Darkness overwhelmed light, and light pierced through darkness. Within darkness, that faint glimmer was so dazzling; within light, a thread of pure darkness could also be born. Darkness would never fade, and light would always exist. Like water and fire, darkness and light clung to and nourished one another. Light allowed the world to see other colors, while the despair of darkness made people yearn for and pursue the light...
At the mountaintop—no, more accurately, in the sky—an extraordinarily strange sight appeared. The originally cloudless, brilliantly clear sky had now split into two bizarre colors: black and white. The white sky gave off a warm feeling, making hope rise unbidden in people's hearts. The black sky was oppressively bleak, as though some primordial beast lurked within it, ready at any moment to bring disaster upon the world!
Beneath this strange sky, atop the mountain, Luffy and Teach stood far apart in silence!
Luffy watched the eyes-closed Teach with a grim expression. He could clearly sense the other man's aura soaring at rocket-like speed! Although he knew he should interrupt Teach now, guilt over attacking him so fiercely just to seize the Poneglyph made Luffy choose to remain where he was. He would wait until Teach was fully prepared before beginning a true battle!
Yet this single thought plunged Luffy into true despair...
As Teach's aura rose higher and higher, the black sky suddenly became restless. Great amounts of red lightning appeared within the dark clouds, turning fiercely aggressive as they slowly devoured the pristine white sky above Luffy's head! It was as if they were announcing to everyone that the beast sleeping within was about to return from its slumber!
"Zehahaha! Making you wait so long was truly rude of me!" Teach's body rapidly shrank, dropping from roughly ten meters