Battle Beast!!
The frenzied battle beast bowed his body, his blood-soaked form and boiling fighting spirit... filling Blackbeard, the target of it all, with fear.
If he stayed here any longer... he would definitely die.
He had to get away. Even if it meant abandoning this operation, he had to escape.
Right now, he was no match for this battle beast.
If he remained here, only one fate awaited him—to be bitten to death by this beast born for battle!!
He had to escape first, then find a way to kill him. He had to take it slowly. He absolutely could not underestimate this boy again like he had today.
Blackbeard made his decision in secret, his eyes searching in every direction. Yet despair crept into his heart, because... he might no longer be able to escape.
Even without seeing them, he could sense it—the unseen areas around them were already filled with Marines. All of it had been accomplished without a sound.
Blackbeard could not help but curse Sengoku's ruthlessness. Even if this had merely been an accident, that old man known as the Wise General had completed his deployment in an instant.
If they chose not to kill, so be it. But if they did, they would completely eliminate any chance of escape.
Even if they could not act because of the World Government, such a deployment would still seal off every route of retreat. If Blackbeard was not mistaken, his pirate ship, his crew... had likely already been driven away.
The warships at the harbor had surely left the docks as well, trapping him—a man unable to swim—on this island.
These measures had begun the moment the two met. There had been no hesitation, no noise, and before he knew it, he had been driven into a