In Yamato's eyes, the Dodon Fruit isn't very useful right now—after all, it can only control ordinary animals, and it might not be able to handle more special animals, let alone Zoan Devil Fruit users...
However, Sig understood that once Caesar created the artificial Zoan Devil Fruit, and Kaido used them on a large scale, the Beasts Pirates' elite lower-level combat force Dodon Fruit be completely wiped out!
Now that they had the Dodon Fruit, Sig reminded Yamato to find an opportunity to connect the Beasts Pirates with Tesoro.
Now, the Tontatta people are all cooperating with Tesoro, making it easy to open up sales channels for "Devil Fruit Embryos" and even the arms trade. This is Tesoro's old business, which he inherited from the "Joker" faction. Kaido can directly trade with him using weapons and ammunition.
At that time, Caesar will create artificial Zoan Fruit in batches. The failed attempts will only result in the loss of Kaido's subordinates, while the successful ones will be controlled by Hiyori...
Then the metals, weapons, and ammunition of Wano Country will fall into Tesoro's hands...
Tesoro can process what he can himself to enhance his strength and solidify his position...
The portion that cannot be absorbed can be traded directly to the Revolutionary Army, or, using the Revolutionary Army's intelligence, traded to rebellious forces within the Affiliated Nation, or even secretly traded to non- Affiliated Nation...
Of course, a large portion of the deal will undoubtedly be made with the World Government on the surface...
Leveraging substantial profits and taking advantage of the vacuum created by the World Government's withdrawal from the New World, they planned to bring Dressrosa and its surrounding countries under their control...
In this win-win trade network, only Kaido is a great philanthropist. Not only did he not gain anything, but he also had to pay the trial and error cost of artificial Zoan Fruit. The finished version created by Caesar has a high failure rate. It is possible that the user will not gain the ability of the Artificial Devil Fruit, and will also be afraid of seawater and have their expression fixed as a smile!
Those who fail cannot eat Devil Fruit anymore.
In this way, the hardships endured by the people of Wano Country have not been in vain. Although it appears that the food was given to Kaido, it is actually a case of the meat rotting in the pot. They may be living a miserable life for the time being, since Yamato cannot trade food on a large scale without Kaido's permission.
Unless Yamato can obtain the right to trade freely—currently, the Yamato amount of ore and weapons that Kaido can be exchanged for food, but the losses in inter-island trade are already huge, not to mention that Kaido also has to act as a middleman.
If Yamato could freely trade ores and weapons beyond the stipulated quota, the situation would be very different; Tesoro could privately supply more resources to Yamato.
In Sig's current view, Caesar's Artificial Devil Fruit actually has a lot of room for improvement, but Sig will not tell Kaido or Caesar!
After all, the fact that artificial Zoan Fruit users possess the properties of ordinary animals and are controlled by the Dodon Fruit is a side effect of the very thing having a major flaw.
Perhaps with Sig's guidance, this vulnerability could be fixed?
Sig was simply reminding Yamato not to let the people of Wano Country eat those defective fruits.
Of course, Kaido probably wouldn't be willing to part with it either...
Yamato was skeptical after hearing Sig's words. After all, Artificial Devil Fruit had not yet been created, and there were no samples. At present, these were just Sig's guesses. It would be great if things could go so smoothly!
Afterwards, Sig brought up the alliance with Yamato naturally delighted. However, when Sig wanted to have it notarized immediately, Yamato refused.
"Don't be in such a hurry. I still need to discuss it with Hiyori. I believe Hiyori trusts you too. We'll join together to represent Wano Country!" Yamato said with principle.
If we disregard gender, he definitely has the vibe of a doting husband...
At this moment, Yamato looked worried and said, "I wonder when Hiyori and I will be able to have a child..."
Sig:???
Seeing Yamato so seriously troubled by this problem, Sig couldn't help but ask, "Yamato... do you know how to have a child?"
"Huh? Isn't it supposed to happen after marriage, after a while, that the wife gets pregnant and then they have a child?" Yamato him a look that said, "How come you don't even know this?"
Sig:...
Just as I expected!
"What's with that expression?" Yamato looked slightly annoyed.
"You... do you think so too, Hiyori?" Sig asked, rubbing his forehead.
"Well... Hiyori seems to have the same expression as you." Yamato recalled Hiyori.
Sig breathed a sigh of relief—thankfully, at least Hiyori understands!
Although Yamato is already eighteen years old, Kaido's parenting style is very harsh, and she has no mother. Apart from the samurai she met when she was young, few people have shown her "concern for a child," and she is quite naive in her understanding of many things.
Hiyori was two years younger than Yamato, but when Denjiro secretly took her in, he was running a brothel business. Naturally, he had someone educate Hiyori about the proper conduct between men and women beforehand, so that Hiyori wouldn't unknowingly suffer any harm.
"Yamato, well... there's actually one condition missing. The couple needs to be a man and a woman... well, your own opinion doesn't count, it has to be a real man and a woman," Sig explained cryptically.
Yamato hearing this, Yamato was taken aback at first, then slapped his thigh and exclaimed, "Oh no! So that's how it is? I should have known better than to let Ivankov leave... Right, it should still be in time to chase after him..."
Sig:???
En, Ivankov, known as the Okama King, is a user of the Hormone-Hormone Fruit, allowing him to change gender with ease...
Sig really wanted to shake Yamato's head and ask her what "brilliant idea" she had come up with!
"Don't mess around..." Sig knew very well that Yamato didn't "identify as male," but rather simply didn't understand the difference between men and women.
"No, I'll be eighteen soon, I don't need to wait." Yamato said this without thinking.
"Huh? What eighteen? What are you waiting for?" Sig asked, intrigued.
From what I've heard, it seems like Yamato has met people who wanted to change their gender, but were refused because they were minors?
The fact that she immediately thought of Ivankov to "help" indirectly suggests that she must know something or have seen something!
"Yes... right... what should we do? No! I'll have to try it myself!" Yamato's expression changed rapidly, and this quick shift in emotions made Sig a little dizzy.
However, Sig noticed something: Yamato glanced at the masked man halfway through, and then suddenly seemed to realize something, probably thinking something like, "No, I still need to set an example."
In an instant, various clues flashed through Sig's mind...
The Goa fire happened only a few months ago, right? Revolutionary Army, East Blue, gender swap...
Sig already had a guess about the identity of the obviously young "masked man"!