Welcome Ceremony of the New World, Thunder God Island!

Giving the Flame-Flame Fruit to Koby had been a spur-of-the-moment idea for Ron, but it was also the natural course of events... The people around him—Fujitora, Tesoro, Law, Ain—were all Devil Fruit Users, so none of them had any use for such a powerful Logia Fruit.

Dorte had made his stance clear beforehand. The people around him could not all be Devil Fruit Users; what if something unexpected happened?

Though Ron thought he was worrying over nothing, Dorte stubbornly refused to eat a Devil Fruit.

And since he was a swordsman, eating a Devil Fruit would shake his faith in the sword in his hand. Ron could only let him be.

As for Zephyr...

For a physical combat powerhouse who had become an admiral, how absolute must his confidence in his own abilities have been?

If Ron had suggested it, Zephyr would have immediately blasted him with a Martial Arm: Nether Gate and told him that the dignity of a physical combat powerhouse could not be desecrated.

So, giving it to a trustworthy outsider had become inevitable. Within the Marine ranks, excluding the veteran officers already accustomed to their identities, Koby was undoubtedly the most outstanding among the younger generation.

He had not come up through the New Recruit Camp, so his rank seemed somewhat lacking.

But his strength was anything but ordinary, and the military merit he had accumulated had long been enough for him to become a rear admiral... Fleet Admiral Akainu had also taken notice of the kid. After all, he had previously stayed by Smoker's side, and Akainu had been worried that he might go astray.

So whether for himself or for the Marines, Koby eating the Flame-Flame Fruit would maximize the benefits!

In this era after the Celestial Dragons' demise, no one knew how long