"What do we do? Kill him outright?"
Sabo looked at Blackbeard, who was soaked in water before them and too weak to resist, and asked.
"Killing him outright would be meaningless..."
Dragon shook his head slightly. "Let's wait a while. Once the World Government and the Navy leave, he'll be our greeting gift to the shogun of Wano Country."
The Blackbeard Pirates had not been established for long to begin with, and the crew had come together entirely on the expectation of Blackbeard Teach's future potential. Now that he himself had been lost, the entire group instantly teetered on the brink of falling apart.
But in front of Araki, they couldn't run even if they wanted to.
Before long, after a round of friendly negotiations, they all voluntarily put on Seastone handcuffs and followed Araki back to the Flower Capital.
When they returned, Araki was still a little worried that the World Government would demand this group from him. After all, quite a few members of the Blackbeard Pirates had escaped from the great prison, Impel Down, even including the chief jailer, Shiryu of the Rain.
Fortunately, the government did not seem to care much about that matter, and Kizaru was the type to stay aloof from anything that had nothing to do with him. Both sides tacitly ignored the issue and completed the final signing of the Seastone trade agreement.
After seeing off Kizaru and his party, Araki immediately met with the Revolutionary Army.
Dragon and Sabo walked into the Sword Pavilion carrying Blackbeard, whom they had knocked unconscious.
"Lord Araki, this is our greeting gift to you."
Looking at Blackbeard, who had been thrown to the floor, Araki was not surprised. He merely smiled and nodded. "You went to the trouble."
With his Observation Haki, the