If Thatch had looked more closely, he would have noticed that the Devil Fruit he had received was identical to the Dark-Dark Fruit auctioned off at the Sabaody Archipelago.
However, his attention was entirely focused on the cookbook in his hands, and he paid little attention to the spoils he had been given.
Before long, night had fallen. Thatch slowly drifted off to sleep.
All the experiences of his day strangely appeared in his dream, where they were seen by Doflamingo's Consciousness Clone stationed in the Illusion Space.
"The Dark-Dark Fruit... I've finally waited for this day." Doflamingo narrowed his eyes with a smile, then quickly used Dream Traverse to appear in Thatch's room.
With a casual wave of his hand, he made the already sleeping Thatch fall into an even deeper slumber. Then, Doflamingo reached out and picked up the Dark-Dark Fruit.
"Finally... the most important piece of the puzzle is in my hands." Doflamingo smiled, then erased everyone on the ship's memories concerning this Devil Fruit.
"Next, let's see how well my heart has developed." Doflamingo was about to leave when he suddenly seemed to recall something. He lightly tapped the cookbook protruding from beneath Thatch's pillow.
With that single tap, the cookbook's contents became more than ten times richer. If someone had enough talent and worked hard, studying the recipes diligently, they might one day be able to reproduce sixty or seventy percent of Doflamingo's cooking skills.
"Consider this compensation. Besides, you're not Teach—you can't eat a second Devil Fruit."
After saying that, Doflamingo used Dream Traverse and left.
Silently capturing Blackbeard Teach was no easy matter. After all, the man never slept.
Moreover, his current strength was already infinitely close to the top tier, in no way inferior to Marco the Phoenix. Under normal circumstances, even