Teach turned around, trembling slightly when he heard that voice.
He saw Lott standing behind him.
"Lott!!!" he cried out in some terror.
Lott shook his head and reached out, taking Luffy from Teach's grasp.
"Hey! Lott! This is my fight! Stay out of it!" Luffy made to charge forward.
But Jinbe spoke up just then. "Luffy, Mr. Lott surely doesn't want to waste too much time. Otherwise, we won't be able to save Ace."
Luffy quieted down at that.
Hannyabal stopped struggling in Jinbe's grasp as well. Lott and Blackbeard were both pirates, so let the dogs tear into each other.
Perhaps they would both end up badly wounded, and he could reap the benefits.
"Captain!"
"Watch out, Captain!"
Seeing Lott suddenly appear before their captain, Lafitte and the others cried out in concern.
Burgess stomped hard against the ground with both feet, rapidly closing in on Lott, and raised his fist to strike him in the back.
Lott did not turn around, letting Burgess's fist hit him.
Burgess was just about to start taunting him when he saw a blade tip crackling with blue lightning emerge from the left side of his chest.
An intense feeling of suffocation and dizziness instantly swept through him.
He watched Lott's figure gradually fade before his eyes.
"An afterimage?"
With that murmur, he went off to join his great-grandmother.
"Burgess!" Teach roared at the sight.
But Lott did not stop.
He appeared before Doc Q next, raised his blade, and sliced both Doc Q and his horse in half!
"Doc Q!" Teach wanted to stop Lott, but Lott was so fast that even his Observation Haki could not keep up.
Van Augur had only just raised his gun, before he could aim it at Nott.
His vision began spinning wildly.
He saw