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Chapter 275: The Ultimate Endurance! The Academy Owes Teach an Oscar
Fuck!
Teach felt like his molars were about to shatter from grinding them so hard.
But he couldn't explode.
Absolutely not!
Twenty years!
He had endured in the Whitebeard Pirates for a full twenty years! Even if he was bitten by a stray dog on the side of the road, he could laugh it off as if it were nothing.
For what?
For that legendary Devil Fruit!
For the day he could rule the world and realize the ambition only he knew about!
If he exposed his strength now. If he aroused Pops' suspicion now. Then everything... would be completely ruined!
"Phew..."
Teach took a deep breath.
In that instant, all the shrewd light in his originally sinister, vicious eyes vanished.
Replacing it was a kind of extremely clear... stupidity.
And a thick look of panic and shrinking fear.
This transformation of his gaze was simply as smooth as Dove chocolate.
The Academy owed him a golden statuette!
"Don't... don't, don't, don't!"
The fat all over Teach's body trembled violently. Like a startled fat pig, he waved his hands desperately, the expression on his face exaggerated to the extreme.
"Guys, stop messing around!"
"You can't make jokes like this!"
"I only know how to eat cherry pie!"
While shouting, Teach shrank behind Thatch. He tried to hide his massive frame behind Thatch's relatively sturdy back. It looked comical and ridiculous.
"And..."
Teach cautiously poked half his head out. He glanced at the beautiful Vice Admiral opposite him, who was radiating icy sword intent.
Just one look, and he recoiled violently as if he were a cat whose tail had been stepped on. Trembling all over, cold sweat poured down like it cost nothing.
"And..."
"The sword in that big sister's hand... looks so scary!"
"If that sword comes down, people will definitely die, right?!"
"Absolutely die, right?!"
"I don't want to die!"
"I haven't eaten enough cherry pie yet!"
"I won't fight! Beat me to death, and I still won't fight!"
Silence.
Dead silence.
The pirates who had been cheering wildly just a moment ago now stood with their mouths wide open. Like ducks being choked by the neck, they couldn't make a sound.
They looked at Teach, who was curled up in a ball, shivering. Their eyeballs nearly fell to the ground.
This... this was too cowardly, wasn't it?!
Even the ordinary crew members with average strength... facing a Marine Vice Admiral's provocation, even if they couldn't win, they would at least dare to flash their weapons!
Lose the fight, don't lose the formation! This was a pirate's face!
But this guy Teach... hadn't even started fighting, and he was already about to wet his pants?
"Uh..."
Even Thatch, who had been supporting Teach, looked embarrassed. He scratched his head and tugged at Teach's collar, frustrated that iron wouldn't turn into steel.
"Hey, Teach."
"You're being too..."
"Show a little backbone!"
"The opponent is a woman!"
"You're such a big guy, what are you afraid of?"
"Just go up and exchange two moves. It's not shameful to lose!"
However, no matter how Thatch tried to persuade him, Teach just hugged Thatch's waist tightly. Those greasy hands, covered in jam, rubbed back and forth on Thatch's expensive uniform.
"No, no, no!"
"I'm not going!"
"So what if she's a woman?"
"When women get vicious, they're scarier than men!"
"Especially this kind of pretty woman with a sword!"
"That's a tigress!"
"Commander Thatch, if you can do it, you go!"
"If you force me to go, I'll die right here for you to see!"
As he spoke, Teach actually rolled his eyes back. His legs went weak, and he started to collapse to the ground.
That appearance simply looked like a decent... fat man being forced into prostitution by a bully.
"..."
Opposite them, Gion's hand gripping Konpira was trembling slightly. Not from fear. But from anger!
As a Marine Headquarters Vice Admiral, and an Admiral candidate at that, she had fought countless heinous pirates in her life. There were arrogant ones, sinister ones, brutal ones.
But someone like the one in front of her... such a supreme specimen, so shameless, so nauseating... she was truly seeing one for the first time!
This is a pirate? This deserves to be called a pirate?!
This was simply an insult to the profession of "pirate"! And an insult to the famous sword Konpira in her hand!
"Red Hair!"
Gion turned her head violently. Fire seemed about to spray from her beautiful eyes as she stared dead at Shanks, who was watching the play nearby.
"This is the 'strongman' you spoke of?"
"This is the man you said... could leave a scar on you?"
"Are you blind?"
"Or is your brain flooded?"
"Do you think playing me is fun?!"
Zheng!
Konpira emitted a crisp sword cry! Cold sword energy instantly sliced a deep gully into the ground!
Gion was truly angry. She felt like an idiot. She had actually believed Red Hair's nonsense and gone to guard against such a pile of mud that couldn't stick to the wall!
Facing Gion's interrogation, Shanks was also slightly stunned. He looked at Teach, who was hugging Thatch's thigh and weeping bitterly. His brows furrowed almost imperceptibly.
Acting? Definitely acting!
Shanks knew all too well how those three scars came to be. Teach back then hadn't eaten a Devil Fruit. Nor did he sneak attack. It was in a head-on confrontation that he wounded him!
That was a beast hiding in the darkness. Fangs sharp, ready to devour people! How could he be this useless coward in front of him?
"This guy..."
"To hide his strength, he doesn't even want his dignity?"
Shanks shivered inwardly.
A man with strength isn't scary. What's scary is... a man with strength who can also endure this kind of humiliating shame!
Such a person has enormous ambitions!
But now... looking at Teach's demeanor, almost scaring himself into wetting his pants, Shanks was also a bit helpless.
The guy had cowered to this extent. He even cursed out words like "tigress." If he pushed any further, he was afraid this fat man might really perform "shitting and pissing at the same time" right there on the spot.
At that point, the ones disgusted would be themselves.
"Sigh..."
Shanks sighed and waved his hand with a lack of interest.
"Forget it, forget it."
"Maybe I remembered the wrong person."
"My bad, my bad!"
"You know how it is, us pirates float on the sea all day. Brains get waterlogged easily."
"Plus, I haven't sobered up from yesterday's hangover."
"It's normal to recognize the wrong person!"
As he spoke, he raised the bottle in his hand toward Gion. As if in apology. And as if in provocation.
"How about..."
"I buy you a drink?"
"As a formal apology?"
Crack!
The handle of the sword in Gion's hand emitted a crisp sound of being overburdened.
Drink your grandpa!
This bastard! He definitely did it on purpose! This is revenge for the Marines provoking the Red Hair Pirates just now!
This is naked mockery!
"Hmph!"
Gion let out a heavy, cold snort. The fierce sword intent that had soared to the sky instantly receded like the tide.
Clang!
Konpira was sheathed!
Since Red Hair had already said as much, if she kept holding on and went to bully an "ordinary crew member," the Marines would truly become a joke!
"Red Hair."
"I'll remember this debt!"
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