Chapter 472: Blackbeard with Three Souls in One Body?

In the Pirate World, there is an iron rule, just like Devil Fruits being hated by the sea,

and that is that a person absolutely cannot eat two Devil Fruits,

or the person who eats them will explode and die because of the "Devil's struggle."

Of course, these two iron rules are iron rules for ordinary ability users,

but for powerhouses like the Four Emperors who stand at the pinnacle of the sea's strength pyramid,

these two iron rules are still restrained, but not fatal: Golden Lion Shiki, after having his feet bound by Seastone,

and being debuffed with weakness, could still cut off his own legs,

escaping from the Level 9 Infinite Hell of Impel Down in a self-mutilating manner, becoming the first person to escape Impel Down.

Kaido has been arrested by the Navy many times and executed many times, but he just can't be killed.

Zhang Jie doesn't believe that no one in the Navy has thought of this "iron rule,"

and the wealthy Navy would still feel sorry for a Devil Fruit worth only a few hundred million Berries.

You must know that Teacher Kaido's bounty is 4.6111 billion Berries.

This amount ranks third among all bounties announced by the Navy over the years,

second only to "Pirate King" Gol D. Roger (5.5648 billion Berries),

and "Whitebeard" Edward Newgate (5.046 billion Berries).

The only explanation is that the Navy tried to feed the arrested Kaido new Devil Fruits,

wanting to use the conflict between Devil Fruits to kill this beast with tenacious vitality, but failed.

Zhang Jie also has a personal guess about this: the devils in Devil Fruits also have differences in strength.

Devil Fruits like Kaido's Azure Dragon Fruit, which have been developed to the pinnacle, are undoubtedly extremely powerful,

and can quickly "drive out" new Devil Fruits that have just entered the body and haven't had time to develop.

It just so happens that Teacher Kaido is also famous for his physical strength, and can withstand the battle of Devil Fruits in his body,

so it created the miracle that he couldn't be killed by two Devil Fruits.

And other ability users who ate two Devil Fruits, their own abilities were not strong,

letting the two Devil Fruits start a tug-of-war, but their physical strength didn't meet the standard,

and they couldn't withstand the tug-of-war between the Devil Fruits, so they directly exploded,

becoming another bloody precedent under this iron rule.

Setting aside freaks and special cases like Kaido that occur once in a century, ability users on the sea would regard it as an iron rule.

However, although this iron rule is not so iron, it reveals a fact,

and that is that Devil Fruits are incompatible with each other,

and no one can fully accommodate two Devil Fruits and use two completely different abilities.

And this fact was broken in front of Blackbeard Marshall D. Teach:

In order to seize the Logia Dark-Dark Fruit, he ambushed and killed his companion in the Whitebeard Pirates

—4th Division Commander "Big Axe" Thatch, and ate the Dark-Dark Fruit, becoming an ability user.

But during the Summit War that followed, he ambushed Whitebeard again,

and also seized the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, becoming an unprecedented dual-fruit ability user.

This led to another guess: since no one can accommodate two Devil Fruits alone, what about "two people"?

And because there is a freak like Brook who ate the Paramecia Revive-Revive Fruit before his death,

and after dying and becoming bones, could still jump around and want to see beauties' panties everywhere,

so Devil Fruits might not simply be attached to the flesh,

and it is highly likely that they are integrated with the ability user's soul.

Thus, there is an extremely interesting and very reasonable conclusion: Blackbeard is an extremely rare case of multiple souls in one body.

Coupled with the fact that after the abolition of the Warlord system, Amazon Lily, where the Empress is located, is in a relatively isolated state,

and the Blackbeard Pirates attacked Amazon Lily, with Blackbeard himself intending to seize the Empress's "Love-Love Fruit" ability.

Although Hancock's strength is good, under the ambush of Blackbeard, who has already become a new Emperor,

the situation was once out of control, and the Empress herself was in danger,

and in the end, it was only with the intervention of Rayleigh the Dark King, who seems to have some mysterious connection with the Amazon country,

that the two sides reached a deal, and Blackbeard stopped the attack and chose to leave.

Already possessing the Dark-Dark and Tremor-Tremor Fruits, yet wanting to obtain the Empress's Love-Love Fruit and debut as a pirate succubus,

Blackbeard Teach's body might not be as simple as two souls in one body, but three souls in one body.

This is not Zhang Jie's groundless guess, but there is evidence:

The first is the intuition of Wang Lufei and Three-Sword Liu (Style) Zoro.

When they first met in Mocker Town, Luffy and Zoro once evaluated Blackbeard as "those guys" (plural), not "that guy."

This might be implying that they perceived multiple souls in Blackbeard's body with their keen intuition.

The second is that Blackbeard never sleeps, which can perhaps be explained as the three souls in his body taking turns on duty, one

active while the other two rest, forming a rotation mechanism,

and thus appearing very energetic and never tired.

The third is the implication of the pirate flag; there are three skulls on the flag of the Blackbeard Pirates,

which might directly correspond to the three individuals that may exist in his body.

If this is the case, then there can be a relatively reasonable explanation for Blackbeard's missing teeth.

State A, missing 3 teeth, this might be Blackbeard's most common state, representing the main body (or the main personality).

State B, missing 4 teeth, missing 2 in the upper row and 2 in the lower row.

This state usually appears during battle or when emotions are agitated (such as the beginning of the Summit War),

and might represent another personality taking the lead.

State C, full teeth/no missing, in very rare cases, Blackbeard's teeth are complete,

which might imply that this is the complete body or the third personality that rarely appears.

Of course, regarding the reason for his missing teeth, besides the "multiple souls in one body" theory that hasn't been fully confirmed,

there is also a more realistic explanation, and that is the damage caused in battle.

Blackbeard Teach once had a fierce conflict with "Red-Haired" Shanks when he was young,

and left three scars on Shanks's left eye.

Although the manga didn't explicitly state when Teach's teeth were knocked out,

but Shanks was left with scars and didn't get the Dark-Dark Fruit,

and Teach, whose strength was not as good as his, couldn't have paid no price.

However, although this hypothesis can well argue for the origin of Teach's missing teeth,

it is difficult to explain the phenomenon of how Teach's teeth are sometimes missing and sometimes not,

sometimes missing three, sometimes missing four.

Perhaps Teach had already grown his teeth back, and Shanks, who was left with permanent scars

and disfigured, was resentful and went to beat him up again, knocking out a few of his old teeth?

Don't say Zhang Jie's guess is unreliable, after all, Wang Lufei once lost a tooth,

and after drinking a few glasses of milk, the tooth grew back at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Using the "scientific theory" that milk can supplement calcium... ===== CHAPTER 473 =====