Several hours later, a pitch-black figure, unable to hide the blood covering his body, was frantically fleeing across a certain stretch of sea.
"What a joke! I actually lost? And to that one-armed cripple, Red-Haired?"
"Ahhhhh, this is impossible! That's right, it must all be that useless Wave Fruit's fault! If I had the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, I absolutely couldn't have lost!"
But Blackbeard, who had long since grown accustomed to failure, quickly calmed down. "Red-Haired is stronger than me, but only by a hair. As long as I develop the Wave Fruit to the awakened level, there'll be no need for me to fear him!"
"Not to mention, once I eat my third Devil Fruit, even Longinus will be forced to lie at my feet!" Imagining what he would be like after eating his third fruit, Blackbeard's eyes burned with fervor, and he let out a lecherous laugh. "Zehahaha..."
Before he could finish laughing, two figures suddenly flew past him from ahead. They were none other than Redfield and Bullet!
"What are you two..."
Blackbeard asked instinctively, but the two of them charged past him toward whatever lay behind him without slowing down at all.
Seeing how urgently they were moving, Blackbeard instinctively followed them without thinking.
"Wait, what exactly is going on?"
Standing ahead of them, he could see a similar gleam flash through Redfield and Bullet's eyes.
"Do I really need to explain? Longinus is right behind us, of course!"
"Damn it, that guy still hasn't given up!"
Hearing this, Blackbeard couldn't help turning around to look.
The next moment, that nightmare-like figure appeared in his sight once more.
"Damn it! We still ran into him!" Blackbeard cursed loudly, quietly speeding up his escape.
He naturally understood that the key to fleeing wasn't how fast he was, but