"Everything will be absorbed in the face of darkness, including power."
Blackbeard's right hand drew things in with gravity, and his aura surged. At incredible speed, he seized the Golden Warrior.
But something felt off.
It was stiff.
There was a cold, metallic feel to it.
And the evil aura burning around its body seemed purely decorative—impressive to look at, but useless.
"How is this possible?"
"You're not an ability user."
After grabbing the Golden Warrior,
Blackbeard's expression changed in shock.
His Dark-Dark Fruit revealed that there was no Devil Fruit power inside his opponent. But the whole world knew that the Golden Emperor was a Paramecia-type Gold-Gold Fruit user.
That was no secret.
So why couldn't the Dark-Dark Fruit detect the Devil Fruit power inside the Golden Emperor?
There was only one answer: the Golden Emperor wasn't a Devil Fruit user.
What a joke.
No~
This wasn't the Golden Emperor himself.
It was a Golden Warrior under his control.
The sensation in his hand and what he sensed brought Blackbeard back to his senses. He had followed the incident in the Liquor Kingdom.
When the Golden Emperor first appeared, it hadn't been him in person, but a golden puppet under his control.
The Dark-Dark Fruit's ability could only suppress a Devil Fruit user's power if it grabbed the user himself. But the Golden Emperor wasn't here in person—this was only a puppet being controlled remotely.
The Dark-Dark Fruit couldn't travel through the internet to nullify the Golden Emperor's power.
Nor could it sever the connection between this puppet and the Golden Emperor.
"Looks like you figured it out!"
Seeing Blackbeard's shifting expression and the pained look on his face, as if he'd eaten shit, the evil aura vanished from the Golden Warrior's body, revealing its true appearance.
Its entire