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Chapter 97: Big Mom
"Very well, I accept your surrender."
Yumesaki estimated that the strength of these two was quite decent. If paired with powerful Devil Fruits, it wasn't impossible for them to have a chance at becoming top-tier fighters just below the Admiral level in the future.
To overthrow the World Government, they could be considered two fairly substantial combat assets.
Furthermore, they had never engaged in the slaughter of civilians, making them worthy of recruitment into his forces.
Therefore, Yumesaki brought the entire group back to Wano Country.
He even allowed Hashirama and Issho to spar with these men in turns, ensuring they didn't harbor the idea that the Blackbeard Pirates' defeat was merely due to a surprise attack.
In fact, both Jesus Burgess and Laffitte truly held such thoughts.
They felt that if Yumesaki had fought them out in the open, they might still have lost, but certainly not in such a miserable, one-sided fashion.
However, after those two underwent a fierce physical exchange of "manly bonding" with Hashirama and Issho, the look in their eyes instantly became much clearer.
They couldn't win—they absolutely couldn't win.
Each of these two men was more nonsensical than the last. Either one of them alone could easily wipe out the current Blackbeard Pirates in their entirety.
They didn't understand; were the Blackbeard Pirates really worth making this group of people move together?
Facing the confusion of Laffitte and Burgess, Yumesaki spoke calmly: "The focus isn't on the Blackbeard Pirates, but on Marshall D. Teach, Blackbeard himself."
"Captain—oh, wait—Blackbeard? Does he have something special about him?" Van Augur couldn't help but ask.
That's right, it was the sniper, Van Augur.
This man had also surrendered.
Not long ago, he had woken up from his unconscious state, and right at that moment, he witnessed the scene of Hashirama and Issho pummeling Laffitte and Burgess, which left him utterly stunned.
After learning that his two comrades had already given up, Van Augur followed in their footsteps without hesitation.
Going back to the main point, the Blackbeard Pirates had only been formed very recently; they hadn't gone through various adventures together yet and weren't a cohesive unit.
He truly wasn't willing to bet his life for a captain he had only known for a short while.
Now, hearing that Yumesaki's group had deployed so many experts just for Blackbeard, he felt a surge of curiosity like never before.
Just what exactly was Blackbeard's specialty?
Yumesaki didn't hide it either. "Blackbeard Teach's body is different from ordinary people. He can consume two Devil Fruits, so we want to research his physical structure to see where that special trait lies."
"Two Devil Fruits?"
This answer made Van Augur, Laffitte, and Jesus Burgess look at one another in shock.
The rule that one person can only eat one Devil Fruit was an absolute law of the sea. For eight hundred years, there had never been a word of anyone capable of eating a second Devil Fruit.
Now, Blackbeard was actually able to eat a second one—it was simply preposterous.
No wonder this group wanted to capture Blackbeard; could it be they were after this secret?
"Can the research produce results?" Laffitte asked. If it were possible, he also wanted to eat two Devil Fruits.
Van Augur and Burgess were thinking the same thing. Who wouldn't want to eat a second Devil Fruit?
"Of course it can."
Yumesaki had handed Blackbeard over to Tobirama, Orochimaru, and the others.
With their research into the human body, combined with Vegapunk's assistance, cracking Blackbeard's secret wasn't an issue at all.
And in fact, that was exactly what happened.
On the third day after capturing Blackbeard; Vegapunk, Tsunade, Tobirama, Orochimaru, and Yakushi Kabuto had thoroughly researched Blackbeard inside and out.
They understood Blackbeard's body even better than Blackbeard did himself.
From physical structure to cells, from internal organs to the Lineage Factor, not a single part escaped their gaze.
The secret of why Blackbeard could consume two Devil Fruits was finally revealed.
They used Blackbeard's Lineage Factor to create a type of injection specifically used to modify the body's constitution. As long as this injection was introduced into the body, anyone could eat two Devil Fruits.
Yet even so, Tobirama and Vegapunk still felt unsatisfied.
Because they didn't just want to eat two Devil Fruits; they wanted to eat three, or even four.
However, to achieve this effect, more data was required.
Therefore, they requested the blood of Kaido and the blood of King the Conflagration. These two—one being of the Oni Race and the other of the Lunarian Race—were both members of extremely rare races.
An Oni's body naturally possessed incredibly powerful physical qualities.
Meanwhile, members of the Lunarian Race were capable of generating flames on their bodies. Those flames possessed a certain offensive power. When the flames vanished, their own speed would increase drastically, but at the same time, their defense would drop.
They could survive in all sorts of natural environmental conditions.
Even the World Government set their sights on this race. King had once been a subject of the World Government's experiments before finally being rescued by Kaido and becoming one of the Three All-Stars of the Beasts Pirates.
After obtaining the Lineage Factor from both of them, Vegapunk and the others' research advanced rapidly.
But it still wasn't enough.
They needed more biological data to perfect their research.
The first thing Yumesaki thought of was the Big Mom Pirates, because that pirate group was a natural database.
Of course, this was thanks to Charlotte Linlin's hobby.
Charlotte Linlin's dream was to establish a nation where all races and things in the world lived together without distinction of superiority or inferiority. She hoped for all races across the globe to become her family.
Because of this dream, if Charlotte Linlin wasn't currently giving birth to a child, she was in the process of getting ready to give birth to one.
Charlotte Linlin, who was over sixty years old this year, had thirty-nine daughters and forty-six sons.
As well as forty-three ex-husbands.
However, the majority of these forty-three husbands were merely tools for producing children and were discarded by Charlotte Linlin after being used.
But what was interesting was that these forty-three husbands basically came from various different human races.
Among them were the Longarm Tribe, Longleg Tribe, Snakeneck Tribe, Three-Eye Tribe....
If they could subjugate the Big Mom Pirates, there would be enough data to support the research of Vegapunk, Tobirama, and the others.
And previously, they had indeed intended to take over the Big Mom Pirates.
After all, Charlotte Linlin was one of the Yonko, who absolutely belonged to the top-tier combat powers of this world.
Then, due to being busy with other matters, they temporarily hadn't found the time to move against the Big Mom Pirates.
Who would have thought that this current research would actually require the Big Mom Pirates?
It seemed that fate was urging them to move immediately.
Yumesaki discussed it with Nico Robin, and Robin also felt it was time. Thus, Yumesaki immediately summoned Senju Hashirama, Issho, Shimotsuki Ryuma, Senju Tobirama, Kaido, Tsunade, Orochimaru, and others, then charged toward the Big Mom Pirates.
Totto Land.
Whole Cake Island.
After Kaido landed on the island via an Air Door, he released his Haoshoku Haki without the slightest hesitation.
Boom!
The terrifying Haki swept outward like a landslide or a tsunami, shocking the entirety of Whole Cake Island.
Charlotte Linlin, who had originally been eating, felt this familiar Haki and couldn't help but let out a roar.
"KAIDO!!!"
Charlotte Linlin, whose meal had been interrupted, became furious. She unhesitatingly smashed through a wall and sped toward the location where Kaido was.
Upon seeing Kaido's towering frame, Charlotte Linlin wasted no time raising Napoleon in its Cognac form and swinging it down hard toward Kaido's head.
Kaido laughed uproariously. The Kanabo in his hand was wrapped in Haoshoku Haki as he returned the strike without holding back.
Boom!
The two weapons collided in mid-air. Black-red lightning exploded, and a terrifying air pressure instantly erupted, forming a ring of shockwaves that spread in all directions with devastating momentum.
In the sky above Whole Cake Island, the cloud layer was split in two, looking truly horrifying.
In an instant, most of the people on Whole Cake Island were thrown into chaos, not understanding what was happening.
"It's Kaido."
"Kaido, one of the Yonko, has come."
"A conflict has broken out between Kaido and Mama."
Meanwhile, the high-ranking members who already understood the situation—especially Charlotte Katakuri—were rushing at incredible speed toward the direction of the battle. On the way, he also saw many of his familiar siblings.
For instance, his fellow Three Sweet Commanders, Charlotte Cracker and Charlotte Smoothie.
Additionally, Charlotte Daifuku and Charlotte Perospero arrived one by one.
Not long after, several people finally reached the location and found Kaido standing off against their Mama.
"Mamamama.... It's been a long time, Kaido."
Charlotte Linlin, whose slash had failed to blow Kaido away, laughed loudly. "That brat from the past has certainly grown up, hasn't he?"
Kaido gave a cold snort. The thing he disliked most was Charlotte Linlin's attitude of treating him like he was still green.
However, what made him helpless was that he truly did owe a great debt of gratitude to Charlotte Linlin in the past, and to this day, that debt had not been repaid, making it difficult for him to argue against her patronizing attitude.
But for today, he felt he could repay that debt.
"Linlin, my arrival this time is to repay my debt to you."
"Oh?" Charlotte Linlin withdrew her weapon and asked with curiosity: "And how do you plan to repay this debt to me?"
Back when Kaido was still weak, she had given the Uo Uo no Mi, Model: Seiryu to him.
Without that fruit, Kaido might not have been able to possess the majesty he had now.
As time passed, he and Kaido had each grown into a Yonko.
This debt had become increasingly valuable and harder to repay, which was why Kaido had not settled it until today.
Kaido laughed heartily: "Today, I will plead for mercy on your behalf, Linlin. I'm going to save that little life of yours."
Hearing these words, Charlotte Linlin's face instantly turned grim. "Kaido, what is the meaning of your words?"
Kaido pointed toward Yumesaki and said: "Allow me to introduce him to you, Linlin. This is Kazuma Yumesaki. I am following him now. Do you understand what I mean, Linlin?"
Charlotte Linlin's heart skipped a beat. Back when the Rocks Pirates were destroyed, she had invited Kaido to join her pirate group, but she had been rejected by him without hesitation.
Because Kaido did not want to be under anyone else's control.
The Kaido of now, who had grown into a Yonko, possessed an even higher pride than before, yet he had actually acknowledged a new boss.
This was extremely abnormal.
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