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Chapter 88 The Fruit is in Hand! (Please Subscribe!)

The research area is located on the first floor of Building B.

Kitahara Tsuneo entered the Devil Fruit Processing Center.

Under Vegapunk's control, most of the research area in Building B lost power.

As a Devil Fruit processing center serving as a public research institute, it has an emergency backup power supply.

Kitahara Tsune fumbled for the switch and turned it on; sure enough, the lights came on.

However, what he saw in front of him was not the Devil Fruit processing center he had imagined.

He thought that the so-called Devil Fruit processing center was just cutting up all those fruits one by one for some kind of research.

At the very least, those Devil Fruits should be placed in a culture medium.

And now, what appeared before him were Devil Fruits casually tossed onto the experimental table.

Fortunately, there were corresponding records on these experimental tables; otherwise, Kitahara Tsune would not have known where the Year-Round Fruit was.

After all, he had never seen the so-called Devil Fruit encyclopedia and didn't know what the Year-Year Fruit looked like.

Most of the Devil Fruits here are Zoan-type Devil Fruits, including two Ancient Zoan-type fruits.

One is a Dragon Fruit, Ancient Species, Unique Dragon Form.

The other one is Dog Nest Selling Tongue Generation Dire Wolf Form.

Kitahara Tsune thought for a moment, then smashed some of the fruit into a puddle of jam.

After all, it would be too suspicious if only one Devil Fruit went missing.

Although this place will be destroyed in his battle with Caesar or that member of the Beasts Pirates, it's better to deal with it in the meantime.

After searching for a while, he finally found the fruit he had been dreaming of.

It was placed next to a large piece of equipment in the center of the laboratory, and it had obviously been studied recently.

Beside the fruits of the year, there was a solvent whose purpose was unknown.

"It seems this is what Vegapunk was talking about, and the result of his research with Satan," Kitahara Tsune thought.

If he hadn't come, the vial of solvent would soon have been taken away by Satan and injected into Bonnie for human experimentation.

After taking the yearly fruit, Kitahara Tsune did not eat it immediately.

He planned to overcome the weaknesses of the Devil Fruit before consuming it.

After resolving this matter, he prepared to head to Dressrosa.

There is a small island next to this country called Greenbite Island.

In the underground forest of Greenbit Island lives a peculiar race of little people.

These little people are generally simple-minded and easily deceived.

Kitahara Tsuneo, on the other hand, planned to use this to compensate for the weakness of ability users who fear seawater.

Of course, he wasn't planning to boast to the dwarfs that he was a powerful being and that he wasn't afraid of the sea.

Instead, I wanted to improve my swimming skills by using them.

The blue bar already allows him to move underwater like a fish-man.

If it's an advanced purple attribute, it's probably no different from being on land, except that you can't breathe underwater, and there are even additional bonuses.

After putting away the Devil Fruit, he left the Devil Fruit processing center and headed to Caesar's private laboratory.

There were almost no obstacles along the way, only a faint smell of gas in the air.

Kitahara Tsuneo casually picked up a mask at the Devil Fruit Processing Center and put it on.

As he approached Caesar's laboratory, he sensed that behind the steel was the same aura as the one from the previous night.

However, his aura was not as weak as it was last night; instead, it was strengthening at a visible rate.

Just as Kitahara Tsune was about to get a little closer, the steel door was suddenly flung open, and a mammoth tens of meters tall smashed through the steel and charged towards Kitahara Tsune.

Kitahara Tsune jumped backward to dodge the opponent's attack, and at the same time drew his long sword and unleashed a slash of sword light.

However, the blade's light had no effect on the opponent's body; in fact, it did not even break through the opponent's defenses.

Kitahara Tsune was not surprised at all.

This attack was originally intended as a probe, to test the strength of the opponent's physical body.

He naturally recognized the other party as Jack the Drought, one of the Three Calamities.

The opponent is a powerful being who ate the Ancient Zoan type of the Elephant-Elephant Fruit, Mammoth form.

Ancient Zoan Devil Fruits possess incredibly powerful defenses, vitality, and regeneration speed.

Furthermore, this guy has fish-man blood, so his physical abilities are naturally stronger than those of humans.

"You brat, you're from the Navy, aren't you?" Jack said, looking down at Kitahara Tsune with his elephant-like eyes. "We just happen to need a hostage, so you're the one."

Having said that, without waiting for Kitahara Tsune's reaction, he tossed his head, and the thick, huge elephant trunk swung towards Kitahara Tsune.

Kitahara Tsune jumped into the air, dodging the attack.

The thick elephant trunk shattered the wall of the area where Kitahara Tsunemoto was standing, revealing the rainforest-covered landscape outside.

As Kitahara Tsune leaped up, he imbued his feet with Armament Haki and stomped heavily on the elephant trunk that was swinging towards him.

Jack felt a stinging pain. As he pulled out the elephant's trunk, the enormous elephant body, with its thick tusks, stabbed fiercely at Kitahara Tsuneo.

Jack was confident that even if his opponent possessed Armament Haki, he would be pierced right through by Jack's ivory.

Seeing that his opponent was not dodging or avoiding, and was about to be impaled on his ivory, Jack suddenly regretted it.

He wanted a hostage, not to kill the other person on the spot.

However, before Jack could even withdraw his strength, Kitahara Tsune's long sword was already covered in black Armament Haki, and he slashed fiercely at the tusk that was thrusting at him.

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The sound, like steel clashing, reverberated throughout the laboratory, and the shockwave from the collision also reverberated throughout the entire floor.

The walls, already shattered by Jack's elephant trunk, could no longer withstand the powerful shockwave, and the entire building collapsed suddenly.

In an instant, smoke billowed everywhere.

Meanwhile, Caesar had already left the laboratory sometime earlier.

Only Drought Jack remained to attract attention.

Before the smoke had even cleared, Kitahara Tsuneo picked up his long sword and slashed fiercely at Jack, who was standing amidst the rubble.

A jet-black blade of light emanated from the longsword, imbued with powerful Armament Haki.

The flying blade struck Jack's trunk directly, and blood spurted out, leaving a deep wound.

Jack let out a painful, elephant-like roar that made Kitahara Tsune's ears ring.

"Who are you? With such strength, you can't be unknown in the Navy."

Jack transformed into human form, pulled out two weapons he carried—one with a straight blade on the upper body and the other with a scythe-like lower body—and stared intently at the figure in mid-air.

"Tsuneo Kitahara, Rear Admiral." Kitahara's voice came into Jack's ear.

Upon hearing the name, Jack felt as if he had heard it somewhere before, but he couldn't quite place it.

"You've got some skill; no wonder you dared to come here alone and show off."