Weird Fruit

As Dawn carved another tally mark into the tree to record the passing days,

half a year flew by in the blink of an eye.

During that time, Dawn kept up with running and the preparatory training for Shave.

This thoroughly trained the muscles in his legs, giving Dawn tremendous mobility.

His height had also increased considerably thanks to nutritious food and relentless training.

At this rate, growing past two meters would probably not be a problem.

In his previous life, people would probably have assumed he had grown up on hormones, but this world was simply that unscientific.

After training, Dawn slowly let out a breath.

Afterward, he looked as though he had just emerged from the water, sweat constantly dripping from his body.

The uninterrupted daily training was both a test of his body and a test of his will.

The only good news, and the only thing that could ease his mood, was the island's wide variety of delicious food.

After living on the island for over half a year, Dawn had already sampled most of its delicacies.

Now, after half a year of tempering his willpower, Dawn could already control his food intake quite well.

The tempering effect brought by the allure of delicious food was now no more than a light drizzle to Dawn.

Thus, the island's food had become one way for Dawn to relax after training.

Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!!!

The familiar sound of an earthquake rang out again. As Stomach Baron's petals closed once more, countless plump, well-fed "meatballs" went to fill Stomach Baron's belly.

Once again, Dawn watched the surrounding creatures howl in despair and flee for their lives, causing waves of chaos across the island before everything eventually calmed down.

Lying on the tree branch and watching the animals go mad, Dawn could not help shaking his head. Who could they blame for eating themselves so fat?

"Hm? This plant's fruit has grown bigger... but that color and those patterns, could it be a Devil Fruit?"

As Dawn lay bored atop the tree, he suddenly spotted the fruit that had been growing beneath the Abyssal Maw. Its appearance made his pupils contract.

What appeared before Dawn was a strange blue fruit. With all sorts of bizarre patterns on its surface, it was impossible not to catch his attention.

"Should I pick it?" Dawn hesitated. After all, he had never heard of anyone's Devil Fruit growing out of a plant.

When he had seen it before, the fruit had only been the size of a fingertip.

After all, every Devil Fruit was unique, and a Devil Fruit would only reappear after its host died.

This Devil Fruit was very likely from one of the two Paw-Paw Fruit users from before.

But logically, the fruit should have immediately transferred into a ripe fruit and turned into a Devil Fruit at the time.

Yet this one had grown out naturally, which Dawn found extremely strange.

Still, a Devil Fruit was precious no matter what. Even if he did not eat it, he could sell it for Beli or use it to cultivate subordinates in the future.

So, for once, Dawn did not train after the island had finished feeding. Instead, he hurriedly wove a basket.

After all, the fruit he had just seen was already very full and heavy, bending the branch beneath it. It looked as though it might fall at any moment under its own weight, and if that happened, he might never find it again.

Dawn wove the basket using a crisscross method. The interlocking vertical and horizontal structure made it sturdier.

He only remembered this because he had watched short videos on UC when he had been bored in his previous life.

After spending a great deal of effort, he finally made an ugly basket. Its only advantage was probably its sturdiness.

After securing the vines at both ends, Dawn lowered the basket and fixed it beneath the fruit. Then, he lowered the pole with the standard-issue blade tied to it.

Fortunately, it was only three or four meters away, so he could still exert force through the tied pole. Otherwise, it really would have been difficult to bring it up.

But after retrieving it and looking at the fruit in his hand, Dawn's face filled with bewilderment.

Because the fruit had been below him, Dawn had only seen its upper section, which was blue and covered in circular patterns.

But the lower half of the fruit, the part Dawn had not seen before, gradually shifted into a neighboring shade of green!

Moreover, its patterns were completely different from the circles on the blue portion. They looked like Sanji's eyebrows.

"Can this thing even be eaten? Why does it smell like fresh fruit?" Dawn stared at the fruit in his hand with a strange expression, unsure what to do with it.

According to Dawn's understanding of Devil Fruits, a Devil Fruit only had one color and one type of pattern.

But now, Dawn was looking at a fruit with two colors and two kinds of patterns!

Then, based on that theory...

Could this fruit, with the patterns of two fruits and its gradient colors, have become a double Devil Fruit!?

For a moment, Dawn was startled by his own guess. After all, the anime had never mentioned something like this happening.

But this was the real world, and with how extraordinary this world was, nothing that happened would be surprising...

Unable to make up his mind, Dawn decided to first analyze the current situation of this fruit.

He would organize the information first, then decide whether to eat it.

First, those two Devil Fruit user meatballs had been rammed inside together by a giant Sea King to serve as an extra meal for Stomach Baron.

Second, Stomach Baron's bottom had to contain stomach acid. Otherwise, so many prey could not have fallen in and gone silent immediately.

And what were its roots connected to?

The answer was seawater!

Its roots were deeply planted in the sea. Otherwise, it could not have remained so stable as a fixed island instead of drifting across the ocean like a ship.

Third, it was a living being. It was a living island!

If animals that ate Devil Fruits could gain Devil Fruit abilities,

and even inanimate weapons could "eat" Devil Fruits through some method, then what about plants, which were also living beings?

Normally, plants could not "eat," but Stomach Baron was no ordinary plant! It was a gigantic island!

Then if Stomach Baron ate a Devil Fruit and became its host, would it not be restrained by seawater after gaining its ability?

Would a powerless Stomach Baron be unable to close its petals?

If such a situation occurred, then one thing was certain: Stomach Baron would never accept that outcome.

Faced with this possibility, Dawn came up with an extremely bold speculation!

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