Seeing that Kaze had noticed her, Tama finally released the fruit from her mouth.
The pineapple-shaped fruit fell to the ground and rolled to Kaze's feet.
"Uh..."
Kaze sucked in a breath. No matter how he looked at it, the fruit Tama had brought back looked exactly like a Devil Fruit from the world of One Piece.
Then he looked at Tama again.
Her head was held high, her chest puffed out.
As though she had accomplished some incredible feat.
Her face was brimming with pride!
"Where did you get this thing?"
Kaze looked at the fruit by his feet, then at Tama's proud expression, unable to stop himself from asking.
"Meow meow meow meow."
"Meow meow."
"Meow!"
Naturally, Kaze could not understand Tama's feline language.
But judging from her reaction, he somehow felt as though she was saying...
Who told you to be so weak?
Hurry up and eat this.
It'll make you stronger and give you some ability to protect yourself in this world.
Slap.
Kaze pressed a palm to his face.
He felt as though his own Ninja Cat had just mocked him.
Could this little thing have the ability to travel between worlds, gone to the world of One Piece, and stolen a Devil Fruit?
"Sigh..."
"What am I even thinking?"
Even Kaze could not help mocking himself. The timeline of this world was drawing close to the Night of the Uchiha Clan Downfall, so the pressure must have been making him think nonsense.
The fruit Tama had brought back was probably just an ordinary fruit.
It merely happened to resemble the Rumble-Rumble Fruit from the world of One Piece.
With that thought, Kaze's gaze fell on the fruit once more.
"But this can't even be called similar anymore. They're identical, aren't they?"
As he spoke, Kaze picked up the fruit.
Judging from the patterns on it...
This should be the Rumble-Rumble Fruit that Enel had eaten.
Among Logia Devil Fruits, it stood at the pinnacle of lightning!
It had once been called the strongest Logia Fruit!
Its user could release lightning from their body and blast opponents with nature's most violent energy!
Once the fruit's powers had been developed to a certain extent, they could even alter the form of lightning and unleash all kinds of Attack Methods.
Most importantly...
A Logia Devil Fruit user could turn their body into an element, rendering them immune to all physical damage!
"Even in the Naruto World, the Rumble-Rumble Fruit's power would be terrifying."
Kaze swallowed hard.
But Devil Fruits were not without weaknesses.
For example, against an Armament Haki user, Elementalization would only increase the area that could be struck.
However, this world had no such thing as Haki!
"Not only is there no Haki, this world doesn't have Seastone either."
Given that, that particular weakness was practically nonexistent!
"If this really is the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, that would be amazing."
Kaze muttered to himself.
Then, a thought suddenly stirred in his heart.
What if it was?
He swallowed.
Although reason told him that Devil Fruits couldn't possibly exist in this world, what if?
Kaze's attention was deeply drawn to the fruit, and he simply couldn't look away.
Seeing Kaze holding the fruit and muttering to himself, Tama couldn't help shaking her head with a snicker. "Meow."
As if to say that her master was beyond saving.
Then she flopped onto the tatami and lazily let out a yawn.
"It's just a fruit. No matter what, it can't kill me, right?"
Kaze gradually felt as though the fruit in his hand possessed some kind of magic, making it impossible for him to resist.
So Kaze slowly raised the fruit to his mouth and finally took a bite.
Crunch!
"Holy shit..."
The instant the fruit touched his taste buds, Kaze couldn't help cursing on the spot, his face turning purple in an instant.
That flavor was simply impossible to describe with words.
Disgusting.
Super disgusting.
So disgusting that he couldn't swallow it.
Through the mirror, Kaze could even see that all his features had twisted together.
He hadn't felt this much pain even when his predecessor's parents had died.
His body's instincts urged him to spit the fruit out immediately.
Yet even so, Kaze overcame that impulse through sheer willpower and swallowed the fruit in one gulp.
Only after quite a while did Kaze finally recover a little.
"Good thing I didn't die..."
While grumbling about surviving the ordeal, Kaze took a deep breath and slowly let it out.
He wanted to steady himself.
However, at that moment, a faint electric current emerged from the air he exhaled.
Kaze: "???"
In an instant, Kaze stopped breathing and froze.
As a member of the Uchiha Clan, his eyesight was excellent.
There was no way he could have mistaken what he had just seen.
An electric current as long as his palm had shot out of his nose.
Kaze hurriedly looked at the fruit in his hand.
"This thing..."
"Could it really be the Rumble-Rumble Fruit?!"
The moment that thought surfaced, Kaze sprang up from the tatami with a thump.
"Could it be..."
"But how is that possible?"
"Calm down, stay calm..."
Kaze suddenly felt his breathing grow rapid, his heart pounding faster and faster.
On one hand, he was thrilled and excited that he had eaten the Rumble-Rumble Fruit.
On the other hand, precisely because he was too excited, he couldn't help doubting himself.
Was he dreaming?
So Kaze viciously pinched his own arm.
"Ow, ow, ow..."
He could feel pain.
This wasn't a dream, nor was he under Genjutsu.
"Right."
As Kaze gradually calmed down, he came to his senses.
"Can't I just test whether what I ate really is the Rumble-Rumble Fruit?"
If he had truly become a Devil Fruit user, then all he had to do was explore it a little, and he should be able to use the fruit's power.
With that thought, Kaze focused his attention.
He set the remaining fruit aside.
Then...
He recalled the scene of Enel fighting Luffy.
He tried to mimic Enel's movements.
Kaze raised his right hand, his palm facing the wall in front of him.
"Lightning!"
The next second, Kaze shouted and guided the energy within him forward.
In an instant!
A dazzling bolt of lightning flickered from his palm, its brilliance instantly drowning out the lights in the room!
Then, an exaggerated blue bolt of lightning, like a giant python, burst from Kaze's palm and crashed toward the wall before him like raging waves!
Rumble!
In less than half a breath, the wall in front of Kaze was blasted open with a hole more than five meters wide.
Yet the lightning he had unleashed did not disperse in midair.
Instead, it continued forward, illuminating the night sky above the Uchiha Compound.
It surged straight toward the roof of the Clan Head's home.
"Damn it!"
At the sight, Kaze's eyes went wide, and his mouth hung open in an O.
Since it was his first time using the fruit's power, he had not considered controlling its strength at all.
Worst of all, Kaze no longer had time to stop it.
The bolt was several times faster than he had imagined.
In the blink of an eye, it exploded atop the roof of Fugaku Uchiha's home!
Rumble!
The deafening thunder echoed throughout the entire Uchiha Compound.
It directly reduced one-third of Fugaku Uchiha's roof to ashes!
Staring at the masterpiece he had created, Kaze had only one thought in his mind.
He...
Was in trouble.
Big trouble!
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