"What are you doing?!!"
"Hades, have you gone insane?!!!"
Faced with this sudden turn of events, no one had time to react.
Cold sweat covered their faces as the Black Crew members all took a step back, staring at the axe wrapped in flowing red Ryou.
They never would have imagined that Hades would betray them at a time like this.
The fastest to react was Shiryu, who stood nearby with a cigar clenched between his teeth and a black blade in hand.
"So that's it. You'd been harboring evil intentions from the very beginning?"
As the Black Crew's original Emperor's First Mate, Shiryu possessed the two essential traits of an Emperor's First Mate: calmness and reliability. He immediately drew his sword and slashed straight at Hades.
But a hand wrapped in Armament Haki directly caught the blade.
"What..."
Shiryu felt an immense force travel through his sword, and cold sweat instantly poured down his face.
What kind of Armament Haki and physical strength was this?!!!
Was this still that...
Reckless brute who was only slightly weaker than Teach?!!!
Blackbeard was carved up by Hades's twin axes wrapped in Ryou. The pain sent him rolling across the ground several times before he looked up at the man in whom he had placed such high hopes, his expression stunned and ugly.
His body trembled with rage as milky-white shockwaves appeared around his fist. He punched the air.
The terrifying power of the Tremor-Tremor shook the earth and mountains, expressing his fury and disappointment.
Yet Hades remained remarkably calm in the face of shockwaves like a natural disaster, powerful enough to shatter a massive island.
Then he slowly removed his sunglasses.
Beneath the sunglasses...
Were a pair of pupils blazing with scarlet light.
"This is...?!!!"
An inexplicable sense of death and familiar