After returning from the harbor, Blackbeard's only action was slaughtering Marines around the outskirts.
That way, he wouldn't have to worry about being targeted by the Marines' top fighters, while also creating a vicious and powerful image to build his reputation.
It could be said that he was obtaining the richest results at the smallest risk.
Even though several members of his crew wanted to test themselves against the Shichibukai Hancock and Bartholomew Kuma, Blackbeard himself didn't really care.
After all, from their position, they could reach the island's coast in one step from the side.
If they wanted to flee, they only had to seize a warship from the island's outer coast.
Most importantly, the Marines' main forces were far away and basically posed no threat to them.
In other words, they were sitting pretty.
But despite all his calculations, Blackbeard had never expected Maud to be insane enough to teleport them directly into the Marines' encirclement.
The main reason was that Blackbeard simply couldn't remember how he had offended Maud.
Not only had Maud ruined his plan to seize the Tremor-Tremor ability, but he was now setting him up to die!
That alone would have been bad enough.
But the hell? You got out of the encirclement, yet you still threw the spectators into it?
That was way too unreasonable.
"Maud, you bastard..."
"Bang, bang...!"
Blackbeard's stomach was full of resentment, but before he could turn it into curses aimed at Maud, Marine gunfire interrupted him.
Bullets wrapped in heat shot toward everyone in the Blackbeard Pirates.
Although the Marines were astonished by Maud's outrageous maneuver, they were elites, at least.
They figured that the Blackbeard Pirates were a dangerous crew, so they decided to take advantage of this opportunity to eliminate them.
For a moment, the attacks