Pirate: I'm an admiral now, what's wrong with taking a little extra money?

"Do you want to know how to get to the final island, Newgate?"

"Not interested."

Whitebeard used the last of his breaths to lift his chest high.

The sound traveled across battlefields, pierced through clouds, and reached broadcast screens around the world.

“ONE PIECE——!”

Whitebeard's roar shook the sea.

"It really exists!"

This roar shattered the Navy's decades-long blockade and poured hot oil on the fire Roger had ignited.

The words fell.

The head of the world's strongest man slowly drooped.

The breath of life has completely dissipated.

he died.

But his legs were firmly planted on the shattered ground of Marineford, his body remaining in the same position as when he was alive.

The sea breeze lifted the white cloak.

That broad back was exposed to the whole world.

It was as smooth as new, without a single scratch.

This is irrefutable proof that he never backed down in his life.

"Dad—!!!"

The remaining pirates, who had retreated to a distance, knelt down, banged their heads on the ice, and wailed loudly.

Tears mingled with blood, and cries echoed throughout the air.

Marco covered his face with his hands, blood and tears streaming through his fingers.

Joz pounded the ice with his fists.

Chapter 286 Are you out of your mind to act so arrogantly?

As Teach watched the white-bearded man die, the corners of his mouth stretched into an ever-widening grin.

He strode forward and ran to the still-standing, broken body.

"Hahaha! Dad, I'll accept your abilities without hesitation!"

Teach pulled a huge piece of black cloth from his chest and waved it with both hands.

A thick black curtain descended from the sky, completely enveloping the white-bearded corpse, and his fat, bloated body was also swallowed up by it.

The entire room fell silent.

Whether it was the 100,000 G-5 marines in the inner bay or the remaining pirates who had retreated to the safe zone, they all held their breath and stared intently at the strangely bulging black cloth.

"What is he doing? Is he desecrating Dad's body?!"

Marco's eyes widened in fury as he struggled to get up, but he was held down firmly by Vista.

"Don't go there! That's suicide!"

Ten seconds.

This brief period felt like centuries to everyone.

Stab it!

The black cloth was suddenly torn from the inside by a thick arm.

Teach stepped across the ruins and reappeared in everyone's sight.

He kept his head down, his shoulders shaking violently at an odd frequency.

"Hehehe...hehehehehe!"

The laughter went from low to manic, and finally turned into hysterical laughter.

Teach raised his hands.

Dark water surged wildly in the palm of his left hand, swallowing up light the instant it touched it, and even space itself was distorted by gravity.

His right fist was clenched, and the white aura was compressed to an extreme degree at the joint. The vibrational force, powerful enough to shatter the laws of the world, emitted a teeth-grinding buzzing sound.

The most vicious Dark-Dark Fruit among Logia-type Devil Fruits!

The Tremor-Tremor Fruit, the most destructive Paramecia-type Devil Fruit!

Two completely different ultimate powers awaken simultaneously within the same person.

"How is this possible?!"

"How can someone eat two Devil Fruits without their body collapsing?!"

Zefa gasped as he stood on the dilapidated execution platform.

On broadcast screens across islands around the world, gasps and screams filled the air.

"Did you see that?! Did you feel it?!"

Teach tilted his head back, his fat face filled with extreme arrogance and conceit.

"The strongest defense, the strongest attack! No one can stop me on this vast ocean anymore!"

He stood with his legs apart and suddenly slammed his right fist into the air.

Click—!

The atmosphere was instantly covered with spiderweb-like cracks.

The violent shockwaves spread outwards in a fan shape, sweeping away the remaining naval gatehouse with overwhelming force.

The earth groaned as a tsunami, hundreds of meters high, instantly formed off the coast of Marineford and crashed down upon the battered fortress.

"Dad..."

Joz's eye socket ruptured, and he bit his teeth until they bled.

The murderer of his father stole his father's wealth and flaunted it in front of them.

This is worse than killing them.

"Hahaha! Marineford has no reason to exist anymore!"

Teach extended both arms simultaneously; his left hand unleashed dark water that swallowed up rubble, while his right hand shook and tore apart the earth's crust.

"The era of Whitebeard is over! Now..."

He grinned, revealing his toothless mouth.

"This is the era of Lao Tzu, Blackbeard!"

Boom!

Before Teach could finish speaking, a muffled explosion came from the bottom of the abyss that split Marineford in two.

Immediately afterwards, a dark red beam of light pierced through the rock layer and shot straight into the sky!

The scalding lava flowed upwards like a fountain, instantly evaporating the seawater pouring into the abyss into a sky full of high-temperature white steam.

"You dare to spout such nonsense? Do you really think the Marine Headquarters is a place where trash like you can run wild?!"

A voice filled with murderous intent and brutality emanated from the mist.

Teach's maniacal laughter suddenly froze, cold sweat beaded on his forehead, and he involuntarily took a half-step back.

A dark red afterimage shot out from the abyss and crashed heavily onto the ice surface less than thirty meters in front of Teach.

Sakassky.

His appearance at that moment was truly tragic.

Half of his face was mangled and bloody from the earlier blow from the white-bearded man, his left arm hung limply at his sides, and countless ribs were broken in his chest.

But those eyes were still filled with murderous intent.

"Admiral Akainu! He's crawled out from underground!" The marines of G-5 roared in a frenzy.

"He's still alive? Is he even human...?" Shiryu bit his cigar, his hand instinctively gripping the hilt of his sword.

Sakazuki spat out a mouthful of blood, turned his head, and glanced at Kuzan and Borsalino in the distance.

"Kuzan, Borsalino."

Sakazuki's voice was hoarse, "Never mind this place. That brat Luffy, and Marco, we absolutely cannot let them get away."

"We must nip all variables in the bud."

Kuzan exhaled a puff of white breath. "Understood."

Borsalino transformed into a dazzling photon, floating into the air, his lips curling into an utterly cold smile: "They must die here today."

The two admirals set off simultaneously, transforming into two streaks of light, one blue and one yellow, completely ignoring Blackbeard and rapidly pursuing the direction in which the pirates had retreated.

"As for you..."

Sakazuki slowly turned his head, staring intently at Teach as if he were looking at a corpse.

The temperature of the magma reached its peak at that moment.

"You're just trash who stole the power of the remnants of the old era. I'll take your life!"

"Netherhound!"

There was no power buildup.

Sakazuki stomped his foot and shot out.

Extreme high temperature and extreme speed are perfectly combined.

He wanted to melt Teach on the spot with one blow.

Teach's eyelids twitched violently.