"Haha, Rayleigh knows you say that to him, then he will definitely fight you tooth and nail, Newgate."

Gawain responded with a smile. The two clinked glasses and drank a glass of wine. Gawain responded thoughtfully.

"But what you said... does make sense. My strength has really become the shortcoming of my entire force.

This kind of shortcoming can never be shown when dealing with ordinary opponents, because not everyone can rush in front of me like you with Rayleigh, Gion and Yixiao.

But when I meet you, or meet other pirate emperors in the future.

Or if someone like a dragon assassinates me...

No matter how many people protect me, as long as I cannot protect myself, I will almost never be able to escape death.

Killing me is something that you, the top strong men, would see.

It's nothing more than a decision.

A decision whether to die with me or not!"

As he spoke, Gawain frowned slightly and asked Whitebeard seriously.

"Before, the top strong men around me were all fruitless strong men.

Yixiao is here to help me. I haven't had time to chat with him yet, so I don't have a chance to ask him about the difference between fruit and no fruit.

But you happen to be here, and you are actually willing to talk to me about this.

So Newgate, talk to me about the difference between fruit and fruitlessness."

"Gu la la la, what difference does that make? It's just a matter of preference!"

Whitebeard waved his hands grandly.

"If you want to say there is any difference whether you eat the fruit or not, then I must tell you something as the best person in the world.

It makes no difference whether you eat the fruit or not!”

Whitebeard pointed at his heart and continued to speak to Gawain.

"The reason why this fruit is called a devil fruit is because it represents a deal with the devil from the beginning.

What deal?

Use a lifelong weakness in exchange for a lifelong miracle!

But if you think about it carefully, Gawain, no matter how many weaknesses a person has in this life, they should not be able to obtain any miracles.

As for Devil Fruit, as long as you are willing to accept the price of being rejected by the sea, you can save decades of training and transform yourself from an ordinary guy to a strong enough person.

I read the newspaper a few days ago and it was said that a young man had eaten Sha Shao fruit.

When I saw it, haha, isn't this a lucky kid?

I don't know what that kid looked like before.

But after he eats the Shashao Fruit, I can almost conclude that as long as he doesn't sit back and look at the sky and be complacent about his current strength, then it can at least reach the level of Marco.

It's funny, right, but this is actually the essence of the world. The height that countless people cannot reach after a lifetime of hard work can be completely compensated by a piece of fruit!

It's like there is a wall in front of you. The wall is thirty meters high. You have to jump to the opposite side of the wall.

In the beginning, you can only jump one or two meters high, so you keep working hard and working hard.

In the end, many people relied on hard work to train themselves to the point where they could jump five or six meters.

But even so, they will never be able to jump over this wall in their lifetime.

Some people worked harder, so they jumped up to a height of seven or eight meters.

In this way, even if they still can't jump over the wall, they at least jumped over others.

There are also some people whose talents are so good that others can only jump seven or eight meters high after practicing for a lifetime, but they can also practice for a lifetime and can jump up to 30 meters, and they can jump to the wall in one fell swoop.

That side.

Such people are Garp, Roger, Zephyr, Sora, Rayleigh and the bad-tempered female marine.

In addition to this kind of people climbing over the wall, there is another kind of people who jump and jump and see a ladder.

So they brought a ladder.

But everyone's luck is different. Some people moved ladders that were more than ten meters high, and some people moved ladders that were not even higher than the height they could jump from.

There are some lucky people here, and they moved a ladder of more than 20 meters.

So they stood on the ladder and took off!

Although they could only jump seven or eight meters originally, they still jumped over the wall after all!

When I say this, you have to ask, what would happen if a person who could jump over a wall by himself stood on a ladder and jumped?

The result is that no matter how strong people choose the ladder, the only achievement they can achieve is to jump over the wall!

What we only look at is whether we can jump over this wall, we don’t look at who can jump higher, gula la la!

On the opposite side of that wall stood me, Lingling, Kaido and Shanks, that kid, Garp, Sora and Sengoku, and juniors like Red Dog and Blue Chicken.

This is what I want to tell you, there is no difference in the world of the strong whether you eat the fruit or not!

We only consider whether the other party can fight with us, who cares about such boring questions as why he can fight with us!

Because at our level, it is meaningless who can jump higher. Only the weak will keep staring at the heights of themselves and others!

Lingling and I have been fighting for decades, and I have been fighting with Warring States and others for decades. We do have strengths and weaknesses, but for us, who can jump the highest is of any use?

If we talk about height, then I and Garp are probably the highest jumpers in the past thirty years.

Karp relies on talent and hard work, while I rely on ladders and hard work.

But what can we do? We are better than the two of us. Even if I fight to the death with two generals, I will still drink the sea, and Garp will have to flee even if he is surrounded by two pirate emperors.

Even Rocks back then...

Gu la la la, that guy is really strong, his strength is almost the same as that of the Red Earl!

But when Rocks encountered the siege of Roger and Garp, he was defeated easily.

As for the Red Earl, he was also said to be a guy who could fight with the strength of one person and a whole team of Pirate Emperors like me and Lingling.

But let me tell the truth, it doesn’t matter to me, Lingling, or Kaido.

Even if I don't bring my crew, even if we are alone, we can still fight against an entire Yonko pirate group.

After all, apart from a few of us, no matter how three disasters or three generals, a brat like that can be knocked over with just two punches, right?

So the Red Earl met Sora, and after the two of them fought to the death, the Red Earl won.

But then, the Red Earl was captured by Garp, who had just arrived.

Is he necessarily inferior to Garp?

Not necessarily. If that guy and Garp could fight, they would have to fight for at least several days and nights before they could decide the winner.

But he was taken down easily, because even if our group of people who jumped over the wall jumped much higher than others, we couldn't compete with the combined efforts of two guys who jumped over the wall!"

"I see."

Facing Whitebeard's explanation, Gawain nodded clearly, and then he smiled and said to Whitebeard.

"Actually, I have always had an idea, which is to rely on exercise first to let myself reach my limit.

If there is really no way to make progress, I will choose to eat the fruit."

"Goo la la la!"

Gawain's words immediately made Whitebeard laugh. While laughing, he patted Gawain on the shoulder.

"You guy, you actually have such childish and passionate thoughts!

It really made me laugh, Gawain!

I can guess that Rayleigh and the female navy must be very supportive of your idea!

Because they themselves have reached this level through exercise, of course they will support your decision, and they don't even want you to eat the fruit.

After all, they are all successful without eating the fruits. None of them will think that their choice is wrong, and they are willing to tell you the choice they think is right!

But let me ask you, Gawain, is your goal just to be the number one in the world who does not eat fruits?

Your goal is obviously to unify the entire world!

As a person who is determined to dominate the world, even I am regarded as a tool by you, so shouldn't your own strength be just your tool?

Since it is just a tool, of course you must choose the fastest, most useful and most efficient tool!

You are obviously such a smart kid, how could you not even figure this out?"

"Haha, that makes sense, Newgate!"

Whitebeard's words really woke up Gawain. He nodded thoughtfully, and then said seriously.

"Your suggestion..., I will think about it carefully in the next few days!

But that's all for the future. As for now, you and I should just enjoy the hot springs.
To be continued...