Each with Their Own Schemes

Although...

Roya and the Justice League had already entered a period of rest.

It looked like things had calmed down.

But...

In the seas of the New World at this moment.

No, it should be said—the entire world!

The Justice League's existence had made everyone uneasy, and unrest began to spread.

First, there was Blackbeard Teach's side.

"Zehahahaha!"

"Surrender?"

"Useless trash doesn't deserve to remain in this world!"

"Shiryu, kill every last one of them!"

Blackbeard Teach laughed sinisterly as he ordered Shiryu of the Rain and the others to start killing.

"No problem!"

"If the captain says kill them, then we kill them!"

Shiryu of the Rain gave a sinister grin. The blade in his hand flashed in a storm of sword light, and blood splattered across the ground.

Looking closely.

Before Blackbeard Teach and his group lay a wasteland littered with corpses.

That's right!

Blackbeard Teach had taken another island.

For Blackbeard Teach, who possessed both the Tremor-Tremor Fruit and the Dark-Dark Fruit.

Wherever he went, not a blade of grass remained.

Moreover.

Blackbeard Teach had fully displayed a pirate's true nature. He burned, killed, plundered, and committed every evil imaginable. Even when his enemies could no longer hold out and surrendered, they would not be spared. They would be exterminated to the last.

In truth, that was a pirate's real nature. Blackbeard Teach merely displayed it with utmost thoroughness.

Of course.

Blackbeard Teach now had another title as well: Ability Hunter!

Shiryu of the Rain had acquired the Transparent-Transparent Fruit. Absalom, Gecko Moria's former subordinate and the previous user of the Transparent-Transparent Fruit, had already been killed by Blackbeard Teach's group, who had stolen his Devil Fruit ability.

Besides that.

The other members of the Blackbeard Pirates had also acquired various Devil Fruit abilities one after