Rocks Gets His Wish

Under the watchful eyes of Rocks and the other officers, Houka slowly took a purple-black Devil Fruit out of Lost Space.

"Whew!"

Rocks's breathing instantly grew heavy!

"It's it! It's really it!!!"

With trembling hands, Rocks reached for the Devil Fruit the Davy Clan had searched for over centuries.

According to the ancestral teachings of the Davy Clan, without the two legendary fruits—the Black Dragon Nidhogg Fruit and the Dark-Dark Fruit—the Davy Clan would never be able to defeat Imu.

Moreover, when Houka took out this Devil Fruit, Rocks felt the same restless sensation and pull that had appeared a few days ago.

Rocks was startled!

Could the Dark-Dark Fruit have been searching for him as well?

"Thank you, Houka!"

"I can feel it drawing me in too!"

Rocks took the Dark-Dark Fruit, and that sense of attraction became even stronger.

"You felt it too?"

Houka was a little shocked. Could it be that the Dark-Dark Fruit had regarded both him and Rocks as potential hosts?

"That's right! I felt it a few days ago. If these guys hadn't been in such a rush to go to West Blue and snatch Devil Fruits..."

"I was planning to follow that feeling and look for it."

Excitedly, Rocks raised the Dark-Dark Fruit and took a huge bite. From now on, he would no longer fear Imu's strange abilities!

"A few days ago? So there really was something?"

Houka immediately understood why the Dark-Dark Fruit's pull on him had been far weaker than that of the Five-Clawed Azure Dragon Fruit.

It turned out that the Dark-Dark Fruit's power had chosen other potential hosts as well.

But that did not seem quite right either. The Dark-Dark Fruit's pull had not even been half as strong as that of the Five-Clawed Azure Dragon Fruit.

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