Arceus's Pirate Journey

Laffitte’s cane turned black. At that moment, he raised the cane with both hands, barely blocking King’s strike.

”Haki? Not all are useless junk, huh?”

Able to infiltrate Mary Geoise alone and demand a Seven Warlords of the Sea seat for Blackbeard, and open the Gate of Justice with a single hypnotic skill, Laffitte’s strength differed from Van Augur and the others.

Yet he still felt a tingling numbness in his hands from King’s shock. Seizing the opportunity, Blackbeard advanced to face King. Despite their height difference, he grabbed King’s wrist, leading to an awkward scene.

The flames remained, the wings were intact, and King maintained his original posture.

”Hey, hey, you guys... what kind of monsters are you?!!”

Once again, his Fruit Ability was ineffective. Against Ace, the Dark-Dark Fruit had worked wonders, but against the Hundred Beasts, it was again ineffective.

Clearly, the problem wasn’t with his fruit but with these Hundred Beasts ability users.

In fact, Blackbeard’s Dark-Dark Fruit was effective against King, suppressing the original power of Aerodactyl, preventing King from transforming for now.

However, against the power from Aerodactyl and Lunarians, the Dark-Dark Fruit was powerless. King could still use Pokemon skills, release innate flames, and wouldn’t lose his wings.

But Blackbeard didn’t know this. With Drake’s previous example, he deeply mistrusted the Hundred Beasts ability users, even recalling Queen’s bounty.

[That guy can create ability users immune to the Dark-Dark Fruit... he must be eliminated...]

At that moment, past reports about Queen resurfaced in Blackbeard’s memory, even making him think Queen might be the biggest pitfall in his future plans.

”How dare you get distracted at a time like this? Jigoku Enou!”

Flames engulfed him, and King’s fire enveloped both himself and Blackbeard. With a flap of his wings, he broke free from Blackbeard’s Dark Gravity, soared skyward, and transformed into his Aerodactyl form.

”I’ll kill all your subordinates before your eyes and let you witness hunting methods of the ancient pterosaurs!”