Teach's Rapid Reinforcements

However, just as Rain was about to raise his hand and bring this mess of former Marine Admirals and the core officers of the four Four Emperors to a complete end—

"Zehahahaha! Zehahahaha!"

"'Ashen Reaper' Rain! I knew my eyelids had been twitching like crazy today. Never thought you, you vicious wolf, would actually dare raid my lair while I was away!"

A wild, brutal, unmistakably rough laugh suddenly exploded from above the torn clouds surrounding Hachinosu. Along with that voice descended a terrifying pressure of darkness that made even the raging Obsidian hell momentarily freeze.

Rain's dark gray pupils narrowed slightly as he slowly turned toward the gloomy sky above the harbor.

In the distance, a bolt of pale light forcibly tore through the thunderclouds. It was an enormous Pegasus covered in snow-white feathers, yet bearing an ugly face. It was the mount of Doc Q, the Blackbeard Pirates' captain of the Ninth Ship—Pegasus Sanjuan Zhuangzhuang!

Standing atop that sky-covering Pegasus was a fat, arrogant man with his chest exposed, several flintlocks tucked into his belt, and a few missing teeth. Stepping on billowing, thick black smoke, he stared down at Rain with a savage expression.

The admiral of the Blackbeard Pirates, Marshall D. Teach!

This great ambition-driven schemer had only recently received news of Garp's raid on Hachinosu and Koby's abduction. Coupled with Rain taking advantage of the chaos, it had immediately left him uneasy. At the time, he had just fought a brutal battle against Trafalgar Law, the "Surgeon of Death," on Winner Island in the outer seas.

After severely wounding and crushing Law's Heart Pirates through the Dark-Dark Fruit's suppressive power, Teach had not even had time to thoroughly clean up the battlefield, much less seize Law's Op-Op Fruit. He had requisitioned Doc Q's Pegasus again