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Why does Blackbeard send Burgess to assassinate Luffy? Is he afraid of him? I
mean with his 2 Devil Fruit powers, he is overpowered. Even just with his Yami
Yami no Mi, he won quite easily against Ace, and now he also has the Gura Gura
no Mi and a strong crew.

So is there a special reason for him to kill Luffy? And why not do it himself?
Does he fear the D in Luffy's name?


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Is Blackbeard afraid of Luffy?


At the moment I reckon this is all just speculation. I think he wants to kill
Luffy because of his ability to inspire the people around him, as often noted
by Kuzan.

At the battle of Marineford Luffy continuously inspired the other pirates to
rise up and fight, just by being himself. This alone is a force to be reckoned
with that could well be used against Blackbeard.

I personally think that he doesn't see luffy worthy enough to be have his
personal attention when it comes to the assassination. It's almost the same as
Luffy not bothering with alot of minor henchman of the bad guys he encounters.
Often the crew just take care of those.

As for the fear of the D in Luffy's name concerned. I highly doubt thats the
case, since (spoiler alert)

> Blackbeard is a D. aswell, Marshall D. Teach

Time will tell what Oda has in store for us tho


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Blackbeard did not send Burgess to kill Luffy, he did not even know Luffy was
at Dressrosa to begin with. **Blackbeard originally had send out Burgess to
Dressrosa to get the Fire Fruit**. Later it was Sabo who ate the Fire Fruit,
but it looks like not much people knew about this. The only thing most people
really knew, was that _Lucy_ had eaten the Fire Fruit.

[![enter image description
here!](https://i.stack.imgur.com/5DS5um.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/5DS5u.png)

Later when Sabo blew up the colosseum, Burgess realized that _Lucy_ was not
Luffy any more, because Luffy already ate a Devil Fruit before and could not
eat a second. He just did not know who actually ate the fruit and thought that
person would have been long gone by now. That's why he went for the next best
thing, not having to go home empty handed. Though, when Sabo showed Burgess,
that he had eaten the Fire Fruit, Burgess completely forgot about Luffy and
turned his attacks towards Sabo instead, still hoping to get the Fire Fruit
eventually.

[![enter image description
here!](https://i.stack.imgur.com/RL8zcm.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/RL8zc.jpg)

On a side note: Blackbeard never targeted Luffy for personal reasons. He
originally wanted to kill Luffy to make a name for himself, but after he
became a Warlord, he did not care much for Luffy any more. He could have
easily destroyed Luffy at Impel Down, but he had other ambitions by that time,
other than the one he had at Mocktown, Jaya.


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