Just as Luffy's hazy intuition had told him,
the battle on Gern's side,
despite his storm of lightning-fast attacks,
which had instantly crushed Shiryu and Van Augur's demonic forms, gravely wounded Saint Mars, and nearly killed Saint Shepherd Ju Peter in a single blow,
had now become an even more dangerous, deadlocked struggle, though he had seemed to hold an overwhelming advantage!
Because the unpredictable factor who had wavered from the very start, hesitating at every turn as fear and greed pulled him back and forth,
"Blackbeard," Marshall D. Teach,
after enduring Imu's death threats and seeing his subordinates transformed into demonic puppets,
then witnessing Gern tear Saint Mars apart with his bare hands, among a series of other shocks...
had finally snapped the strings of "reason" and "calculation" completely!
In their place came the madness of someone driven into a corner with nowhere left to retreat!
In other words, he had gone insane!!
"Zehahaha... Zehahaha!!!!"
Blackbeard let out an almost deranged laugh that sounded worse than crying.
His gap-toothed mouth stretched as wide as it could, his eyes bloodshot.
Not a trace of hesitation or cowardice remained, only a vicious resolve to take his enemy down with him!
He finally understood.
Run? Imu's tentacles could turn me into a puppet at any moment!
Surrender? Gern would never spare me!
Count on the Five Elders? Those three useless bastards-Saint Mars, Saint Shepherd Ju Peter, and Saint Warcury, possessed by Imu-can't even save themselves!
If I want to live, if I don't want to become a monster, if I want to keep everything that belongs to me, Marshall D. Teach...
There's only one way-kill!
Kill my way out!
Kill the greatest threat standing before me!
Heavenquake Gern!
Either you die, or I do!
Extreme fear gave rise to extreme madness.
And