New World, on the Moby Dick.
"Hey, hey... a multiple Devil Fruit user, does such a thing really exist?"
"Could it be a coincidence? Maybe everyone has the potential to become a multiple Devil Fruit user, as long as they have the courage to eat a second one and don't die."
"Hahaha... if you want to die, go ahead and try it!"
"But who would know from the start that their body could handle multiple Devil Fruits? I'm very curious about this guy's mentality. What reason could have possibly made him choose to eat a second Devil Fruit? Was he just trying to commit suicide, or was he facing a desperate situation?"
"Even Shiki the Golden Lion was taken down. I seriously suspect that the World Government and the Marines' previous bounty on him wasn't just for escaping from a Marine Admiral; something else must have happened that we don't know about."
"..."
Just like the people of the world, regardless of race, the members of the Whitebeard Pirates were also discussing Yami.
If this world had an internet, the buzz around "Black Hole" Yami would have surpassed that of Red-Haired Shanks, who had reached the top this year.
To the world, Red-Haired Shanks becoming the fourth Emperor of the Sea was just another extremely evil person appearing on the seas. Outside of the New World, the impact on the other five seas wasn't that great.
But the appearance of a multiple Devil Fruit user was different.
Yami's appearance refreshed the world's understanding and subverted their original worldview.
Some people, who had only dared to fantasize in their dreams about what it would be like to become a multiple Devil Fruit user, had their mental defenses broken, and some even had crazy ideas.
Could it be a coincidence?
Perhaps anyone could become a multiple Devil Fruit user, as long as they had the courage to eat a second Devil Fruit.
At this very moment, in some corner of the sea, there were probably fearless people who would risk it all to try.
Among them, the person whose mental defenses were most severely broken was on the Moby Dick.
"Damn it! Why would such a coincidence happen?!"
"Why, when we have the same physique and both know the secret of the Dark-Dark Fruit, did he have to be the one to get it?!"
"Why? Why did it have to be this way?!"
In a corner, Teach's eyes were bloodshot as he stared at Yami's bounty poster, wishing he could pull out the dagger at his waist and stab Yami to death through the picture.
If Teach weren't so uncultured and didn't know about the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, he would be roaring at the sky, "Since Zhou Yu is already born, why must Zhuge Liang also exist?!"
But regardless, Teach's dream was shattered.
Unless he obtained the Paramecia-type Tremor-Tremor Fruit, he would not become a Devil Fruit user.
The reason the Dark-Dark Fruit was the Devil Fruit Teach had dreamed of was because he knew that darkness could obtain Devil Fruits.
With that ability, coupled with his special physique, Teach could 100% obtain the abilities of other users.
Even if he couldn't use them, he could use them to cultivate his subordinates.
The Dark-Dark Fruit would not only allow Teach to become an unprecedented dual-fruit user, or even a multiple-fruit user, but it would also allow him to realize his grand ambitions.
Just like how the Dark-Dark Fruit and the More-More Fruit were Yami's core fruits, the Dark-Dark Fruit was the core fruit for Teach to realize his dream.
Without the Dark-Dark Fruit, Teach couldn't 100% obtain Devil Fruits; at most, he could only become a dual-fruit or multiple-fruit user himself.
But the key was, without the means to obtain Devil Fruits, finding a powerful and suitable one was no less difficult than ascending to the heavens!
Besides the Dark-Dark Fruit, the one Teach wanted most was Pops's Paramecia-type Tremor-Tremor Fruit.
Unless Whitebeard died and the Tremor-Tremor Fruit appeared before him, Teach would not become a landlubber.
If he couldn't become the protagonist of the era, he might as well spend the rest of his life on the Moby Dick.
After all, he didn't have a bounty on his head. Even if the Whitebeard Pirates were gone, he could still live the life of an ordinary person.
New World, Onigashima.
"Big Brother Kaido, Joker called. The World Government has accepted our price increase, but they demand that we deliver the Seastone they want as quickly as possible."
"Worororo... No problem. Those guys must be desperate. Now is not the time to fall out with them."
"A multiple Devil Fruit user, is it true, Big Brother Kaido?"
"It's true. Not only did the kid admit it himself, but I also witnessed it with my own eyes."
"If that's true, then that kid is simply the most unbeatable Devil Fruit user in history! The Door-Door Fruit, the Teleport-Teleport Fruit, and the Float-Float Fruit... the combination of those three abilities almost made me spit out my favorite red bean soup."
"Worororo... It doesn't matter how unbeatable he is; it's already a done deal! The ones who should be most afraid now aren't us. Let the World Government and the Marines have the headache."
"That's true. You're brilliant, Big Brother Kaido. Just by giving that birdman Morgans a piece of information, you've made us a fortune."
"Joker's efficiency is also high. Without him passing on the message, the World Government wouldn't have been so quick to confirm that the Paramecia-type Float-Float Fruit is on that kid."
"If Shiki's ability wasn't so disgusting, that kid's bounty wouldn't have soared so much."
"..."
From the conversation between Kaido and Queen, it wasn't hard to tell that the news material provided by an "anonymous member" of the Beasts Pirates was actually permitted by Kaido, or rather, represented Kaido's will.
The purpose was not only to make Yami a public enemy but also to secure greater benefits for the Beasts Pirates.
The fact that the Float-Float Fruit was on Yami was even passed on to the World Government through Doflamingo as a messenger.
Beneath his seemingly volatile and brutish exterior, he was actually very shrewd and full of schemes. This was Kaido's true nature.
Besides the Whitebeard Pirates and the Beasts Pirates, the other Four Emperor crews were also discussing Yami.
But their reactions were all very similar.
They were wary of Yami, but not to the point of being afraid.
Because the ones who really needed to be afraid were the World Government and Marine Headquarters.
The appearance of a multiple Devil Fruit user meant that someone who could break the balance had appeared, which was the last thing the World Government, which had always maintained the balance of the seas, wanted to see.
This hegemon of the seas, which had ruled for eight hundred years, would take the initiative to help them deal with a freak like Yami.
If the World Government, with its eight-hundred-year foundation, couldn't take down Yami, then they would be powerless as well.
From now on, Yami's threat level in the eyes of the World Government was no less than that of Monkey D. Dragon, and perhaps even surpassed it.
Because compared to Monkey D. Dragon, Yami, this most unbeatable Devil Fruit user in history, was even harder to kill.
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