Devour Everything, Dark Hole

How could Yaen possibly continue ignoring a man like Teach?

Yet just as Shanks had no way to deal with Teach, if Yaen wanted to eliminate him, he would have to destroy the entire Whitebeard Pirates. Otherwise, before Teach revealed his true nature, Whitebeard would never allow an outsider to kill his son.

Therefore, even though Yaen had once told Whitebeard that he felt something was off about Teach, Whitebeard had not developed the slightest suspicion of him, just like any ordinary father. He had even spoken up for Teach a few times.

However, as long as Teach had not truly obtained the power of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, the threat he posed in Yaen's eyes remained limited.

In a certain sense, the Dark-Dark Fruit merely restrained Devil Fruit users to a relative degree. Unfortunately, Yaen was not a Devil Fruit user.

Even if Teach had the potential to truly become the Ocean Overlord in the future, Yaen... had no intention of giving him that opportunity.

Before the plan was about to begin, Teach was also one of the unexpected factors Yaen had to eliminate in advance.

"Gurarara..."

Whitebeard's bold, imposing laughter rang out as he answered Yaen.

"I'll keep my promise. And I want to see what you can accomplish during the opportunity I create for you."

"That's the one thing you don't need to worry about..."

After Yaen spoke calmly and confidently, their brief exchange came to an end.

In fact, this exchange had only been to confirm the current situation. The specific details of the agreed-upon plan had already been told to Whitebeard.

Elsewhere, the battle between Teach and Brook continued. Two utterly different forms of darkness kept colliding.

What shocked Teach, however, was that the Dark-Dark Fruit's dark gravitational force—which could supposedly reduce everything to nothingness—was