Katakuri and Donquixote Doflamingo stopped fighting. Su Xiao stood at the edge of the mochi-covered area, not yet stepping inside.
Before confirming something, Su Xiao would never rashly engage Katakuri at close range. He needed to determine whether Blue Steel Shadow was effective against Devil Fruit users—or rather, whether he could injure Katakuri after activating Blue Steel Shadow.
Katakuri could turn his body into mochi, rendering ordinary slashes completely ineffective. Blue Steel Shadow's ability was to devour energy inside an enemy's body after slashing them, thereby dealing true damage.
Su Xiao seriously doubted whether cutting through Katakuri's mochi form would count as injuring him. If it didn't, Blue Steel Shadow would be useless, and he would have no way to deal with Katakuri.
Katakuri's Mochi-Mochi Fruit was extremely troublesome. This Paramecia Devil Fruit was even more precious than most Logia fruits.
In most cases, the value of Devil Fruits ranked as Logia > Paramecia > Zoan.
This ranking wasn't absolute. Some Mythical Zoan fruits were even more precious than Logia fruits, but in terms of initial combat power after consuming a Devil Fruit, Logias were generally the strongest.
Paramecia fruits had a high upper limit. Most top-tier powerhouses were Paramecia users, such as Whitebeard, Golden Lion (at his peak), and Byrnndi World (at his peak).
Their abilities weren't impressive at first, but the strength of their users had given these Paramecia fruits the power to destroy heaven and earth.
There was no strongest fruit, only the strongest user. This statement wasn't entirely accurate, but it was more or less true.
Katakuri's Mochi-Mochi Fruit was an almost perfect ability. Paramecia fruits already had a high upper limit, and this fruit also possessed an ability similar to "elementalization."
Katakuri had developed the mochi's elasticity, adhesiveness, and malleability to their limits.
D. Assassination