Chapter 225

As long as he, Blackbeard, possesses both abilities simultaneously, he will be the strongest in the world, and no one will be able to stop him!

Blackbeard, utterly ecstatic, was just about to stand side by side with Whitebeard when Lafitte was about to cover him with a black cloth,

when he suddenly realized his body could not move!

"What, what is going on?!"

Blackbeard looked utterly bewildered.

He strained to lift his leg, but it would not rise no matter what.

"You've got to be kidding! Why can't my body move?!"

Blackbeard's mental state completely collapsed.

The wish he had plotted for years was about to be realized, yet an unexpected incident occurred at the very last moment.

Blackbeard couldn't help but burst into curses:

"Which bastard is behind this? Let me go immediately!"

"Hehehehehe!!"

A mocking voice entered Blackbeard's ears.

"Little Black, is there something wrong with your brain? My lord Luo Xing ordered me to keep an eye on you; did you really think I would let you succeed?"

Who else but Moria, who had been trailing behind Blackbeard, was the one binding Blackbeard?

Blackbeard roared in fury:

"Buggy, Van Augur, didn't I order you to guard against Moonlight Moria?!"

Buggy and Van Augur expressed their innocence and bewilderment.

Buggy said:

"Captain, we have been watching Moria the whole time; our gaze never left him, and we never let him get close to you."

"Then why can't I move?!"

"We are just as puzzled."

Blackbeard, furious beyond measure, shouted:

"Since you don't know, then hurry up and kill Moonlight Moria for me!"

"Yes, Captain!"

Buggy and Van Augur immediately charged toward Moria.

Moria's expression changed slightly.

His Shadow Binding Technique could not be disturbed.

Never mind, let's take Blackbeard for a few runs first.

Moria immediately turned tail and ran for his life.

Blackbeard, connected to his shadow, was dragged along and started running as well.

Seeing himself getting farther and farther from Whitebeard's corpse, Blackbeard collapsed mentally and roared:

"Why is my body moving on its own? Moria, you bastard, what exactly have you done to me?!"

Moria let out a shrill, cackling laugh:

"Once struck by my Shadow Binding Technique, your entire body is under my control. Do you understand, Little Black?!"

The battlefield, originally grim and terrifying, suddenly became somewhat ridiculous.

The Warlord Moonlight Moria, like walking a dog, dragged the ambitious Blackbeard all over the place.

Meanwhile, Buggy and the other members of the Blackbeard Pirates frantically chased after them.

The wise strategist Sengoku even stood there, stunned.

"Shadow Binding Technique... so this is the ability that bound me before."

Moria had used this move against Sengoku before, even controlling two executioners to release Fire Fist Ace, thereby pushing the war to its climax.

Sengoku had never understood why Moria's strength had increased so much, nor why he released Fire Fist Ace.

At first, he suspected Moria had secretly joined the Whitebeard Pirates.

But from Moria's words just now, he learned that Moria was actually a subordinate of the Fifth Emperor, Luo Xing!

It was that detestable man again!

How is it that his chess pieces are everywhere?

Sengoku couldn't help but sigh that he was getting old.

He had been completely outmaneuvered by a young junior, failing to see the opponent's tactics even a little.

"Let go of our Captain!"

After Moria ran a few laps with Blackbeard, Buggy and the others could no longer endure it.

Especially the hot-tempered Buggy, who immediately unleashed his full power, leaped instantly to the top of Moria's head, and smashed his right fist down with full force.

Moria was startled by Buggy's sudden burst of power and was just about to take action when

a beautiful figure suddenly flashed past before his eyes.

"How dare you stand in front of me! Your crime is unforgivable!"

"Hana Hana no Mi: Perfume Leg!"

A long, round, jade-pillar-like leg kicked Buggy's right arm.

Buggy let out a scream of pain and was kicked flying.

Even more terrifyingly, his right arm, which had been struck, actually turned to stone and shattered!

The Empress's sudden attack was unexpected yet entirely in character.

For this woman, the world's most beautiful, her defining trait is extreme self-righteousness.

She did whatever she wanted, and no one could even begin to guess her thoughts.

Bai Huzi (Blackbeard) was hopping mad and cursing:

"Pirate Empress, you stinking woman, I never provoked you! Why are you making things hard for me!"

The Empress's beautiful eyes suddenly blazed with a cold light.

"You dare show disrespect to this concubine — you seek death! Perfume Femur!"

Boom!

A terrifying aura erupted from the Empress's body.

Black currents of air spread out in all directions.

It was unmistakably the Conqueror's Haki!

The entire Marineford trembled!

Everyone swallowed their saliva in fear.

Never be fooled by the Pirate Empress's title as the world's most beautiful woman — she is one of the extremely rare women on the sea who possesses Conqueror's Haki!

And when a woman gets angry, that alone is terrifying,

When the world's most beautiful woman gets angry, it is terrifying beyond all bounds.

In any case, Blackbeard was scared into a cold sweat.

His body couldn't move now, so he couldn't use the power of the Dark-Dark Fruit.

If he got hit by the Empress's Perfume Femur, his whole body would probably be done for!

"Crazy woman, crazy woman, what a freaking crazy woman!!"

Blackbeard roared in his heart.

Struggling desperately, he absolutely could not die here!

And he absolutely could not die at a woman's hands — that would simply be too great an insult!

Blackbeard gritted his teeth, exerted every ounce of strength, and let out a furious roar. At the very instant the Empress's foot was about to kick his skull, he finally broke free of Moria's restraints.

Blackbeard hurriedly did a donkey roll, narrowly dodging the Empress's Perfume Femur.

Having narrowly escaped death, his back was already soaked in cold sweat.

And after this whole ordeal with Moria and the Empress, Blackbeard was already several hundred meters away from Bai Huzi's (Whitebeard's) body.

Trying to get close again would not be so easy.

Setting aside the obstruction from Moria and the Empress, Sengoku's side had also completed their deployment, having Aokiji and Huang Yuan (Kizaru) keep an eye on Blackbeard.

In addition, Akainu had also climbed up from underground at this point.

Blackbeard's face instantly became extremely ugly.

At this point, let alone seizing Bai Huzi's (Whitebeard's) Tremor-Tremor Fruit power, even how to safely retreat from Marineford had become a problem.