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"Do something, quick!"

"I can't hold on much longer!"

Teach's entire body trembled, veins bulging across his skin, making him look utterly terrifying.

Bullet stepped forward. "What do you want me to do?"

"I don't know!"

Teach let out a roar. "Do anything! Otherwise, the experiment is doomed to fail!"

Teach might not have wanted to absorb Luffy's Rubber-Rubber Fruit.

But he did not want the experiment to fail and get himself killed by Bullet, that madman, bringing his fate to an early end in this hellhole.

Bullet made his decision in less than three seconds.

A hazy purple glow rapidly surged from his body.

The Combine-Combine Fruit's power activated at full force.

Smack!

His huge palms pressed down onto Luffy's body.

Hazy purple light continuously poured from him, flooding into Luffy's body like wave after wave of the tide.

He intended to use his Combine-Combine Fruit to break Luffy's body apart, then rearrange and recombine it!

Perhaps that would weaken the connection between the Rubber-Rubber Fruit and this body.

As Bullet's power output reached its peak.

Chaotic purple light surged forth, instantly scattering the surrounding black currents and making the entire dark chamber blaze with dazzling radiance.

"Cellular Recombination!!"

Bullet shouted, curling his hands around the air before pulling them apart!

With a tearing sound!

Under Teach's horrified gaze, on the verge of a scream.

Luffy's body split apart, torn to pieces by endless purple light.

Just as Teach thought Bullet had flown into a rage and was deliberately venting his frustration.

The dismembered corpse rapidly shattered, splitting into tiny cube-shaped particles.

Like a heap of loose sand, or scattered building blocks.

Luffy's entire body spread out, turning into countless tiny particles strewn across the table.

"Try it."

Bullet said coldly.

Teach's body jolted, and only then did he come back to his senses.

The black vortex began spinning madly again.

The countless particles that had become Luffy's body rose into the air, caught by the black currents and gathering in Teach's left palm like sand piling into a tower.

Strands of black current burrowed deep into those tiny particles.

Soon, delight appeared on Teach's face, and he let out a slight sigh of relief.

He could feel a faint resistance appearing in his left hand, resisting the Dark-Dark Fruit's pull.

As the suction continued to increase, Teach held on for a full five more minutes.

Just as he gritted his teeth and prepared to give up, countless tiny particles finally came pouring down.

His left palm closed, his five fingers seeming to clutch a violently beating heart.

The Rubber-Rubber Fruit ability struggled far more fiercely than the one in the Jailer Beasts—more than ten times as fiercely!

Teach's brows knitted tightly.

"Was the Rubber-Rubber Fruit really a trash fruit?"

For some reason, that question suddenly surfaced in Teach's mind.

"Rattle!"

Bullet curled his hands around the air, and countless particles gathered together, reforming Luffy's original body.

This was the first time he had ever used Cellular Recombination on another person's body.

The recombination process was simple.

But the initial splitting had been far more difficult than he had imagined.

The Combine-Combine Fruit's abilities mainly lay in combining things.

If he could also contain multiple Devil Fruit abilities like Teach.

Then the second ability most suitable for him would undoubtedly be...

While Bullet was deep in thought, Teach's ability-transfer experiment had already reached its final stage.

He suddenly raised his trembling left hand and slammed the palm with its curled fingers straight into his own chest.

That was right.

He had slammed it deep into his chest!

A large patch of black current appeared on his chest, allowing his left hand to pass through without any obstruction.

When he pulled his left hand back out, his five fingers had already relaxed.

The dark area on his chest vanished, and his body was completely unharmed.

That invisible Rubber-Rubber Fruit ability had been sealed inside him.

At nearly the same instant, his right hand slammed heavily onto Luffy's chest.

His entire right hand likewise passed through the darkness around Luffy's heart and entered his body.

His right hand withdrew, the darkness disappeared, and Luffy lay quietly there. Even his clothes were completely undamaged.

Teach closed his eyes and carefully sensed the second Devil Fruit ability that had appeared inside his body.

"Damn it... I don't want this Paramecia Rubber-Rubber Fruit!"

"I want the Tremor-Tremor Fruit!! Fuck!"

After silently howling in misery for a while, Teach somewhat dejectedly resigned himself to it.

"I wonder if I can contain two Paramecia Fruit abilities at once..."

Bullet cast a sidelong glance at the dispirited Teach.

If Blackbeard knew the Rubber-Rubber Fruit's true name, he would probably be laughing to himself.

Zoan, Mythical Zoan, Human-Human Fruit, Sun God Nika Form!

Since the Rubber-Rubber Fruit was a Zoan, that meant Teach could still absorb Whitebeard's Tremor-Tremor Fruit.

Darkness plus Sun God plus Tremor.

Devil Fruit user suppression plus endless sit-ups plus world-destroying shockwave attacks.

"Invincible."

Even Bullet could not help drawing in a sharp breath at the thought.

And if the user himself possessed high-level Three-Color Haki...

Even if Rocks were still alive, he would be beaten to death, wouldn't he?

"What a pity. Blackbeard's future was already set in stone..."

Leaving the dazed Teach off to one side.

Bullet grabbed the motionless Luffy from the stone platform and waved a hand, dispelling the dark chamber.

On the open ground not far away, Jinbe, whose chest had been caved in deeply, sat on the ground and panted heavily.

When he saw Bullet appear, and saw Luffy hanging from his hand, a flush immediately rose across Jinbe's face.

Clutching his chest, he coughed violently several times, coughing up fragments of shattered internal organs.

Shocking blood continuously spilled from the corner of his mouth.

"Bullet! You devil! What did you do to Luffy?!"

Only then did his keen senses detect Luffy's current condition.

His life force had completely vanished!

Jinbe's heart convulsed, disbelief filling his eyes.

He pointed at Bullet with a trembling hand. "You... you killed him?"

Boom!

A massive fist slammed heavily into the ground, smashing a crater into the earth.

Jinbe's furious roar rang out. "You actually killed Luffy!! Bullet! You madman! You beast!"

Cursing, Jinbe forced his grievously wounded body upright and walked toward Bullet.

But his injuries were simply too severe.

Not only was he suffering from Magellan's Hellish Venom, but also the force of Bullet's incomparably violent palm strike.

After staggering forward only a few steps, he ultimately crashed to the ground more than ten meters away from Bullet.

Crimson blood quickly flowed out from beneath him, staining a large stretch of ground red.

Boom!

The distant wall suddenly exploded over a wide area, bricks and rubble collapsing with a thunderous crash.

A flamboyant giant face more than ten meters tall burst out from the rubble and rolled to a stop not far in front of Bullet.

"That scared me to death! I almost died from Magellan's deadly poison!"