"It's about several people. One is Kalifa, Iceburg's secretary, while the other two are Galley-La foremen named Rob Lucci and Kaku.
"Although the three of them have disguised themselves extremely well, based on my observations, there is most likely something wrong with their identities. The impression they give me is very similar to members of the CP organization."
The Den Den Mushi imitated Lafayette's appearance, displaying his usual calm expression.
After a brief pause, seemingly worried that his captain might not know about the CP organization, Lafayette quickly explained, "The CP organization, or Cipher Pol, is a secret intelligence agency directly subordinate to the World Government. It's said that there are nine divisions in total. Back when I worked as a security officer, I once happened to encounter a member of Cipher Pol in the Kingdom of San Lorenzo. The three people I just mentioned have a temperament extremely similar to the Cipher Pol agent I met back then."
Kaito nodded slightly.
"Your judgment is correct. The three people you mentioned are indeed members of Cipher Pol. And besides those three, there should be one more."
Lafayette was visibly surprised.
"Captain, you know those Cipher Pol agents?"
"Heh. I know them, but they don't know me."
Kaito gave a mysterious smile before continuing, "All right. There's no need to pay attention to the Cipher Pol agents for now. Let's regroup in Alabasta first."
"Uh... All right. Then we'll leave immediately!"
Although Lafayette was clearly curious, he didn't continue asking questions.
Rob Lucci, Kaku, Kalifa, and Blueno...
If Lafayette hadn't mentioned them, I really wouldn't have thought about those CP9 members.
Come to think of it, Blueno's Door-Door Fruit is quite useful. When I return to collect the ships in three months, I'll take his Door-Door Fruit ability.
Hmm... As for the others, they could also be incorporated into the Third Pirate Division.
After ending the call, Kaito rubbed his chin and chuckled before returning to his previous training.
His gaze shifted toward the large pile of metal blocks stacked across from him.
Kaito raised his right hand.
Suddenly, a crack appeared in the center of his palm.
The crack rapidly widened.
In the blink of an eye, his entire palm transformed into a terrifying, monster-like mouth.
Crunch!
The monstrous mouth opened wide and effortlessly swallowed a massive amount of metal from the pile before him.
The quantity of metal it consumed was far greater than Kaito's entire body.
However, despite swallowing such a huge amount of metal, Kaito's body showed no visible changes.
After digesting the metal for a while, the monstrous mouth in his palm suddenly opened again.
Two long sabers emerged from it.
They were none other than Kaito's golden sabers.
Clang!
The two golden sabers fell onto the deck.
The moment their blades touched the wooden surface, they pierced straight through without the slightest resistance.
The blades continued sinking until the guards struck the deck and finally stopped them.
Kaito's right hand returned to normal.
He stepped forward, bent down, and pulled the two golden sabers free from the deck.
The blades were golden and translucent.
Rather than appearing to be forged from ordinary gold, they now looked as though they had been carved from a kind of golden jade.
After absorbing and fusing with the essence of various metals, the quality of the two sabers was now nearly comparable to a Supreme Grade treasure like Wado Ichimonji.
Kaito casually swung the two golden sabers several times.
The blades sliced through the air with sharp whistles.
Clearly satisfied with the results, he returned both sabers to their scabbards.
Whoosh!
A figure suddenly rushed over.
"Captain, help me strengthen my sword!"
Law approached while holding Kikoku in both hands, looking at Kaito with undisguised anticipation.
"No problem!"
Kaito readily accepted his request.
Seeing his captain agree so easily, Law immediately thanked him with a delighted expression.
Over the past several days, Law had personally witnessed the transformation of Kaito's golden sabers.
Based on what he had just observed, the captain's golden sabers had most likely reached a level comparable to the highest grades of famous blades.
Although his Kikoku was an extremely rare cursed sword and certainly wasn't inferior to ordinary famous blades, compared to blades of the highest grade, there was still an obvious gap.
Kaito took Kikoku from the excited Law.
He immediately activated the power of the Munch-Munch Fruit again.
The monstrous mouth reappeared in his palm and swallowed Kikoku whole.
Kaito then devoured the remaining metals piled nearby.
Inside the special space created by the Munch-Munch Fruit, the essence of those metals was rapidly extracted and fused into Kikoku, strengthening the cursed sword.
The Munch-Munch Fruit was unquestionably one of the highest-level Paramecia Devil Fruits.
After consuming the fruit, a special alternate space formed within the ability user's body.
Anything swallowed could be fused directly into the user's body.
More importantly, objects that had been swallowed could also be fused with one another inside that alternate space.
Kaito's method of strengthening his golden sabers was actually quite simple.
He swallowed different metals, extracted and combined their properties, and then fused the resulting essence into his golden sabers.
Through repeated fusion, the quality of the weapons continuously improved.
And such item fusion was merely one of the most basic applications of the Munch-Munch Fruit.
It was nowhere near the limit of what Kaito could accomplish with the fruit's power.
Although only a few days had passed since he obtained the Munch-Munch Fruit, his development of its abilities had already reached the same level as its previous owner, Wapol.
No.
It could even be said that Wapol wasn't worthy of carrying Kaito's shoes when it came to using the Munch-Munch Fruit.
There was no helping it.
His talent panel was simply too powerful.
While helping Law strengthen Kikoku, Kaito casually checked his talent panel.
[Constitution: 0.9 (1.7 → 1.8)]
[Combat: 0.1 (1.5)]
[Weapons: 0.1 (2.0)]
[Armament Haki: 0.1 (1.5)]
[Observation Haki: 0.1 (1.6 → 1.8)]
[Conqueror's Haki: 0.1 (1.2 → 1.3)]
[Devil Fruit: 1.5]
Since entering the Grand Line, Kaito had never stopped training.
After deliberately shifting the focus of his training toward Observation Haki, his Observation Haki talent had broken through its limit twice in succession during this period.
At the same time, both his Constitution and Conqueror's Haki talents had achieved another breakthrough.
However, the greatest change was undoubtedly the addition of the new [Devil Fruit] category.
When Kaito ate the Munch-Munch Fruit, the talent panel seemed to undergo an update.
A Devil Fruit talent category had been added directly to the panel.
In other words, the various talents displayed on the talent panel were recorded based on Kaito himself.
Before becoming a Devil Fruit user, he naturally possessed no Devil Fruit talent.
However, after eating the Munch-Munch Fruit and becoming an ability user, the talent panel immediately identified and recorded his aptitude for developing Devil Fruit abilities.
Naturally, having Devil Fruit talent recorded on the panel was an excellent development.
On one hand, Kaito could use talent concentration to strengthen his control and application of his Devil Fruit ability.
On the other hand, he could dramatically accelerate the development of the Munch-Munch Fruit itself.
Of course, the most important thing was that the appearance of a new talent category also meant the addition of another talent attribute.
Kaito's natural Devil Fruit talent wasn't particularly different from his other talents.
It belonged to the level of an ordinary person.
Its talent attribute was 1.5.
However, once that 1.5 talent attribute was added to the pool and concentrated into a single category, it was enough to push one of his individual talents to an astonishing level.
A full ten-point talent attribute.
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