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Marine Headquarters, Marineford.

Kyle sat on the edge of a cliff, tossing a spiral-patterned, transparent fruit that looked like a fine jewel in his hand, a hint of interest in his eyes.

"I never knew Wang Zhi had been hiding such a good thing!"

Its unusual shape makes it immediately obvious that it is a Devil Fruit.

Kyle had never seen what this Devil Fruit looked like in his previous life. It was only after returning to Marine Headquarters and looking through the Devil Fruit encyclopedia that he learned what kind of fruit it was.

Paramecia-type Devil Fruit - Barrier-Barrier Fruit!!

A very powerful fruit in the original work.

It can create a barrier with incredibly strong defensive capabilities.

The Barrier-Barrier Fruit has had two hosts in the original work, and both of them demonstrated its powerful abilities.

The former Devil Fruit user, Kurozumi Seramaru, once used a barrier to block Oden's full-force slash, which was imbued with Conqueror's Haki.

Oden's slash could severely injure Kaido and even cut through mountains, but it was helpless against the barrier, which protected the giant snake behind him.

As for the second host, Bartolomeo, he demonstrated the barrier's power to an even greater extent.

In the Dressrosa arc, Bartolomeo easily blocked Elizabello II's King's Fist with a barrier.

This punch requires an hour of warm-up and power-building, and is said to be able to kill a Yonko (Emperor of the Sea).

However, this so-called claim is definitely false.

Furthermore, his most impressive feat was using his barrier ability to block Fujitora's attack, forcing the opponent to abandon a frontal assault and instead launch an attack using the falling debris from the buildings.

Of course, whether Fujitora went easy on him in this regard is unknown.

Furthermore, the barrier wasn't just for defense; Bartolomeo also developed many offensive techniques.

The only problem is...

Nobody wants it!!

There are only four people in their team who haven't eaten the fruit yet.

Sabo, Zoro, Kuina, Sanji.

Zoro and Kuina remain unchanged, only wanting to become the world's strongest swordsmen and showing no interest in Devil Fruits.

Sanji didn't have any particular interest either; the Barrier-Barrier Fruit's power wasn't enough to excite him.

As for Sabo, he doesn't mind eating Devil Fruits, but he only wants to eat Logia-type Devil Fruits.

In his words, whether he's strong or not is another matter, but being handsome is the first requirement.

Therefore, the Barrier-Barrier Fruit, a powerful Paramecia-type Devil Fruit, ultimately proved to be of little use to him.

Even so, Kyle had no intention of handing him over; instead, he planned to keep him for himself, reasoning that just because he was useless now didn't mean he would be useless later.

He might recruit new people sometime, and the other party might want them then.

Selling it would be even more impossible.

This trip to Beehive Island earned him another large sum of pesos.

This brought Pele, who already didn't know how to spend his money, to an unprecedented level.

He didn't know the exact amount, but estimated it to be around 10 billion peles.

Wang Zhi has been entrenched on Beehive Island for so many years, and the wealth he has amassed is astronomical.

So it's a bit unreasonable that Kyle didn't say in this mission report that they didn't capture anything.

In his mission report, he mentioned that he had paid a hefty sum of 50 Berries for this mission to Beehive Island.

This is no small sum; it can buy the initial form of a god-tier tanuki pet.

It is worth mentioning that after this mission, Kyle was promoted again because he captured Wang Zhi and Jin Shizi.

He is now a Vice Admiral in the Navy Headquarters!

As for the others, almost all of them were promoted.

Sabo, Ace, and Luffy are all colonels, and the others are lieutenant colonels. They are all field-level officers and will soon have the opportunity to be promoted to general.

After tossing the Barrier Fruit in his hand for a while, Kyle put it into his system space and slowly stood up.

A series of crackling sounds followed, and Kyle's figure vanished in an instant, transforming into a bolt of purple lightning.

Before long, they arrived at a house in the Marineford neighborhood and went straight in without saying a word.

A moment later, Kyle threw a figure out of there, and it landed on the ground.

"Sleep, sleep, all you do is sleep! How can you sleep at your age? Don't you have any shame?!"

Kyle's exasperated voice snapped Sabo back to reality from his dazed state as he sat on the ground. Sabo stared intently at Kyle, who was emerging from his house, and spoke through gritted teeth:

"Kyle, are you out of your mind?!"

"You bastard, you threw me out while I was sleeping so soundly..."

Sabo's words came to an abrupt halt, and his throat bobbed involuntarily.

Suddenly, a long sword, its blade crackling with faint lightning, appeared before him, pointing at him. The purple lightning emanating from the sword sent chills down his spine.

"Speak up, why did you stop? I think Sabo, you're absolutely right!"

"Come on, let's continue!"

Kyle gave a faint smile and looked at Sabo, speaking in a 'gentle' manner.

Sabo: ...

At this moment, Sabo cursed Kyle countless times in his heart with beautiful words, but dared not utter a single word. In the end, what came out of his mouth was:

"Well, I just woke up and my head's a little foggy, so I said some nonsense. Don't take it to heart, bro! Hehe~"

Sabo kept telling himself to be patient, patient, and patient again.

When his strength surpasses Kyle's...

Hmm! That might be a bit slim. Kyle doesn't seem like a normal human being, so it would be quite difficult for him to surpass Kyle.

Perhaps he used to have that confidence, but now he can only say that he was young and impetuous back then.

The longer I spent with Kyle, the more I realized how terrifying he was; surpassing him was really unrealistic.

It would be more reliable to think about when to slip Kyle some strong laxatives when he's not looking.

If you can't beat them head-on, can't you at least resort to underhanded tactics?

Just as Sabo was planning how to deal with Kyle, Kyle sheathed his sword and spoke in a calm voice:

"You said last time that you wanted to eat a Logia-type Devil Fruit?"

"I might have some information about a powerful Logia-type Devil Fruit!"

"How so? Are you interested in taking a look?"

Sabo: !!!

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