One Piece Highest Bounty

Chapter 726 Devil Fruit Tree Exposed

Both sides are beeping, and both are actively preparing for the battle.

However, a sudden newspaper post once again made this slightly calm sea turbulent!
——"The devil fruit tree reappeared in the world. It is rumored that as long as you kill the capable person, you will get their fruit, and the fruit will not be reborn somewhere in the world after the capable person dies.Similarly, if a person with abilities is killed by others, it will happen for a while.It is said that as long as the fruit tree ability user touches the ability user, even if the ability user does not die, he will have exactly the same ability as the ability user. 』

Chino's face darkened.

Although the newspaper didn't name the person by name,...it was obviously him.

For a moment, the whole world trembled.

The empress looked at Kino and frowned: "You... really ate the devil fruit tree?"

Sandersonia and Marigold behind her were on alert, for fear that Kino would approach her sister on purpose, so that he could kill her and plunder the Devil Fruit.

"Yes, it's not counted!"

Kino didn't shy away from it either, because he knew a long time ago that the 'truth' would be revealed one day.It's just that he didn't expect that it would appear at such a critical time.

Also, who the hell?
Obviously, this can't be a world government!
"You...you really killed the capable person, so you can get their fruit?"

The empress' question temporarily interrupted Kino's thinking.

"will not!"

"Huh..." The Empress breathed a sigh of relief.

"But after the capable person dies, I can indeed get their fruit, and the fruit will not regenerate." Kino's words once again made the empress uncomfortable.

"What do you mean! So the news report...?"

"It is true that because of the devil fruit tree, as long as I meet the capable person, I will get their ability. However, if I personally kill the capable person, I will not get the devil fruit, but after someone else kills it, I will get it. Yes. Hancock, should you still remember the battle on the top?"

Kino also knew the empress' worries, and he would have been the same if he had changed it, and he didn't feel any uncomfortable emotions, so it's good to talk about it.

"Well, of course."

"Then you should know why I only appeared after Whitebeard's death?"

The empress was stunned for a moment, and then she understood: "I see, you are waiting for Whitebeard to die, so you can get the Zhenzhen fruit!"

"bingo!"

"Sister, don't be fooled by him! I think it's too strange to copy fruits. How can there be such devil fruits in the world. You just explained that you will get their fruits after the death of the capable person, but you didn't prove it. Killing the ability users with your own hands...you will not take their fruits." Sandersonia shouted.

"That's right! You can't prove that you can't get their fruit after killing the capable person yourself!" Marigold also shook his head.

Kino smiled wryly in his heart, knowing that once the 'truth' was exposed, this would happen.

"It's not completely wrong in the newspaper! Now, I can indeed gain their abilities after killing those with abilities. But... I couldn't do it before. This kind of ability gradually appeared after the Battle of the Top. I don't know. Are you sure whether it is because of the ability of the 'Devil Fruit Tree' or the ability of the 'Dark Fruit'. Or... because of the successful replication of the Dark Fruit, this ability of the Devil Fruit Tree was activated." Kino shook his head.

He himself is not sure, but he knows that the ability of 'devil fruit stripping' did not appear until the battle on the top was copied to the dark fruit.

After the battle on the top, Kino went to Murloc Island, and at that time...he solved Vander Daken IX, which caused the fruit of the target to be stripped passively.

Later, on the Grand Desolo, after Kino killed the golden emperor Gilder Tezolo, he took the initiative to strip his golden fruit.

Therefore, the records that Blackbeard saw in that unexpected cave are not fake.

It does record that the fruit cannot be obtained by actively killing the capable person, but it has been seriously damaged for a long time.Blackbeard didn't see clearly that the "possibility" that he couldn't get by actively killing was just a little bit of deduction from Kino's whereabouts over the years.

Furthermore, the devil fruit tree can give birth to the dark fruit, if the dark fruit can also absorb the fruit's ability?Then, as the mother body of the dark fruit, the fruit tree will naturally have this ability, and it is even stronger than the dark fruit's characteristics.It didn't exist before, perhaps because the dark fruit didn't return, and this characteristic was not stimulated.

"what?"

Kino's confession made the two sisters nervous again, and they swung their weapons at the same time.

The two sisters got nervous, but the empress was thinking about another thing: "It's also because of the devil fruit tree that the capable woman beside you...is unable to conceive?"

"Eh?"

The two sisters beeped in bewilderment, what is the brain circuit of the elder sister thinking?

Kino smiled wryly and shook his head: "It's not that I'm not pregnant, I'm already pregnant, but... it's like hibernating, the 'seed' has stopped growing."

"Then I..." The Empress carefully touched her lower abdomen.

Kino nodded again with a wry smile: "You look the same as Perona and Robin..."

Already pregnant?

This surprised and delighted the Empress.

The joy is that it will come out so soon, and I am not ready yet; the surprise is that this seed may never germinate for a lifetime, and you must know that Perona has been following for more than three years.

"My lord!" The two sisters were anxious.

The empress waved her hand: "I believe him!"

"Uh……"

Only then did Kino dare to step forward and grab the hand of the Empress, and said with a smile, "Why do I want so many devil fruits? It is also my sorrow to have this ability. What I want is someone who can accompany me for the rest of my life, not A dead devil fruit."

The empress blushed slightly: "Okay, don't be poor, tell me how you ate a tree? It's so big... how can human beings...?"

"Remember the island I told you about?"

The empress nodded: "Remember! But, didn't you say that it was an island reef full of stones, without any living things?"

"Yes!" After speaking, Kino shook his head again, "It's not that there is nothing but rocks, but there is still a dead tree with a strange shape. It's just that this tree seems to have rushed up because it couldn't take root on the rocks. It is also this small dead tree that gave me a 'hiding' place."

"Then?"

"I clearly remember that there was no sprout on the dead tree. After I was hungry for a few days, when I woke up from a coma, there was a green seedling in front of me. I was already unconscious at that time , I didn't think about anything, even if it's 'grass'... I resisted picking it off and eating it."

"Is that the devil fruit tree?" the empress exclaimed.

"Maybe, I don't know!" Kino shook his head, "In my memory, except for the 'tree', all I ate were fish, shellfish, crabs, dried shrimps and the like in the sea. "

(End of this chapter)