Half an hour.
Not long.
But it was enough time to do plenty of things.
For example,
the battle between the Straw Hat Pirates and Baroque Works' senior agents.
Maud was looking forward to it.
"So..."
Maud set down the special bomb. With a wave of his hand, a shadow carrying an ochre cloth bag came up the stairs and flew straight into his hand.
He opened the ochre cloth bag. Inside were fruits of various kinds.
They were practically every type of fruit that the Shadow Clones could find in Alubarna.
"Will there be a pleasant surprise?"
Maud looked down at the fruits crammed together in the bag.
When a Devil Fruit user died, the demonic soul that had originally inhabited their body would immediately leave it and seek out another suitable fruit vessel.
During this process, there was a certain chance that the demonic soul would attach itself to a nearby fruit, turning it into a brand-new Devil Fruit.
What were the odds?
Maud had no idea.
But he believed that since the appearance of every Devil Fruit corresponded to a real type of fruit,
then perhaps, if the fruit serving as the vessel matched the type of the target Devil Fruit, it would increase the chance of the demonic soul attaching itself to that fruit?
There was no way to determine whether this guess was true.
Still, Maud leaned toward believing it.
After all, this world had a saying that resonated deeply with him—anything humanity could dream up might become reality.
Maud placed the bag of fruit in a corner.
With Luo absent, this was the only way he could try his luck.
Beli returned to his original form, jumped onto Maud's shoulder, and stared fixedly at the bag full of fruit.
"Don't sneak a bite."
Maud