The End of a Great Man.

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Chapter's Events:

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"Haaaa!!! Damn it…! That hurts!!!" Blackbeard's blood splattered as he fell, screaming.

"Your weakness… is that you overestimate yourself and get careless…"

Whitebeard said, then grabbed his treacherous son by the head, intending to end him as punishment for all his deeds.

"I… Eh!!? Hey, stop!"

"Gyaaaah!!" The power of the earthquake covered Blackbeard's head, making him howl in agony.

"Stop!!! Old man!!! I'm your son, you can't kill… AAAAHHH!"

Before he could finish, Whitebeard smashed the ground using Blackbeard's body, who tasted twice the pain.

"… AA… AAHH…!!!"

"You… You're a monster!!!"

"You're halfway dead already!!! Just shut up and die!"

"GET HIM!!!" As soon as he said that, Blackbeard's crew attacked Whitebeard, bombarding him with all kinds of weapons.

"Boss!!" Seeing this scene, Whitebeard's sons on the other side couldn't bear it and cried.

"Zehahaha!! Get him!! Turn him into swiss cheese!!!" Blackbeard was elated.

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Boom!

"Zehahaha!! Destroy it! Turn it into rubble!"

Outside Impel Down on a warship, Teach laughed as he watched the colossal giant he recruited punch Impel Down, smashing a large part of it.

"You can only destroy the first floor, you know… Impel Down isn't just any building. It's designed to withstand earthquakes, floods, and various natural disasters, specifically to contain destructive power. Destroying it just by letting a giant hit it is a pipe dream."

Shiryu looked at Teach and said indifferently.

"Heh~ We've already done enough. Time to leave… Men, retreat! Zehahahaha!!!"

As soon as he gave the order, Catarina Devon, Vasco Shot, and Avalo Pizarro boarded the warship. The giant Sanjuan Wolf also shrank to his average size and clung to the ship, leaving behind a torrent of seawater flooding into Impel Down.

"Who said destroying Impel Down is the only way to deepen their losses? Zehahaha! Just flooding it with seawater is enough!"

Teach said without looking at Shiryu, focusing back on the manga scene where his counterpart just finished fighting Whitebeard.

"Tsk… Did he really lose to a man with half a face and a body laden with injuries?"

Teach's brow twitched at seeing how his counterpart was severely beaten by Whitebeard before ordering his crew to attack him together.

"Well, it doesn't matter! Zehahaha! The important thing is that Whitebeard is going to die at the hands of Blackbeard's pirates! How wonderful."

Seeing the tears of Whitebeard's crew, who were powerless to help their dying father, Teach and his newly assembled crew felt ecstatic.

This scene was extremely gratifying for the newly formed Blackbeard Pirates… How wonderful it would be if they could achieve such a feat now?

"Zehahahaha! This manga is really refreshing and logical! Even Whitebeard can't stay alive against me."

He completely forgot he saw his counterpart getting severely beaten to near death by Whitebeard just moments ago.

As Teach and his crew continued reading the manga, their ship moved further and further away from the sinking Impel Down until it disappeared from sight.

…

Back at Impel Down, Magellan was furious.

"What the hell! Where is this water coming from!?"

Waterfalls of seawater were pouring from the floors above at an alarming rate.

"Oh no! Warden! This is bad! There's a seawater leak!!"

Hannyabal shouted in terror.

After the shaking and collapsing parts of Impel Down ceased, he thought the natural disaster had stopped. But who would have expected a seawater leak… If it continued, Impel Down would be completely submerged within a few hours despite its complex levels.

"Go! Quickly! We need to get to the surface and stop the leak!"

Magellan shouted, closing the manga volume and putting it in his pocket, then began running towards the passage to the third floor, followed by Hannyabal and the rest of the guards.

The prisoners, seeing this, started causing chaos in their cells.

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 Whole Cake Island:

Seeing this scene, Linlin's expression darkened, as she hadn't expected to see Whitebeard in such a situation before.

"… Even in the manga… I didn't expect that…"

"At first, you were stabbed by one of your sons… you entered the battle with an internal injury… then your chest was burned by magma, and afterward, that magma dog shattered half your face… The white mustache you prided yourself on for years is now half a mustache…"

"And now I see you dying at the hands of a bunch of lowlifes who think they're great pirates… when they're nothing but rotting rats…"

With each additional scene, Linlin's anger grew more and more…

 Seeing this usually invincible great man in such an unfair situation tasted bitter to Linlin.

"I told you, if you want a family, you need to have children! Adopting them is dangerous! You might adopt a cunning fox that kills you someday… I told you… and what I told you is coming true in the manga…"

"I wonder what your reaction would be to this, Newgate…"

…

"Even great pirates can fall…"

"I have to become stronger to protect mom."

Seeing Whitebeard's nearing end, Katakuri, who was in the art store, felt a great sense of urgency to become stronger.

Especially since the world with hunters, rather than just pirates and the marines, was much more dangerous than the world in the manga.

In the following scenes, Katakuri and the rest of Charlotte Linlin's children were stunned.

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("You're gonna die? Roger…?")

In his final moments, Whitebeard remembered his long-ago meeting with Roger.

("Yeah, I don't have long. Wanna know how to get to Laugh Tale, Whitebeard?")

The two were sitting under trees, drinking sake.

("Even if you told me, I wouldn't go. I'm not interested in that…") replied Whitebeard.

Roger's voice became clearer and clearer.

"You know what those government bastards have been calling me lately? Gold Roger."

"That's wrong!! My name's Gol D. Roger!!!"

"I run into guys with the 'D' name now and then… I've got one in my crew, by the name of Teach. Just what does the 'D' mean…?"

Whitebeard wondered.

("Oh, you wanna know? Then I'll tell you…")

("It's a story from long ago…")

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Rain and wind continued to baptize Baterilla Island at this moment.

Back at the couple's house, Rouge hadn't fully recovered from the shock of Ace's end… which she couldn't swallow no matter how hard she tried.

She was still looking at the page where Ace died with a smile, unable to move past the scene, her hand on her belly where the baby slept. At least this comforted her a little.

But unlike her, Roger had already moved on and reached the current scene. After discovering his wife's pregnancy, he became more active than ever.

"Should I have had sake with Newgate… I'll keep that in mind."

Roger felt sad, knowing this friend was dying…

"In his final moments, he's recalling memories with me… Didn't he have any woman he loved? Why is he remembering me? Oh man, this is gross… Wahaha!"

Saying that, he tried to make Rouge laugh a little, but his attempt failed this time as well.

"Sigh…" Seeing no response from Rouge, Roger returned his focus to Whitebeard's memory scene.

When Newgate began saying his final words, Roger smiled.

"Of course, it's not him… The man I'm waiting for is much kinder than this rude guy, Wahahaha!"

Newgate's final words were so powerful they ignited Roger's own spirit.

Even Rouge, who was depressed by Ace's death in the manga, continued reading… the deep meaning and weight of Whitebeard's words were so great.

That's how it seemed, and that's what every manga reader thought at the time.

But it also meant it was the end for the great man Whitebeard!

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Upcoming chapter titles (spoilers):

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Chapter 754: One Piece Is Real!

Chapter 755: I'll Give You the Ultimate Show!

Chapter 756: Ace is gone, but you must live.

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