"A straw hat...?"
Kuro said casually, then charged towards the other side, "Take care of him first, then you'll be out of luck!"
He doesn't care whether Luffy will team up with Teach after he wakes up; he's going to kill him anyway, so it doesn't matter who goes first or last.
If Teach hadn't pulled the fight to his side earlier, he would have finished off the Straw Hats long ago.
"They're here!"
Zoro, Sanji, and Jinbe, along with the fish, saw the terrifying figure swooping down from above and immediately assumed a defensive stance.
"Chopper, what's Luffy's situation right now?" Zoro asked.
"No, I don't know..." Chopper's eyes darted around. "In this situation, I... I've never seen anything like it before..."
"Get Luffy away first!" Sanji shouted, "That guy's coming!"
As Kuro swooped down, he raised his hand, gathering a lightning spear in it, ready to smash it down. Just then, the air suddenly trembled, causing his body to become unsteady and sway.
Teach punched the air, and the resulting air rift revealed jet-black smoke, which transformed into a black snake that opened its mouth to bite Kuro.
"You scoundrel! Hahaha! I won't let you get away with this!"
He had already emerged halfway from the black snake's bud, his face contorted in a ferocious grimace: "As things stand, I'm still your match!"
Teach is quite confident in his abilities, especially in this form that combines the Tremor-Tremor Fruit and the Dark-Dark Fruit. Darkness appears in the direction of the tremors, freely attacking the enemy.
The black snake's bites were all aimed at Kuro in mid-air, but in that instant, just as the black snake was about to bite Kuro's body, its mouth passed through his body and bit down into nothingness.
Kuro's body faded into the air, disappearing like ripples on water. In front of Teach, who had only half his body exposed, a fleeting afterimage appeared—it was Kuro!
He didn't touch Teach, but stared at him almost face to face, his bloodshot eyes fixed on Teach with a sinister smile.
"You don't really think I'm going to let you harass me like this, do you?"
"You rascal..."
Teach instinctively stepped back, but at that moment, six lifeless Void Killers burst forth from Kuro's body, the blood-red ribbons rushing forward and directly slamming into the 'flower bud' formed by countless black snakes behind Teach.
Forces can collide.
The Void Killer did not display its absolute destructive power. Instead, it acted like ropes, splitting the 'flower bud' into six enormous black snakes. The snakes twisted and struggled, creating huge tremors in the air, but they could no longer display their previous power.
The forces were locked in a stalemate and became entangled.
Although Kuro's Void Kill is not a combination of two abilities, the materialized power formed by his killing intent, the Float Float Fruit, and his own swordsmanship is in no way inferior.
Or rather, the black snake manifested by Teach's two abilities reached the level of his 'no-birth, no-kill'.
But that's all there is to it...
“You see, the essence of strength is sometimes that simple. I might indeed lose in the long run, but can you really hold out that long, Teach…”
Kuro smiled at him, and then...
Bang!
The head slammed hard into Teach's forehead.
Teach's head snapped back, his body tilting backward and nearly falling. But before he could react, he was struck hard in the abdomen. Kuro's fist embedded itself in Teach's stomach, knocking him bent over like a shrimp.
Sizzle!
After the punch landed, a bolt of lightning was emitted, shattering the darkness and piercing through Teach's body, protruding from behind.
"It hurts so much!!"
Teach yelled and reached out to grab Kuro's hand, but how could Kuro possibly let him grab it? Kuro swung his arm and dodged, sending a gust of wind blade flying that sliced directly into Teach's neck.
laugh!
A sharp wind blade pierced through Teach's neck, spurting out a trail of blood.
"Oops, that really hurts!!"
Teach roared, and tiny black snakes reappeared on his body, lunging at Kuro.
Kuro smirked. As the six Void Killers wrapped around the giant black snake, another Void Killer emerged from around him, leaping forward and wrapping around all the smaller black snakes. The black snakes merged within the ribbon, transforming back into a single, thick black snake.
The amount of stamina Teach has to use this power is the same amount of stamina Kuro has to match.
In terms of physical strength, he has never lost to anyone.
Seeing that this tactic was ineffective, Teach simply abandoned this fusion fighting style, and with darkness appearing in one hand and vibration in the other, he struck at Kuro.
Kuro ducked to avoid the dark hand, but the vibrating fist struck him directly in the face.
Bang!!
The powerful tremor shattered the surrounding earth, causing it to crack open, and the ground next to where the two of them stood suddenly rose a certain distance.
With blood trickling from the corner of his mouth, Teach laughed loudly, "How about that? Now you know what pain is! Hahahaha!"
"ah..."
The fist grazed Kuro's cheek, knocking his head to the side. At that moment, Teach felt a tremendous force from the fist. Kuro twisted his head, forcefully turning it back to its original position despite Teach's punch.
"It hurts a lot; my internal organs feel like they're shifting..."
"Stop joking!"
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