Defection, or rather, defection in public.

Even in front of outsiders.

“Dad, I’m going after him,” Sachi shouted, his voice hoarse with rage.

Within the Whitebeard Pirates, he had the best relationship with Blackbeard.

"He must be taught a lesson."

"He is not fit to be our partner."

The sentiment is indignant.

"Enough!" Whitebeard roared, clenching his fists tightly. "If Teach wants to leave, then let him leave."

"From now on, Teach will no longer be a member of the Whitebeard Pirates."

Marco and the others were unwilling to accept this, especially after seeing Dick's mocking gaze.

"This is the Whitebeard Pirates? The family they always boasted about?"

Although Dick didn't say it, his eyes clearly conveyed the message.

Marco and the others were speechless.

Even Whitebeard was the same.

My face felt burning hot.

Blackbeard's actions were, without a doubt, a slap in the face to Whitebeard.

“Teach took your Devil Fruit, so if he took it, it’s as if I took it,” Whitebeard said in a deep voice.

Before Teach, he was still his son.

"Vista, take a fruit from the guild's treasury and return it to the Balrog."

Bista nodded.

"No need, that fruit has nothing to do with me."

"Whitebeard never owes anyone anything."

Soon, a new Devil Fruit was handed to Dick.

Dick tossed it in his hand, then, under everyone's gaze, threw it back into the sea.

"What a coincidence, I won't take advantage of anyone. Since I said I didn't want that Devil Fruit, I won't accept your compensation."

Now, even Marco and the others looked at Dick with admiration.

A feeling of admiration arose spontaneously.

He casually tossed away the precious Devil Fruit, acting with integrity and honesty. He didn't take advantage of anyone.

It seems that Balrog, like his father, is a true hero of the sea.

“Perhaps we can become friends,” the white-bearded man remarked, reaching out to pick up Dick’s flask, indicating his willingness to talk to Dick.

"However, cooperation is impossible."

The Celestial Dragons are too powerful; Whitebeard would never allow his son to fight to the death with them.

"What a pity," Whitebeard sighed inwardly.

With Dick's charisma and strength, he is fully qualified to be Whitebeard's brother, and even to take over the Whitebeard Pirates a hundred years from now.

But that won't work.

"Hmph, that just means the time isn't right yet. I believe we'll have a day when we can cooperate to deal with the Celestial Dragons," Dick said calmly.

Dick glanced around casually, a slight smile playing on his lips.

……

A day later, using all his might and paddling like a dog, Blackbeard finally arrived at an island.

No one is tracking them.

"Hahaha, Whitebeard, you really are a kind-hearted idiot! And Balrog, you just casually threw away the Dark-Dark Fruit. Hahaha!" Blackbeard laughed wildly.

With the Dark Fruit in hand, the world becomes vast and boundless with a single thought.

"From this day forward, the ocean will be the era of Lao Tzu."

After saying that, Blackbeard swallowed the Dark-Dark Fruit in one gulp.

"Hahaha," Blackbeard was laughing when he suddenly froze, his face contorted as if he wanted to cry.

At the same time, Blackbeard also began to change.

Its once nimble hands became large and rough, its face gradually bulged out, its nose grew bigger, sharp teeth emerged from its mouth, and its body was covered with more pig hair.

This is not the Dark-Dark Fruit, but the Zoan-type Common Boar Fruit.

"Hmph," Blackbeard thought, on the verge of tears.

What should we do now?

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 114. The Sickly Teach

114.

Dick certainly didn't have the Dark-Dark Fruit; he had never found it.

However, he has a wild boar fruit.

It was stolen from Kaido's stronghold back then.

He also killed Forsford, who claimed to be on par with Rob Lucci.

So the question is, how can the Boar Fruit be disguised as the Dark-Dark Fruit?

After all, the Boar Fruit and the Dark-Dark Fruit are completely different.

simple.

First, cut off the excess part of the Boar Fruit so that its shape is the same as the Dark-Dark Fruit.

Devil Fruits are extremely special.

You can gain power simply by taking one bite.

The effect is exactly the same as eating all the Devil Fruits.

Furthermore, once someone has eaten a Devil Fruit, no one else can gain the power from it.

Therefore, place the cut-off fruit parts in a pre-prepared vacuum environment for preservation.

The remaining Devil Fruits do not affect the effect at all; they can still grant the user abilities.

The rest is simple.

Galtino's wax fruit.

Galtino can use wax fruit to create any item at will using wax.

The boar fruit was covered with wax, like a film. The film looked exactly like the Dark-Dark Fruit.

Thus, the counterfeit Dark Fruit was freshly made.

The taste of wax doesn't matter; Dick once asked Bartolomeo and others what the taste of Devil Fruits was like.

Sour, smelly, pungent?

No one could give a precise answer, but it was just awful, even worse than Da Xiang.

So even if it smells like wax, Blackbeard wouldn't suspect anything.

He's never eaten a Devil Fruit.

Dick prepared this Devil Fruit specifically for Blackbeard.

Dick disliked being a cunning old fox hiding in the shadows.

If I have the chance, I'll definitely deal with him first.

Since Blackbeard has been waiting for the Dark-Dark Fruit, Dick will give it to him.

In addition, some special ingredients were added.

Initially, Dick planned to sprinkle a layer of 100% pure sea stone powder on the outside of the wild boar fruit, inside the waxy membrane.

However, there is a concern that Seastone might clash with Devil Fruits, leading to unknown consequences—for example, the Devil Fruit might degenerate into an ordinary fruit, with all its potency going to the portion preserved by Dick.

So Dick decided to add poison.

Dick's divine fire, the fire that devours all poisons, has no temperature whatsoever, and can create and control all poisons in the world.