Just as those strong ones had said, Yami didn't spare those inmates a glance.
After pulling Catarina Devon into the pocket dimension, Yami pinched the throat of the most vicious female convict in history and killed her without effort.
After taking out Catarina Devon, Yami did not hurry to seize her Devil Fruit; he first removed the Seastone cuffs from her wrists.
Last time, being in a rush, Yami had forgotten to pocket a few Seastone cuffs.
After taking off the Seastone cuffs, Yami began unhurriedly to extract the Devil Fruit.
In no time, the fruit Yami had brought turned into a Devil Fruit—white tinged with touches of cherry pink, its rind covered in special spiral patterns.
This Devil Fruit, rarer than a Logia… the Zoan Dog-Dog Fruit, Mythical Zoan Nine-Tailed Fox model.
"Sorry, I somewhat underestimated it."
Looking at the Fruit in his hand and checking the entry in the encyclopedia, Yami couldn't help apologizing for his earlier slight.
The Nine-Tailed Fox, famed in myth and yokai lore—the power that made Catarina Devon the vilest female prisoner in history—could hardly be a weak Mythical Zoan.
Compared to the Mythical Zoan Vampire model, this Fruit truly suited Carina's abilities best.
Once Carina ate it, Nami would also greatly benefit; the former pickpocket duo would become one of the strongest pairs on the seas.
Stowing the Fruit and the Seastone cuffs in a bag, Yami dumped Catarina Devon's corpse in the pocket dimension, then retraced his steps out of Impel Down.
On the way, Yami saw Magellan descending by lift.
No doubt, once Magellan learned the cause of the Level 6 uproar, news that Catarina Devon had been snatched by a Door-Door Fruit user would swiftly reach the World Government and Marine Headquarters.
Doflamingo, with moles in the Marines, would surely guess at once that Yami had done it.
If Doflamingo sold that intel to the World Government, Yami's crew's bounties would certainly rise even higher.
Of course, even if Doflamingo didn't finger Yami, the fact that Yami's crew had a Paramecia Door-Door Fruit user would soon be uncovered by the Marines and CP.
After all, Catarina Devon was well-known, and her confinement wasn't like Byrnndi World's ice seal.
If Yami took her, Level 6 would inevitably be alarmed.
Once Carina revealed the Nine-Tailed Fox powers, anyone aware of the matter would surmise that the one who took Catarina Devon was someone from Yami's crew.
In combination with the Rumble-Rumble Fruit and Float-Float Fruit and now a Mythical Nine-Tailed Fox all appearing in one crew, the World Government and Marine HQ would be 100% certain Yami had a method to take Devil Fruits.
Therefore this time, Yami didn't bother disguising anything.
Once he and the girls began making waves in the New World,
both the Fruit-stealing method and the multi-fruit physique secret would soon be discovered.
After leaving Impel Down, Yami quickly returned to the White Sea at seven thousand meters.
Creak!
As the door opened, Yami stepped out of the pocket dimension.
"Master, you're back!"
Carina and the other girls, who had been in the lounge playing cards while waiting for Yami to return, immediately put down their decks.
Carina lunged into Yami's arms first.
Holding Carina, Yami gave her a head pat with one hand, and with the other passed her the bag holding the Nine-Tailed Fox and the Seastone cuffs. "The Zoan Dog-Dog Fruit, Mythical Zoan Nine-Tailed Fox model is in the bag. Eat it."
"Thanks, Master. Mwah…"
Carina happily took the bag, rose on tiptoe, and planted a firm kiss on Yami's cheek.
Then she drew out the Mythical Nine-Tailed Fox, studied it for a moment with a grin, and couldn't wait to bite out a piece of flesh.
Unlike Nami, who had nearly spat hers out, Carina—knowing Devil Fruits tasted awful—only knit her brows slightly, then chewed and swallowed quickly.
After the first bite, Carina threw the remaining flesh into the trash.
"How is it? Can you feel the ability yet?"
Nami and the other two gathered around, watching curiously.
"Maybe, but I didn't eat a Logia—how could it be that fast?" Carina rolled her eyes.
"No rush. Let's head to the training room and feel it out," Yami suggested.
"Mm-hmm…"
Thus, the five of them went to the training hall below decks.
Carina sat cross-legged, calming her mind as if trying to awaken Observation Haki, and sensed the changes within her body.
Yami and the three girls sat not far off, watching in silence so as not to disturb her.
Before long, they saw Carina open her beautiful eyes and slowly rise to her feet.
Then Carina's body began to change.
First was height. Fourteen-year-old Carina, thanks to Yami's careful training, had grown to 1.62 meters.
Even without bloodline factor restructuring, her adult height would certainly surpass the 1.7-plus meters noted at age twenty in the original account.
Now, from 1.62 she shot up to 1.95 meters—several centimeters taller than Yami and Robin—transforming from loli to onee-san in an instant.
Even more breaking for Nami: along with the height, Carina's modest curves swelled to Robin's level.
Next came her appearance.
It had been half a year since Carina and Nami became Yami's maids.
On Yami's suggestion, the formerly short-haired Carina and Nami had been growing their hair out.
By now both had shoulder-length hair.
Reaching the waist would have taken at least a year or two.
But Carina's shoulder-length purple hair suddenly lengthened before their eyes, becoming waist-length in a blink.
In addition, its color shifted from purple to silver-white.
Among the silver-white locks were a few strands of cherry-pink.
Unlike human hair, her tresses now looked more like an animal's fur.
As her hair changed, so did her features.
The cute human girl now resembled a mink.
Her delicate face, once a touch childish, became the mature visage of a white fox.
Gentle moth brows arched on her foxlike forehead; her blue eyes turned into red vertical pupils; crimson shadow touched her outer corners—the key to Carina's shift in aura from loli to onee-san.
Her hands and feet became fox talons.
Nine beautiful white tails unfurled behind her, their tips tinted an elegant cherry-pink.
Thus was Carina's human-beast form—loli into onee-san.
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