Seeing that his last trump card had failed, Blackbeard was utterly desperate.
"You... what kind of monster are you?!"
How dare you call someone a monster?
Senga tightened his grip on Blackbeard's neck, instantly turning his face a deep purplish-red.
"Please, don't kill me! I... I am a member of the Whitebeard Pirates. Aren't you afraid of starting a war with the Whitebeard Pirates if you kill me?"
Blackbeard has no backbone whatsoever, as evidenced by how he was beaten by Whitebeard and had to call him "Dad" in Marineford.
Faced with death, he could no longer care about anything else and even brought up the Whitebeard Pirates in an attempt to make Senga wary.
However, he clearly forgot that the reason Whitebeard allied with Red-Haired was because of Senga, who was standing in front of him.
Senga smiled, pinching his Blackbeard as he spoke.
Do you think I'd be afraid of Whitebeard?
"He's allied with Red-Haired! Can your Navy afford the consequences of fighting two Four Emperors crews at the same time?"
"An alliance? An alliance of the old, weak, sick, and disabled?"
The words "old, weak, sick, and disabled" that Senga uttered immediately froze Blackbeard's expression.
He thought about it and realized that describing the alliance between Whitebeard and Red-Haired as old, weak, sick, and disabled didn't seem to be a problem at all.
Blackbeard knew that "old" and "sick" referred to his father, and "crippled" referred to Shanks, but he really didn't know who "weak" referred to.
Even Blackbeard, who had entered a period of "newbie arrogance" after obtaining the Dark-Dark Fruit, wouldn't dare to label either Whitebeard or Red-Haired as "weak"!
However, for Senga now, both Whitebeard and Red-Haired can be considered "weak".
Perhaps only if all Four Emperors appeared together could Senga even remotely show some interest.
Blackbeard, struggling to breathe as Senga choked him, once again unleashed darkness into a massive black maw, intending to swallow Senga whole.
However, the intensity of the darkness he released was still insufficient. Senga still managed to reduce the giant mouth made of darkness to nothing with just one Shinra Tensei.
However, Blackbeard was really desperate. Since his Dark Maw was ineffective, he used his own mouth to bite down on Senga's arm.
This was something Senga hadn't expected. Seeing Blackbeard's two rows of teeth still covered in food residue, he immediately let go and released Blackbeard.
Having narrowly escaped death, Blackbeard no longer cared about his image and immediately rolled away from Senga.
Senga frowned as she looked at Blackbeard and asked unhappily,
Are you born in the Year of the Rabbit?
Senga asked this because Blackbeard's behavior reminded him of the saying, "Even a rabbit will bite when cornered."
Blackbeard, still reeling from the suffocating feeling, was taken aback by Senga's question and instinctively asked,
"Born in the Year of the Rabbit? What does that mean?"
There are no Pirate World of One Piece, so Blackbeard couldn't understand what Senga meant.
Senga didn't offer any explanation; he had already decided to reclaim the Dark-Dark Fruit.
However, Senga didn't want to run into Blackbeard again this time; who knew what bizarre moves that guy might come up with next?
He extended a finger and pointed it at Blackbeard, a purple ball of lightning appearing at the tip of his finger. Immediately afterwards, a bolt of purple lightning shot out.
"Cero."
This move was inspired by Ulquiorra from Shinigami Senga; both involve compressing powerful energy and then releasing it as a highly penetrating attack.
However, the Cero emitted by Ulquiorra was dark green, while Senga's Cero was deep purple.
Lightning was incredibly fast. Before Blackbeard could even activate his dark defenses, the purple lightning pierced his left chest, causing him to collapse to the ground.
However, Senga did not rush forward to retrieve the Dark-Dark Fruit, because under the Heavenly Net's perception, he sensed that Blackbeard's body was still beating.
Senga looked thoughtfully One Piece Blackbeard lying on the ground. The anatomy of this guy had been described in One Piece before; his body was different from that of a normal person.
Some have speculated that Blackbeard may have more than one heart.
Senga confirmed that the Cero had indeed destroyed Blackbeard's heart, but judging from the current situation, this guy might actually have more than one heart.
As expected, Blackbeard's next move confirmed Senga's guess.
Blackbeard, who had been lying on the ground like a dead dog, suddenly moved. He struggled to get up and looked at Senga with a gloomy gaze.
A small patch of darkness emerged from his body, covering the wound on his left chest.
Before long, the darkness dissipated, and the wound pierced by Senga's Cero had healed, appearing otherwise fine except for the remaining bloodstains.
The Dark-Dark Fruit is an extremely special existence among Logia. It cannot allow the Ability User to become elemental, and it also doubles the pain the Ability User suffers after being attacked.
However, conversely, it can absorb the damage suffered by the Ability User!
In the anime, Blackbeard was pierced through the body by Ace's divine fire, Shiranui, but he absorbed the damage with darkness, and in later battles, no piercing wounds could be seen on his body.
However, if the Ability User a Devil Fruit is killed in one blow, the Blackbeard was able to stand up again was because of his superhuman physique.
From this perspective, the Dark-Dark Fruit is indeed a perfect fit for Blackbeard, as if it were made for him.
After treating his wounds, Blackbeard took a few deep breaths. After all, the pain of having his heart destroyed by lightning was unbearable, let alone double the pain!
He reached out and placed his hand on his right chest, where his other heart was located.
Feeling the heartbeat emanating from it, Blackbeard breathed a sigh of relief. If it weren't for this heart, he would be completely cold by now.
Senga secretly marveled at Blackbeard's unique physique, then extended another finger and aimed it at his right chest. If once wasn't enough, he'd do it again.
Noticing Senga's actions, Blackbeard's expression changed drastically. He quickly released a dark aura to envelop his right chest; if he were to take another Cero from Senga, he would be finished.
After protecting his right chest, Blackbeard was not about to sit and wait for death. Endless darkness spread out beneath his feet as he prepared for a desperate fight.
Raising his right arm, the darkness beneath Blackbeard's feet was drawn towards his palm, eventually forming a pitch-black sphere that looked like a black sun.
Similar to Ace's Flame Emperor, this is his strongest move to date: Dark Emperor!
Senga, intrigued by the familiar sight before him, also raised an arm, and a purple spherical lightning bolt appeared in his palm. It then suddenly enlarged, transforming into a purple sun the same size as the Dark Emperor, with arcs of electricity coiled around it.
Senga named this move "Lightning Emperor"!
The moment the two suns, one black and one purple, appeared, they stirred up a powerful storm, and the next second, the two suns collided.
A deafening explosion rang out, and two energies, one black and one purple, collided like two ferocious beasts. However, the stalemate did not last even a second before the black energy completely overwhelmed the other, leaving only the purple energy covering the entire island.
The raging electric currents pounded the seawater outside the island, stirring up towering waves, seemingly declaring to the ocean who the true emperor was!