One Piece: Blue Scale Admiral

At the same time, he stretched out his hands, trying to use his Puffing Fruit ability to confront the black energy that was entangled in front of him and trying to pull him into an unknown dark space.

"Give me something crispy and crunchy, the light of puffed snacks!"

He shouted, and tiny points of light appeared on his hands.

Then, to Snag's incredulous gaze, that faint, firefly-like light rapidly diminished and disappeared.

He stood frozen in place, staring blankly at his hands, which remained unchanged.

The surging black energy in front of him was not affected by his expansion ability. Instead, it burst out with an increasingly strong suction force, like countless octopus suckers, wrapping around his body, pulling him firmly, and dragging him inch by inch into the dark depths beneath his feet.

"Blackbeard! You monster! What have you done?! Why have my powers disappeared?!"

Panic and fear flashed in Snag's eyes.

He had never encountered this situation before.

This feeling is like being handcuffed by sea stone.

He can no longer use his Puff-Puff Fruit powers.

"It's not disappearance, it's suppression. The Dark-Dark Fruit's power can suppress all other Devil Fruit powers; it's the most evil power."

Blackbeard grinned, revealing his gaping teeth, and grabbed at Snag.

"Devour! Dark Acupoint Space!"

"Shh!"

Endless black mist surged into the sky, as if a dark curtain had risen over Potato Island, and the struggling Snag was instantly swallowed up.

As all the black mist on the port dissipated and receded back into Teach's body, the ground around him immediately transformed into a clean and tidy dock.

There was no one else in the port except him. It was as if the hundreds of pirates who had appeared in a swarm earlier, and Snag who had come charging in with great momentum, were all illusions of Wald and Binjak.

Wald jumped off the ship and looked at Teach in surprise, "What kind of ability is that? What about those people who disappeared?"

He never expected that this transvestite who had suddenly declared his intention to join his pirate crew would actually be quite capable.

Snag, who had a bounty of 600 million Berries, was taken down by him without a scratch in just a few moves.

Based on this performance alone, he is already far superior to those outdated old pirates he brought out of the Infinite Hell.

"This is the Logia-type Dark-Dark Fruit, which can nullify all abilities and steal the abilities of other ability users."

Ticky winked at Wald.

But Wald was completely oblivious, staring at him in utter shock. "What did you say? You can nullify all abilities and steal other people's Devil Fruit abilities?"

"You don't believe me? Try it and see."

Tikki smiled as she looked at the incredulous Wald, and slowly extended her right hand toward him, a black vortex surging from her palm.

Wald immediately felt a tremendous suction force coming from Tichi's palm.

His eyes flickered, and suddenly he extended his right hand and placed it directly on Tichi's right hand.

Tiki's smile remained unchanged as she activated her Dark Water ability.

The next moment, Wald's expression changed drastically, and a look of shock appeared in his eyes as he stared straight at Tichi.

He discovered that what Titch had just said was actually true.

His powerful multiplying fruit ability completely subsided the moment it came into contact with Tikki's right hand, which was emitting black smoke, and he couldn't unleash it no matter how hard he tried.

Does such a power even exist in the world?

Isn't this like Seastone and seawater, capable of suppressing the abilities of other Devil Fruit users?

Thinking of this, Wald, who was deeply shaken, immediately remembered another sentence that Titch had just said, and his eyes instantly lit up with a burning light.

High-level Armament Haki flowed from his hands, separating him from the black energy in Teach's hands and freeing him from Teach's pull. He breathed heavily and said, "You said your ability can also steal Devil Fruit abilities from other people?"

"That's right, want to give it a try?"

As she spoke, Tikki waved her right hand in front of her.

A pitch-black opening appeared in mid-air, as if the void had cracked open, and Snag's body was thrown out of it, as if it had been spat out by a monster with its mouth wide open.

"How do we try it?" Wald looked at Snag, who was lying on the ground barely alive, and then looked at Titch with curiosity.

"It's simple. You find someone who has no abilities, and I'll transfer this guy's Puff Fruit ability to that person."

"What? You mean this kind of plunder? Are you... are you kidding me? How could such a power possibly exist in this world?"

Upon hearing Tichi's explanation, Wald's face paled with unconcealed horror.

For a moment, he even felt fear towards the transvestite-like man in front of him.

Why did the Navy freeze him and imprison him in Impel Down for thirty years instead of killing him?

It's because they're afraid his multiplication fruit will flow into the sea.

Imagine if the Navy had a terrifying power like Teach's, capable of stripping others of their abilities and transferring them to others; he would probably be dead long ago, and his Multiply Fruit power would have been taken away by the Navy long ago.

While fearing Teach's abilities, Wald also thought of a future that made him breathe heavily.

If I had Teach's Devil Fruit ability, which allows her to steal the abilities of others, wouldn't that mean I could steal the powerful abilities of all the other strong people on this sea and make them my own?

Barrett's Fusion Fruit ability, Kaido's Azure Dragon Fruit, that brat's Kirin Fruit, Magellan's Venom-Venom Fruit, the Marine Admirals' Magma, Ice, and Glint-Glint Fruits...

If I could gather such powerful abilities under my command, who in this world could stop me from becoming the king of the world?

"Tiki, hurry up and give it a try, let me see what you've got." Thinking of this, Wald's voice trembled slightly, and he looked at Tiki with burning eyes, as if he were looking at a peerless beauty.

Tikki had no doubt that if she asked Wald to marry her right now, Wald would agree without hesitation.

Unfortunately, he would never like a crude fellow like Wald, who possessed great power but was actually pitifully weak.

If he hadn't been eyeing Wald's multiplication fruit, he wouldn't have wasted his time on Wald's pirate crew.

"To whom?" Tiki asked with a charming smile, flicking a braid that had fallen beside her ear.

Wald looked around and then fixed his gaze on his brother sitting on his shoulder.

Noticing Wald's gaze, Binjac sighed inwardly and took the initiative to speak, "Let me try. If I can really obtain the ability from this Snag, maybe my illness will improve as a result."

"Yes, but they made it clear beforehand that this transfer ability isn't 100% successful and there's a certain risk of failure."

"Ticky said."

Wald was taken aback, but instead of feeling angry at being deceived, he nodded.

That's right. If such a powerful ability could be 100% successful, that would be truly defying the heavens.

It is only natural that we will fail.

He frowned and asked, "What dangers are there if it fails? I mean, the person whose abilities were transferred."

Tikki shook her head: "The ability will disappear, but the target you've moved to won't be in any danger."

Upon hearing this, Wald breathed a sigh of relief, placed his brother Binjac next to Snag, and gestured, "Then we can begin."

Tikki nodded, drew a gleaming dagger from her waist, crouched down, and, under Bingjack's watchful gaze, plunged the dagger into Snag's heart with a soft thud.

Soon, Snag, too weak to resist, died from blood loss after his heart was pierced.

Then Wald saw black gas erupt from the ground, engulfing Teach, Snag, and the anxious Binjak.

He was the only one left standing in the arena; Titch and the others had disappeared.

Wald waited anxiously for a few minutes as well.

Those few minutes felt like an eternity to him; he had never felt time pass so slowly.

About three minutes later, black gas suddenly surged from the open space in front of him, splitting open a narrow slit and spitting out the vanished Teach, Bingjack, and the dead Snag.

"How did it go? Did it succeed?" Wald asked impatiently, his eyes full of anticipation, like a gambler waiting for the lottery results.

Tikky grinned, smiling without saying a word.

Bingjack, however, had a strange expression on his face. Suddenly, he bent down and placed his small palm on the ground beneath him.

A hazy glow emerged from his palm, and the ground touched by that light quickly bulged up, revealing many pores, puffing up like fried potato chips.

With a casual tap, Bingjack easily shattered the bulging ground into a pile of fragments.

Wald's eyes widened, and a twisted look of ecstatic joy gradually appeared on his face.

"We did it! We actually did it! This is insane! Teach! I hereby declare you the first mate of the Ward Pirates! From this moment on, let's go hunt down those powerful Devil Fruit users! With you and me working together, this world will eventually belong to us, to the Ward Pirates!"

Tikki, however, smiled without saying a word.

Hunting powerful Devil Fruit abilities?

Are you kidding me?

Which of those powerful fruits wasn't found in those inhuman monsters?

With my current small frame, facing monsters like Kaido, Bullet, Rorschach, and Akainu would be like throwing a meat bun to a dog—a one-way trip, certain death.

Bingjack was much more perceptive than Wald. He noticed Ticky's worries and quickly explained the implications, which finally calmed the excited Wald down a bit.

“We can start by targeting those who aren’t very strong but have good abilities. We can arm your fellow inmates, Wald, first, and then hunt down the stronger ones.”

Bingjack's suggestion was approved by Wald.

However, just as he was suppressing his happiness and preparing to rest and recuperate on the island, the newspaper-delivering seagull suddenly presented him with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Upon seeing the news in the newspaper that Aokiji had been defeated by Akainu, was seriously injured, withdrew from the Navy, and disappeared from the New World, not only Wald and Bin Jack's eyes lit up, but even Teach, who had been smiling and pretending to be naive, revealed a glint of light in her eyes.

Admiral Aokiji!

Logia-type Ice-Ice Fruit user!

Everyone present had witnessed just how powerful Aokiji's abilities were.

That's a natural-type ability capable of easily freezing a thousand miles of ocean.

If the Ward Pirates could acquire this powerful ability...

Wald suddenly regretted letting his brother Bingjak transfer Snag's puffing ability.

If this news had come earlier, and the older brother had been able to acquire Aokiji's Ice-Ice Fruit ability, wouldn't the two brothers, working together, have easily become the Four Emperors of the New World, just like Barrett and Ryder?

The three exchanged glances and saw the excitement in each other's eyes.

Wald made the decision immediately and decisively.