Chapter 71: Thunder Shatters Darkness, Wraith's Transformation!
Marineford.
"DOUGLAS D. ROK!!!"
The instant Blackbeard realized something was wrong, it was already far too late.
He had grabbed Rok's arm with full confidence.
Yet the Dark-Dark Fruit did nothing.
No nullification.
No suppression.
Rok's lightning still crackled wildly.
Two completely different, overwhelming powers surged from the young man's body — and neither bowed to the darkness.
Impossible!
Teach had waited decades for this fruit.
It had never failed him.
Yet today, in front of this kid, the "strongest Logia" was powerless?!
"Surprised, Blackbeard?"
"You're not wrong to be confused."
"But the truth is simple —"
"Your little Dark-Dark Fruit doesn't even qualify to suppress my power."
Rok's blood-red eyes stared into Teach's soul, voice dripping with mockery.
He had counted on Teach's arrogance.
The man believed his fruit was absolute.
So Rok walked right up to him.
And Teach took the bait.
KRA-BOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!
Hundreds of millions of crimson volts poured straight through Rok's arm into Blackbeard's body.
Teach screamed like he was being judged by the heavens.
While the Admiral-class pirate convulsed in agony, Rok casually yanked Luffy free.
Good thing rubber resists electricity — Luffy was fine.
"Dai Enkai: Entei!!" (Great Flame Commandment: Flame Emperor!)
Ace roared.
Furious.
No holding back.
A colossal fireball the size of a battleship lit up half the bay and crashed down on the smoking Blackbeard.
Rok didn't stop him.
Teach was one of the masterminds behind this entire war.
Without Rok's interference, both Ace and Whitebeard would have died here.
Ace deserved this moment.
Besides — Rok wanted to see if Teach had any final trump cards.
**BOOM!
Flame and lightning turned the area into hell on earth.
Even Ace felt pressure.
His Entei, one of his strongest moves, couldn't overpower Rok's lingering thunder.
The gap between them was… astronomical.
"Ace — watch out!"
Sabo suddenly shouted.
From the rolling black smoke, a charred, broken figure shot toward Ace at terrifying speed.
"ZEHAHAHA! YOU BASTARDS RUINED MY DREAM! DIE WITH ME, ACE!"
Blackbeard — barely alive, skin burned to charcoal — charged like a demon.
In his hand spun a small, condensed black vortex — pure darkness given form.
Even Rok felt a chill.
That was Teach's suicide bomb.
If it had hit earlier… bad things would've happened.
Rok flashed into lightning without hesitation.
Ace was part of the deal with Whitebeard.
And alive, he'd share future pressure.
"ZEHAHAHAHAHA—!!"
Teach's insane laughter echoed.
Ace reacted, but underestimated the dying strike.
Just as the dark vortex was about to swallow his chest —
SWISH!
A blood-red blade pierced clean through Blackbeard's skull.
"Ro… Rok…"
Marshall D. Teach — the man of endless ambition — died with eyes full of hatred and disbelief.
The entire Blackbeard Pirates?
Annihilated by Rok's blade alone.
At that exact moment,
Wraith began to tremble violently in Rok's hand.
Crimson light exploded from the blade.
It was evolving.
Rok instantly stored it in his system space before anyone noticed.
Then calmly drew Scythe of the Death God again.
The entire battlefield — Marines, Whitebeard Pirates, even the Shichibukai — fell silent in awe and terror.
The Blackbeard Pirates were no joke.
Teach himself.
Shiryu of the Rain.
Level 6 monsters.
Yet Rok crushed them like insects.
He was more terrifying than an Admiral.
"AAAAAAAHHHH!!!!"
A sudden scream.
Ace clutched his right arm in agony.
From the wrist up, his flesh was turning pitch black and withering at a horrifying speed.
Rok's eyes narrowed.
Right — Teach's dying vortex had grazed Ace's forearm.
Something was very wrong.
"Save… save me…!"
Ace roared in pain, face twisted.
SWISH!
Lightning flashed.
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