One Piece: Blue Scale Admiral

How do they transform themselves through countless life-or-death battles?

Even if Ace and Marco really wanted to do that, I probably wouldn't feel at ease doing it.

Good luck is a transformation.

Bad luck means death.

How many powerful figures have died at Luo Xia's hands so far?

Crocodile, that arrogant little guy, is dead too.

Whitebeard still remembers how Crocodile, after failing to challenge him, refused to join the Whitebeard Pirates and vowed to return to the New World to take his head.

But now...

Listening to the children's cheerful laughter, the white-bearded man, slightly drunk, felt a surge of undiminished pride rising in his chest.

"Gurarara! It's too early for me, Whitebeard, to fall! I will surely send my children on the great waves of the new era, and send them to the future Roger spoke of!"

"Huh? Where did Sachi go?"

Ace looked around in confusion.

“Sachi said he went to the forest to find some wild fruit to help everyone cut through the greasiness. Eating roasted meat every day is too monotonous and can easily lead to sepsis,” Marco replied.

"Hahaha, Captain Sachi is really thoughtful."

Teach ate his cherry pie and grinned broadly.

Everyone said Sachi, and Sachi arrived.

"Hey everyone! Look what I found!"

Sachi's shouts and cries came from afar, coming from the direction of the forest.

Everyone looked in the direction of the sound and saw Sachi carrying various wild fruits on his back, with a joyful smile on his face, waving his right hand in their direction as if showing off his items.

"Sachi, have you gotten your hands on some new wild fruit? You seem so happy. It must be a delicious one. Let us have a taste."

Ace wiped the drool from the corner of his mouth, his face full of anticipation.

"Won't it be poisonous? It almost killed Atmos last time, but luckily Marco treated him in time." Joz laughed loudly.

The crowd burst into laughter.

Only Teach's smile gradually froze, and his honest eyes suddenly widened to their limit.

In his eyes, everything around him disappeared, leaving only the strange, purplish-black wild fruit covered in spiral patterns that Sachi held aloft.

His gaze followed Sachi's every move.

Sachi proudly held out the fruit in his hand to Ace and the others, laughing loudly, "None of them, look what this is? I'm lucky, aren't I? I can find something like this even when picking wild fruits."

"This is... a Devil Fruit?" Marco and the others were all stunned.

"Genuine! Hahaha, I've gotten a Devil Fruit worth at least 100 million Berries for free! How about it? Does anyone know what kind of Devil Fruit this is?"

Sachi tossed the fruit in his hand.

Teach's gaze followed the Devil Fruit as it moved up and down.

“Let me see, Sachi.”

Ace reached out his hand to Sachi with some curiosity.

Teach's heart clenched instantly.

"for you."

Sachi, on the other hand, was quite straightforward and simply tossed the Devil Fruit in his hand to Ace.

Ace looked it over but couldn't figure it out. He held it in his hand for a while, then tossed it back to Sachi.

"I can't tell what kind of Devil Fruit it is."

Sachi then passed the fruit in his hand to Marco, Joz, Vista, and the others in turn.

Teach's gaze followed the Devil Fruit's movement as if it were glued to him.

After everyone had looked at it, they all said they didn't know what kind of fruit it was.

Sachi looked at the fruit in his hand with some annoyance.

"This is troublesome. We don't know what type of fruit this is, or what kind of ability it has. What if it's a useless ability? Eating it might not only fail to increase our strength, but also give us a weakness like not being able to swim and being vulnerable to Seastone. Hey, anyone want to try it? Let's gamble on what ability we'll get?"

Sachi held up the Devil Fruit in his hand and looked at everyone.

"No, if I end up with a useless ability, it's better not to have one at all."

The people around him nodded in unison, all looking at Blackman, who was surrounded in the middle.

Sixth Captain Blackman's face darkened. He reached under his chin and pulled out a huge hammer, saying irritably, "What kind of eyes are you looking at? My Pouch-Pouch Fruit ability is very useful, okay?"

"The Bag-Bag Fruit, is it really that useful? We don't need to eat a Devil Fruit to have bags, hahaha."

"That's right, every man can have a pouch."

Ace and the others burst into laughter.

"Sachi, you can keep it for now. In a couple of days, we'll go look around elsewhere to see if we have a Devil Fruit encyclopedia. Then we can see what kind of Devil Fruit it is before you decide whether to eat it or not."

Marco offered his advice.

"That's a great idea, let's do it! If it's a powerful fruit, I'll eat it. If it's a useless fruit, we'll sell it and buy everyone some wine!"

Sachi burst into laughter.

Teach's heart tightened instantly in the crowd, and his eyes darkened.

A few seconds later, a joyful smile suddenly appeared on Teach's face. He raised his glass high, looked at everyone, and laughed heartily:

"Hahaha, Captain Sachi's luck is incredible! He found a Devil Fruit while picking wild fruit. Whiteybe and Squard are alright too. Tonight is a good night, let's drink until we drop! Cheers!"

"Teach is right, let's drink until we drop! Bring all the liquor off the ship, let's drink to our hearts' content!"

Everyone was overjoyed and raised their glasses in a toast.

Chapter 608 The Irreversible Future

Ace was awakened from his sleep by a panicked scream.

As he shook his heavy head and rose from the cold deck, the first thing he saw was a rough-looking pirate standing not far from the cabin door, his body trembling like a leaf, his face filled with fear and panic.

"What happened?"

Ace, puzzled, pressed his temples, which were throbbing from a hangover.

The man in front didn't say anything, he just kept pointing at the cabin and shaking his head.

Ace frowned slightly and walked over, puzzled.

A pungent smell of blood instantly cleared his still somewhat dazed mind.

When Ace's gaze followed the pirate's and landed on the cabin he was looking at, his mind went completely blank. He felt as if he had been thrown into ice water, his whole body chilled to the bone.

On the floor, scarlet blood, like dark red paint, was splattered everywhere.

A headless corpse lay on the floor not far away, wearing a white chef's uniform.

A broad-bladed dagger was embedded in the chest of the corpse, its hilt completely submerged.

On a cutting board not far from the headless corpse, there was a spherical object placed neatly.

The morning sunlight was not yet bright, which made it difficult for Ace, who was facing away from the sun, to see what it was.

But an answer he couldn't believe was already uncontrollably surfacing in his mind.

"No...impossible! Marco!"

Ace's pupils dilated, and he stumbled around, screaming hoarsely outside.

"Marco! Marco!!"

A few minutes later, the area in front of the Moby Dick's cabin was completely surrounded by thousands of pirates.

Marco lifted his hand off Sachi's neck, his face blank, his eyes moist.

The Phoenix's healing flames are indeed incredibly powerful.

Even dismembered corpses can be restored to their original state under Marco's forceful healing.

The blood scattered on the ground was completely purified by the blue flames.

To everyone else, Sachi lay on the ground with his eyes closed, his body seemingly unharmed, as if he were asleep.

The white-bearded man sat in the shadows, his head bowed, his expression obscured.

But large tears kept dripping onto the floor in front of him, making a crisp sound.

"Why? Why is this happening?"

After a long period of stunned silence, Ace suddenly let out a mournful roar like that of a wild beast.

With a loud bang, the bulkhead next to him shattered, smashed by his punch.

Ace's eyes were bloodshot, tears streaming down his face, and he clutched a handful of sawdust tightly in his hand.

“I’d rather believe it was Rorschach who did it, that he pretended to leave and then sneaked onto the Moby Dick while we were drunk, and killed Satch! I’d rather believe it was Teach who did it!”

"Teach! Why would he do something like this? He's a veteran crew member on this ship, he's been here for over twenty years!"

The pirates around him all looked both sad and angry.

Joz, Vista, and the other White Team leaders all had red eyes, their gazes filled with pain and disbelief.

"The Devil Fruit that Sachi found yesterday has also disappeared along with Teach."

Marco's voice was still able to remain calm, albeit with some difficulty.

He glanced worriedly at the silent Whitebeard, sighed, and said in a hoarse voice, "Although I can't believe it either, Teach's motive for killing Thatch is probably the Devil Fruit That Thatch obtained yesterday. Thinking back now, Teach did act a bit strangely last night. He kept urging Old Man to drink, urging everyone to drink, and in the end, he even dragged Thatch back to the Moby Dick, saying he wanted Thatch to make cherry pies for everyone... I never expected..."

"If he wanted that Devil Fruit, why didn't he just say so in the first place?!"

Ace roared, his eyes red, "Sachi isn't that petty. He said yesterday that he'd give the Devil Fruit to anyone who wanted to take a gamble. If Teach really wanted that fruit, he could have just said so! Sachi would have given it to him! Why did he do something that we absolutely cannot forgive?"

Marco remained expressionless for a long time before looking down at Sachi, who seemed to be in a deep sleep.