"What gives you the right to seize my power?"
At some point, Shane's hands had moved to intercept them halfway.
A single finger towered over a Demonic Will's entire body, and he caught them easily with only a little force.
"No!"
The Darkness Devil was utterly unwilling to accept this. Before Imu obtained the dark power of the Devil Tree that Imu now possessed,
the two had once shared the relationship of host and ability user.
But after undergoing the Eternal Youth Surgery, Imu had effectively died once. The previous devil fruit had returned to the sea, yet those demonic powers had become even less restrained, amounting to another form of devouring devils.
Not to mention obtaining the Devil Tree's power, which had led to Imu's current invincibility.
And now?
It would become Shane's stepping stone, part of Shane's power.
The vampire was in such agony that it cut off one of its own hands, attempting to return from death through it.
But Shane seized everything with a turn of his hand, taking it all.
"Demonic wills exist within the fruits to begin with. More precisely, humans can only achieve devil fruit awakening by surpassing their limits and bringing their own will into harmony with the demonic will."
"But to become stronger, you must completely dominate the devil's power-in other words, devour the devil. In my years traveling the seas, I found many clues. There truly have been countless extraordinary talents in this world."
"Their final choices all differed. Some sealed a devil fruit's will inside an object to await an opportunity. Others chose to collude with the demonic will to use as much power as possible. Some simply lost themselves and let the devil devour their own will."
"Others escaped through a false death, but actually obtained immortality. Their