"Vice Admiral Steve! We found something!" At that moment, an excited Marine ran up to Doflamingo and presented a wooden box as if offering a treasure.
Inside the wooden box was a fruit covered in strange patterns. Two pointed protrusions rose from the top, like a pair of horns.
"A Devil Fruit?" Doflamingo picked it up with considerable curiosity.
"It really is rare for a pirate crew to keep a Devil Fruit around. Still, this Devil Fruit doesn't seem to be listed in the Devil Fruit Encyclopedia, does it?"
Perhaps that was why no one had eaten it. In the manga, all Devil Fruits seemed to be useful in battle.
That was because One Piece was a hot-blooded battle manga, and most people in it ate Devil Fruits for the sake of fighting. So it made Devil Fruits seem synonymous with combat power.
But in reality, there were plenty of Devil Fruits with no combat ability. For instance, Doflamingo knew of a Camera Fruit that let its user take pictures of others with their eyes. They only had to blink, then spit the photograph out of their mouth.
There was also a Poetry Fruit. After eating it, you could no longer speak normally. Everything you said would turn into poetry and be recited aloud.
What normal pirate would ever be willing to eat that crap?
Some Devil Fruits even had side effects that far outweighed their benefits. For example, the most terrifying Devil Fruit of all, the legendary Stinky-Stinky Fruit. After consuming it, the user's entire body would emit an unimaginable, overpowering stench. It was said that even people at the Admiral level could be knocked unconscious by the smell.
And putting aside how such a Devil Fruit ability user could ever live with other people, the person who possessed