Werther frowned as he watched Blackbeard roll across the ground.
Blackbeard's sorry state was entirely due to the side effects of the Dark-Dark Fruit. Though it was called the most dangerous Devil Fruit, it had serious drawbacks.
He could not turn his body into his element, and he felt pain several times more intensely, among other things.
"Blackbeard, I really don't understand. Your hand-to-hand combat is so strong, so why did you eat the Dark-Dark Fruit and the Tremor-Tremor Fruit?"
As Werther saw it, eating the Dark-Dark Fruit and the Tremor-Tremor Fruit had not made Blackbeard stronger. It had made him much weaker.
An undeveloped fruit rarely granted great combat power from the start, apart from certain powerful Logia fruits, such as the Rumble-Rumble Fruit or the Pika Pika no Mi.
The Dark-Dark Fruit and the Tremor-Tremor Fruit were both immensely powerful, but their abilities needed to be developed.
Thinking he could draw out their full power without ten or twenty years of practice was pure fantasy.
What was more, after eating the Dark-Dark Fruit, Blackbeard had seized the Tremor-Tremor Fruit as well.
More fruit powers were not necessarily better.
"What I regret most is taking the Tremor-Tremor Fruit. I have no idea how that old man Whitebeard endured its backlash.
"It's only been a year, and my body is already suffering from it."
Blackbeard got to his feet, clutching his arm as blood dripped onto the ground.
The moment Blackbeard stood, Werther sent a sword aura slashing toward him.
The silver-blue sword aura flew at Blackbeard.
Boom. Blackbeard threw a punch that shattered the space before him, dispersing the sword aura.
The attack had done nothing, but Werther had already closed the distance in a few strides.
Realizing Werther was within reach, Blackbeard instinctively tried to retreat. Letting Werther