"I finally understand why someone as high and mighty as you suddenly wanted to join forces with a pirate like me!"
"So you had your eye on my ability?"
Marshall D. Teach burst out laughing.
He rapidly closed in, the black vortex in his right hand churning and swirling.
"In this world, your power might be the only one that works on him!"
"Teach!"
"Hurry up and do it!"
Saint Saturn roared angrily.
For years, they had never understood where Xia Le's immortal body came from. Their leading theory was that it might be an entirely new Devil Fruit power, one they had never seen before.
A mysterious power unknown to anyone, never recorded in the Devil Fruit Encyclopedia.
It was this unknown ability that had given him the terrifying capacity to eat multiple fruits without dying.
"This might only be a guess, but we have no other choice!"
"We can only give it everything we have!"
"We only have one chance."
"If we fail!"
Saint Saturn's expression darkened. He left the rest unsaid, but everyone knew exactly what he meant.
If they failed, this war would be over.
"Zehahahaha!"
"To think that I, Marshall D. Teach, would become the key to this war!"
"What an unexpected turn of events!"
"Then leave him to me!"
Marshall D. Teach laughed loudly.
He moved toward Xia Le, reaching for him with the black vortex in his right hand.
Even with Xia Le looking so wretched, gravely wounded and close to death, Marshall D. Teach's face remained utterly grave.
The shadow hanging over him clearly would not disappear so easily.
This man had left him with far too many unpleasant memories.
"Looking at you up close, you really are a monster, Xia Le!"
"An ordinary person would have died long ago with injuries