Unlike the Tremor-Tremor Fruit or the Magma-Magma Fruit, which directly boost attack power, the Ope-Ope no Mi is actually more inclined toward enhancing the user's operational space.
Blake remembered that in the original work, after Ginny died, Alpha was sent to Bonney's side as CP8 to carry out a surveillance mission; as a cover identity, Alpha's profession back then seemed to be a doctor or a nurse.
Regardless of how much of this cover identity was real or fake, to hide under such an identity, one must surely possess some medical knowledge.
Blake didn't know how much talent Alpha actually had in this regard, but it didn't really matter; this was, after all, just an icing-on-the-cake ability.
Don't be fooled by its name "Ope-Ope no Mi" and think it's just a support-type Devil Fruit; as one of the rare space-type Devil Fruits, the Ope-Ope no Mi provides a particularly significant boost in combat power.
And there aren't many situations where an Ope-Ope no Mi user actually needs to use medical skills.
The first situation is naturally acting as a ship's doctor for treatment, for which Blake has no obvious need.
Not to mention that he rarely has the chance to get injured himself; given his status, even if someone around him were injured, they could usually be treated with conventional methods, so there's no need for an Ope-Ope no Mi user.
The second situation is the awakening of the Ope-Ope no Mi.
But Blake has the Card Space, so things like awakening abilities can be left directly to the second card, without needing to awaken it himself.
The third situation is the Immortality Surgery.
This point goes without saying; with the Vampire Fruit and pure gold in hand, Blake couldn't bear to have his little maid play any life-for-life trade-off games.
Having figured all this out, Blake called Alpha over, fished the Ope-Ope no Mi out of Stella's different dimension, and handed it to her.
Alpha took the Ope-Ope no Mi, her little face flushed red with excitement, and she bowed deeply:
"Thank you, Your Highness, I will definitely not live up to your expectations!"
Originally, seeing that everyone else had a Devil Fruit while she didn't, Alpha had thought she hadn't done something well enough, causing Saint Blake to be dissatisfied with her.
Now that she had finally received the Devil Fruit she had longed for, Alpha was naturally full of motivation.
Blake smiled and offered a few words of encouragement before sending her off, and Alpha excitedly joined the training.
After Alpha left, Blake turned his attention to the newspaper on the table.
It was the news about Borsalino leading a team to capture the Sun Pirates.
Under Blake's instigation, the Revolutionary Army joined the Mary Geoise riot, causing the commotion to be even larger than in the original work.
And in the original work, it was Stoloberry who defeated Fisher Tiger and arrested the Sun Pirates.
Perhaps because Stoloberry's strength was insufficient, it eventually led to Jinbe successfully escaping, and a portion of the Sun Pirates' crew also survived.
But now, because the impact of the event was too severe, the Marine dispatched a top powerhouse, Borsalino.
After taking one of Borsalino's ultimate moves, Tiger and Jinbe had absolutely no way to escape and were ultimately arrested by Stoloberry.
A problem arose here: the Sun Pirates were completely wiped out.
And if Blake wanted Nami to grow according to the trajectory of the original work, he would have to find a way to get Arlong released.
If he relied on his status as a Celestial Dragon, he could indeed forcibly order Impel Down to release the prisoner.
But that would appear very abrupt.
Blake's persona is that of a low-key, good-for-nothing Celestial Dragon; demanding the release of a Fishman prisoner for no reason, especially when this prisoner was also implicated in the Mary Geoise riot, would appear exceptionally abrupt.
Although, given the level of those five senile old men in the World Government, they might not necessarily connect the two events, but Blake would not entrust the risk of exposure to someone else's intelligence.
He needed to take a few detours and formulate a plan.
This way, even if the final result remained the same, it would not appear on the surface that Blake was trying to get Arlong out of prison, and so no one would link the two events together.
It just so happened that it would still take a few days for Shanks to reach the island where the sing-sing fruit was located, so Blake could arrange the tasks here first.
Achieving this goal was not difficult.
There has always been a huge conflict between Fish-Man Island and the World Government, or rather, all of humanity; the Mary Geoise riot was a concentrated outbreak of this conflict.
Therefore, as long as Fish-Man Island is suppressed, regardless of who does it, they will naturally attribute it to the World Government.
And Fish-Man Island does not have the ability to directly confront the World Government; they can only find ways to cause trouble for the World Government.
By that time, the World Government would likely lack the resolve to directly launch a Buster Call or other sanctions against Fish-Man Island.
The Gorosei would most likely implement a policy of appeasement, using one barbarian to control another; that is, to use some kind of gentle means to stabilize Fish-Man Island.
And the most direct means would be to release the members of the Sun Pirates in Impel Down and recruit Jinbe as a Shichibukai.
On one hand, it could appease the emotions of Fish-Man Island, and on the other, it could allow Jinbe to block some pirates who want to enter the New World at the entrance of the New World.
This could be described as killing two birds with one stone for the World Government.
Anyway, the mastermind of the Mary Geoise riot, Fisher Tiger, had already been taken out, and people like Jinbe and Arlong might not really be taken seriously by the World Government; Blake's plan would likely succeed.
So now there was only one problem: how to make Fish-Man Island cause a scene without crossing the World Government's bottom line?
The assassination of Queen Otohime in the original work, although it gradually subsided because of Queen Otohime's dying words, did indeed destroy the long-standing fragile peace between the two races.
However, this matter was not easy to manipulate.
If Queen Otohime didn't die on the spot, then things would likely return to the trajectory of the original work.
If Queen Otohime died directly, it might trigger a full-scale confrontation from Fish-Man Island.
If the World Government lost patience then and directly announced a Buster Call, then Blake's plan would be ruined.
Therefore, he had to find a neutral plan that could stimulate Fish-Man Island without making them go completely insane.
Isn't that a coincidence? Blake happened to have a suitable candidate on his side.
When he first heard the news about Aramaki forming an intelligence organization, Blake thought of a way.
Within Aramaki's intelligence organization, the personnel composition was extremely complex; it could be said that all sorts of scoundrels and petty thieves were emerging one after another.
Blake decided to use these people to achieve his goal.
Thinking of this, he took out the white Den Den Mushi from his bosom again and dialed Aramaki directly.
Soon, the Den Den Mushi was connected, and Blake didn't waste any words, getting straight to the point:
"Among the peripheral members under you, are there any Slave-Catching Groups located near the Sabaody Archipelago or the New World?"
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