Devil Fruits with minds of their own

The moment the giant prince Loki ate the Zoan Dragon-Dragon Fruit, Mythical Zoan, Model: Nidhogg...

In two hidden locations in the middle and latter reaches of the New World, two purple Devil Fruits trembled slightly, as though they had sensed something.

The Nidhogg Black Dragon, likewise burdened with destiny, had actually appeared ahead of time, in an era before Poseidon was even born.

The purple fruit shaped like a pineapple and covered in swirling barbs swayed its few green leaves. As if it had a mind of its own, it swiftly rolled off a sheer cliff and plunged into the sea.

It seemed to have already sensed its ideal host!

The most evil of fruits, the Dark-Dark Fruit, recorded as a special Logia, was actually going to appear ahead of time too!

Even if this was not the right era, it still wanted to come out and have some fun!

This was its dark free will!

The other purple, spherical fruit, shaped like a cantaloupe, gently shook its stem, seemingly trying to find its ideal master in this era as well.

Before long, this purple fruit fell from an enormous rubber tree into a passing stream. It drifted slowly into the sea with the current and vanished upon the ocean.

The Paramecia Gum-Gum Fruit—no, rather, the Zoan Human-Human Fruit, Mythical Zoan, Model: Sun God Nika—also seemed to have decided to appear in this wrong era.

These two Devil Fruits, both burdened with destiny, began searching for their respective chosen ones.

Meanwhile, on a remote little volcanic island in the New World, relatively close to the exit from Fish-Man Island...

A blue-green, scaly fruit with two stems suddenly underwent a special change under the influence of a powerful external force of desire.

It seemed to have developed a will of its