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Jin wasn't being suppressed by the Dark-Dark Fruit??
Teach arrived at a conclusion that would shock the world.
"You don't have the Rumble-Rumble Fruit!"
"You..."
"You ate the Munch-Munch Fruit!"
"You've been stealing the abilities of other users by eating them alive!"
"Very clever," Jin smiled, violently ripping Shusui free. "Give the man a prize."
"GAAAAAH!"
Teach let out a high-pitched, pig-like squeal of agony.
He collapsed to the ground, thrashing and screaming.
When facing the absolute pinnacle of fighters...
The Dark-Dark Fruit became a fatal liability.
Absorbing double the pain, double the damage.
Even a resilient monster like Teach was reduced to a writhing, screaming mess.
In the original timeline...
When Teach finally confronted Whitebeard...
Despite his ability to absorb and nullify the world-ending power of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit...
He had still been brutally beaten to his knees by a half-dead Whitebeard, forced to beg for his life like a coward.
If Whitebeard hadn't been critically injured...
Teach wouldn't have stood a chance.
"Captain!"
The Blackbeard Pirates, currently engaged with the Whitebeard commanders, were horrified to see their captain so effortlessly dismantled.
"Surge Elbow!"
Burgess didn't hesitate. He abandoned his opponent and launched a desperate rescue attempt.
He was unconditionally loyal to Teach.
His massive frame hurtled through the air, leading with a devastating elbow strike that projected a concussive shockwave ahead of him.
Jin didn't even bother looking at him.
"And just what do you think you're doing?"
Hancock, who had been standing silently by Jin's side, intercepted the attack with a lightning-fast kick.
WHAM!
The incoming Burgess...
Was violently repelled by Hancock's kick, flying backward at twice the speed he had approached, crashing heavily into a pile of rubble.
"Burgess!"
Devon whipped her head around.
Burgess was out cold, his eyes rolled back in his head.
The disparity in raw strength and Haki was insurmountable.
"Boa Hancock! The most beautiful woman in the world?"
Devon locked eyes with the Pirate Empress.
She licked her lips, a sadistic grin spreading across her face. "I absolutely love hunting beautiful women!"
She lunged at Hancock.
"This is getting messy," Shiryu noted, casually parrying a lethal strike from Redfield.
He muttered the words, but he made absolutely no move to assist Teach.
Yes, Teach had broken them out of Impel Down.
But this crew was nothing more than an alliance of convenience, bound by aligned interests. They hadn't reached the point where they were willing to die for him.
Shiryu was deeply wary of Jin. He wanted absolutely no part of that fight.
Avalo Pizarro was similarly uninclined to offer support. Only Laffitte and Doc Q rushed forward, desperate to save their captain.
Laffitte, Doc Q, and Burgess had been with Teach since the beginning.
They were his core loyalists.
Pizarro, Devon, Wolf, and Shiryu were brand-new recruits. What possible loyalty could they feel?
If Teach couldn't deliver on his grand promises, this crew would dissolve instantly.
SHLUCK!
With a single, effortless swing of his blade, Jin shattered Laffitte's cane-sword and cleaved the man entirely in two.
Doc Q recoiled in absolute terror, scrambling backward. The instantaneous, casual execution of Laffitte chilled him to the bone.
"Stay back! You're no match for him!"
Teach rolled over, fighting through the agonizing pain, and threw a desperate punch at Jin's legs.
Jin simply raised his foot and stomped down.
WHAM!
CRASH!
The reinforced stone beneath them shattered, fissures spreading outward in all directions.
Beneath Jin's boot...
Teach was pinned to the ground.
Overwhelmed by the searing pain, Blackbeard vomited another massive pool of blood.
He thrashed wildly, desperately trying to leverage himself up.
But the boot pressing down on his chest remained as immovable as a mountain.
In fact...
It felt as though the crushing weight was steadily increasing.
"Spare... spare me! King Jin!"
Teach was an ultimate pragmatist. A bully who preyed on the weak and groveled before the strong.
To survive, he had gladly begged for mercy at Whitebeard's feet.
Now, pinned under Jin's boot, he felt absolutely no shame in submitting. He just needed to survive this immediate crisis.
Pride? Dignity?
What were those worth compared to his own life?
He wasn't Ace. He wouldn't throw his life away over a few insulting words.
But Jin had no intention of granting him mercy.
He raised Shusui for the executioner's stroke.
But the instant the blade pierced Teach's skin...
An explosive, catastrophic surge of power erupted from Teach's body. His speed and aura mutated entirely, abandoning his previous cowardice for something profoundly, anciently terrifying!
He... was them!!!
It was as if a legendary, long-dead conqueror had violently seized control of his body.
He let out a low, rumbling, demonic roar.
"Hey, brat. What the hell do you think you're doing??"
Instantly...
A dark red, apocalyptic wave of Conqueror's Haki erupted from Teach, manifesting as a violent shockwave.
It blasted outward, sweeping across the entirety of Marineford!
The sheer spiritual pressure was almost physical, cascading down like a storm of dark lightning and black sparks.
Caught within the blast radius...
The exhausted Marines, pirates, and revolutionaries, their wills already battered by the long war, instantly lost consciousness, collapsing to the ground in droves.
It was an unimaginably powerful burst of Conqueror's Haki!
The arrival of a true Sovereign!
"That's..."
Garp, still engaged in a grueling brawl with Bullet, snapped his head around in absolute shock.
For a fleeting second...
Within that overwhelming aura, he caught a glimpse of a ghost. The silhouette of Rocks.
"ROCKS!!!"
Sengoku, currently being frantically treated by Marine medics, forced his eyes open and gasped in horrified disbelief.
Rocks??
Jin's eyes narrowed dangerously. 'Just as I suspected. It's exactly like Luffy's Nika fruit.'
When pushed to the absolute brink of death...
Teach's physical vessel was hijacked by an entirely different will.
During the God Valley Incident, Rocks had utilized the ultimate operation of the Op-Op Fruit to successfully transplant his own soul into Teach's body!
Law had already demonstrated the fruit's capacity to forcefully swap souls, trading the minds of Smoker and Tashigi...
Furthermore...
Jin strongly suspected that the Dark-Dark Fruit itself housed the dormant, malevolent will of "Davy Jones," similar to how the Gomu-Gomu Fruit housed Nika!
"Teach's" hand shot up, his fingers clamping down on the razor-sharp edge of Shusui. A terrifying, overwhelming power flooded his limbs.
At this moment, the look in his eyes, his entire demeanor, radiated an arrogant, violently unhinged charisma. It was a suffocating, peerless megalomania.
Only one man in history possessed an aura that aggressively arrogant, that inherently violent. Rocks.
"The dead should stay dead!"
Jin's eyes flashed with absolute coldness, and he unleashed the full, unmitigated terror of his own aura.
BOOM!
A blinding, golden eruption of Conqueror's Haki violently collided with Rocks' dark red aura.
The impact was catastrophic.
It generated a massive, surging shockwave, like a violent tidal bore, violently repelling everything in all directions.
An unparalleled, crushing wave of spiritual pressure slammed directly into "Teach's" body, violently suppressing the invading soul of Rocks.
In the end, this wasn't Rocks' true body.
And this wasn't Rocks in his prime.
WHAM!
Jin drove a devastating punch directly into "Teach's" face.
SPURT!
Blood exploded into the air.
Teach let out a gurgling, agonizing roar.
His torso had been completely caved in. A massive, gaping hole was blasted through his chest, pouring blood.
His internal organs were utterly pulverized.
His body was very nearly severed in two.
He screamed in unending agony.
A flash of black steel followed. The blade neatly severed his head, ending his miserable life as he collapsed into a growing pool of his own blood.
Jin instantly activated the Munch-Munch Fruit.
The demonic carrier's power manifested, swallowing the corpses of Teach, Laffitte, and Whitebeard entirely.
And then...
Jin vanished, reappearing directly beside Doc Q. With ruthless efficiency, he executed the man with a single, brutal slash.
While it takes time to describe...
The entire sequence occurred in the blink of an eye.
The Blackbeard Pirates had been virtually annihilated.
Gasp...
Shiryu, Avalo Pizarro, and the others inhaled sharply, a cold dread seizing their hearts.
This man was too much of a monster.
He was slaughtering them as casually as a man chopping vegetables. It required no effort at all.
Just then!
FWOOSH! FWOOSH! FWOOSH!
A terrifying, whistling sound tore through the sky!
A dense, apocalyptic barrage of artillery shells shrieked in from the rear of Marineford, hurtling down in a catastrophic, indiscriminate bombardment.
"Hm? What's going on??"
"Are there more enemies??"
The Marines were thrown into utter confusion.
The sheer volume of the incoming shells completely drowned out the cacophony of the battlefield, forcing everyone to look toward the sky.
At least a hundred massive shells were plummeting simultaneously.
And the Marine forces were entirely within the blast radius.
It was an absolute, indiscriminate attack.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
The shells detonated upon impact, shaking the island to its core. Geysers of earth and shattered stone erupted into the air, leaving massive, smoking craters in their wake.
Jin narrowed his eyes, staring intently at the sky.
His advanced Observation Haki flared, granting him a terrifying premonition of the immediate future.
Danger!
A blinding pillar of annihilating light was about to descend, poised to completely erase Marineford from existence...
Uranus!!!
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