One Piece: Blue Scale Admiral

"Hey! Fan Ku! What are you trying to do? Stop it right now!"

To the horror of Blackbeard and the others, Kelly Fanku, who had transformed into a jacket and was now wearing his brother Bobby Fanku's power, threw a punch at Rorschach, who was standing in front of him.

"I hate it when people call me short! Damn navy..."

"boom!"

Rorschach raised his hand and waved it. Kelly Van Cleef, who was standing in front of him and throwing a punch at him, along with Bobby Van Cleef who was wrapped inside him, exploded like a tomato that was burst from the inside out, turning into a rain of blood that scattered in all directions.

With his black military boots crunching on the muddy, blood-red ground, Rorschach glanced indifferently at the debris scattered everywhere before looking at Blackbeard and the others, whose expressions had drastically changed.

"You see, there are still people who haven't heard of my great name."

Blackbeard looked at Rorschach, whose expression was calm, and his sense of foreboding grew stronger. He couldn't help but swallow hard.

“Vice Admiral Lanlin, what… what do you mean by this? Ace is already in your hands. This means my deal with your Navy is done. I’m a Shichibukai now, an ally of your Navy. We’re on the same side!”

"You make a lot of sense."

Rorschach nodded.

Blackbeard was overjoyed and was about to distance himself from that unlucky guy Kelly Van Cleef when he heard Rorschach say something else.

"But I've never felt that the Seven Warlords of the Sea are allies of the Navy. Besides, you haven't become a Warlord of the Sea yet, have you?"

Cold sweat instantly streamed down the black-bearded man's face.

Chapter 619 Teach: This is not what I expected.

Rorschach's words struck Blackbeard like a bolt from the blue, leaving his head buzzing.

He stood there in a daze for a long time before he came to his senses. The smug look on his face had vanished without a trace.

Instead, there was a surge of anger, and tension.

"Hey! Lan Lin! Don't joke with me like that! Didn't Laffitte already reach an agreement with your Navy's Fleet Admiral Sengoku? As long as we show enough sincerity, I can become a Shichibukai..."

"You're right about everything, but the sincerity you've shown hasn't even reached Marine Headquarters yet, has it? So, for now, you're still just an ordinary pirate. As a righteous Marine, it's perfectly normal and legal for me to capture a group of evil pirates, isn't it?"

Rorschach's lips slowly curled into a chilling smile that sent shivers down Blackbeard's spine as he trudged through the blood-soaked ground, step by step, toward them.

Blackbeard clenched his snarling teeth, his face contorted, thick veins bulging on his forehead, and roared, his black face flushed red:

"You're kicking me while I'm down! Sengoku won't agree to this. We've already spoken to him. My deal to hand over Ace and make him a Shichibukai has not only been agreed to by Sengoku, but also by the World Government. Laffitte! Contact Sengoku immediately. I want to ask them what the Navy is up to?"

"I'll call the telephone bug right now."

Lafitte deftly pulled a Den Den Mushi from his pocket and began dialing.

When he left Marineford, he obtained Sengoku's contact number.

After capturing Ace, he had already dialed Sengoku's Den Den Mushi.

Blackbeard stared at Rorschach warily, fearing that Rorschach might suddenly attack and snatch the Den Den Mushi from Lafitte's hand.

To his surprise, Luo Xia did nothing but walk straight toward him.

Blackbeard panicked a little and dared not get too close to Rorschach, so he took a step back and raised his Observation Haki to its limit to guard against Rorschach's sudden attack.

On that deserted island a few months ago, he personally witnessed Rorschach's formidable performance, holding his own against several captains of the Whitebeard Pirates.

Even with the Dark-Dark Fruit's power, Rorschach's terrifying strength made it impossible for him to be certain he could defeat him.

The Dark-Dark Fruit can indeed counter other Devil Fruit users, temporarily nullifying their abilities.

However, Rorschach's physique and Haki are too strong, making it difficult to guarantee that the Dark-Dark Fruit can break through Rorschach's Haki armor and achieve the same ease as it did with Ace.

"Pulling pulling, pulling pulling..."

Lafitte's Den Den Mushi kept ringing, but he couldn't answer it.

The atmosphere in the arena grew increasingly tense.

Rorschach did not rush to make a move.

His behavior was like a cat playing with a mouse.

Blackbeard was furious, but there was nothing he could do.

He really didn't want to confront a monster like Rorschach at this time unless absolutely necessary.

No one answered the Den Den Mushi, and he yelled angrily at Lafitte.

"Lafitte! What's going on? Still haven't gotten through?"

Sweating beaded on Lafitte's forehead. Looking at the bewildered Den Den Mushi, he licked his lips and said bitterly, "Can't get through, no signal."

"No signal? How is that possible? I just spoke to Zhan Guo a few hours ago. Keep calling! Don't stop! Lan Lin..."

After he finished speaking with Lafitte, he turned to look at Rorschach, about to say something to ease the increasingly tense atmosphere.

But when he turned his head, he found that Luo Xia, who had been standing not far in front of him just moments before, had disappeared without him noticing.

"What about people?"

Blackbeard was so frightened that he turned around and looked around.

As soon as he turned around, he heard a series of rapid gunshots rang out in his ears.

At the same time, Van Augur's angry shouts rang out.

"Damn Navy! Let go of Doc Q!"

Blackbeard looked closely and saw that Rorschach, who had disappeared from his sight, was now standing in front of Doc Q, holding Doc Q by the neck with his right hand and lifting him up like a chick.

Blood kept spilling from the corner of Doc Q's mouth. It was unclear whether it was from his own coughing up blood as usual or from being pinched by Rorschach.

At that moment, his lips were moving, and he was muttering something indistinctly.

He frantically waved his hands, unleashing streaks of pale green smoke and light at Luo Xia.

That was his Disease-Disease Fruit power, which was unleashing various extremely powerful and deadly viruses at Rorschach.

Then, facing the virus attack that was so close at hand, Rorschach remained completely still.

Neither the poisonous fog of various colors nor the light could touch his body; they were all blocked by an invisible armor of air a foot away from Rorschach's body.

"Click-click-click..."

Rorschach's large hand tightened little by little, Doc Q's face turned a deep liver color, he couldn't say anything, and his hands gradually lost the strength to move.

Not far away, bullets wrapped in dark Armament Haki whistled from Van Augur's sniper rifle, striking Rorschach.

Those seemingly ordinary bullets, when enveloped in his powerful Armament Haki, possessed a power comparable to the heavy coastal defense artillery of Marineford.

Even Rorschach's air armor, formed by manipulating the air, was shaken by the exploding bullets, causing ripples to spread and waves of wind to rise.

Seeing Doc Q gradually losing his strength to struggle, and Rorschach remaining calm, Blackbeard finally stopped tolerating it.

He grinned, roared, and stretched out his right hand toward Rorschach.

Blackbeard spread his five fingers, and a black vortex even larger than the one he used when fighting Ace quickly appeared in his palm.

A tremendous suction force suddenly appeared and acted on Rorschach, trying to pull his body towards Blackbeard.

"Crack!"

With a crisp snap, Rorschach released Doc Q, whose neck was twisted and whose pupils were unfocused, and tilted his head to look at the air in front of him, which was being distorted by the enormous suction force.

He did not avoid the suction force.

Rorschach wanted to test just how powerful the Dark-Dark Fruit really was.

"call!"

An invisible current of air formed a physical barrier around Rorschach's body, connecting him to the air within a radius of several kilometers and making them a unified whole.

A massive amount of airflow passes through the holes and gaps in the ground, connecting with the earth beneath one's feet.

At this moment, Luo Xia felt as if he were bound to the earth within a radius of several thousand meters.

"Dark water!"

Blackbeard's roar rang out again, and a stronger suction force erupted from his palm, firmly binding Rorschach's body and pulling him frantically toward where his palm was.

However, despite the immense suction of the Dark-Dark Fruit, Rorschach remained standing in place.

Like a nail driven into the ground, Rorschach remained unmoved no matter how much Blackbeard increased the suction of his palm.

Upon seeing this, Blackbeard's eyes showed disbelief.

"No...impossible! My Dark-Dark Fruit power is invincible! There's no way I can't absorb you!"

He extended both hands simultaneously, and a large amount of black energy surged out from his hands, creating an even greater suction force that continued to intensify.

Rorschach unleashed his powerful Observation Haki, sensing everything around him.

"Crack crack crack crack..."

As Blackbeard continued to enhance the power of the Dark-Dark Fruit, Rorschach's body, along with the ground within a radius of several thousand meters beneath his feet, began to tremble.

Cracks began to appear on the edge of the land connected by the atmosphere.

"Aaaaaaah! Get up!"

Blackbeard roared, his hat exploded, his black hair danced wildly, and he looked like a madman. Veins bulged on his arms, and his muscles bulged as he suddenly pulled backward.

As he pulled, the ground within a radius of several thousand meters beneath Rorschach's feet shattered into a massive slab amidst a series of booming explosions, forcefully pulled off the island by the suction force emanating from Blackbeard's hand.

The vast island of Tassan trembled and vibrated, while the ground where Rorschach stood rumbled and tilted, like a broken mountain peak plunging diagonally into the earth.

Rorschach felt the terrifying suction force acting on him and quietly looked at the ferocious-looking black-bearded man before him.

"From this perspective, the Dark-Dark Fruit's ability cannot disable other Devil Fruit users' abilities at medium to long range. Its pulling force, like most Devil Fruit abilities, should be linked to the user's own strength or level of development."

Looking at the thousands of meters of ground that was gradually rising beneath his feet, Luo Xia released his control over the surrounding air.

The moment he released the wind-controlling ability of the Kirin Fruit, the tilted ground, spanning thousands of meters in radius, trembled violently and plunged back into the enormous crater that had appeared in the ground.

"boom!"

The tectonic plate, like a giant mountain that has fallen, has smashed countless large cracks into the entire island of Tassan.

The enormous roar was like the sky collapsing and the earth splitting apart, and huge amounts of dust shot into the sky, like a rolling sandstorm, filling the sky above the entire island.

Rorschach's body was lifted off its original spot and finally pulled by the suction force emanating from Blackbeard's hands, flying towards Blackbeard's outstretched arms.