69 *Title Hidden* (1/2)

”Zahahaha, well what do we have here. And here I was thinking how boring this place has become. I can take care of the little rat while having some fun, must be my lucky day. Zahahaha!” Standing before me was a tall man with a massive build as his body is round with relatively thin limbs. He has a big mouth with several broken or missing teeth, a pronounced crooked nose and a very large and hairy chest and torso. Long, thick, woolly black hair falls down the back of his neck, underneath a black bandana, and a small scruffy, long black beard.

Anime fans will know him and probably want to gut him as one of the antagonist in Oda's One Piece. One of the new four emperors and the one who was mainly responsible for Ace's death. Marshall D. Teach aka Blackbeard.

”What's the matter? Why so silent eh? Come on lad, show some enthusiasm. A young lad like you should live a little. You should dream a little. Zahahaha!” Blackbeard continued his little rant as I stood staring at him. I had already prepared for situations like this where I might face someone I have knowledge of so, I didn't focus on his appearance here. Instead I was formulating a battle plan.

Blackbeard is someone who like to get up close and personal with his opponent and with his Yami Yami no mi it's no surprise. And if he has the Gura Gura no mi then it is even more dangerous. but he has shown one vital weakness in the anime. He talks too much. No seriously, him not being able to control his mouth in the midst of battle has often landed him in trouble.

The main power of his darkness fruit won't work on me since I am not using any devil fruits and even if he uses the gravitation function of the fruit I can get the better of him easily in CQC. But if he uses the tremor fruit, then I might run into some difficulties. This power enhances his strength and after the growth in his strength, it is even more amplified. But he is not the only one who has grown stronger, so have I.

We both have advantages heading into this, he might have more cards to show than I know of since he has grown much more than when he was previously alive but he also doesn't know what I have in my mind. So this will come down to who reveals all of their cards first.

”We both know how this will end up. So why waste my breath on meaningless things.” I replied to him while I was going through my thoughts as pushed my left foot forward slightly and hunched down getting into my stance.

”Zahahaha, you are right. So let's begin your end shall, we boy?” He gave his usual annoying laugh before casually lifting his left hand. Since I knew what he was up to, I didn't waste any energy to launch an attack on my own and waited. And soon, his darkness power showed as his left hand got covered in a black colored mist.

Soon, I was lifted off the ground and went hurling towards him because of the gravitational pull. I maneuvered my body to an attacking position midair as I decided to only use my physical ability to fight first. I thought I should hide the effect of my Vibration magic for later. When I reached his hand, I used my own hands to grab onto his forearms and twisted my body and kicked him in the face with a left foot that had all of my body weight centered on to it.

My full strength might not be stronger than his haki but I knew it was enough for this fight. Because of the uniqueness of his darkness fruit, it is not intangible despite being a logia fruit. So I didn't have to worry about not landing my hits.

He was still not taking this seriously, since if he had used his observation haki, he could have easily avoided that hit. It had the strength but it lacked speed but since I knew who this was I decided to give it a go and it worked.

As his had snapped to the side from the hit, I landed on the ground and threw a fist to his stomach, this time though there was both strength and speed in it since I knew he would start using his haki now. And as I suspected, his hand blocked the punch.

”Well, this is a surprise. You hit harder than the old man, and now that is saying some-” Blackbeard started to talk and that was what I wanted. In the middle of his speech, I sent the heaviest punch I could throw and this time it connected and sent his flying.