Chapter 979: This Fruit Was Meant to Be Mine "Begin!"
The referee announced it at the top of his lungs.
"Haaaaah!!!"
Luffy vanished from where he stood!
Nika-Gear Fifth!
His black hair turned snow-white in an instant!
His rubber fist swelled to its limit and hurtled toward Blackbeard.
"Kurararara! Come on!"
Blackbeard did not back down. With the power of tremors and Armament Haki wrapped around both fists, he met the blow head-on.
BOOOOM!!!
Their fists collided with tremendous force!
A terrifying shock wave erupted from the two of them, spreading wildly outward!
The arena floor cracked, inch by inch!
This battle was extraordinarily fierce.
Both men forgot everything else and unleashed every ounce of their strength.
Luffy's wildly imaginative fists of Nika.
And Blackbeard's destructive, all-devouring powers of darkness and tremors.
They clashed again and again.
"Kurararara! Is that all you've got, Straw Hat Boy?"
Blackbeard hurled a punch and laughed hoarsely.
"You want to claim that fruit?"
"You want to reach that sea?"
"You're nowhere near ready!"
"Oh, yeah?"
Luffy roared, and his elastic fist twisted around Blackbeard's defenses as though it were alive.
BAM!!!
The punch struck Blackbeard square in the face.
Its power far surpassed that of an ordinary blow.
Blackbeard's enormous body staggered backward as though a cannonball had struck him head-on.
The soles of his boots plowed two deep furrows into the hard arena floor.
Broken stones flew out from under his feet.
"Kurararara!"
Blackbeard wiped the corner of his mouth. A cut had opened there, and blood dripped down his chin.
Yet he was still laughing.
His laughter was as arrogant as ever.
"Not bad, kid."
He licked the blood from the corner of his mouth, his eyes fixed on the boy opposite him.
"You really do have a few tricks."
But just