The most courageous pirate hunter

"Whoosh~ We've already set sail."

"We meet again, Bondi Wald."

Hermes looked at Wald lying on the ground, barely alive, and realized that Lucci had indeed found him.

"Boss, where's Guyram?!"

"I sent him to the moon to cultivate."

"Could it be that Guyram is already..."

"Hahaha~"

"We've already captured Fujitora and successfully extracted the Gravity Fruit. Guyram is currently adapting to its development. I hope you'll have the same luck."

Burgess was tearing into a large meat leg in his hand.

Capturing the World Destroyer is only the first step; the next step depends on the success of the deprivation. If it fails, all the work will have been for nothing. With good luck, they might soon find out where the Multiplication Fruit is in the ocean; with bad luck, it might not be found for one or two hundred years.

Lucci gave Burgess a cold look, clearly thinking, "He really knows how to rub salt in the wound."

He was worried about this on the way back.

If the attempt to steal the multiplication fruit fails, he will have to wait for a while, but that time can't be several years or even decades! By then, he would have been left far behind by the rest of the Imperial Organization.

This is unacceptable to Lucci.

In that situation, he could only choose other Devil Fruits, but none of them were as suitable for him as the Multiply Fruit. Falling behind in one step meant falling behind in every step.

After who knows how many years, Lucci felt uneasy and nervous again.

"It's said that Devil Fruits choose their hosts, especially Zoan-types. As for Paramecia and Logia-types, I don't know. If they're like Zoan-types too..."

"So it was fate?"

"Haha~ So you're saying I had good taste in choosing between the Strength-Strength Fruit and the Tremor-Tremor Fruit?"

Burgess sculpted his biceps and felt like the chosen one.

"Don't let it affect your mindset. Even if you fail to deprive them, it's okay. There are countless Devil Fruits on the sea, and there will always be second or third options."

Hermes patted Lucci on the shoulder, indicating that he shouldn't pay attention to the sarcastic remarks from Burgess and the others.

"I'm in."

Lucci nodded, grabbed Wald and went into the deprivation room. Then he came out alone, closed the door, and waited quietly for half an hour to pass. Success or failure depended on this.

"It should succeed!"

Bruno looked at Lucci, who had a calm expression. He had been like that back then, but inside he was filled with anxiety and unease.

There's a huge difference between having one Devil Fruit and having two, especially since two Devil Fruits can be used in combination. I'm not bragging, but he has a chance to instantly kill everyone in Monarch.

And nobody can kill him.

The only real threat is the BOSS, since the teleportation fruit is truly overpowered.

Not a moment later.

time up.

Lucci took a deep breath, opened the Seastone door, went inside, and came out in about ten seconds with a big smile on his face, holding a Devil Fruit in his hand.

The multiplying fruit chose him.

"That smile is so ugly."

Because Lucci always had a cold and aloof demeanor, they didn't seem to remember ever seeing him smile, which made Hermes, Burgess, Caesar, and Bruno somewhat disgusted.

It's really ugly.

"We can't let go of the bloodline factor of the World Destroyer. It would be great if he were still alive."

Caesar dashed into the dismemberment chamber, his face full of regret.

Between a living strongman and a dead strongman, the former is definitely more valuable for research.

vomit~

By this time, Lucci had already peeled and eaten the entire Multiply Fruit. His face turned bluish-purple, and he gagged twice, looking somewhat pained, but he was more excited than anything else.

God knows how anxious he was after Mansherry, Bagges, and Bruno ate their second Devil Fruits one by one, because the longer it dragged on, the greater the gap would widen between them.

Take Mansherry for example.

Before this, he was no match for them at all, let alone against Burgess and Bruno.

Now he is not worried.

Give him some time, and he's confident he can get back to where he is.

"Boss, please send me to Venus."

"What? Venus?"

"Do you have to be so hard on yourself?"

Caesar was somewhat shocked. He really didn't expect Lucci to be so ruthless, actually wanting to go to Venus to train. You know, Venus has a dense atmosphere and clouds, and the main component of it is sulfuric acid.

This planet has a surface temperature of up to 500°C and is frequently rained with corrosive acid. Compared to the world of One Piece, Venus is like hell, and it has the harshest environment among the eight planets named by the BOSS.

"I'm already way behind."

"The environment on Venus may be harsh for others, but it's not so bad for us."

Lucci shook his head.

He wouldn't choose Venus if there were a more adverse environment than Venus; if he weren't so unsure, he would even have considered choosing the Sun.

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh~"

"Since you're going to Venus, why not take the newly developed spaceship? It'll be a good opportunity to test its performance."

"Too slow, not as fast as the BOSS."

Lucci refused outright. The world of One Piece is still quite a distance from Venus, and the fastest speed is still the BOSS's teleportation speed. He didn't want to wait even a moment longer.

"Jie Jie!"

"I've been wanting to take a break anyway, so I'll go pick up Guyram while I'm at it!"

"No way, Boss, you've broken through again?"

"Walk!!!"

He vanished in a flash, leaving only Caesar and a few others staring at each other in the research lab.

Chapter 464 [Count the Blackbeard Pirates as One]

"what?"

"Both Guyram and Lucci ate a second Devil Fruit?"

"They went to Venus to cultivate with the BOSS?"

The sun rises in the east.

In a sea somewhere in the New World, a warship was sailing. Tesoro's voice, filled with envy, jealousy, and hatred, rose sharply. He abruptly sat up from his deck chair, took off his sunglasses, and thought to himself, "Damn it."

"Tezzolo, are you trying to kill me? You're disturbing my beauty sleep."

A roar came from inside the cabin, clearly someone was grumpy from being woken up, which startled the big face on the warship, causing it to shrink back. Of course, there was also a bleating sound.

"What's going on? Why is it so noisy so early in the morning?"

"Tezzolo, why is your face so pale?"

Hody Jones emerged from the cabin wearing floral shorts and noticed that Tezzolo looked terrible, as if he had eaten shit.

That's right.

This group consisted of Mansherry, Tezzolo, and Hody Jones, plus an alpaca named Alpagachino, and Protohommez, which was the Pluto warship beneath their feet.

"Oh shit."

"Guyram and Lucci got incredibly lucky and both managed to be deprived of the Gravity Fruit and the Multiply Fruit."

Tesoro hung up the Den Den Mushi, his tone sour.

Right now, he's the only one in the entire organization who hasn't eaten a second Devil Fruit. The key is that Blackbeard is hiding very well, and there are currently no clues about him, not even from the World Economic Society.

Guyram and Lucci shamelessly followed the BOSS to Venus for training! This is outrageous!

Won't the gap between the two sides widen over time? Then his status in the Emperor Organization will be at the bottom. Damn it, the more I think about it, the more anxious I get.

Since I joined later, if my combat strength can't keep up, my presence and voice will definitely diminish.

No.

Blackbeard must die immediately; he needs to eat the Ton-Ton Fruit.

"So fast?"

Hody Jones was taken aback for a moment, then walked over and sat down on the deck chair opposite Tezzolo.