(PS: This is a two-in-one chapter; I was too lazy to split it.)
"Vice Admiral Longinus, you... actually think so highly of Law?" Rosinante asked in disbelief.
In fact, even Law himself lacked some confidence. He had witnessed Doflamingo, who had always been arrogant and invincible, being defeated without the slightest ability to resist in front of Longinus.
That strength was completely beyond the limits of his imagination.
"Can I really do it?"
"How big your heart is determines how big your world is."
Longinus smiled and withdrew his right hand. He more or less understood why Law had been able to accomplish things that he had failed to do in the original story.
Just as he had said, how big your heart was determined how big your world was.
Although most of the people of Flevance ultimately failed to escape their destined fate, their hearts had indeed been redeemed.
Law carried hatred in his heart, but it was not the sort of mindset that sought to destroy everything. Having faced death directly, he possessed a far more resolute heart than he had in the original timeline.
And that was exactly what Longinus hoped to see.
A so-called ultimate ability could never be used simply by eating a fruit. Otherwise, the Perennial Youth Operation would not have been nothing more than an ethereal legend.
In Longinus's view, only by developing the Op-Op Fruit to its true ultimate could one perform the Perennial Youth Operation, which could grant humans eternal life.
Therefore, who ate this fruit was undoubtedly extremely important.
Longinus did indeed have quite a few talented people under him, but developing a Devil Fruit to its peak was not something that talent alone could accomplish. Compatibility between the person and the fruit also mattered.
Longinus did have a way