"BOSS."
New World.
Gold City.
Chaos had returned, carrying Blackbeard.
Stussy, Baccarat, and Betty, who were busy working, greeted him.
Now that the Explosion Pirates had been wiped out, the three women planned to take over their territory.
They couldn't let it go to waste.
It was a huge stretch of land, after all.
Gold City remained an unpredictable base, but that didn't stop them from developing the Explosion Pirates' waters into a major public-facing territory. Unlike Sky Island, it had never been exposed.
"Has Caesar returned yet?"
"No."
Baccarat glanced at Blackbeard, who looked utterly miserable, and asked with some doubt, "BOSS, are you sure this guy really succeeded in eating a second Devil Fruit?"
Stussy and Betty also looked uncertain.
Chaos had already told Stussy over the phone, but no matter how they looked at it, eating two Devil Fruits seemed impossible.
If it really was possible to eat two, they'd be in for a windfall.
"It's confirmed."
"He ate the Dark-Dark Fruit and the Explosion-Explosion Fruit, and so far, he hasn't shown any adverse effects. This is the result of years of undercover work by This Emperor. Once Caesar gets back, we'll give him a thorough examination."
Chaos grinned, looking delighted.
He was in a great mood.
"You can start thinking about what you'd want for your second Devil Fruit, too."
That was right.
Chaos intended not only to eat a second Devil Fruit himself, but also to let all his senior officers eat a second one.
He wasn't worried they'd turn against him.
So many years had passed. None of them were the strangers and enemies they'd been at the beginning.
People grew attached to one another.
They might not say it outright, and they still bickered and cursed at each other from time to time,