Seizing a Devil Fruit! It worked!

"Legend has it that Devil Fruits grow on the Devil Tree, but no one has ever seen it.

"But that's not what I wanted to talk about. I just wanted to run an experiment: when a Devil Fruit user dies, where does the devil inside their fruit go?"

Theodore quietly listened to Mu Chen speak.

When Theodore heard those words, his terror deepened. He clearly understood what Mu Chen meant.

"No, no, no, no! Mu Chen, don't kill me!"

If he couldn't figure that out, all his years out in the world would have been wasted. He didn't want to die.

But Mu Chen had no intention of paying Theodore any attention. He felt a little lonely right now and simply wanted someone to share things with. Sometimes, having so many secrets and no one to share them with felt unbearably stifling.

Besides, they were inside his Kamui Space. No one but Mu Chen could enter, so he wasn't remotely worried about Theodore escaping. Theodore would be dead soon anyway.

"Actually, there's another secret. Supposedly, after a Devil Fruit user dies, the devil inside the fruit leaves its original location and searches for a new vessel."

The moment Mu Chen finished speaking, Theodore seemed to realize something. Looking at the fruit around him, he instantly understood everything.

Mu Chen wanted to kill him and obtain the Devil Fruit inside him. Yet his survival instincts insisted that it had to be false. He didn't want to die.

"No, no, no, no, no! Mu Chen, that rumor is false! It has to be!"

"A-aren't you already a Devil Fruit user?"

"Even if it's true, after you kill me, uh, I suppose you'd want to give the Devil Fruit to one of your subordinates. But it has to be false anyway!"

"If you