Time passed second by second.
The relaxed feeling of the early morning Teach, who didn't need to sleep, feeling somewhat mentally exhausted, so he closed his eyes and pretended to sleep.
'At this very moment!'
In an instant, Teach's Observation Haki a frantic warning.
However, it was too late.
Pfft... Pfft...
Two short swords Seastone pierced through his collarbone in an instant.
A figure slowly emerged from the shadows in the corner.
"It's... you?" Teach was shocked, but he couldn't move his body.
Van Bordeaux, who was fast asleep nearby, was also pierced through the collarbone by a Seastone dagger from a Shadow General. Although he was awakened by the pain, he didn't even have the strength to speak.
The visitor was none other than Moria.
The shadowy tentacles used Seastone shackles to bind Teach's limbs and neck.
Snap! As the five shackles were fastened, Teach felt his body growing increasingly weak.
"Huff... why?..."
Moria sneered as he took out a glass of blood-red wine, gently swirling it as he asked sarcastically:
What do you think?
"Heh... You wouldn't happen to be after Whitebeard's 2 billion Beli bounty on the merchant, would you? If so, I can give you 4 billion Beli, if you just let me go."
Moria took a sip of red wine. "How many Devil Fruit can your body consume?"
"What?!" Teach's pupils contracted sharply.
Just then, a huge Garganta unfolded behind Moria, and Law jumped out of Garganta.
"Is this the Teach who can eat several Devil Fruit?"
Moria used his shadow to create a chair, sat down, and said, "Hmm, he should have the Dark-Dark Fruit and the Phoenix Fruit on him. You can check."
Law immediately activated his ability to perform a full-body scan on Teach.
Teach felt a chill run down her spine as Luo stared at her, as if he could see right through her.
Before long, Luo's gaze became even more intense. "So that's how it is, so that's how it is. There are actually two other people inside this guy's body."
"..." Upon hearing Luo's words, Teach's heart tightened.
"A chimera?" Moria immediately understood the special condition of Teach's body.
Luo nodded. "Yes, he's a chimera. He has three sets of genes, and these three sets coexist, which means he can eat one more Devil Fruit."
Is this something you were born with?
"Not necessarily. It could be an effect caused by Devil Fruit, such as my Op-Op Fruit or Chetra's Munch-Munch Fruit, both of which can create this special chimera."
Moria then suggested a research direction. "Oh? If we use this guy as a reference, could we apply chimera as a technology?"
"It should be possible, but directly embedding it into the body carries a high risk of rejection. My idea is to create a genetically engineered biological armor, and then feed the Gene Armor Devil Fruit. This way, we can safely obtain a second Devil Fruit ability without having to perform too many genetic modifications on the body."
Although Teach couldn't quite understand the technical discussion between Law and Moria, he knew that if things continued like this, he would most likely end up lying in the lab, being dissected and studied bit by bit, an outcome he couldn't accept.
" Lord Moria, I am willing to submit! I am willing to cooperate with your research!"
Moria turned to look at Teach, sneering, "A person who would betray his adoptive father who had protected him for over twenty years and ruthlessly kill his own brothers—do you think I would believe in your loyalty?"
Teach panicked. " Lord Moria, I know a great secret. If you release me, I can tell you this secret. Once you know this secret, you can easily rule the seas."
"Really? You mean you can extract the Devil Fruit of other users?"
"..." Teach was shocked. His deepest secret had been exposed, and for a moment he didn't know how to defend himself.
Moria pulled out a parchment. "I don't need your willing cooperation to know your secrets."
He then used his shadow to control Teach's body, dipped his hand in the blood from his wound, and signed the parchment.
"What are you going to do?" Teach in surprise.
However, with the signing of the parchment contract...
Teach immediately felt his memories fading rapidly.
Meanwhile, a large number of Teach's memories also appeared in Moria's memory palace.
"I see. His mother was the previous user of the Gluttony Devil Fruit User. During her pregnancy, she knew she was carrying triplets, so she combined Teach with her two younger sisters."
"His mother also knew a special application of the Dark-Dark Fruit: by killing the Devil Fruit user, she could force their Devil Fruit to regenerate in a nearby fruit."
Luo couldn't help but sigh, "She really is a crazy woman."
"Heh..." Moria looked at Teach with Teach.
At this moment, Teach, stripped of his memories, had become vacant, his eyes vacant, like a living dead.
Do you want to keep pretending?
Moria ignored Teach, who was still feigning madness, and took out three more parchments. "Lo, take one piece of blood from each of the three genes in his body."
"Does he have three souls?" Luo then activated his ability, extracting three different samples of blood from Teach.
At this point, Teach finally realized he couldn't keep up the act any longer. His defenses crumbled, and he lost control, bursting into a tirade of profanities.
" Moria, you will die a horrible death! I curse you..."
However, Moria quickly took control of Teach's body.
Sign each piece of parchment:
Marshall D. Teach!
Marshall D. Tia!
Marshall D. Tiff!
In an instant, the memories of the three souls within Teach vanished.
Law then took action, using the power of the Op-Op Fruit to cut it into eight pieces and store them separately.
Although Teach hasn't been killed yet, it will be time to reclaim his Devil Fruit once Law has developed the Gene Armor.
As for Van Bordeaux, who had been completely invisible the whole time, he was terrified.
However, Moria did not let him go, cutting off his prefrontal lobe and transforming him into Living Dead General.
Looking at Teach, who had been dismembered, Moria lifted his head and said, "Dreams don't die, but people do."
Marshall D. Teach, a legendary figure who had endured over twenty years of obscurity within the Whitebeard Pirates, was easily defeated by the Liberator Organization less than two months after he debuted and founded the Blackbeard Pirates.
This is the terrifying aspect of having an intelligence advantage.
In this world, influence and power are essential.
For a nobody like Teach, encountering a well-organized, powerful, and meticulously planned force like the Liberator Organization, his only fate is to be wiped out.
Teach and Van Bordeaux came and went without a sound.
Shakky, who had been secretly watching Teach and his companion, only received news that the two were last seen in the Pirate Town on Jaya Island in the Paradise, and then disappeared.
However, by examining the Vivre Card left by Teach, Shakky discovered that when he was near Jaya Island, the Vivre Card showed some signs of burning, indicating that he was injured there, but his life was not in danger.
There was indeed no danger to his life, because Teach, now just an empty shell, was in Luo's laboratory, soaking in nutrient solution, being sliced and studied.
Unable to find Teach and unable to freely enter Paradise, the Whitebeard Pirates could only rage helplessly in the New World.