But there was something else none of them knew: the Dark-Dark Fruit held another secret!
Those words left everyone even more confused. They had no idea what Mu Chen meant, while Teach was so shocked by his words that he could not speak. He knew?
Could he really know?
Impossible!
Teach thought it was impossible. Nobody knew the Dark-Dark Fruit's secret. How could Mu Chen know?
So he gambled on Mu Chen not knowing.
He snorted coldly and said to Mu Chen, "Mu Chen, everyone, I don't know what you're talking about."
Mu Chen chuckled at that, swept his gaze around, and said, "The Dark-Dark Fruit has another ability: it can kill a Devil Fruit User and strip away their Devil Fruit power. That's why you wanted to kill Whitebeard-to obtain the power of his Tremor-Tremor Fruit, the strongest paramecia fruit. Am I right?"
Mu Chen's voice exploded over the plaza like a thunderclap.
Stripping away Devil Fruit powers!
On the execution platform, Sengoku stared at Mu Chen's back, his eyes filled with disbelief.
Devil Fruits had always been reborn at random after their users died. He had never heard of their powers being stripped away.
If the Dark-Dark Fruit really could do that, didn't it mean that whoever possessed it could plunder other people's abilities without limit?
Garp's fingertips trembled slightly at Mu Chen's words. He had lived most of his life and seen countless Devil Fruits, yet he had never heard of a secret like this.
"Ah!"
"I-if this is true..." He did not finish, but he understood the weight of this revelation.
If the Dark-Dark Fruit could strip away abilities, the rules of the entire sea would have to be rewritten.
Whitebeard's hand gripping Murakumogiri suddenly dropped, and the back of the blade struck the stone paving