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"Maybe we should figure out how to seal Devil Fruit powers with Sealing Arts."
"If we can actually develop something like that, Kaido will be much easier to deal with."
As for making Kaido a contractor?
Xunjing had never entertained the idea.
That bastard simply could not be trusted.
And he was hardly the only one. Plenty of powerful people in the Pirate World were like that.
Their personalities were too extreme, their wills too strong.
Unless you had saved their life or known them for a long time, these powerhouses from the Pirate World would not even give you the time of day.
Some might refuse to be bound by a contract even if their affection was high enough.
There were people like that in the Ninja World, too.
For instance, the Kage of the various Great Ninja Villages and those diehards utterly devoted to their villages would be very difficult to win over and sign contracts with.
Of course, that did not necessarily mean they would have to be killed later.
Everyone had their uses.
If he wanted to win over the people of the various Great Ninja Villages and nations in the future, he could not take a blanket approach and slaughter every diehard among their leadership.
But those people would never earn Xunjing's trust, either.
They would simply be sidelined little by little.
Once Xunjing's contractors grew strong enough, those people's usefulness had been exhausted, and the populations of the various Great Ninja Villages and nations had pledged their allegiance, they could get lost for good.
"Sealing Arts?"
Uchiha Chisato raised her eyebrows after hearing him. "That honestly never occurred to me before. It's certainly worth looking into. We might be able to achieve something major."
"As things stand, suppressing vitality and physical strength through