Pollock Island, Hallstatt Town.
Inside the master bedroom on the second floor of a white villa.
A Spatial Gate opened. Sephiroth, clad in a black robe and wearing a sinister grin mask, stepped out while holding a small wooden box in his arms.
After tossing the black robe and mask into Butcher Blade's Personal Space, Sephiroth sat down on the bed, opened the small wooden box, and took out the Op-Op Fruit inside.
For a long time, Sephiroth had secretly kept track of Vergo's movements and the location of the Op-Op Fruit transaction from the original story through Umbrella Corporation's intelligence network. After piecing together scattered intelligence from various sources, he had finally confirmed this transaction from the sidelines.
That was why he had been able to seize the Op-Op Fruit so easily. The greatest value of this Devil Fruit was the Perennial Youth Operation, which allowed its recipient to gain eternal life at the cost of the user's own life.
Sephiroth was very curious whether the "eternal life" granted by the Perennial Youth Operation meant infinite life force...
If that hypothesis proved true, then after undergoing the Perennial Youth Operation, the restrictions on his use of Butcher Blade's Door-Door Fruit ability would be greatly reduced!
Sephiroth faced two restrictions when making ultra-long-distance spatial movements.
The first restriction was his sensory range, which he had already solved through bat positioning.
Now, even across half the planet, he could sense the Crimson Bats that had consumed large amounts of his blood.
The second restriction was his stored life force. The farther he moved through space, the more stored life force he had to consume. If he traveled across half the planet, his reserves would not last long.
Because of this restriction, Sephiroth often had to replenish his life force...
Therefore, he