Standing outside the door, Kuta's eyes flashed red as his Observation Haki swept through the entire research facility.
Then he turned to glance once more at Caesar, lying in the sea of flames behind him, a mocking smile curling his lips.
No matter how brilliant you were or how powerful your backers, you still ended up as ashes.
I'm no small-time punk!
As though something had occurred to him, Kuta burst out laughing.
He shook his head, and his laughter stopped abruptly. His figure vanished along with it.
The hills behind the research facility.
Kuta appeared soundlessly atop a boulder.
Looking down at the small, churning pool of poison gas, curiosity flickered in his eyes.
Since Caesar was already dead, Slime, the monster he had created from his own poisonous gas, should have dissipated too.
But judging by the constantly churning pool, there was clearly something big inside.
Red light surfaced in his eyes. He attached his mental power to his Observation Haki and directed it into the poison gas.
Sure enough, there was a life-form inside similar to A-Luo's Hell Hound.
"Has it already eaten a Devil Fruit?"
Kuta frowned slightly and withdrew his mental power. The red light faded from his eyes.
A hint of disappointment crossed his face.
Unfortunately, he had found no research on feeding Devil Fruits to objects in Caesar's laboratory.
The necklace fused with the Door-Door Fruit was something he had forcibly created using his Space Domain and his mental power's ability to sense the energy within Devil Fruits.
That meant the necklace was not an unusual form of life. All Kuta could sense within it was the special ability granted by the Devil Fruit.
To open a door with the necklace, the user had to supply the stamina themselves. It was unlike