No Choice Left!

"Zehahahahaha! Why are you all staring at me like that?! I originally wanted to get along with you as an ordinary man.

"But since it's already been exposed, I'll just say it outright. I'm Rocks's son!!

"I don't think this means much, though. What matters now is who's stronger and whose fists are bigger, not whose child someone is!!"

Blackbeard knew very well that he could invoke Rocks's name and say something here.

But he also felt that doing so would be somewhat inappropriate.

If he used Rocks's name to make a statement,

then based on Bai Ye's earlier assessment of him,

it would become troublesome. It could be said that this matter itself truly did not live up to Rocks's former prestige.

Of course, Blackbeard himself knew what kind of man Rocks had been!

If he had not forgotten that matter back then, perhaps the outcome would have been different?

That was only Blackbeard's speculation. Besides, it had already ended in failure. There was basically no point in fantasizing about the past anymore.

It was just somewhat regrettable that his strength could not compare to Rocks's. Bai Ye had not been wrong about that at all.

No matter how he felt about it, could Bai Ye's words possibly carry less authority than his own?!

Bai Ye had once been a member of the Rocks Pirates. Even now, many members of the Breaking Dawn Pirates had once belonged to the Rocks Pirates.

And Bai Ye was now known as the strongest man in the world.

From that perspective, what Bai Ye had said was practically a brand burned into Blackbeard's body.

At least before he resolved this matter, if he was not prepared to deal with it properly, it could hardly be considered good news for him.

Since that was