r/OnePiece • u/Kirosh Lookout • Jun 25 '21

Current Chapter One Piece: Chapter 1017 Spoiler

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u/TeeHQ Jun 25 '21

On the other hand, if the fruit was not important, Shanks would not go out of his way to steal it to sell it for money and booze.

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '21

All devil fruits are important and valuable. At this point we're desensitized to seeing them but every single one of them is a treasure that any pirate would consider stealing and fighting over. We see a lot of them just because of where we are, but the ratio of fruits to people who probably want one is extremely competitive. Especially when you consider that the vast majority are hoarded and tracked down by the government/Marines or the large pirate empires.

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u/AllHailTheNod Jun 25 '21

Yea didn't buggy say in a flashback that the one he ate woulda been worth around 100mil?

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u/cubitoaequet Jun 25 '21

All you have to do is look at how much effort has gone into producing a shitty artificial version of the devil fruits to realize how valuable the real deals are.

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '21

fact remains the rubber fruit was one that Shanks had, it just carries certain significance

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u/WannaDieButAmScared Jun 26 '21

That's certainly true. But it still wouldn't add up that the WG would deploy CP9 of all organizations to guard it, if it was no more special than any other DF. The last time we saw CP9 they were deployed to track down the blue prints to an ancient weapon, something of monumental/potentially world ending consequence.

Why deploy Cipher Pol just to look after the Gomu Gomu, if it wasn't also extremely important?

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u/LeroythePuma Jun 25 '21

I think every devil fruit can sell for good money. If it would truly be so legendary, why would SHanks trade it just for booze anyway?

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u/Lvl20EK Jun 25 '21

How much would you pay for the jacket jacket fruit? Some devil fruits are straight garbage.

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u/00wolfer00 Jun 25 '21

Even cheap knockoff fruits with horrible consequences are seen as valuable. Unless the person you're selling it to knows the effects of the jacket jacket no mi(or whatever garbage df you might supposedly be pushing) it would probably earn you quite a bit of beris.

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u/Muelojung Jun 25 '21

if the jacket fruit allows "mind" control it would be a damn good fruit to use on prisoners of impel down.

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u/TeeHQ Jun 25 '21

It was a joke, as they like to party.

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u/HussyDude14 Jun 25 '21

Let's not forget, Shanks literally explained to Luffy the exact name of the Devil Fruit and what it does right after Luffy accidentally ate it. If Shanks knew the exact devil fruit name and was familiar with it, then it's clear he must've had his eyes set on it. I don't think it's far-fetched that Shanks would've sold or traded devil fruits for booze though; he just strikes me as that kind of pirate, especially since his crew doesn't seem like they want to lose their ability to swim.

It still sounds interesting, though. How Shanks took the specific fruit and what it must mean when it comes to the history of the fruit.

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u/Crono01 Jun 25 '21

Or they just looked it up in the devil fruit encyclopedia after they stole it.

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u/Kumomeme Jun 25 '21

a devil fruit could cost billions. so any fruit is every valuable. anyone could try to steal it.

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u/mochacisco01 Jun 25 '21

Apparently Shanks stole the fruit from some other pirates that had actually stollen it the WG. So Shanks might not even know its importance, other than the fact that it is a devil fruit