At the much-anticipated finals of the World's Strongest Martial Arts Tournament.
Although Akainu Sakazuki possessed a monstrous physique and had awakened Conqueror's Haki.
He had only just mastered the power of basic Haki infusion.
Even Sun God Nika, who possessed advanced Haki infusion, had been unable to outlast Blackbeard Teach.
Against Blackbeard Teach's shameless tactics using the abilities of three Fruits.
Akainu Sakazuki struggled on for five days and five nights, but in the end, he collapsed from exhaustion without even taking a single one of Blackbeard Teach's lives.
"Zehahahaha!! I did it!!"
As Akainu Sakazuki fell unwillingly, Blackbeard Teach burst into unrestrained laughter.
Tears even welled up in his eyes.
The road to this point had truly not been easy!
Back then, his mother, Marshall D. Alice, had fled God Valley with him in a miserable state and returned to her homeland, the Lulusia Kingdom.
But Saint Garling and the other Holy Knights had been beaten horribly by Rocks at God Valley, losing every shred of face they had.
If the Holy Knights had not possessed immortal bodies, Rocks might have already killed them all.
Thus, the Holy Knights, long accustomed to looking down on everyone from above, had gone madly after Alice and Teach to take revenge on Rocks.
Their brutality far surpassed even the Marines' hunt for the pregnant Rouge. Anyone remotely suspicious was slaughtered without exception.
Whether they were Alice's family and friends, strangers who had helped them, or even ordinary merchants who had sold them something, every last one of them was killed.
Back when Blackbeard Teach had wept as he clung to Whitebeard's leg, swearing he would join the Whitebeard Pirates at all costs, it had not only been because doing so gave him a greater chance of obtaining the Dark-Dark Fruit.
It was