Exposure! A Dual-Fruit User!

In the end, it all came down to Ron.

He had stopped Teach from dreaming indefinitely, turning his life into a two-year countdown and trying to crush him with despair.

At first, Teach had indeed done exactly that.

He began searching for Dyna Stone, intending to destroy the New World and drag the entire world down with him!

...Then Ron followed the trail straight to his door, exposing the plan and turning him into a hunted rat.

But after that battle, Teach instead came to his senses.

Why should he despair?

What he had lost were his limbs, not his brain.

Just as what he had lost was merely Whitebeard as a goal, not his heart that dreamed.

Since he could not obtain the Tremor-Tremor Fruit's power as planned, and his original goal could not be achieved, then...

Whoosh!

A bone spike shot out. A visible disc-shaped ripple appeared in the air, proving that the spike's speed had compressed the air solid in an instant, forming an "air wall."

But that was not what surprised Ron the most. At the same time, a ring of black smoke slowly emerged from Teach's palm.

"The Dark-Dark Fruit!!"

"Zehahahahaha, that's right!"

Teach roared, and unimaginable, terrifying gravitational force erupted from his palm.

"Didn't expect that, Azure Dragon? You did everything you could to stop me from obtaining the Dark-Dark Fruit, but now it's still inside me!"

Crack!

Ron drove the Thunder Halberd into the ground with his backhand, stopping himself from being pulled over.

The Dark-Dark Fruit was known as the most vicious fruit in history. Ron could not have been clearer about its abilities.

But because of that movement, Ron paused for a moment. The incoming bone spikes seized the chance to pierce into his chest and explode.

Bang!!

Creak...!

The bone