A Close Call... I Almost Died

Although it was different from the Tremor-Tremor Fruit that Teach had initially envisioned, as long as he obtained this ability that made all things age and perish.

Teach could still make up for his severe lack of offensive power and continue with the next step of his plan. He might even be able to defeat Old Man head-on. Making Old Man experience this feeling of instant aging and death seemed to be not...

It was at that moment that Teach widened his eyes and clearly watched his fingers touch Brook's bones.

"I won!"

However, unlike the scene Teach had expected, where the "aura of death" would instantly dissipate, everything... seemed unchanged!

"Huh?" Brook lowered his head and looked at his bones.

"Ah!!!"

As Teach frantically backed away, he began to let out a heart-wrenching scream. His body started aging and disintegrating at a speed visible to the naked eye, beginning with his limbs.

"AAAAAAAH~~~"

Along with Teach's agonized screams, his eyes had nearly rolled completely upward, while saliva uncontrollably dribbled from his mouth.

This was the price of the Dark-Dark Fruit's doubled pain. And just as Teach had said, every ability possessed a certain limit.

Thus, as the damage Teach was forcibly enduring exceeded his own limits, his body rapidly began to age while he suffered pain far beyond the limits of a human being.

Brook still had yet to fully recover his senses. His hollow eye sockets stared at Teach, who lay on the ground screaming nonstop until his voice became completely hoarse and no sound could come out. Somewhat dumbfounded, he muttered to himself.

"I... won just like that?"

Suddenly, Yaen's voice rang out from behind Brook.

"That's right. You won."

"Ah???"

Brook extended his finger bones and scratched his skull without the slightest bit of the Skull