The Choice, Gold City Emerges

"BOSS, why are you eating another Devil Fruit?"

Three days had passed since Chaos came back to life.

Over those three days, Chaos had gradually gotten used to the discomfort in his body and learned about the current state of the world.

In the office.

Baccarat looked at Chaos in confusion.

The Gold-Gold Fruit sat on the desk.

Clearly, the last attempt to steal a Devil Fruit had succeeded.

"BOSS, Borsalino is in our hands. We can just take the Glint-Glint Fruit from him."

In Betty's opinion, the Gold-Gold Fruit was nowhere near as good as the Glint-Glint Fruit.

Borsalino was already in their hands, and Chaos had only eaten the Soul-Soul Fruit, so there was no need for him to eat the Gold-Gold Fruit too.

"Yeah."

The others nodded as well.

No matter how they looked at it, the Gold-Gold Fruit wasn't as good as the Glint-Glint Fruit.

"You don't understand."

Chaos picked up the Gold-Gold Fruit with one hand, opened his mouth, and ate it without hesitation.

The Glint-Glint Fruit did have greater potential than the Gold-Gold Fruit, but Chaos wasn't so sure.

Coming back to life this time had given him a much clearer understanding of things.

He felt as if a great weight had lifted from him.

It was as though some kind of shackle had been broken.

He also had a vague feeling that if he had a little time, the Soul-Soul Fruit and Gold-Gold Fruit would advance further—and might even awaken for a second time.

In other words,

his theory before he died had been right.

Death was both a great terror and a great opportunity.

He would take another step forward on the path to godhood.

"Use our resources to search for the Revive-Revive Fruit!"

After eating the Gold-Gold Fruit, he began to