The Remnant Souls in the Soul-Soul Fruit, Sacrifice

In the blink of an eye.

Three months passed.

Stussy mobilized all her resources, and even Enel and the others took to the seas, searching for the Soul-Soul Fruit both openly and in secret.

They had been searching for this Devil Fruit ever since Chaos died. But so far, aside from the Gold-Gold Fruit and the Revive-Revive Fruit, which they had found, they hadn't even caught a glimpse of the Soul-Soul Fruit.

There hadn't even been any uncertain leads.

With good luck, they might find it soon. With bad luck, it could take decades. Who knew where the Soul-Soul Fruit would reappear?

The world was simply too vast.

The Richest Group had also put a bounty on the Soul-Soul Fruit in the underworld, offering as much as ten billion.

An outrageous sum.

Then, one day, news came from the underworld.

Demon Valley Town.

It was located on the Grand Line.

It could be considered one of Chaos's starting places. It was also where he had first met Sakazuki, setting off their love-hate relationship, full of mutual affection and murderous rivalry.

It was an island full of stories.

Just yesterday.

A merchant had brought a Devil Fruit to an auction there and put it up for sale.

At first, no one knew what kind of Devil Fruit it was. They only found out after the auction house compared it with the Devil Fruit Encyclopedia.

In this era, the Six Powers, the methods for training in Two types of Haki, and the Devil Fruit Encyclopedia were common knowledge, all thanks to a certain man.

Naturally, the news got out.

After all, this Devil Fruit had once been one of the Four Emperors Charlotte Linlin's powers. That meant it had the potential to make someone an Emperor.

Interestingly, no one in the world