There was no doubt that the Alabasta Kingdom held many secrets.
For example, their ancestors' guards had been users of the Jackal and Falcon Fruits.
After being passed down for over eight hundred years, Vivi's generation still had the Jackal and Falcon Fruits. Was that normal?
This showed that the Alabasta Kingdom had a method for passing down those two Fruits through the generations.
If even the Alabasta Kingdom, one of the twenty-one founders who had left the Celestial Dragons, possessed such an ability and method—
Then the Celestial Dragons naturally had such a method as well.
The question was, why didn't the Celestial Dragons use it?
That was the answer the Revolutionary Army, which relied on Devil Fruits for high-level battles, urgently needed to know.
If one thought further, it seemed that not a single person in Roger's Pirate Crew, which had reached Raraluf, the final island of the Grand Line, had eaten a Devil Fruit.
And if one thought of how Buggy had remained so hung up over eating a Devil Fruit, back when he still didn't know whether Devil Fruits were strong or weak—
It seemed that everything had vaguely begun to point toward certain guesses and answers.
Leo had already sounded Cobra out about the method of Devil Fruit inheritance while they were walking down.
One simply needed to place the user in a room filled with fruit before he died. When he died, a newly born Devil Fruit could be found among the fruits.
Leo nodded to himself. Clearly, this matched the method they had discovered, and it was also consistent with the method the Blackbeard Pirates would find in the future.
It had been mentioned before that ordinary pirates lacked a stable environment.
Whether it was education, food, training, or anything else, they lacked