One Piece: Blue Scale Admiral

However, now is not the time to think about these things. Even if Ryder is not completely dead, he must be severely injured.

"Where's Barrett?" Huang Mu absorbed Ryder's life force, not only recovering his lost life force but also receiving a huge replenishment. He looked much more energetic, as if he had inexhaustible energy.

Rorschach pointed to the ground, "Just now, when we teamed up to take down Ryder, he burrowed underground."

"Underground? Can't we catch it?" Kizaru asked, puzzled.

Rorschach shrugged: "Can't you sense it for yourself? This guy's Fusion Fruit ability allows him to move freely in the underground rock layers. Even I can't catch up with him for a while."

Kizaru and Aramaki immediately released their Observation Haki to probe downwards, and quickly detected Barrett's presence. Then, both of them were stunned.

"Barrett, isn't he supposed to be a battle maniac? Why is he such a coward? He got scared and hid thousands of meters underground. Who can catch him?" Huang Mu was dumbfounded.

Luo Xia scoffed: "He's a battle maniac, that's true, but he's not stupid. Try facing three opponents of the same level at the same time and see what happens."

Huang Mu was immediately speechless. Although he was still unconvinced, he didn't dare to refute Luo Xia's words and could only stammer, "Then what do we do now? Just wait here for him to come up?"

“This is the only way…” Luo Xia was about to say something when his expression suddenly changed. His azure vertical pupils contracted sharply, and his aura fluctuated, causing Huang Yuan and Huang Mu in front of him to be puzzled.

"What happened? Are the enemies here again?"

Kizaru knew that Rorschach's Observation Haki had a much wider range of perception than theirs, allowing him to detect enemies beyond visual range much earlier than they could.

Could it be that after defeating the Devil Pirates, other pirate crews from the New World have arrived?

Is it the Red-Haired Pirates or the Beasts Pirates?

However, Luo Xia's answer caused the two of them to tremble instantly, and like Luo Xia, their expressions changed involuntarily.

“No, it’s the Tremor-Tremor Fruit.” Rorschach frowned and looked towards the deep sea outside Soft Island. “The real Tremor-Tremor Fruit has been reborn.”

"What? The real Tremor-Tremor Fruit has been reborn? Really? Where is it?"

Huang Mu's eyes widened.

His Observation Haki was not weak either. He had sensed the conversation between Barrett and Teach earlier and knew that the Tremor-Tremor Fruit that Barrett obtained was probably fake.

In other words, they were assigned by the Five Elders to abandon their original plan to attack the NEO Navy and come here to seize the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, all for the sake of a fake.

Not only their navy, but also the pirates of the New World were badly deceived.

But who could have imagined that the real Tremor-Tremor Fruit was also on this island, and that it had only just been reborn here?

Thinking of the power of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, and the praise he would receive from the Five Elders after seizing it and handing it over, Aramu's eyes lit up with surprise as he looked at Rorschach expectantly.

Kizaru also looked over.

But Rorschach's expression was somewhat strange, as if he felt regretful, yet also relieved.

Seeing that Luo Xia didn't speak, Huang Mu became anxious. He desperately wanted to get the Tremor Fruit so that he could take it back and present it to the Five Elders.

"Where is the Tremor-Tremor Fruit? Tell me quickly, let's go and grab it!"

"Too late, it's already been eaten."

Luo Xia's answer struck Huang Mu like a thunderbolt, leaving him looking around blankly.

"Who? Who ate the Tremor-Tremor Fruit? Who else is on this island besides the four of us? Could it be the Marines from outside the island? Damn it! Who dares to do this? The Tremor-Tremor Fruit should have been given to the great Five Elders!"

Luo Xia gave him a cold glance, said nothing more, and with a flicker of his figure, flew towards the direction locked by his Observation Haki.

Minutes earlier, while a fierce battle raged on Soft Island, underwater, inside Barrett's armored catapult.

When Tiki opened her eyes from her brief coma, she found herself in a closed cabin with a tightly shut iron door in front of her, as if she were a prisoner.

Fortunately for him, his hands were not handcuffed with sea stone, which meant that he could use the Dark-Dark Fruit ability at any time.

That damned bastard Barrett humiliated him like that. Thinking about her dramatic ups and downs today, Titch was surprisingly calm and not too agitated.

Although the Tremor-Tremor Fruit is fake, I am still alive.

As long as a person is alive and has the Dark-Dark Fruit ability, they will eventually find a second ability that suits them.

This is already a huge advantage compared to others who are destined to eat only one Devil Fruit.

In short, let's see where those ruthless guys like Barrett and Rorschach are now.

With that thought in mind, Teach carefully released her Observation Haki to sense the situation on the ship she was on.

He sensed that there were only a dozen or so life forms fluctuating on his ship. If he remembered correctly, these people were probably Barrett's subordinates, pirates from the Devil Pirates.

However, the life force emanating from these pirates was not very strong, much weaker than that of the escaped prisoners. They were probably just minor characters responsible for driving the ship, which put Tiki at ease.

While his Observation Haki wasn't as monstrous as Rorschach's, it wasn't weak either.

In addition, the pirate ship he was on was currently sunk to the bottom of the seabed several thousand meters away from Soft Island. Therefore, Teach quickly sensed that there were five terrifying aura fluctuations on the island next to him, which were colliding wildly and stirring up terrible energy fluctuations. He was so frightened that he hurriedly withdrew his Observation Haki, for fear of attracting the attention of the evil people on it.

"Hiss... How come there are only five left? Katakuri, Wald and the others? Could it be... hiss... they're all dead?"

The thought that even someone as strong as Katakuri and Wald might not survive a battle between Barrett and Rorschach made Teach's face turn pale.

He never imagined that before successfully acquiring the power of his second powerful Devil Fruit, he would have even the slightest hope of fighting against the five vicious men on the island.

Barrett and Rorschach, in particular, were the ones that Teach feared the most.

Even though their abilities were suppressed by the Dark-Dark Fruit, those two guys could still easily crush me; they're practically inhuman.

Even though her body was the most special among everyone, compared to these perverts, she was just like an ordinary person, without any advantage.

"Never mind, while they're still locked in a fierce battle, I'd better leave here first. It would be best if that old devil Wald were dead, so I can go straight to Sachi Island and take over the Wald Pirates he left behind."

As Tiki pondered these thoughts, she stood up, black energy emanating from her hands, silently engulfing the heavy iron door in front of her, and stepped out of the closed cabin.

Soon, following the aura fluctuations locked by his Observation Haki, he went to each of them one by one, easily swallowing all the pirates on the ship with his Dark Acupoint Space, and then walked to the ship's main control room.

The ship is now like a submarine, submerged thousands of meters below the sea. As an ability user, he can't just leave directly; he has to find a way to get the ship away.

In the main control room, besides the instruments used to operate the ship, there is also a square table.

At this moment, the square table is piled high with various foods and drinks. Clearly, the pirates on this ship are preparing to dine here.

Without any hesitation, Ticky plopped down at the table, grabbed a steaming hot steak, stuffed it into her mouth, and chewed it heartily while reaching for the rum on the table to open it and drink it down.

Just then, a scene he had never even dreamed of appeared.

On the square table in front of him, among the fruits on the plate, the surface of a gourd-shaped fruit suddenly twisted, and spiral patterns appeared, covering the entire surface of the gourd.

At the same time, the gourd's color is also changing, from the normal bluish-green to a light blue, like the color of the sea.

Tiki's mouth gaped open, like a hippo in heat, and the steak she was chewing slipped out of her mouth and fell onto the table with a thud.

The bottle of rum he was holding slammed to the floor with a thud, sending shards of glass flying and rum splashing everywhere.

But Tiki seemed oblivious, staring blankly at the light blue gourd covered in spiral patterns.

At this moment, all he could see was the fruit that had suddenly undergone a strange transformation.

His mind was still in a daze, not yet reacting, but his hands shot out with lightning speed, grabbing the gourd that had changed, as if afraid it would slip away, and threw it directly into his mouth. With a snap of his teeth, he crushed the gourd in his mouth, tilted his head back, and desperately swallowed the extremely unpalatable fruit.

He ate too fast and too hastily, and choked and coughed, but Titch covered her mouth tightly, afraid that the disgusting fruit would fly out of her mouth. She then shoved her right hand into her mouth, forced the chewed fruit deep into her throat, and swallowed it with red eyes.

After finally swallowing the extremely unpalatable fruit, Tiki felt completely exhausted and collapsed onto the floor of the control room, still in a daze and not yet fully recovered.

After a long while, his body trembled, and a mad smile gradually spread across his ugly old face.

"Hahaha, hahaha, hahaha!"

"The Tremor-Tremor Fruit, the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, this time it's finally real, isn't it? As expected, I'm the one destined to obtain the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, zehahaha! Admiral Bluescale! Barrett! You think you can stop me from obtaining my father's power? Dream on! Devil Fruits actively choose their hosts. It's been reborn before my eyes, which means that in this world, besides my dead father, I, Marshall D. Teach, am the most suitable host for it!"

Tikki laughed maniacally, feeling the surging power flowing continuously within her body. She stood up abruptly and clenched her right hand.

As he tightened his grip, the air in the control room cracked under the strain, and to Tikki's ecstatic gaze, the atmosphere split open, revealing spiderweb-like cracks.

"Zehahaha, zehahahaha! It's real! It's the real Tremor-Tremor Fruit!"

Chapter 759 Undersea Battle

"It's the power of the vibration coming from the deep sea. Is the guy who ate the Tremor-Tremor Fruit hiding in the sea?"

While Teach was testing his second Devil Fruit ability inside the catapult, Aramaki and Kizaru, who were using Observation Haki to search the world for the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, immediately noticed the unusual vibration and pinpointed its source.

Without saying a word, the two immediately followed Luo Xia's footsteps and ran together towards the eastern coast of the island.

Halfway there, Kizaru's eyes flickered slightly, and he exclaimed in surprise, "So Blackbeard ate the Tremor-Tremor Fruit? That's quite astonishing. Has Whitebeard's power been inherited by his son? Is the Whitebeard Pirates about to rise from the ashes?"

"Blackbeard?" Aramaki stopped in his tracks, astonished. "Isn't he already a Devil Fruit user? How could he eat a second Devil Fruit?"

"You ask me? Who should I ask?" Kizaru ignored his question, descended from the sky, and came to Rorschach's side. "What do we do now, Rorschach?"

"Of course we should capture them and kill them. Neither Blackbeard nor Barrett will be leaving this island today."

Rorschach's voice was filled with undisguised killing intent, which made Kizaru somewhat alarmed.

"Should we wait for him to come up?" Huang Mu asked as he caught up.

"No need, I'll go down and catch him. This guy is slippery; he'll try to run away after getting something for nothing. There's no such thing as a free lunch."

Luo Xia's words startled Huang Mu, and then, to his astonishment, the sea surface exploded, and Luo Xia's figure crashed into the sea, rapidly diving towards the seabed.

Huang Mu's eyes twitched as he watched.

"Isn't this guy a superhuman? He actually jumped into the sea! Is he courting death? Is he desperate to make a name for himself?"

seabed.

Despite obtaining the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, Tiki was not blinded by the overwhelming joy in her heart. She knew that with her current strength, even with the combined power of the Dark-Dark Fruit and the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, she still might not be a match for those monsters.

Since that's the case, we might as well leave quickly and return to the Ward Pirates' stronghold, Thatch Island, to settle down and develop peacefully.

Once he has fully developed his father's abilities, and added some excellent Devil Fruit users to his ranks, he will begin his journey to conquer the New World and become one of the Four Emperors.

He immediately walked to the control panel in the main control room and began to skillfully operate the iron-hulled ship.

Although the control panel on this ship was different from his previous ship, the Sword of Gibbeck, the experienced Teach only needed a few glances to roughly understand how to operate it.

At least, you just need to know how to use the joystick for moving forward and controlling direction.

The only problem is that he's the only one on the ship right now, so how to power the ship is a problem.

"If I had known we would have to escape by boat, I shouldn't have killed all the pirates here earlier."

Tiki quickly pressed the forward gear and locked the direction control stick, setting the ship's direction to straight ahead, intending to get directly away from the dangerous Soft Island from the depths of the sea.

Then, he wanted to leave the main control room and go check out the power room.

However, when Tiki turned around, she was so frightened that her heart almost stopped. She shuddered, let out a strange cry, and slammed her back into the control panel behind her. The force was so great that some of the buttons on the control panel were knocked off.