Dark-Dark Fruit

Looking at the pirates he had taken out, Yota showed no reaction and headed straight for the Captain’s room.

Most pirates on the seas were no good, and this Dire Wolf Pirate Crew had even dared to wreak havoc and slaughter people within Whitebeard’s territory. Their nature was easy enough to imagine, so Yota had not held back at all.

"The Captain’s room should be here!"

Treasures like Devil Fruits, if a pirate crew’s Captain did not intend to eat one himself, would generally not dare entrust it to his subordinates.

After all, a single bite was enough for the thing to take effect. And if it happened to be some ridiculously powerful fruit, the crew member might even turn the tables and seize control in the end.

Even if the Captain managed to suppress that crew member again, the Devil Fruit that had been eaten would never come back.

"That Captain just now was a Zoan-type Fruit user. In other words, he can’t eat another Devil Fruit. That raises the odds that there’s a Devil Fruit on this ship by quite a bit." Muttering to himself, Yota entered the Captain’s room and began searching for loot.

Whenever this happened, Yota was deeply grateful for the knowledge he had learned at the Ninja Academy. At the very least, it was extremely useful for finding secret rooms and other hidden items. Observation Haki was highly useful for locating living people, but searching for inanimate objects was a little more difficult.

Gently pulling aside a painting in the Captain’s room, Yota’s breathing immediately grew heavy.

Behind the painting sat a small iron box. At sea, such small boxes were generally used to store Devil Fruits.

Naturally, a little box like this could not stop Yota. As a ninja, he knew a few tricks for picking locks. A moment later, there was a click, and the box opened. A Devil Fruit covered in purple spiral patterns lay quietly inside.

Yota froze for a moment, seemingly not expecting to find the Devil Fruit Blackbeard had dreamed of so easily.

He snapped out of it almost instantly. Before the Fourth Division could board this pirate ship, he immediately took a bite and swallowed the Devil Fruit.

A strange sensation immediately washed over him. It was not merely the power of the Devil Fruit; the travel system in Yota’s mind, which usually had little presence, also transmitted a massive amount of information at that moment.

"Completely overturning the fate trajectory of the One Piece World. This world has been converted into a base world type?"

Yota muttered in astonishment. In fact, after defeating the Kaido Pirates and the Charlotte Pirates last time and changing quite a bit of the plot, the travel energy in his cheat had already filled up. It was even enough for him to travel several times.

It was just that Yota had been fixated on the Dark-Dark Fruit at the time and had no mind to return to the Naruto World. After all, time flowed at the same rate in both worlds.

Yet he had not expected that eating the Dark-Dark Fruit would trigger something like this. And what the hell was a base world?

But completely overturning the plot… was the Dark-Dark Fruit really that important?

After thinking it over carefully, Yota reached a conclusion: the Dark-Dark Fruit really was that important!

Without the Dark-Dark Fruit, Blackbeard naturally would not defect. There would be no Summit War, no death of Ace, perhaps not even the Straw Hat Pirates’ two years of training, and certainly no Blackbeard as one of the new generation of Four Emperors. It could be said that the entire plot had been thrown into complete chaos from this point on.

For example, as long as the Whitebeard Pirates remained, Fish-Man Island beneath the sea naturally would not need the flag of the Big Mom Pirates. Straw Hat Luffy would not clash with the Big Mom Pirates from the very beginning, either.

And if the Whitebeard Pirates did not disband, then in the battle for Wano Country, either Marco and Izo would not participate, or the entire Whitebeard Pirates would take action. The latter was far more likely.

And if the entire Whitebeard Pirates took action, then there would basically be no role for Straw Hat Luffy to play. Luffy would likely find it difficult to awaken the Nika Fruit in desperate circumstances, and many later events would inevitably undergo major changes.

It could be said that with that one bite, Yota had indeed completely overturned the plot of the Pirate World!

With that in mind, Yota began examining the benefits of a base world.

The first benefit was that traveling to the One Piece World in the future would require a negligible amount of energy, practically none at all. Even with no energy whatsoever, he only needed to stay in the New World for a day or two to accumulate enough energy to return.

The second was that energy would accumulate dozens or even hundreds of times faster in the One Piece World. One month would be enough to fill the energy needed to travel to a new world.

As for the third, after Yota traveled to other worlds in the future, he could choose where to insert himself into the timeline when returning to the Pirate World.

In other words, even if he spent more than ten years in the Naruto World, he could choose to return to the Pirate World at the very next second.

The reason Yota had not chosen to return to the Naruto World during this time was precisely because of this concern. After all, at most about a year remained before Straw Hat Luffy set sail.

After Luffy set sail, the entire plot would more or less conclude in just over two years. In other words, the period of change in the One Piece World would take place within those three years. If Yota took a trip to the Naruto World, the Whitebeard Pirates might already be finished by the time he returned.

But with this function, Yota no longer had those concerns. He immediately began to want to go to the Naruto World.

In the Pirate World, although Yota possessed astonishing potential, his overall strength was at most at the peak of the second tier, roughly comparable to Ace, Marco, Yamato, and the others. That was only thanks to the Dark-Dark Fruit he had just eaten; otherwise, he might have been even weaker.

But in the Naruto World, his current strength could practically be called number one in the world!

After all, powerhouses at the level of the Four Emperors were comparable to monsters like Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha. Emperor Vice-Captain-level experts were not much different from a healthy Nagato Uzumaki, Sasuke with the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, or Naruto in Kurama Mode. They might even be stronger!

What was more, the current Naruto World was in a slump. Even its strongest figures did not possess the strength of the people mentioned above. In the Naruto World, Yota now embodied the saying: when there are no tigers in the mountains, the monkey becomes king. It was the perfect opportunity to plunder all kinds of benefits.

"Perfect. Once I make some preparations and tie up a few loose ends, I can return to the Naruto World!"

"And there’s still the third Devil Fruit… The Munch-Munch Fruit is Paramecia, and the Dark-Dark Fruit is Logia-type, so the remaining one should be a Zoan-type Fruit."

"Though the Vampire Fruit is decent, it still can’t be considered truly the strongest among Zoan-type Fruits. Now that I have the Dark-Dark Fruit, I can already plunder Fruits, so there’s no need to set my sights on that Devil Fruit!"

"But it’s not easy to choose. The most powerful Mythical Zoan-type should be the Nika Fruit, but I don’t want to fall out with Ace, so I’ll forget about his little brother’s fruit."

"Among the remaining top-tier Mythical Zoan Fruits, the Phoenix Fruit is with Marco, so I can give that up entirely. As for the Buddha Fruit, I’m not arrogant enough to overturn the Marines by myself. The Azure Dragon Fruit is with Kaido, and I can’t beat him yet."

"So the easiest one to target is the Eight-Headed Serpent Fruit?"