When pirates came across a treasure chest, they would bring it back aboard their ship.
That was one of the true depictions of the Age of Navigation.
Treasure chests were also the kind of thing that could stir a pirate's emotions in an instant.
Maud was filled with curiosity about this Heaven-Sent Treasure Chest.
But in this situation, he had no mind to open it, so he carried it into the cabin and put it away.
After leaving the cabin, Maud first glanced at Lafitte, who was intently observing the weather, then looked once more at the enormous waterspout that had broken through the clouds in the sky.
A treasure chest had flown over while the waterspout was twisting through the air. It was an utterly dreamlike encounter, yet it had truly happened.
As for opportunity, it was impossible to explain clearly.
There had once been a drunken pirate who, after holding a banquet with his companions on an uninhabited deserted island, had gotten an upset stomach and casually found a secluded spot on the island to relieve himself.
By sheer coincidence, the liquid excrement gushing from his intestines happened to water a Devil Fruit.
After pulling up his trousers, the pirate habitually glanced at the excrement and noticed the Devil Fruit, half of which had been covered by it.
The pirate's drunkenness instantly faded by a third.
No one knew what the pirate had felt at the time. They only knew that he had used the fastest speed of his life to fish that indescribable Devil Fruit out of the awful mess.
Immediately afterward, without a second thought, the pirate swallowed the Devil Fruit drenched in excrement in two bites.
That was the wonder of the Grand Line.
In this world, which possessed tens of millions of islands, Devil