"The grudge with the Navy, I've avenged a long time ago! You're not entirely to blame, and you don't need to tell me! If not, Teach! You would already be a corpse!"
Clang!
In Whitebeard's angry roar, the blade of the Great Glaive was already across Teach's neck.
Feeling the cold sensation on the skin's surface, Blackbeard's feral grin froze on his face, and his Adam's apple involuntarily moved.
He turned his head with difficulty to look, Whitebeard's face seemed carved with shadows, and besides disappointment, there was also a deep weariness...
Looking around.
Marco, Vista, Saki... These former companions, their eyes were also focused on him, either indifferent, disdainful, or incredulous.
There were some full of anger, wishing to kill him on the spot...
Ordinary people would just feel like sitting on pins and needles.
But he wouldn't.
He's Teach!
"Ultimately, you can't bring yourself to kill me with your own hands! Father!"
Blackbeard opened his toothless mouth, laughing wildly, "I knew it... I knew it! After all, no matter what, I am your son! A son who has followed you for over twenty years, father!"
"..."
Whitebeard looked at him expressionlessly.
Suddenly, he raised his head and looked at the sky, breathed out heavily, then quickly withdrew the blade, clenching his left hand into a fist, activating the power of the Quake-Quake Fruit, gathering dazzling terrifying white light at his fist...
"Get lost, Teach! Escape to the ends of the sea!"
Whitebeard roared with all his might:
"From today onwards, the Whitebeard Pirates have no ties with you! The next time we meet, will be the time I take your life!"
Before the words were finished.
The fist containing the power to shatter mountains and rivers had already struck heavily on Blackbeard's abdomen!
Bang!
The surrounding space shattered like a mirror, Blackbeard let out a painful groan, his eyeballs bulging out, his internal organs displaced under the blow.
Instantly, his body was like a cannonball, flying backward, crashing through the ship's railing, turning into a stream of light, cutting through the sky, heading straight toward the horizon.
In the blink of an eye.
He became a small black dot at the end of the sea.
Clang!
The Murakumogiri heavily stabbed into the deck.
The crew looked at each other, the captains' expressions were complex, in the midst of silence, Whitebeard silently returned to his seat.
Passing by Shano's position, he paused his steps clearly hesitating, but ultimately continued walking forward without a word.
Sitting down, grabbing the liquor, gulped it down crazily.
"Was it necessary?"
Shano also took a sip of his drink, suddenly asked.
"What?"
Whitebeard murmured, "If you're going to say something, speak clearly."
"You're afraid of me, Whitebeard."
Shano said softly.
Whitebeard's motion of gulping the liquor paused slightly, the liquid slowly dripping down along his beard.
He slowly put down the jug, looked at Shano, grinned:
"Gura la la la, boy, everyone on this sea knows you're arrogant, but you're arrogant to this extent?"
"Afraid of you?"
"Such words, you can really say them... I know the Golden Lion died at your hand recently, but if you think I'm just another old man whose power is no longer what it used to be, then you're gravely mistaken!"
"Then why were you watching me secretly just now?"
Shano shook the liquor jug dismissively:
"When you grabbed Teach you glanced at me, when you hit him you glanced at me again, why, are you worried I'd attack and kill him?"
Whitebeard's breath caught.
"Such an annoyingly keen intuition..."
Whitebeard was silent for a moment, then suddenly laughed aloud, he grabbed the liquor jug, gulped a mouthful, then put it down heavily:
"That's right! I'm indeed afraid you'd kill him on the spot!"
He murmured, "Though that bastard Teach deserves death, he was once my son, if anyone should clean house, it should be me!"
"Letting someone like him escape makes it hard to catch them again, so that might have been your one chance, but your heart wavered."
Shano said calmly.
"Young people from complete families can't understand, for pirates who regard the ship as home, there's no sense in killing your own children at home..."
Whitebeard shook his head, "I know you meant well for me, but let's not mention it again, boy, I've already said before, after today, Teach is no longer my son, and if I see him again... I won't hold back."
Really not hold back?
Shano raised his eyebrow slightly, looking at Whitebeard with sympathy.
This old man's body is tougher than anyone's, yet his heart is soft like cotton, full of flaws.
Even on the original timeline, the fate of the entire Whitebeard Pirates was headed for ruin because of Blackbeard and Ace.
But at the top battle arena, when Blackbeard fearfully shouted "Father," the Whitebeard who still had strength for revenge, chose to let him go.
He admired Whitebeard's heroism and spirit, admired his unique chivalrous flair among the great pirates...
But in this aspect, he couldn't agree.
Completely different from Whitebeard.
Eliminate the roots.
It's always been his most... second strongest skill.
"Lord Shano."
Marco seemed to finally react, laughing bitterly:
"On this matter, my view is the same as yours, if I were the father, I'd make the same choice as you, kill Teach on the spot, not give him a chance."