One Piece: Buggy's Uncharted Legend

Chapter 78: World-Shocking News, Part Three!

"Captain Buggy, are you saying that the fruit itself is just a vessel, like a person, and that eating a Devil Fruit is simply the devil's ability changing to a new vessel? Is that right?"

It had to be said, Rocks's comprehension ability was quite strong.

"That's right. This can also explain why only one of each ability appears at any given time. After reaching this conclusion, I began to make bold guesses and then started experimenting. Then I came to a conclusion: as long as you kill a Devil Fruit user and then destroy their body, you can release the devil's ability attached to their body."

"And then, as long as you place fresh fruit nearby, the devil's ability will enter the fruit and re-form into a Devil Fruit, right?" Rocks, with his wild imagination, had already guessed Buggy's experimental procedure.

"I regret to inform you that although you guessed my experimental procedure correctly, the experimental results were not like that at all. The Dark-Dark Fruit can re-condense a Devil Fruit because of the special space it comes with. In other words, to achieve the result you mentioned, there is another prerequisite, which is a unique space that can isolate the devil's ability from dissipating. If you don't have one, then you can only gamble on luck like me. It's not as easy as Dr. Indigo said. The only thing he got right was that I have mastered the essence of Devil Fruits and, based on that, have managed to release the devil's ability from a user's body. That's all there is to it."

At this point, Buggy had said almost everything he wanted to say.

After Rocks had finished taking notes, Buggy stood up and said, "Reporter Rocks, it was a pleasure talking with you. If you hope for more world-shocking news to be released by you, then in six months, in the Duchy of Destin, I will wait for you at the Tianxiang production site. As long as you come, there will definitely be a super surprise. However, the premise for all of this is that no one knows about this six-month appointment between you and me."

"Thank you very much for your favor. I will definitely keep our six-month appointment." Standing up very determinedly, Rocks felt that he must have struck it rich with luck; otherwise, how could he have been noticed by this sensational Captain Red Nose?

Leaving Rocks's home, Buggy arrived at the tavern where Mihawk and the others were.

"Brother Buggy, is everything taken care of?" As soon as he entered the tavern, Hancock stood up from her seat and came over to ask.

"There shouldn't be any major problems now. I believe that after those powers have tried this method, there will definitely be some lucky guys who conclude that the method is feasible. With the key step resolved, those guys will naturally have no reason to keep pestering us. After all, we're not easy to deal with either."

Buggy's words were not without basis. In this era, people's understanding of the essence of Devil Fruits was still unclear. Even those who had a grasp on it would certainly not make it public. That was why Dr. Indigo's blow was so powerful. But as Buggy announced the essence of Devil Fruits, those who understood would naturally not chase after the Red Nose Pirates for their so-called "technology."

Even if some did, they certainly wouldn't be major powers. Buggy didn't mind teaching these guys a lesson on how to behave.

Nodding, Hancock was also fed up with the endless stream of pirates. On the way from the North Sea to the East Sea, Daz Bonez's Super Railgun had sunk at least 20 pirate ships. And this was without any major powers making a move.

One could well imagine what kind of forces the major powers, who value a single decisive strike, would dispatch. Although she wasn't afraid, Buggy didn't want to engage in pointless attrition. In any case, announcing his research results wouldn't cause him much harm. After all, Buggy relied on his magical compass to find Devil Fruits, not his so-called "gambling on luck."

As for whether the Marines and the World Government, who were already researching Devil Fruits, would hold a grudge against Buggy, he couldn't care less.

The next day, when the Loguetown Daily in the East Sea published the interview with Red-Nosed Pirate Buggy, it was quickly reprinted by the World Economic Journal and then spread throughout the world by the News Coos.

As the third bombshell of world-shocking news, Buggy's generosity left all the major powers dumbfounded.

In their view, whoever mastered the technology to hunt for Devil Fruit abilities should keep it a secret. Someone like Buggy, who directly announced it, couldn't even be described as having had his head slammed in a door.

Of course, no matter how they looked at this Red Nose pirate who didn't play by the rules, those powers all did one thing first: they found a Devil Fruit user to test whether the theory about extracting Devil Fruit abilities was correct.

Although the vast majority of them failed, there were still a very small number who succeeded. And that was enough. These few successes were enough to prove that the Red Nose pirate had not deceived everyone. As for the other failures, they couldn't be called failures, just bad luck.

With things having developed to this point, the major powers had no reason to trouble the Red Nose Pirates for a vague probability. The fatal trap that Dr. Indigo had set for the Red Nose Pirates was thus broken by Buggy.

Looking at the news published in the newspaper, Dr. Indigo, who was sitting on a beach on some island in the Grand Line, was silent for a long time.

With the danger resolved, apart from powers like the Marines who had to find trouble with Buggy, basically no one was paying attention to the Red Nose Pirates anymore. Everyone's gaze was now focused on Devil Fruit users.

The previously unimaginable army of ability users had become a possibility under Buggy's guidance. The various major powers, wanting to expand their strength, all set their sights on ability users outside their own factions and quietly began operations to hunt for them.

A storm named "The Hunt for Devil Abilities" silently swept the entire world into its vortex.

In Destin in the East Sea, sitting at the foot of the Red Line and reading the latest newspaper, a smile appeared at the corner of Buggy's mouth.

"Was this all within your calculations?" Mihawk, at his side, asked Buggy.

"It's not called calculation. Actually, I didn't want things to develop to this point. But it's a pity that Dr. Indigo opened Pandora's Box. If I didn't go with the flow, even if we weren't harmed, we would probably be exhausted to death. To fight against the whole world for a secret that is certainly indefensible and not worth keeping, I don't think I'm that stupid, am I?" Buggy asked Mihawk in return.

"Captain, even so, you could have not announced it and sold the technology instead. That way, you could have earned some funds," Paula interjected.

Glancing at Paula, Buggy knew very well that this woman wasn't saying this for the money. After all, she didn't have Nami's affinity for money. Her purpose in saying this was singular: to defend Mihawk's perspective.

(End of Chapter)

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