Blackbeard's Sinister Intentions, Amaterasu Ignites!

Rockstar was the first to bear the brunt of it, and he did not even have time to react!

He only felt an irresistible, terrifying pressure crashing down from above!

It was as though an invisible giant hand had ruthlessly clenched around his heart!

His mind went completely blank in an instant!

His eyes rolled back sharply!

"Thud!"

The longsword in Rockstar's hand fell onto the deck, and his entire body toppled stiffly backward. Foam spilled from his mouth as he lost consciousness on the spot!

Instant defeat!

A mere blast of Conqueror's Haki had caused Rockstar, who carried a bounty of ninety-four million Berries, to lose his ability to fight instantly!

"Uwah!"

Burgess let out a strange cry. His massive body staggered back seven or eight steps before he barely managed to steady himself!

He felt as if even his soul were trembling!

That Conqueror's Haki pressure was far too terrifying!

It was more terrifying than any Conqueror's Haki he had ever seen!

He had no doubt that if he had been even a little closer just now, he would not have fared much better than Rockstar!

The calculating smile on Blackbeard Teach's face had completely frozen as well!

The frivolity and scheming in his eyes vanished without a trace, replaced by unprecedented gravity and horror!

"Th-this... what terrifying Conqueror's Haki..."

He could clearly sense that this Conqueror's Haki contained a will that reigned over the world, a domineering force that crushed everything!

Even the Conqueror's Haki of his former captain, Whitebeard Edward Newgate, or perhaps even that of the legendary Pirate King Roger, might not have surpassed this!

A baby not even two years old...

Actually possessed such unimaginably terrifying Conqueror's Haki?!

The word monster was no longer enough to describe him!

He was a freak of nature!

He possessed the bearing of a true emperor of the seas!

Lynn's tiny figure drifted down and landed with one foot on unconscious Rockstar's chest.

He stretched out his chubby little hand, about to take the important letter from Rockstar's clothes.

The mission was within reach.

Suddenly!

"Zehahahaha! Brat, that isn't something you can touch!"

A harsh, grating laugh exploded through the air!

Blackbeard Teach's huge body moved!

His palm, shrouded in eerie darkness, spread its fingers like a black eagle's claw and lunged toward Lynn's back with a terrifying force that seemed capable of devouring everything!

The strike was swift and vicious, filled with seasoned calculation!

He could tell that this brat was absurdly powerful, but that letter—Red-Haired's letter to Whitebeard—had to contain an enormous secret!

Snatch it!

Lynn did not even furrow his brow.

Just as that black claw was about to touch his young body.

His figure slid several inches to the side like a ghost!

Fast!

Fast to the extreme!

Blackbeard's claw tore through the air with a vicious gust, grasping nothing!

"Hm?!"

Blackbeard's pupils contracted. This brat's reaction speed was simply inhuman!

"Wehahahaha! Captain! I'll help you!"

Jesus Burgess roared from the side. His fan-sized palm swept toward Lynn with overwhelming force, as though swatting a fly!

If that slap landed, an ordinary person would be reduced to pulp on the spot!

Even the air let out a violent boom from the force of his swing!

Lynn's tiny body was as weightless as a feather.

The instant Burgess's huge palm closed in, he lightly tapped the deck with his toes.

His entire body shot several feet upward, effortlessly evading the ferocious attack!

Burgess's massive palm slammed into the deck with a bang, sending splinters flying!

Instead, the impact left his own arm numb!

"Zehahahaha! Interesting!"

The vicious gleam in Blackbeard Teach's eyes intensified!

His hand, covered in dark mist, suddenly thrust forward!

"Dark Water!"

A terrifying suction force emerged from the darkness, as if it intended to drag everything around it into an endless abyss!

"Brat! Let's see where you can run this time!"

Blackbeard sneered. He was confident that the power of his Dark-Dark Fruit could restrain all ability users!

As long as someone was caught by his darkness, any ability would become useless!

This brat could fly and move freely through the air, and his Conqueror's Haki was astonishing. He had to possess some powerful Devil Fruit ability!

Lynn remained calm.

That force of darkness was indeed strange, carrying the traits of devouring and stripping away.

But he was not an ability user!

The Dark-Dark Fruit was useless against him!

"W-what?!"

The cruel grin on Blackbeard Teach's face stiffened instantly!

His eyes bulged wide as though he had seen a ghost!

"It... it didn't work?!"

"My Dark Water... actually didn't work on him?!"

"H-how is that possible?!"

The Dark-Dark Fruit he had always taken pride in, the Devil Fruit said to restrain all Devil Fruit abilities, had actually failed before this little brat?!

"Could it be... could it be that you're not an ability user?!"

Blackbeard let out an incredulous shriek!

A brat who was not an ability user could fly?!

A brat who was not an ability user could use a Marine vice admiral as a punching bag?!

This made no sense!

Burgess's mouth hung open so wide that his jaw nearly hit the deck.

"C-captain... th-this brat... what kind of monster is he?"

He felt like his brain could no longer process any of this.

Lynn looked down at Blackbeard, whose face had twisted from shock. His little face showed no expression at all.

He could not be bothered wasting time with these two any longer.

He slowly raised his head, and those clear black eyes changed once again.

Three crimson tomoe emerged and slowly spun, linking together into an eerie shuriken pattern.

Mangekyō Sharingan!

A cold, sinister aura spread out once more.

Blackbeard Teach and Burgess both felt a chill shoot from the soles of their feet straight to the tops of their heads!

Those eyes...

They were too strange!

Too ominous!

"Brat... y-you... what are you trying to do?!"

Even Blackbeard's voice trembled slightly. From those eyes, he sensed a fatal threat!

Lynn did not answer.

His little mouth gently uttered two words.

His voice was still childish, yet it carried the coldness of judgment.

"Amaterasu!"

Sizzle—!!!

There was no warning whatsoever!

A small cluster of pitch-black flames abruptly ignited on Blackbeard Teach's bloated chest!

"Uwaaaaaaaaah—!!!!"

A shriek so miserable it barely sounded human erupted from Blackbeard's mouth!

His huge body trembled violently, and the fat on his face twisted wildly under the agony!

"Fire! Fire! It's hot! It hurts! Aaaaaah!"

The black flames clung tightly to his skin like maggots on bone, burning madly!

An indescribable scorching pain, like countless red-hot branding irons, seared deep into his soul!

This agony far surpassed any injury he had ever endured before!