To be honest, Dawn had to admire the nerve of these Sand Bandits.
Based on what the previous Sand Bandits had said, the person they had captured might have been a Devil Fruit user.
But... wasn't this person a little too weak? They had actually been captured by a group of slightly stronger ordinary people.
Even if an ordinary Devil Fruit user had not developed their powers much, they would generally have been more than enough to give this bunch a hard time.
In many countries, ordinary people feared even a child who had eaten a Devil Fruit as if they were a viper. Otherwise, why would they be called "Devil Fruits"?
Yet these Sand Bandits, who were basically cannon fodder, had actually set their sights on a Devil Fruit user. Dawn had no idea who had given them the courage to provoke one. Angela Liang?
Although that joke had become completely overused in his previous world, nobody in this world would understand what it meant.
Still, Dawn had to make the joke anyway.
And somehow, these people had really captured a Devil Fruit user. That made Dawn curious about what kind of power this captive possessed.
It couldn't be some bizarre Devil Fruit, could it? Curious, Dawn watched as Sola and the others set the barrel down and opened it.
The moment the lid came off, Dawn finally understood when he saw what was inside.
It was someone about the same age as their group. No wonder he had been captured. He probably lacked experience and had been tricked.
The barrel was filled with seawater carrying a faint salty smell. One look was enough to tell that it was meant to suppress the Devil Fruit user's powers and leave him without the strength to escape.
The Sand Bandits had