User blog comment:Neowitch/675 - Heart-wrenching Tale/@comment-89.139.198.106-20120801104654/@comment-1405658-20120801124629

I'll agree about the apple. I had a theory on absorption of power in proximity to the death of a Devil Fruit user, seems like I was one off. (Did Blackbeard eat healthy before killing Whitebeard or something?) Honestly, before this chapter I was betting that the candy was just going to make Smiley have horrible gas (dodging the pun, I mean as in flatulence).

1. Giving the living mass of jellied poison a bad case of gas WOULD probably put out an island. 2. Farting poison lizard? Not a far cry from what Oda might do.

Seems like he opted to make us wonder about something instead.