The Clear-Clear Fruit alone did not prove anything.
Of course, the Clear-Clear Fruit was his target.
The Kronos Kingdom had vast holdings and undertakings. It needed large numbers of devil fruits and had been collecting them for years.
Kaz had discovered several devil fruits along his journey. Whenever he found one, he acted without hesitation, sending it to the Kronos Kingdom through special channels.
Even while traveling the seas alone, he could contribute to the Kingdom this way.
He also accepted orders from the Kingdom to deal with forces across various waters that threatened its interests.
The Underworld Prison outposts in the Four Seas and Mobius's Ten Thousand Serpents were not the only ones carrying out these missions. Kaz was another important link in the chain.
What he wanted to do now was keep this child from dying and send him back to the Kingdom.
Whether the Kingdom secretly trained the child or recovered the Clear-Clear Fruit afterward had nothing to do with Kaz.
The recovery of devil fruits was no secret to Kaz.
That made devil fruit users a form of wealth too, especially those whose abilities were unknown to outsiders.
In such cases, even if their fruit abilities were recovered, outsiders would never know.
Kaz would not feel compassion for someone simply because they were a child.
In a sense, Kaz was extremely indifferent toward outsiders.
Most of the time, his attitude was that it had nothing to do with him.
Kaz transformed into a bird again and flew swiftly in that direction.
His body rapidly changed color like a chameleon or an octopus, blending into his surroundings.
Naturally, moving at such speed left plenty of flaws in his camouflage, but they were impossible to spot without looking closely.
That was enough.
He could clearly see objects a