Lubbock still stood beside Teach, toying with a special Devil Fruit in his hand.
The Zoan Human-Human Fruit, Commoner Form.
It represented the most ordinary kind of human.
It was the Devil Fruit power of Chopper, the future ship's doctor of the Straw Hat Pirates.
During the Black Emperor Pirates' sweep through the Drum Kingdom, they had unexpectedly found it on a tree near the outskirts.
For any human, a Devil Fruit like this was practically useless. Eating it was no different from not eating it, except that it gave them a fatal weakness.
Of course, that did not mean this Devil Fruit had no potential.
There might not be much potential for developing its powers.
But people differed from one another. Some had ordinary talents, while others were geniuses with immense potential and astonishing rates of growth.
Perhaps eating this Devil Fruit could transform someone completely, turning an ordinary person into a genius.
What if it gave someone potential like Garp's? Even without eating a Devil Fruit, they could still become one of the sea's Top Combatants.
In that case, this Devil Fruit would be worth even more than those top-tier Devil Fruits.
That was only a hypothetical possibility.
In reality? It might change nothing at all.
There was little information about this Devil Fruit on the seas, and none of its users had become powerful figures.
In many regions of the sea, people did not even know what Devil Fruits looked like, so many had no idea they had eaten one.
That was especially true of a power like this, which caused no noticeable changes beyond tasting awful.
They might simply go for a swim and drown in the sea.
In Lubbock's view, however, the ones who could truly make the most of this Devil Fruit were nonhuman