"What's wrong? Why did you start acting so strange the moment you heard about the Transparent Fruit?"
Absalom was quite skilled at reading the room. The inner changes of a brat like Sanji naturally couldn't escape him.
"It's n-nothing. It just feels a little unreal seeing an Ability User for the first time."
Unreal—that was the truth. Born in Germa, Sanji had heard Judge talk about science and technology plenty of times when he was young.
The first time he saw the Devil Fruit encyclopedia and read about those utterly fantastical abilities recorded within, Sanji's biggest impression was that they were far too fake.
Besides, eating a Devil Fruit meant being cursed by the sea and becoming unable to swim. Sanji had no interest in such things.
Only one Fruit was an exception. If it were the Transparent Fruit, even if he only had one chance in his life and would become unable to swim afterward, Sanji would still be willing to try eating it.
Sanji had even run simulations of the Transparent Fruit in his head, pondering all the things it could do.
And after eating that Fruit, he wanted to visit the women's bathhouse.
This was a strange inheritance of the Vinsmoke family. It wasn't obvious in Judge, nor was it particularly apparent in Reiju, but in Sanji and his brothers, the lustful gene seemed carved into their bones.
Judge claimed emotions were unnecessary, but his results weren't all that successful. Aside from Sanji, what his other children lacked was merely fear and anxiety.
They still bullied others and were still lecherous.
"You've got quite a lot on your mind for someone so young. Everyone who comes to this country has something they seek. You can just say what you want.
Since Lord Oran told me to bring