I, Portgas D. Ace, Choose to Join the Blackbeard Pirates!

"Zehahaha!"

"Captain Ace, you're such a powerful man. It seems more and more like a waste to let you die. What do you say? Become my partner! Zehahaha!"

Blackbeard laughed recklessly as he offered an alliance to the man before him, bathed in flames and blood.

"If I gave in to strength, I wouldn't be much of a man!"

"But I still have people to protect. My journey can't end here!"

Ace wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, his gaze bright and burning.

"Teach, you've got plenty of courage and ambition, but I'm a double-edged sword!"

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any similarities are purely coincidental. Do not imitate.