From the Navy Admiral to the Gotei 13

The captain was trembling with fear, having already recognized Doflamingo. After all, Doflamingo was very famous in the New World.

"I understand..." the captain replied fearfully.

"Very good. Have you seen the Whitebeard Pirates' Fourth Division?" Doflamingo asked directly.

The captain was stunned for a moment, then quickly said, "I've seen them. A few days ago, they just left from here and headed south. I was so scared at the time that I thought I was dead, but they ignored me."

"Fufufu, that's because they're 'full' and heading south? Very good." Doflamingo said with an evil smile.

…ask for flowers.

The captain also looked at Doflamingo in fear, but Doflamingo did not kill him after all. He asked some details and confirmed that the captain was not lying. Then, his Yaksha-like figure quickly pulled the clouds and headed south.

As Doflamingo was on his way, the banquet on Thatch's ship had already ended.

Although he was a little drunk, Thatch was not really knocked down. He chatted and laughed with Teach and then returned to his cabin. Teach also made an appointment with him to come to him again with the Devil Fruit Encyclopedia later.

Back on his ship, Teach quickly called Lucci into the boat's engine room.

He looked at Lucci with a serious expression and said, "I just tried to test him. That guy has made up his mind to eat the Dark-Dark Fruit, so I have to take action, Lucci..."

After a brief pause, Tiqi added: "You know what kind of person I am."

But before he could finish his words, Lucci spoke up, "Once you attack Thatch, there's no turning back, Senior Teach. Dad will hunt you to the ends of the earth. ... The only iron rule on our ship is not to harm your companions."

Teach was silent for a moment, not saying anything. He just looked at Lucci with a somewhat oppressive gaze. After a long moment, he suddenly laughed out loud, "Hahahaha, you're right, Lucci. Dad will never forgive me, but so what? The Whitebeard Pirates are no longer the invincible pirate group they once were. There are always places he can't catch us, not to mention... well, anyway, I've decided to do this, and you're already on board. From the moment you told Thatch the news of the caravan, from the moment you left Dad's ship with me, you've been on my ship. Lucci, I'm asking you again, do you want to join me in turning this era upside down?!"

"Turning this era upside down?" Lucci murmured softly, with a gleam in his eyes.

To be honest, if he had not met Admiral Diarmait first, if he was really a pirate, a confidant cultivated by Teach since childhood, then Teach's highly persuasive words would definitely have moved him.

Even at this moment, Lucci was looking forward to the future that Teach talked about.

But he finally stuck to his original intention.

Of course, he still put on a smile and said, "Of course no problem, Senior Teach... No, maybe I should call you Captain now?"

"Hahahaha, Captain? That's a nice title, but I prefer the title of 'Admiral'. Just wait and see, I will form a pirate group that is as powerful as the Whitebeard Pirates and the Golden Lion's flying fleet. When the time comes, I will let you be my deputy captain, hahahaha!" Teach laughed.

After a brief pause, Teach continued, "The night is long and dreams are many. I'm going to get the Devil Fruit Encyclopedia now, and then use this as an excuse to go find Thatch and help him look at the fruit. Hahahaha, you wait here for me, get ready to launch the ship, and we'll slip away under the cover of night..."

"No problem." Lucci nodded.

Seeing this, Teach turned around and left without saying anything.

He still trusts Lucci very much. On the one hand, it is because Lucci was still a little kid when he came to the Whitebeard Pirates, and he was the one who brought him up. On the other hand, it is because Lucci is already a devil fruit user, so Teach doesn't think that he will compete with him for the Dark-Dark Fruit. This is the basis of trust.

Otherwise, he would not have brought Lucci with him on this operation.

But after Teach left, Lucci smiled, his figure as graceful and agile as a big cat, leaving silently and returning to Thatch's ship before Teach.

Chapter 346: Teach: Rob Lucci, I will chase you to the ends of the earth and kill you!

There was a series of knocks on the door. Teach was standing at Thatch's door with a Devil Fruit encyclopedia in his hand, waiting for the person inside to open the door for him.

But after waiting for a while, I found that there was no movement.

"Could he have fallen into a deep sleep?" Tiqi smacked his lips.

If that doesn't work, just force a breakthrough?

Just as Titch was asking these questions, he heard footsteps behind him. He turned around and saw Thatch staggering towards him.

What's going on? Didn't you just go back inside?

Seeing this, Tiqi asked, "I knocked on the door for a long time, but you weren't there. What were you doing?"

"Hahaha, sorry, I drank too much just now and couldn't hold it anymore, so I went to the bathroom." Sachi smiled embarrassedly.

Seeing this, Tiqi also laughed and waved his hand, saying, "It's okay, let's go and see what kind of ability it is. To be honest, I'm also itching to find out. I'm very curious. If I don't figure it out, I won't be able to sleep..."

"Don't you ever sleep?" Sachi complained as he opened the door.

Teach didn't say anything polite and followed him in very naturally.

"Would you like some water? I always feel thirsty after drinking..." Sachi said with his back to Tiqi, turning on the lights in the room.

At the moment the lights came on, Teach's eyes were already on the table not far away, where a small box was placed. With just one glance, Teach understood "six eight three", and the Dark Dark Fruit was there.

After all, there's no need for Sachi to have such a decoration in his house, right?

After making up his mind, Tiqi's eyes flashed with a fierce light, and a wicked and cruel smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. He then said, "Really? Then don't drink from now on."

"How can I not drink? I will die if I don't drink, hahaha." Sachi thought Teach was joking, picked up the teapot on the table, and prepared to pour some water for Teach.

"Then just die?" Tiqi said suddenly.

"Hey, this joke is not funny..." Sachi turned around after pouring the water and said in a somewhat unhappy tone.

But when he turned around, he saw Teach standing behind him with a ferocious smile on his face, and he seemed to be holding a dagger in his hand?

"What are you going to do..." Sachi asked in surprise.

But at this moment, he was not on guard at all. After all, Teach had been his friend for more than ten years, and Teach had always been a good guy.

This sudden change made Sachi completely unaware of the danger.

Then, before he could finish his words, the next second, he saw a flash of cold light in Titch's hand, and then he felt a pain in his abdomen.

Then, without waiting for him to fight back, Teach covered his mouth with his hand and stabbed and pulled out the dagger back and forth several times at an extremely fast speed.

Thatch's strength was never as strong as Teach's, but Teach had been hiding his strength. In addition, he had a weapon in his hand and attacked unexpectedly.

Before Thatch could react, Teach covered his mouth with his hand and stabbed him more than ten times with a dagger.

His entire stomach had been stabbed to pieces, and blood, along with fragments of internal organs and intestines, flowed out of Sachi's stomach. The light in his eyes became dimmer and dimmer, and he gradually became powerless.

Only then did Tiqi release the hand that was covering his mouth, and his expression was a little stiff and complicated for a moment.

Thatch's voice was very weak. He looked at Tikki with disbelief. His hands were a little flustered, but he covered his stomach weakly. As if he had used up his last breath, he asked: "...Why...Why? Tikki..."

"If you want to blame someone, blame you for blocking my way. Blame you for being too lucky and getting the Dark-Dark Fruit..." Teach said with complicated eyes.

"Dark...fruit...?" The last words that Sachi left in this world were full of confusion and doubt.

Without getting any explanation from Tiqi, he took his last breath with resentment and endless pain, and the light in his eyes quickly dissipated.

Thatch, captain of the Whitebeard Pirates' Fourth Division and a gourmet, was a pirate with a bounty of 1515 million. In the year of the Sea Circle Calendar, he was murdered in the New World by his trusted family and friend, Blackbeard Marshall D. Teach.

After watching Thatch breathe his last and die completely, Teach threw the dagger in his hand to the ground and looked at the blood stains on his hands.

"Is this what it feels like to kill a friend?" Teach murmured softly.

There is guilt, reluctance, regret, and reluctance, but in the end, there is the sense of exhilaration of having cut off the past and seized the future.

It is the ambitious sense of accomplishment of breaking free from the shackles of the "Whitebeard Pirates", starting a new life, changing this era, and truly achieving oneself!

"This era never belongs to Roger, nor to Golden Lion, nor to Dad. Maybe Diarmait is half of it, but in the end, this era will be named 'Blackbeard', hahahahahahahahahahaha. ... Thatch, be proud, you will be the key to the door to this new era that I opened with my own hands!!!" Teach suddenly laughed neurotically.

Then, he grabbed the tea that Sachi had just poured for him on the table and drank it all. Then he turned around and grabbed the small box containing the Dark-Dark Fruit with his bloody hand.

But the moment he picked up the box, Teach's expression changed.

It's light, too light. It doesn't look like there's anything in the box.

Then, he quickly opened the box, and sure enough, there was no Dark Fruit in it as he had imagined, but only a letter.

But Teach had no time to read the letter, and he searched the house angrily.

He searched the bookcases, bedside tables, table drawers, even the quilt, under the pillows, and under the bed.

"No? How could there be no?" Tiqi muttered to himself in a daze.

"Where is my Dark-Dark Fruit? I killed this person, and the Dark-Dark Fruit is gone? Are you kidding me?" Teach said in confusion.

At this moment, Thatch, who was lying on the ground with his eyes open, looked so ironic and mocking. The dead man's gaze made Titch feel cold in his heart, as if Thatch was looking at him.

Just like that, Tiqi seemed to have thought of something and took out the letter from the box again.

There was no signature, and when he tore it open, Teach's face became extremely gloomy and angry.

"Senior Teach, when you read this letter, you must have already killed Captain Thatch, right? How does it feel to kill your own family and friends? I imagine it must have been tough, especially since you discovered there's no Dark-Dark Fruit in this box.

As you thought, I took it first. If you want to know why, maybe it's because I came to the Whitebeard Pirates just like you. For so many years, I have been waiting for such a moment. In your words, it is to 'seize the Dark-Dark Fruit'.

That's right, from the very beginning, I had the same goal as you. In fact, I am not a pirate.

Perhaps you will find it unbelievable, but I am sorry, Senior Teach, your dream of becoming a captain, your dream of becoming an admiral, your ambition to turn the whole world upside down, have been shattered by my own hands.

So, please introduce yourself again.

Rob Lucci, a lieutenant commander of the Naval Headquarters, was affiliated with the "non-existent organization" under the Intelligence Department.

I'm very grateful for your care over the years, but I'm sorry, I'm a navy soldier."

The angry Teach tore the letter to pieces.

Sorry, I'm a navy.

Teach found it irrational. How could this be possible? When he first met Lucci, he was just a kid, about ten years old. How could he be a lieutenant commander in the navy?

Is the threshold for your navy so low now?

Do you have any shame? Sending a child to be an undercover pirate, and making him work as an undercover pirate for over ten years!?

Is there something wrong?

This feeling of being 'betrayed', being played, being mocked, and being fooled made Teach furious, and he couldn't help but roar...

"Ahhhhhhhhh!!!" Tikki roared.

His roar also woke up many pirates on Thatch's ship, and they quickly rushed over here.

Then, they saw Teach holding Captain Thatch's body, covered in blood, with an extremely angry expression, and even a somewhat creepy look as he looked at them.

"Brother Teach? What's happening to Captain Thatch? What happened?" One of Thatch's trusted brothers asked in a panic.

Weren't we just enjoying a drink and a party just now? How come our captain is dead in the blink of an eye?

Teach roared with a painful expression: "It's Lucci, Rob. That bastard Lucci!!! He killed Thatch!!! Damn it, he stole Thatch's devil fruit!!!"

I have to say that as an ambitious man, Teach has a very high IQ. As long as he is not involved with the Dark-Dark Fruit, he is a very smart guy.

From the moment he finished reading the letter, to the moment he was furious, to this moment, it had only been three or two minutes.

He has already figured out how to deal with it.