East Wano Island, located in the first half of the Grand Line, along the route leaning towards the West Sea.
It is a small island with no official national affiliation.
It has been paying protection fees to the Navy to receive their protection.
There are quite a few islands similar to East Wano Island.
As for the naval officers stationed at Marine Headquarters, their patrol missions each time are to go to these islands to collect protection fees.
They also target pirates threatening the islands that have paid protection.
"Jekyll, no wonder—inside the Navy, it's only a bunch of mediocres. Let you taste the strength of the future Emperor of the Sea!" An unrestrained, reckless laughter suddenly erupted on the dock, without any warning.
The air around seemed to fall into a momentary stagnation.
Next moment, before everyone could react, Teach, holding a Marine Rear Admiral, with a mocking smile, suddenly slammed down from above the dock.
"Dark Water!"
Boom!
A wave of dark water, carrying a force like ten thousand kilograms, crashed down toward the earth below.
The tremendous impact force caused the Rear Admiral caught in the attack to let out a loud gasp, blood spraying from his mouth.
In the next instant, the rocky ground beneath him seemed to buckle under the pressure, cracking like a spider's web.
The black shockwave of the Dark Tide surged outward like a hurricane.
Bang bang bang!
Wherever it passed, the surrounding navy figures, like cannonballs, were directly flipped over.
"Vice Admiral Haki…"
"Stop calling me that! Quickly notify the nearby Rear Admirals to come support!"
"This Blackbeard, Teach, doesn't seem like just an ordinary pirate from Whitebeard's crew as rumors say…"
...
The exclamations kept coming one after another.
The fallen navy soldiers, faces full of terror, scrambled to get up from the ground.
Initially, in Hiyori's eyes, these were just ordinary pirates under Whitebeard's command.
She never expected that, in a face-to-face encounter, the power of the "Tic Tic Fruit" would instantly become useless.
They were caught off guard, hit with three or four moves, and KO'd in an instant.
"Haha, I didn't expect the Navy to have moments of fear too. Let me kill all of you!"
Standing behind Blackbeard Teach, the muscular combat champion Jesus Burgess, with muscles like a tower, first roared with reckless abandon.
In a flash, his huge figure shot out like a cannonball.
His speed was so fast that it didn't slow down at all because of his size.
He approached in just a blink of an eye, within a few hundred meters.
However, before Burgess could strike successfully, a blazing wave of heat, like a crushing tide, swept toward him.
Meanwhile, the intense flames, like a tide, surged through the buildings ahead, rapidly enlarging in Burgess's pupils.
"Fire Fist!"
Boom!
The blazing fire instantly pierced through everything along the way.
Before Burgess could react, it collided with his body head-on.
Accompanied by a deep explosion, with no fancy moves, the enormous body of Burgess was directly flung into the air.
With residual power undiminished, he charged toward Blackbeard Teach.
Bang!
This sudden scene made Blackbeard Teach clearly unprepared—by the time he reacted,
the flames had already engulfed him completely.
In an instant, the large dock was shrouded in soaring flames.
It took about seven or eight seconds before, under the pig-like screams of Blackbeard, the flames gradually extinguished.
Feeling the prickling pain on his skin, Blackbeard Teach, covered in dirt and disheveled, struggled to get up and quickly scanned his surroundings.
"Ace… Captain, I didn't expect to meet you so soon. I thought it would take some time!" Blackbeard Teach revealed an excited smile, finally locking his eyes on a figure slowly walking from afar.
"Aren't you training with Rayleigh? Suddenly rushing here, are you planning to join forces with me?"
"Captain Ace, why don't you join my pirate crew? Let's make a name for ourselves on this vast sea. Whitebeard's era is over now. This is the world of us young people!"
"Only those with ambition can become the ruler of this sea!"
Eternal words, mixed with a reckless, unconcerned smile.
Looking at the smug, arrogant Blackbeard, and at Ace, wrapped in flames, landing on a broken building, he raised his hat and said, "Teach, you're still the same—liking to talk some nonsense without any basis."
"It's been a while since we met, and it seems you've recruited quite a few crew members—looking like a captain now."
"I really want to know, have you had this idea from the start? Did you pre-select these people, waiting for the Devil Fruit to appear, then just act?"
At this point, Ace looked at Blackbeard and said, "I really want to know—if this Dark Dark Fruit fell into others' hands, including my own as captain, would you also kill me?"
As soon as he finished, an inexplicable oppressive atmosphere shrouded the huge dock.
The seemingly lazy Ace now gave off the feeling of a fierce tiger glaring at its prey.
Just half a sentence wrong from Blackbeard, and he might be struck hard.
"Jekyll, Captain Ace, your words sound so unfamiliar," Blackbeard Teach laughed loudly, then a gloomy expression flashed across his face.
"You're still too young."
"This is a cruel, survival-of-the-fittest sea. If Sachi agrees and gives me the Devil Fruit, he'd be spared death, right?"
"Spouting all that righteousness and morality, just like your old man. I've been on this ship for over thirty or forty years for it."
"During this time, I've contributed a lot to the pirate crew, so this Devil Fruit is what I deserve."
At this point, Blackbeard Teach grinned, showing his crooked, wind-broken teeth, and snarled grimly, "Captain Ace, if you're planning to join me this time, I'll be very happy."
"If you're planning to go back and apologize to Whitebeard, then you're just joking."
"I'm not the same as I used to be!"
His arrogant words caused Ace's face to darken to the extreme.
He suddenly raised his head, his gaze locking coldly on Blackbeard, and said icy: "Is that so? Teach, it looks like you've really grown wings!"
"Since you're unwilling to go back, then I'll personally take you there!"
"Bastard, how dare you speak to our captain like that? Go to hell for us!" Burgess's shout suddenly rang out.
Soon, two figures appeared, one on the left and one on the right, rushing out first to attack Fire Fist Ace.
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