## One Piece Chapter 440, pages 15-16: Fire Fist vs. Blackbeard - Chapter: 440 - Pages: 15-16 - Characters: Portgas D. Ace, Marshall D. Teach, Jesus Burgess, Van Augur, Doc Q, Thatch, Whitebeard ### Summary Page 15: Ace's fire blast tears through Banaro Island, throwing wreckage and bodies through the air. Teach's men scream, "OWA-AAH!!!" and "GYAA-AAH!" as the heat rolls over them. From the smoke, someone yells, "CAPTAIN!!! CAPTAIN!!!" Teach rises from the flames, battered but still laughing: "GWAH, HOT, HOT, HOT!! HOT!!!" He tells his crew, "SH-SHUT UP GUYS, AND STAY BACK!!!" Even injured, he keeps laughing through the pain. Page 16: Ace asks directly, "YOU WANT TO KILL ME, RIGHT?" Teach admits it without flinching: "YEAH, I KNOW, ACE. ... YOU'RE RIGHT... KILLING YOUR OWN NAKAMA IS A BIG CRIME." Ace names the murdered man: "COMMANDER SACCHI...!!" Teach says, "I ADMIT; I KILLED FOURTH DIVISION. I HAD NO OTHER CHOICE..." He explains why: "HE HAD OBTAINED THE DEVIL FRUIT THAT I WANTED!! OUR SHIP'S RULE WAS THAT ANYONE WHO FOUND A FRUIT COULD EAT IT. I MEMORIZED ALL OF THE FRUIT SHAPES LISTED IN THE ILLUSTRATED REFERENCE BOOK. SO I KNEW IT WAS THE FRUIT I'D BEEN LOOKING FOR RIGHT AWAY." Teach says he waited for decades on Whitebeard's ship because he thought that crew gave him the best chance to obtain it; if he never found it, he had decided to give up. "BUT THEN MY NAKAMA FOUND THE FRUIT...!!!" Ace asks, "IS THAT WHY YOU KILLED SACCHI... AND TOOK THE FRUIT?" Teach answers that the ability chose him: "WELL, IT WAS JUST A TWIST OF FATE, THIS ABILITY CHOSE ME, ACE. ZEHAHAHA!!! NOW I'VE BECOME THE STRONGEST WITH THIS, ACE!!!" A horrified onlooker realizes, "LOOK... THIS IS SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT FROM THE REST OF LOGIA...!!!"