Shiryu of the Rain's Fate

Eat it, or not?

That really was the question.

Noah had obtained several Devil Fruits before, but whether it was the Rust-Rust Fruit or the several Zoan Fruits later seized from Dugalileo, none had caught his eye.

But Shiki's Float-Float Fruit was completely different.

Setting everything else aside, simply being able to escape gravity and fly freely through the skies was already quite tempting to him.

Flight had always been a dream etched into humanity's genes.

But...

"The Devil Fruit curse is no joke either."

Noah stared at the spiral-patterned fruit before him. His initial excitement gradually faded, and he slowly regained his usual calm rationality.

"After eating it, the sea and Seastone will become my natural enemies from then on..."

He was already considered one of the world's top-tier powerhouses.

And the main sources of his strength were his monster-like physical body and his exquisite swordsmanship, capable of controlling the profound meaning of wind.

Therefore, even if the Float-Float Fruit could be developed to nearly Shiki's level, it would not actually add that much to his combat power. Yet eating it would directly give him two more weaknesses.

From then on, his formidable naval combat ability—the ability to breathe and swim freely in the deep sea like the Fish-Men, and to dominate battles simply by being on the ocean's surface—would also be greatly diminished.

It was like a Superman who had originally been invincible through his physical body alone suddenly gaining a fatal weakness to kryptonite.

If he had encountered the Float-Float Fruit just after transmigrating into the pirate world, he would absolutely have eaten it without hesitation.

But now...

It was a little not worth it.

"Forget it."

Noah was not someone who liked to agonize over gains and losses or get stuck in a rut. Within a