Consciousness was attached to the soul, while abilities coexisted within the flesh. That was the current understanding of Devil Fruit Ability Users.
And blood was the best medium for extracting lineage factor components.
To replicate a Devil Fruit ability was, to a certain extent, based on the same logic as cloning living creatures.
One took part of a creature's tissue, extracted its cellular components, and eventually cultivated a new body to give rise to a new consciousness.
Back at MADS, this had also been the basic research logic. No one had ever tried to replicate the "soul" of a Devil Fruit.
Still, in past experiments, they had either extracted lineage factors directly from Devil Fruits or drawn blood from living Ability Users. Researching a dead Ability User was a first.
Oran did not immediately seal the corpse inside a book. Instead, he labeled the different blood samples as he extracted them.
This was a new experiment. After an Ability User had died, he would use the Book-Book Fruit to stop time for the blood samples, then compare them and continuously test the characteristics of blood from different points in time.
This would allow him to observe whether the blood would turn into ordinary blood as time passed.
"Brother Oran, if things are settled here, I'll head over to Ginny and the others."
"Don't worry. Kate and Franky are strong enough to handle things over there. But if you want to go, then go."
"Okay."
Bear lightly tapped his chest, then streaked through the sky above the island at high speed, flying toward the road that led from the town.
In theory, Bear's Paw-Paw Fruit could cross space and send people to extremely distant places.
However, there was one condition. Bear had to have been to that place, or at least