Free Respec

Dimon watched silently. Kin'emon showed no change. The two stared wide-eyed at each other, and the room fell quiet for a moment.

After a while.

"Disgusting! It's horrible!"

Kin'emon suddenly stuck out his tongue and dry-heaved at the floor.

Devil Fruits tasted awful. Though Dimon had never eaten one, everyone who had said the same thing.

"No explosion? Did you gain a second type of sorcery?" Dimon began to look forward to it.

"Hmph, why should I answer your questions? Kill me if you want!" Kin'emon raised his head and gave a defiant snort.

Dimon could not help laughing. "Loyalty is a rare and valuable quality. Honestly, I don't dislike you."

Among the Nine Red Scabbards, Kin'emon had been utterly loyal to Kozuki Oden. After his lord's death, he had continued protecting Kozuki Momonosuke. The Kōzuki Clan owed much of its successful restoration to him.

Dimon did not dislike such a loyal retainer, even if they stood on different sides.

"But that isn't something you can use to provoke me." Dimon changed the subject and said with a smile, "Your companions are in the prison, right?"

Kin'emon's expression changed. "Don't touch them! If you want something, come at me!"

"Then answer my questions honestly."

"..."

Kin'emon raised his arms. Both hands were shackled in Seastone cuffs, suppressing his abilities.

"Abel, remove his shackles."

"Lord Dimon, I don't have the key. It's at the Magistrate's Office."

The so-called Magistrate's Office was essentially a police station, and Abel was the chief of the Flower Capital's police department.

"Go get it."

"Yes!"

While Abel went to retrieve the key, Dimon simply sat down and chatted with Kin'emon for a while.

"Your lord Kozuki Oden has been dead for five years. If you retainers want freedom, you can pledge loyalty to me. What do you say?"

"Who would ever pledge loyalty to a pirate, you bastard!"

"Hehehe... What if I told you I could revive Kozuki Oden?"

"What?!"

Kin'emon instantly lost his composure, his face full of shock.

If anyone else had said that, he would not have believed it. How could something like reviving the dead be possible?

"R-Really?" Kin'emon's expression twisted. If it were true, serving a scoundrel was not entirely unbearable. Everything was for Lord Oden.

"I'm kidding."

Dimon burst out laughing. "You really are loyal to the core. You actually wavered over such an illusory resurrection."

Damn pirate!

Kin'emon's face reddened with anger. This guy's personality was utterly vile!

"The wine I gave you just now can grant a person the power of eternal youth and immortality." Dimon smiled.

Eternal youth and immortality?!

Kin'emon was shaken to the core.

"You believed that too?" Dimon raised an eyebrow.

"You...!" Kin'emon's mouth twitched. He snorted and stopped responding.

"This time, it's true."

Dimon's lips curled. "So you'll spend eternity in prison. You won't even be able to die if you want to."

At the thought of a prison without daylight, Kin'emon's heart turned cold.

Living forever in prison was an invisible form of torture.

Soon, Abel returned with the key to the shackles and removed the Seastone cuffs binding Kin'emon.

The instant the shackles came off, Kin'emon wanted to seize the chance to escape. But when he thought of his companions in prison, he knew that if he ran, he would certainly drag them down with him.

"Try it. What sort of sorcery have you gained now?"

Hearing this, Kin'emon took a deep breath. "I need a leaf, or a stone."

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"Your ability is really troublesome." Abel complained, then walked outside and picked up a stone from the courtyard before handing it to him.

Kin'emon placed the stone on top of his head, formed a hand sign, and shouted:

"Transform!"

However, nothing happened.

Even Kin'emon was stunned. Refusing to believe it, he tried twice more.

"Transform! Transform! Huh? Why isn't my disguise ninjutsu working?"

The Garb-Garb Fruit allowed its user to alter the appearance of designated targets.

Dimon focused slightly, a guess forming in his heart.

After eating a second fruit, did the two devils inside his body clash, causing his abilities to fail completely?

That did not seem right either. Kin'emon had still looked weak all over while wearing Seastone, so he was still a Paramecia User.

With that thought, Dimon immediately said:

"The fruit I gave you is called the Human-Human Fruit. Try using its ability..."

At that point, Dimon suddenly froze.

No, wait.

How was the Human-Human Fruit's ability supposed to manifest?

In Chopper's hands, this Human-Human Fruit in its ordinary human form could produce many effects, such as intelligence equal to that of humans, learning ability, walking on two legs, understanding human language, and multiple transformations.

But Kin'emon was already human. What would change after he ate the Human-Human Fruit?

"I don't understand what you're talking about!"

Kin'emon was absorbed in trying to transform and continued experimenting.

"Forget it. I'll do it myself."

Dimon shook his head, grabbed Kin'emon by the head, and silently invoked Devour.

In an instant, a terrifying devouring force enveloped Kin'emon, filling him with panic.

"Y-You, what are you doing to me?"

"The power I bestowed upon you can naturally be taken back as well. Farewell, Kin'emon. Once you reach the underworld, you can see the Lord Oden you've been longing for."

Accompanied by that gentle whisper, Kin'emon's body turned to dust and was drawn into Dimon's palm.

He vanished without a trace, leaving behind not even the slightest mark.

At the same time.

Dimon silently watched Kin'emon's memories, including his experience after eating the Devil Fruit before his death.

"So that's how it is..."

After a long while, Dimon let out a soft breath. He understood everything now.

When an immortal ate a second Devil Fruit, he neither exploded to death nor gained a second ability.

The truth was that the second ability overwrote the first!

Kin'emon had lost the power of the Garb-Garb Fruit and become a Human-Human Fruit user.

It was simply that after the Human-Human Fruit was eaten by a person, no especially obvious changes occurred.

"So the claim that eating two fruits makes you explode is just a rumor?"

Dimon thought that he could not be so certain, since immortals were special.

The power of eternal youth and immortality was, in essence, Demon Power bestowed by a devil.

How could ordinary people receive such treatment?

Shaking his head, he could not be bothered to investigate what would happen to ordinary people. It was enough to know that when an immortal ate a second fruit, it overwrote the first.

With that, Dimon could not help feeling tempted.

He had never eaten a Devil Fruit because he had been waiting for one that suited him.

But now, it seemed he did not need to think so much. He could eat any fruit he wanted, and if he was dissatisfied, he could just switch to another.

It was practically a Free Respec!

Dimon subconsciously looked at the Paramecia-type Scent-Scent Fruit beside him... Forget it, this fruit was a little unsuitable.

The thought of fighting with fragrance reminded him of some weirdo with a face like a sleepless night and the voice of Aizen.