Teach struggled futilely on the beach. Black mist seeped out through Mu Chen's fingers, yet it could not even stain Mu Chen's cuffs black.
Teach's face swelled to the color of liver, and his toothless mouth ground with a clattering sound.
"Let go!
"Let go of me!
"You dare push me around like this? I'm one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea too! You can't kill me!"
Even now, Teach still wanted to use his status as one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea to make Mu Chen release him. After all, the Seven Warlords of the Sea were supposedly aligned with the Marines.
Mu Chen sneered. The hand around Teach's neck suddenly tightened, and with a crisp crack, Teach's throat bone was nearly crushed.
"Argh!"
Teach cried out in agony.
The next second, Mu Chen slammed Teach onto the beach as though throwing away trash. Then he planted a foot on Teach's chest and ground down, speaking the harshest words in the calmest tone. "You? You beat some Ace and now you don't know your own name?"
The bloody foam Teach coughed up splattered across Mu Chen's shoes. He struggled to raise his head, but that shoe pinned him firmly into the sand.
"Didn't you say the Dark-Dark Fruit could restrain everything?"
Mu Chen bent down, his scarlet Rinnegan inches away as he stared Teach down. "So why don't you even have the strength to fight back now? Where did that arrogant attitude of yours go?"
Teach felt as though his eyeballs were about to burst. Black mist from his left hand surged wildly toward Mu Chen's ankle, only to turn into green smoke the instant it touched his pant leg.
Only then did he realize that the ability he had been so proud of was nothing