"You haven't used your ability on them. Besides, you hadn't even touched them before, had you?"
One glance told Xie Wen what Baccarat was thinking.
"Huh?"
Before Baccarat could figure out why Xie Wen knew about her Devil Fruit Ability, he spoke again. "Still, I'd like you to try using your Devil Fruit Ability to control their luck next... aside from absorbing luck, can you give other people good luck?"
"...Sorry, I can't."
Baccarat stopped dwelling on it and shook her head. "The Lucky-Lucky Fruit can only make me lucky. It can't give good luck to anyone else. That's determined by the rules of the Lucky-Lucky Fruit itself... maybe I'll be able to once my Devil Fruit Ability awakens."
"What a shame..."
Xie Wen smacked his lips regretfully. He had been thinking that if Baccarat could give other people good luck, he could come to her before opening mystery boxes or pulling in a gacha and have her transfer Klee Meow's good luck to him.
As for waiting for Baccarat's Devil Fruit Awakening... Xie Wen didn't think there was much hope.
Devil Fruit Awakening was difficult to begin with, and Baccarat didn't seem particularly gifted. Although he had no firm evidence, Xie Wen also felt that Devil Fruits generally followed the principle that "the more unusual the ability, the harder it is to awaken." An ability as difficult to counter as the Lucky-Lucky Fruit's surely had to be incredibly hard to awaken.
Although his plan to become a luck champion had failed before it even began, Xie Wen still had experiments to conduct.
First, Xie Wen had Baccarat try absorbing Touma Meow's luck...
"Try to absorb as little as possible. I'm worried that if you drain what little luck he has left, he'll drop dead on the spot."
Only after