So That's How You Assassinate Ability Users

"Relax a little."

Don't scare yourself.

"Beast Kaido is very strong, but you are not weak either."

"Besides, we're going to Beast Kaido's territory so discreetly now that it's unlikely they'll find us."

"The Beasts Pirates' headquarters is on Onigashima in Wano Country. It's a natural barrier, easy to defend and difficult to attack, but intelligence gathering there will be slower."

"Furthermore, Kura Island is such a small, ordinary country, so far from Wano Country, and it's not valued by the Beasts Pirates, making it even less likely they'll discover us."

Even in the worst-case scenario, where the information is sent back by the Beasts Pirates' underlings.

"But the Beasts Pirates won't be able to assemble that quickly."

"According to current intelligence, the Numbers of the Beasts Pirates are fighting outside, Jack the Drought is patrolling his territory, Queen the Plague is guarding the Seastone Mine, and King the Conflagration is stationed at the Onigashima base."

"As for Beast Kaido, nobody knows where he went and committed suicide."

Even Morgans and the World Government's Cipher Pol couldn't pinpoint his whereabouts.

"Therefore, as long as it's not the entire Beasts Pirates launching an attack, even if we encounter Beast Kaido himself, we can defeat him."

Seeing the serious expression on Spaden's face and the shadow in his eyes, Wang Shi calmly began to analyze the situation, even describing defeating Beast Kaido as very casual and full of confidence.

"Your Majesty, can the few of us really defeat Beast Kaido?"

Aramaki's eyes gleamed. Like Ichisho, he had never encountered the Four Emperors or the Marine Admiral and had no idea just how strong these top combatants were.

"If you and Issho team up, you can fight Beast Kaido. If you add me and Spaden, we might be able to keep him here forever."

"The Strongest Creature on land, sea, and air is indeed difficult to kill, but is it truly unkillable?"

Wang Shi smiled faintly. Beast Kaido had been captured 18 times, most of which were records from his younger days, such as being deliberately captured when he was hungry and escaping after eating.

After Beast Kaido the Azure Dragon Form, the World Government was focused on capturing him for experiments and never considered killing him.

Beast Kaido' methods of execution all involved hanging, beheading, or stabbing with spears after capture...

However, there is no data on the execution personally carried out by Marine Admiral.

The period before he founded the Beasts Pirates was the time when he was arrested and executed the most.

Kaido's escapes often occurred while he was still on the prison ship, and he never even reached Impel Down.

After escaping the laboratory with King the Conflagration for the last time, Beast Kaido formed the Beasts Pirates. Soon after, he was invited by the Kurozumi Higurashi siblings, Higurashi, to settle in Wano Country.

It took Beast Kaido eight years from his arrival in Wano Country to his defeat of Kozuki Oden.

For the first three years, they focused on building their power and recruiting soldiers. Then, after Kozuki Oden returned to the country, they joined forces with Kurozumi Orochi and spent five years deceiving and killing Kozuki Oden.

While Kozuki Oden was performing the Fruit Dance, Pirate King Roger was executed, Beast Kaido defeated the Moria Pirates who landed in the Ringo area of Wano Country.

During this period, Beast Kaido basically did not leave Wano Country, so there is not much data available.

It wasn't until they defeated Kozuki Oden the Beasts Pirates fully developed and reached their peak strength, officially ascending to the position of one of the Four Emperors.

The legends say that Beast Kaido challenged the Four Emperors many times, but there were no Four Emperors at that time; in reality, there was only Whitebeard, a legendary great pirate.

The Four Emperors' power structure was never even formed.

During the Wano Country arc, Beast Kaido mentioned that he hadn't seen Big Mom for two or three decades, indicating that Beast Kaido hadn't really challenged Big Mom, the big sister and Four Emperors who gifted him the Fish-Fish Fruit, Model: Azure Dragon.

Wang Shi once suspected that many of Beast Kaido's stats were fabricated by Oda, simply to highlight the strength of the "Strongest Creature on land, sea, and air."

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"Your Majesty, legend has it that Beast Kaido is virtually unkillable. He has endured hundreds and thousands of tortures, been sentenced to death more than forty times by the World Government and the Marine Headquarters, and even destroyed nine Impel Down ships!"

"His physique is the strongest on land, sea, and air; even if he were hanged, he would break the chains."

Even if taken to the guillotine, he can shatter the blade.

Even if one is stabbed by a spear, the spear will break...

Spaden became more and more excited as he spoke. Ever since he met Kaido the Azure Dragon, he had been collecting information about this Four Emperors.

But the more he learned, the deeper the shadow in his heart grew.

"If he really couldn't be killed, he wouldn't have destroyed the prison ship and escaped."

"Instead of blindly believing the rumors about the sea, we should find an opportunity to fight Beast Kaido and see if he is truly invincible and unkillable."

"Actually, I'm also wondering, if Beast Kaido ate another Devil Fruit, would he be killed by the Devil within the Devil Fruit exploding from his body..."

A hint of Conqueror's Haki emanated from Wang Shi, calming Spaden down. Spartan even took out the Dragonfly Fruit and tossed it around a few times with interest.

Do powerful Four Emperors like Big Mom and Kaido actually fall under the rule that "eating two Devil Fruit inevitably lead to death"?

Oda has been vague about this and has been unable to explain this huge plot hole.

The fatal flaws of Devil Fruit abilities—being vulnerable to Seastone and the risk of accidentally consuming another Devil Fruit —are too easy to exploit.

In the Whole Cake Island arc, Capone Bege's choice to plant explosives on the giant cake to assassinate Big Mom would have been far less effective than planting one or two Devil Fruits.

If eating a second Devil Fruit would mean certain death for a gluttonous Four Emperors like Big Mom, then certain spies could indeed easily assassinate Four Emperors.

Given this huge plot hole, Oda could only choose to be vague, neither clarifying nor denying it.

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"I was wrong..., Your Majesty."

Spaden immediately quieted down, his eyes filled with self-reproach for being so frightened by Beast Kaido.

That won't do!

If he's so terrified of Beast Kaido, how will he protect His Majesty in the future?

Thinking of this, Spaden's eyes grew even more determined. Even if Beast Kaido came, he wouldn't be able to harm His Majesty.

He dared to kill even the Four Emperors for His Majesty's sake.

"Using a second Devil Fruit to kill Four Emperors? That method seems quite reasonable!"

"Your Majesty is indeed wise; you have come up with such a perfect method."

Aramaki's eyes lit up. How come he hadn't thought of this method to kill the ability user?

"Thank you for the reminder, Your Majesty. From now on, we must be careful not to accidentally eat a second Devil Fruit."

Yi Xiao suddenly paused, almost forgetting that he had this huge, fatal weakness.

For ordinary people, Devil Fruit are an incredible opportunity, but for users, they are a deadly poison.

After seawater and Seastone, we also need to be wary of Devil Fruit.

"Devil Fruit have so many drawbacks. It would be a real loss to eat a useless fruit."

Nami reaffirmed that she would never eat an ordinary Devil Fruit unless it possessed a powerful ability that she was extremely satisfied with.

"So this is how you assassinate a powerful ability user..."

Capone Bege, Laffitte, Nicole Robin —they all seemed to be deep in thought.

Wang Shi provided them with a very good method of killing, which is worth studying.