Eating a Second Devil Fruit

The first half of the Grand Line.

A certain island.

Inside a tavern.

"Gai!"

His mutter was filled with hatred, as though he wanted to tear Gai limb from limb and drink his blood.

Blackbeard stared at the newspaper in his hands. It reported the destruction of Big Mom.

The fall of the Explosion Monarch and Big Mom had made him see hope once again.

That hope was becoming one of the Four Emperors.

He was already a user of two types of Devil Fruits. As long as he gathered Lafitte and the others again, he could certainly claim a place among the Four Emperors.

However, Blackbeard still had some doubts.

He remembered clearly that Gild Tesoro was Diga. He had gone undercover by his side for several years, and after being captured, he had been studied by a mad scientist. But for some reason, when he woke up, he had found himself on an island somewhere along the Grand Line.

To be safe, he had wandered from place to place before returning to this island.

He had no memory at all of how he had escaped Gold City.

But no matter what, he had escaped.

He had lost to Gild Tesoro back then because he had only just eaten the Explosion-Explosion Fruit and hadn't had time to develop its powers. But things were different now.

Give him a little time, and with the Dark-Dark Fruit and the Explosion-Explosion Fruit, he would be invincible.

Besides, the two vacant seats among the Four Emperors had practically been made for him.

He would make Gild Tesoro pay tenfold for the humiliation he had suffered.

His top priority now was to get back in touch with Lafitte, Doc Q, and the others!

As long as he was alive, he had a chance to