UC Marvel Branch

"Ethan Hobson, 23 years old, a computer science student at Princeton University, mysteriously disappeared three months ago. Based on his roommate's testimony and traces at the scene, it was confirmed that he left voluntarily. The police ruled out kidnapping and suicide."

In the Hawaiian Islands, inside a police interrogation room, an elderly officer with graying temples set down the file.

"I don't understand, Ethan. How did you bypass the police system and enter Hawaii?"

In the twenty-first century, technology was advanced. As a missing person, the police should have been alerted the moment he used his own identification for any internet-connected activity.

Yet they had received nothing.

The hotel records showed that he had still used his real name, while the police database also contained an Ethan Hobson.

It was as if there were two Ethan Hobsons.

Hearing that, Ethan, seated across from him, did not answer.

At that moment, he was familiarizing himself with his ability.

There was no textbook for Devil Fruit abilities. How far a fruit could be developed and what uses it had depended entirely on the Paramecia User.

At that moment, he shoved his palm into the protrusion on the iron interrogation table that was just large enough for handcuffs to pass through. He watched his hand flatten like a pancake before retracting it, his face full of amazement.

The old officer watched the scene with some discomfort.

There were not many Devil Fruit users at present, and most fruits had been bought by the government or wealthy people. This was his first time seeing a Paramecia User in person.

And it was this bizarre!

His skin, body temperature, and appearance were all unchanged, yet the bones, flesh, and even internal organs throughout his body had become something like rubber.

The tighter he stretched, the