Meowth continued transporting the slaves, while Vane still had two target treasure vaults left.
They belonged respectively to the Rimocid family and the Figarland family.
These two families ranked quite high on the Red Line, and their vaults would obviously be larger and far more dangerous.
Especially the Figarland family. Among the Celestial Dragons, their power was second only to the Five Elders. In the future, one of the Five Elders would be executed, and the newly appointed Elder would be the head of the Figarland family.
Compared to the Figarland family, Vane felt it was better to go to the Rimocid family first. The danger would be much lower.
Pulling Monet and Lena along, the three of them moved stealthily, quickly locating the Rimocid family's vault and infiltrating it.
The Rimocid family's vault was enormous, and its construction showed far more taste than the previous few vaults.
There were many more items besides gold coins and gemstones. It seemed the Rimocid family enjoyed collecting various other things.
If they were ordinary collectibles, Vane wouldn't even bother looking at them. That was a matter of personal taste—far less appealing to him than gold and gems.
But several numbered items immediately caught Vane's intense attention. They were coffins he had previously seen at the Future Country Vegapunk experimental base.
There were four of them here… Could they all be Lunarian corpses? If so, their value to Vane would be comparable to Devil Fruits.
For a moment, he didn't even care about the Devil Fruit in the center of the hall. Instead, he went straight to inspect the coffins. Sure enough, inside were four dried Lunarian corpses.
They had to be taken. Under the effects of his own blood and Caesar Clown's research, that one corpse had already regained most of its vitality. That guy Caesar Clown was even confident he could revive it.
If he brought these four back, together with the one he already had—if they could truly be revived—he would possess five Lunarians.
Even Kaido only had one. He could have five.
Take them. They must be taken.
But he would have to wait for Meowth to come. The four coffins were too large for him to carry alone.
Suppressing his excitement, Vane shifted his gaze to the single Devil Fruit.
It didn't matter if there were few fruits—as long as they were powerful. One good Devil Fruit was far more attractive than three ordinary Zoan types.
"Another Devil Fruit that looks a bit prickly. Monet, take a look and see if you recognize it."
The fruit had a distinctive appearance, and Monet quickly identified it.
"This is the Paramecia Arrow-Arrow Fruit."
Monet's words made Vane's eyes light up. This was a powerful fruit worth developing. If events followed the original storyline, the future user of the Arrow-Arrow Fruit would be a female Celestial Dragon named Gunko.
Like the String-String Fruit, the Arrow-Arrow Fruit was a "creation-type" Paramecia.
It could create numerous arrowheads, whose tails could extend very long—like bandages.
The arrowheads could stab independently or combine together to form massive fists or giant arrowheads for attack.
They could also be assembled into super high heels. Gunko's development of the fruit even allowed the arrowheads to combine into a giant bird capable of flight, carrying people through the air.
Its development style was similar to the String-String Fruit, but the Arrow-Arrow Fruit was innately much stronger.
"Good fruit."
Vane felt he had found the perfect Devil Fruit for Kaku—let that ridiculous Giraffe Fruit roll far away.
The Rimocid family truly was a good family. Providing powerful fruits and Lunarian corpses.
After taking the fruit into his hand, Vane wandered around the vault.
Vaults like this—filled not only with gold coins but also many collections—were prone to containing unexpected treasures.
"There are swords too… Not sure if any of them are ranked."
Some blades forged by later generations of swordsmiths weren't inferior to famous swords, but those on the ranking lists carried prestige and were highly sought after by swordsmen.
Vane didn't have a catalogue of famous blades and couldn't recognize them, but he could take them all and examine them later.
The three of them remained inside the Rimocid family vault for quite some time before Meowth and Dragonite opened a Door and appeared.
"How did it go?"
"The gold and jewels from those three vaults have already been transferred."
The Rosward family, the Donquixote family… the contents of the three vaults Vane had scouted in advance had all been emptied.
If not for the existence of the Gold-Gold Fruit user Tesoro, their progress would have been much slower.
"Then let's begin here as well, Tesoro."
"Yes, sir!"
Tesoro activated his Gold-Gold Fruit ability. All the gold coins in the vault floated up and melted into a semi-liquid state.
Under Tesoro's control, the molten metal flowed into Meowth's castle space.
During the process, Tesoro even developed a new technique—leaving part of the liquefied gold under his control, shaping it into tentacles that carried other objects he couldn't directly manipulate into the castle space.
There was no time to determine whether these items were valuable or not. Meowth's internal space was vast—just empty the entire place.
"Final target—the Figarland family vault."
It was around four in the morning. Soon, the people of Mary Geoise would begin moving about. After emptying the Figarland family vault, they would leave immediately.
...
Figarland family vault.
Two Devil Fruits lay in the most conspicuous position.
One resembled an oversized strawberry with nine leaves.
The other was shaped like a purple pineapple.
Suddenly, both Devil Fruits floated into the air. Before the thief could celebrate, the platform beneath them bounced—there was a mechanism inside. Removing the fruits triggered it.
Beep! Beep! Beep!
The urgent alarm rang out, awakening the silent Mary Geoise.
One side of the vault wall vibrated and slid open. A red-haired young man stepped out.
Figarland Shamrock!
The twin brother of Red-Haired Shanks, the future commander of God's Knights—nicknamed Stinking Shanks.
"Where did this little rat come from!"
Shamrock's gaze sharpened as he slashed his rapier toward seemingly empty air.
With a single swing, three powerful black-and-red slashes tore through the air.
"Careless… As expected of the Figarland family."
From the transparent air came the sound of a blade leaving its sheath. A curled blue-white sword aura shot out like a stretched spring.
Boom!!
The sword auras collided. On one side, chilling white frost; on the other, blazing black-and-red flames.
The opponent wasn't weak—just a slightly stronger rat.
As Shamrock prepared to get serious, a Door suddenly appeared, footsteps echoing from the invisible air.
With a step, Shamrock rushed toward the Door—but he was still a moment too late.
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