There were also Eight Gates cards, each more expensive than the last. His points had already been wiped clean, and it truly pained him.
Since Golden Lion had cleared out his points, he had to make a ruthless profit off him. If there was a chance to earn Slacking Points, he did not mind giving it a try.
Moreover, Mu Chen had always wanted to test how to seize Devil Fruit powers, especially when he had watched the Marineford War. Blackbeard Teach's theft of Edward Newgate's Tremor-Tremor Fruit had shocked him immensely.
Later on, Blackbeard became one of the Four Emperors, and nearly all of his subordinates were ability users whose powers had been stolen.
Mu Chen had once analyzed whether it was the Dark-Dark Fruit's ability or some other method. However, the most widely accepted explanation was that when a Devil Fruit user died, the devil within the fruit would inhabit the nearest fruit. There had been many indirect confirmations in the pirate anime's plot, such as one scene where an ordinary apple turned into the Magma-Magma Fruit.
There were also Alabasta's two guardian fruits, the Bird-Bird Fruit, Falcon Form and the Fist-Fist Fruit, Tiger-Wolf Form. These two fruits had been passed down for centuries, so exactly how had they been inherited?
And why did all those Blackbeard crew members who hunted ability users carry so many different fruits on them?
It was all a mystery.
Since Mu Chen now had this idea, he wanted to try it. If it worked, those guaranteed 100,000 Slacking Points would be his. But there were no fruits nearby, which made things troublesome.
As for killing Golden Lion now and searching all of Marineford for the Float-Float Fruit, leaving aside whether he could even find it, Mu Chen felt like he was about