Blackbeard's Crisis

The next day, Luffy seemed like a different person.

He silently stood up, silently jumped aboard the Thousand Sunny, and left Rob Village with Zoro and Sanji.

Sanji and Zoro had no idea that someone they did not know had spent the entire night talking with Luffy...

Beehive Island.

For the past few days, Blackbeard had locked himself in his room and refused to see anyone. Aokiji had come to request an audience several times, only to be turned away.

Everyone noticed that something was wrong with Blackbeard, but he was unwilling to communicate with anyone.

Alice was deeply worried about her brother. In Blackbeard's mind, she asked with concern, "Brother, are you all right?"

"If you really feel that something is wrong, why don't we go to the West Sea and find Brother Lin Qi?"

Blackbeard covered his head with the blanket and curled up in the corner of the room, just as he had back at the laboratory in his childhood.

"It's useless, useless. Even finding Lin Qi would be useless. He didn't notice anything wrong when I went to see him last time."

"But I'm certain that something is wrong! Someone must be planning to make a move against me, and that person is dangerous!"

This was the first time in days that Blackbeard had been willing to speak with the sister in his mind. Alice was overjoyed.

If her brother kept ignoring her, she really would have started worrying that something had happened to him.

"Alice, my Dark-Dark Fruit is about to awaken."

"I can sense it. It's right on the verge of awakening."

After remaining silent for days, Blackbeard seemed to have made up his mind. He threw the blanket aside and paced back and forth across the room. He appeared to be talking to