"All right. What are your plans from here, Sorenson? Will you stay at the Sky Arena or return to the kingdom?"
Lubbock respected Sorenson's wishes. Sorenson had more potential than he did, too.
The task Hades had given him was to help Teach become one of the greatest pirates on the seas.
So that was all he needed to do.
Whatever his father was secretly planning had nothing to do with him. He did not know, nor did he want to. After spending so long with Teach, he had grown somewhat attached to him.
Of course, he had high hopes for Teach's future.
He would be able to wield ten Devil Fruit powers, something unprecedented.
The Dark-Dark Fruit, the Munch-Munch Fruit, and the Yamata no Orochi Fruit.
Three personalities, each corresponding to one Devil Fruit.
He would use the Munch-Munch Fruit to swallow seven Devil Fruit users into his body, suppress them with the Dark-Dark Fruit, and use the seven additional consciousnesses provided by the Yamata no Orochi Fruit to control one power each.
That would create a monster capable of using ten powers at once.
Without the Munch-Munch Fruit, he could not use those Devil Fruit users' powers.
Without the Dark-Dark Fruit, he could not suppress them and might even face their resistance.
Without the Yamata no Orochi Fruit, he could not control those seven additional powers simultaneously.
All three crucial pieces of the puzzle had now appeared on the seas.
The Dark-Dark Fruit was right before him.
The user of the Yamata no Orochi Fruit had already appeared.
The Munch-Munch Fruit lay in the treasure vault of the Drum Kingdom, the "medical powerhouse" of the Grand Line.
Rather than searching blindly, they now had all their targets accounted for.
All Teach had to do was collect them one