Blackbeard's Mystery

"It hurts so much!"

With his arm severed, Blackbeard collapsed to the ground, writhing in agony as he clutched the blood-gushing stump.

The empress took the opportunity to retreat quickly, then threw the arm that was still choking her neck to the ground, and then caught her breath.

"Cifer? What brings you here!"

Rayleigh dissipated the terrifying aura emanating from his body, feeling both puzzled and slightly relieved.

Now that this man has arrived, there's nothing left for me to do.

"I was wondering if this guy would try to cause trouble in the chaos, and I was right."

Cifer, wielding the Banlong, slowly walked out from the source of the sword mark on the ground.

"Black Winged Great Demon..."

Koby, who was hailed as the new naval hero, couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.

"We should have brought the Seraphim along..."

He believed that he was different from two years ago, that he had become much stronger, and that he and the Vice Admiral the Akainu would definitely be able to successfully complete the mission.

But Boa Hancock alone left them at a loss; upon seeing this man, the suffocating feeling they had felt years ago seemed to surge back.

"Cifer, it's been a long time!"

After struggling on the ground for a while, the Blackbeard, his forehead covered in sweat, struggled to his feet. A wisp of black smoke curled around the severed part of his arm, which had miraculously stopped the bleeding!

"It has indeed been a long time. In fact, I have wanted to see you for a long time, but you have not given me the chance."

Cifer stood in front of the group, looking at Blackbeard as if he were a dead man.

"Teach! Shouldn't we run away?"

One of the Level 6 fugitives, the infamous "Evil King" Avalo Pizarro, who is 5 meters tall and has bull-like horns on his head, just wants to leave this place.

As someone who once roamed the seas, although he verbally disregarded the Sea Emperor and the Pirate King, he would still have to back down if he actually encountered them.

"Scumbag, it's not your turn to speak yet."

Cifer casually unleashed a sword aura, heading straight for Pizarro.

Armament Haki: Hardening!

The latter hurriedly channeled his domineering Haki into his arms and then held them in front of his chest.

Even so, he was still blasted more than ten meters away by the astonishing sword energy and embedded in a wall.

"You're kidding..."

Katarina Depon, the "Crescent Hunter" who was standing next to Pizarro, only felt a strong gust of wind before the person next to her was sent flying.

She began to look around Xizhou, thinking about how she could escape from here.

If an opponent is unmatched, then it is best not to be their enemy.

"How did you know I was here? Even Shiryu and the others shouldn't have known!"

Blackbeard ignored his subordinates behind him and stared at Cifer with hatred in his eyes.

He's been hiding for so long, just waiting for his chance.

He wanted many fruits, such as the Tremor-Tremor Fruit and the Ice-Ice Fruit, but the only one he was somewhat confident he could obtain was the Empress's.

But just to be on the safe side, he waited for the right opportunity, and only dared to set foot on the island when he discovered that the navy was coming to capture her.

But to my surprise, I ran into the person I least wanted to see right away.

Instead of asking pointless questions, satisfy my curiosity, like how you survived? Was it related to that?

The Banlong raised his sword, the tip pointing at Blackbeard's severed arm, which had now stopped bleeding.

"Thief~ Hahahaha~ Do you think I'd tell you?!"

Blackbeard began to emit black energy, covering the ground, and a large area of darkness surged towards Cifer's feet.

"They really don't learn their lesson; this trick won't work on me."

The darkness remained as it always had, stopping a few steps in front of Cifer.

"Of course I know!"

"Liberation!"

Suddenly, a large amount of rubble and sword fragments surged up from the darkness, crashing towards Cifer and obscuring his vision.

Are you kidding me?

This attack, which was like throwing stones in a game, greatly displeased Cifer. He swung his right hand, which was gripping the Banlong, horizontally, and the intense pressure of the sword shattered everything.

"Um?"

But after all the debris was broken, Cifer found himself in complete darkness.

The darkness extending from the ground, unable to reach him, simply rose up in all directions, enveloping him in a sphere.

"Cifer!"

Hancock was a little worried, wondering if she should go forward to save him.

"Don't worry, Cifer is far more powerful than you imagine."

Rayleigh put his hand on her shoulder to comfort her.

As the former right-hand man of the king, he understands all too well the significance of Cifer's current achievements.

"Teach! Let's all attack and kill him!"

Mud was already starting to rise from Pizarro's legs, and he seemed to see himself and his companions taking down one of the Western Emperors.

"Run! How can you possibly defeat a monster like that!"

Blackbeard had already taken off, running at his fastest speed ever into the forest.

"Huh?!"

Before Pizarro and Katarina could even react, their captain had already run far away, and the Wolf was also making his way, making the whole island seem to be shaking.

"You've really shown me the idiom 'able to bend and stretch' perfectly, Blackbeard!"

With a gentle touch of Cifer's hand, the seemingly terrifying darkness shattered and vanished into thin air, as light as paper.

Looking at the guy who had almost disappeared from sight, Cifer couldn't help but laugh in exasperation.

"Gone?!"

Blackbeard ran while looking back, only to find that the other party had broken free from his dark predicament in an instant, and had suddenly disappeared in the blink of an eye.

"Teach! You're ahead of me!"

Pizarro, who was following behind, suddenly pointed in the direction he was going and shouted.

"Puff!"

Blackbeard, still running at full speed, was pierced through the chest by Cifer's palm, but due to inertia, he continued forward until Cifer's entire forearm passed through his body.

"Rip!"

As Cifer pulled out his arm, a large amount of blood gushed out like a ribbon, splattering all over the ground.

"Are you interested in talking now? Or... should we just die first?"

Blackbeard had already knelt on the ground, Cifer casually flicked his hand, making the bloodstains on it disappear.

"Run!"

Seeing that things were not going well, the other three went their separate ways.

"Look this way."

The Empress's haughty voice rang out, and Pizarro and Katarina couldn't help but turn their gazes to her.

"So beautiful~"

Even during their escape, the two were still captivated by Hancock's charming appearance and her long legs exposed by her high-slit dress, their pupils turning into heart shapes.

"Mero Mero Mellow ~"

She made a heart shape with her hands in front of her, and a pink beam of light shot out, instantly turning the two people into stone statues.

"How terrifying... this is hell!"

The Wolf glanced back and saw that three of the Westerners had been killed in an instant. He just wanted to get away from this place of trouble as soon as possible.

"Honestly, at your age, I still have to do it myself."

A sword aura shot into the sky, leaving a huge bloody gash on the chest of the Wolf. He then fell to the ground, clutching his wound and groaning.

Rayleigh calmly sheathed his long sword.