The mountains of Drum Island loomed hazily through the blizzard, the entire island seemingly frozen in an eternal winter.
When the Blackbeard Pirates climbed up to the castle on the summit, a plump figure flew out like a cannonball, slamming heavily onto the snow and kicking up a cloud of snow dust.
Teach narrowed his eyes and made out that battered figure, who was none other than the Wapol they were looking for.
Not far away, a straw-hatted teenager chased out from the castle in a menacing manner.
"Gomu Gomu no Bazooka!"
Luffy's arms stretched out abruptly, slamming fiercely toward Wapol.
However, just as the fists were about to hit, a dark shadow flashed, and Teach caught Luffy's attack with one hand.
"Zehahaha, little brother, being this impatient isn't good."
Wapol climbed up from the snow and laughed excitedly, "Good citizens, you guys are majorly good citizens! Quick, help me kill those thugs, and I'll appoint you as guard captains!"
The Straw Hat crew instantly grew alert. Although they did not know Teach, the sense of oppression radiating from him made everyone instinctively feel danger.
"Luffy, watch out, these guys are no simple bunch," Zoro reminded him with a stern expression.
"I don't care about all that; as long as I know they're the enemy, that's enough," Luffy rushed out fearlessly, "Gomu Gomu—"
Before he even finished speaking, he was sent flying by Burgess's Armament Haki-coated fist.
"Ah, it hurts, it hurts!" Luffy rolled around in the snow, clutching his head.
"You're rubber, aren't you? How could you feel pain?" Zoro asked in disbelief.
"Still have the mind to worry about others?" Van Augur aimed and fired a bullet at him.
Zoro's pupils shrank, and he swung his sword at top speed to strike the bullet.
Yet that bullet turned