A New Journey (Finale)

"I'm going to eat it. I'm eating it right now!"

"I'm going to become a superhero!"

Kamala had long been unable to contain herself and kept shouting at her parents.

Naturally, her parents had no objections.

The fruit had been brought by Homelander, so they could only feel at ease if she ate it in front of Homelander.

What if something went wrong otherwise?

No matter how much they trusted Homelander, it was still an unknown fruit she was putting into her stomach!

And so,

the Phoenix Fruit was eagerly cradled in Kamala's palms.

"By the way, Kamala, there's something I need to warn you about. This fruit tastes terrible."

"So terrible it might make you throw up."

"You should prepare yourself mentally."

"Gaining great power has never been easy, has it?"

Before Kamala ate the Devil Fruit, Rorschach spoke up to remind her again.

"It's not like I've never eaten anything disgusting before."

"Don't worry!"

Kamala confidently patted her chest, clearly not taking Rorschach's warning seriously at all.

But soon,

Kamala realized that she had been far too naive.

What she considered disgusting and what Rorschach meant by disgusting were two entirely different things.

"Pfft!"

Without the slightest doubt, Kamala spat out the bite of fruit flesh she had just taken.

This was called disgusting?

This was downright lethal!

"Th-this tastes way too awful!"

Kamala was nearly in tears.

"That is the price of gaining superpowers."

Rorschach merely smiled at Kamala.

"What were you thinking, Kamala? These are superpowers. So what if it tastes bad? How bad could it possibly be?"

"If you think it tastes bad, I can eat it for you."

Kamala's brother immediately began eyeing it greedily from the side.

"No way!"

Kamala tightly hugged the Devil Fruit and refused to let go.

Then, after taking