Couldn't Garp and Shanks do it? Was there any reason he couldn't?
In the end, a man like that was merely an ambitious tyrant, not The Hegemon!
Ordinary Group Owner: "That may be true, but this could happen in any pirate crew—except Pops's crew. It's truly incomprehensible there."
Ordinary Group Owner: "Everyone in Pops's crew treated each other like family. If Teach had told Thatch he wanted the Dark-Dark Fruit, would Thatch really have refused to give it to him?"
Ordinary Group Owner: "He might even have laughed and handed the Dark-Dark Fruit to Teach, joking that Teach had to find him a good Devil Fruit someday."
Ordinary Group Owner: "Teach didn't even ask. He went straight for the kill without hesitation. He had never cared about the familial bond of the Whitebeard Pirates, and perhaps had never trusted Thatch and the others at all."
Boil Daigo Into Soup: "Of course he could have asked. He simply wasn't willing to allow even the slightest possibility of something going wrong."
Boil Daigo Into Soup: "In his eyes, the Dark-Dark Fruit was far more important than the bonds he had with the Whitebeard Pirates."
Worst Spirit: "But I have to admit that people like him can go further."
To achieve their goals, they stopped at nothing.
Such people were the most terrifying, and their achievements were equally unimaginable.
But in stories, people like that often met no good end.
Richest Man in the Lighthouse: "I'm more curious whether Teach would really have stayed with the Whitebeard Pirates for the rest of his life if the Dark-Dark Fruit had never appeared."
Richest Man in the Lighthouse: "If that had happened, Ace wouldn't have been captured, the Summit War wouldn't have happened, and the Whitebeard Pirates would still exist."
Be My Son: "But unfortunately,