hotmtlnovel Chapter 53 Kuroro's Hunting Route
Chapter 53 Kuroro's Hunting Route
First, the opponent's strength must not exceed the range of your current hunting capabilities by too much.
For example, sending them to hunt Whitebeard's Tremor-Tremor Fruit right now would be practically suicide...
The timing of the hunt is crucial!
Secondly, the background of the target being hunted cannot be too strong.
Logically speaking, if we were to choose a Devil Fruit ability for hunting, Luffy's Nika Fruit would be the most powerful Devil Fruit in the One Piece world!
But would Kuroro dare to steal it?
Putting aside the fact that Luffy is the protagonist destined to be a formidable opponent and will have various benefactors to help him, the difficulty of obtaining the Nika Fruit must be extremely high.
Luffy's background alone is too much for the current Phantom Troupe to handle!
Let's see who Luffy's neighbors are!
First up is his father: Monkey D. Dragon, the leader of the Revolutionary Army! One of the three Devil Fruit users whose abilities are practically natural disasters, yet he has never even made a move in the later stages of the manga!
In other words, we still don't know the upper limit of dragons!
Then Grandpa: Monkey D. Garp! A man who can go toe-to-toe with Roger!
He once joined forces with Roger's crew to destroy the entire Rocks Pirates, earning him the title of "Marine Hero"!
Second Uncle Kizaru! One of the three admirals of the Navy, a Logia-type "Glint-Glint Fruit" user, he was already extremely strong when he joined the Navy and was known as a monster.
A man who has never gone all out!
A terrifying being who can feed Luffy right under the noses of the Five Elders while fighting on Bullethead Island!
There's also a teacher: Rayleigh, the former right-hand man of the Pirate King, who protected Luffy all the way and acted as his caretaker.
There are countless other important people like this and that!
It's fair to say that if anyone dares to mess with Luffy, they'll offend the Navy, pirates, and the Revolutionary Army all at once!
Even someone as powerful as Kuroro couldn't help but sigh.
Can fight? What good is being able to fight? In this world, connections matter!
Therefore, even characters with incredibly powerful backgrounds like Luffy and Ace cannot be touched.
After thinking for a moment, Kuroro scribbled in the book and listed a few points:
1. The fruit's ability and its potential for development must be strong enough!
2. The background and power behind it cannot be too great.
3. Our strength cannot exceed their current level.
4. Ideally, you should be alone, with no reinforcements around.
This is Kuroro's hunting method: gradual progress, coupled with familiarity with the plot!
That's the real reason he was able to win in the Black Whale!
Therefore, the best hunting targets at present are... lone strongmen, the supernovas of the Worst Generation, and... the Seven Warlords of the Sea.
Of course...except for that freak, Hawkeye!
These people have reached such a position because their Devil Fruit abilities are generally very powerful and worth hunting.
And their backgrounds aren't that scary.
"Old Sand is the first one to be affected~" Kuroro murmured, looking at the paper in his hand.
Leaving aside Crocodile's Sand-Sand Fruit, which is already extremely powerful as a Logia-type Devil Fruit.
Just for Robin alone, Alabasta is a must-go!
Nico Robin, an archaeologist from Ohara, the holy land of archaeology in the West Blue, the sole survivor of the Buster Call, and one of the very few people in the pirate world with the ability to decipher the Poneglyphs.
The Poneglyphs contain secrets about the "Void Century," ancient weapons, and Laugh Tale, the final destination of ONE PIECE.
It can be said to be the deepest treasure in the One Piece world.
Therefore, Robin, as a seed left behind, is a member that Chrollo absolutely must obtain!
She inherited the will of the scholars of Ohara and her mother, and possessed a thirst for revenge.
At the same time, it harbors the grand ambition to interpret "true history" and unravel the truth of the "blank century".
They are the perfect archaeologist for the tour group!
"Luffy, I'm sorry for the second time..."
Next are Enel and Gecko Moria.
"The Rumble-Rumble Fruit and the Shadow-Shadow Fruit, huh?"
Just thinking about it made Kuroro's tears well up in his eyes.
Both of them possess extremely powerful Devil Fruit abilities, but their personalities are weak! This perfectly fits Chrollo's selection strategy.
It's a mystery how Moria, who dared to fight Kaido in his youth, could have fallen so low after gaining weight in middle age.
Enel is even more abstract, because rubber is non-conductive and thus defeated!
Despite his complaints about the two, Kuroro was still very serious when it came to the customization plan; after all, he didn't have Luffy's protagonist aura...
Enel has developed the Rumble-Rumble Fruit to an extremely terrifying level, and Moria's zombie army is not to be underestimated either, after all, there are quite a few corpses of strong members of the Rocks Pirates among those zombies!
Next up are Eustace Kidd and Trafalgar Law.
Magnet Fruit and Surgery Fruit.
These two are the complete opposite of Enel and his group. They are already quite strong, possess the ambition of warriors, and are on the path to becoming stronger.
However, their development of Devil Fruit abilities was far too one-sided.
Take the Magnet-Magnet Fruit for example. It could have allowed him to follow the path of a "showman" like Magneto, or even develop the biomagnetic field within the human body, but Kid uses it to scavenge for trash!
Needless to say, the Op-Op Fruit possesses the ability to grant immortality, and in the later stages of the game, it was sold for a staggering 50 billion.
There are also some less common but powerful Devil Fruits, such as the Mirror-Mirror Fruit, the Memory-Memory Fruit, the Barrier-Barrier Fruit, and various Mythical Zoan types, etc.
"In short, there are countless targets to hunt!"
Kuroro looked at the notebook filled with his writing and drawing, and a satisfied smile appeared on his face.
Given the speed at which the brigade is developing and evolving, it will inevitably attract the attention of the Navy and the World Government sooner or later!
The higher-ups would never allow a group of extremely wicked individuals with the ability to plunder others' fruits to sail freely on the high seas; a collision is inevitable sooner or later.
The three admirals of the Navy's top ranks are all monsters, while the Five Elders of the World Government's top ranks and Im, who is hidden at the very back, are even more unfathomable beings.
Therefore, they must plunder enough fruits to accumulate enough power!
Just as Kuroro was refining his plan, Bonney came up behind him and interrupted him.
"What is it now? If you want rice, go find Shizuku; if you want money, go find Nami!"
Kuroro said irritably.
"What? I have something important to say!" Bonnie said with a dissatisfaction.
"What important matter?" Kuroro raised an eyebrow, looking incredulous.
Bonney, hands on her hips, huffed and puffed, "Nami-onni sent me to tell you—we've arrived in Loguetown!"
Kuroro looked up with a delighted expression, standing on the deck and gazing ahead.
At night, a brightly lit city appeared at the horizon, with buildings mostly in Central European style, marble streets, and six-story villas.
"Really?"
"We're landing on shore—"
at the same time,
On the shore, a spy dressed in a white suit watched as the massive black ship gradually approached from the sky.
He quietly dialed the Den Den Mushi in his pocket.
"Reporting, Captain Lucci... Target spotted."