Twin Devil Fruit Powers!

Let's make a bold assumption.

After those two ability users were eaten, their deaths should have caused the devils within their Devil Fruits to randomly enter fruits somewhere else and regenerate as Devil Fruits.

And according to the transfer rules of Devil Fruits, they generally entered the nearest suitable fruit.

On Stomach Baron Island, fruit was the one thing that was never in short supply.

Could that have caused the two Devil Fruits to transfer into fruits that had fallen into the giant mouth together?

After all, the entire island had flipped over. It was perfectly normal for some fruit to fall, and Dawn himself had been struck several times.

But inside Stomach Baron's giant mouth was powerful digestive acid. The Devil Fruits would naturally have been digested, meaning that the enormous island of Stomach Baron had effectively eaten those two fruits.

And a single living being would die if it ate two Devil Fruits.

Yet Stomach Baron had not died, because it was special.

Just as everyone speculated that Kaido would not die from eating Devil Fruits, but would instead expel them from his body.

Stomach Baron's main body was a gigantic plant, and the food-bearing plants growing upon that massive body were both parts of it and independent living beings.

Thus, after digesting the two Devil Fruits, Stomach Baron had expelled the digested fruits together onto one of those plants.

And as the fruit grew, the two Devil Fruits, which should have grown separately, had somehow been squeezed into a single fruit.

Given the current circumstances and the information Dawn remembered from his previous life about Devil Fruits and Stomach Baron, this was the most reasonable conclusion he could reach.

Thinking of this, Dawn fell into deep thought, hesitating as he stared at the fruit in his hand.

Originally, Dawn had planned that if he was going to eat a Devil Fruit, his first choice would definitely be the Rumble-Rumble Fruit on Sky Island. After all, Enel had not yet eaten that powerful Logia fruit.

With that fruit and Dawn's imagination, he could develop everything from lightning-based physical enhancement to magnetic fields, railguns, plasma, and more.

After all, he had not watched all those years of anime for nothing. And because of his transmigration, his memories were incredibly clear. Development would not be a problem at all.

If he joined the Marines, he could become the next Admiral. And if he came into contact with Vegapunk, Dawn could not even imagine how far that man's intelligence could develop this fruit.

But what if this strange fruit really was what he thought it was?

Then how powerful would the ability of two Devil Fruits be once developed?

With all the ideas he had absorbed from countless entertainment works, and with the powers of the two fruits complementing each other, this fruit's potential would surely surpass that of a Logia.

But because the two fruits' users had fallen into Stomach Baron's giant mouth, which plunged deep into the seabed, would the strange fruit created from that have been affected somehow?

Moreover, it had not transferred directly. It had grown from a plant on Stomach Baron Island. No matter how he looked at it, it was bizarre.

So how should he choose?

Should he eat it or not?

Dawn stared at the fruit before him, his expression shifting darkly.

After sitting underground and thinking for half a day, Dawn finally came to a decision—eat it!!

Think about Blackbeard. For his goal, that man had endured aboard the Whitebeard Pirates for decades.

He had even prepared himself to spend the rest of his life as a member of the Whitebeard Pirates if he failed to obtain the Dark-Dark Fruit.

It could be said that he had completely gambled his future on a plan that had a high chance of ending in nothing.

And during the Impel Down incident,

Blackbeard had even wagered the lives of himself and his entire crew on Shiryu of the Rain, a man he had only just met.

Every step of his journey had been an undeniable gamble, with the stakes encompassing Blackbeard's entire life, dreams, and even his life!

But Blackbeard had won! And so he became one of the Four Emperors.

Even if Dawn did not agree with such a man's path, he could not help but admire his courage.

And when he thought of the countless people like that out on the sea, Dawn made up his mind!!

It was nothing more than an uncertain mutated fruit. Whether it truly even possessed Devil Fruit powers was another matter entirely.

As the saying went, "The poor rely on mutation; the rich rely on technology."

With what he already knew about these two fruits, along with that bold idea that bordered on madness, it was already worth Dawn's gamble!

Other novel protagonists got cheat powers after transmigrating, yet he had ended up this miserable. If a poor man like him wanted to overturn the heavens, then of course he had to rely on his own "mutation."

And even if his bold idea did not come true, merely gaining the abilities of two fruits would still give him greater potential than other Paramecia fruits.

Since he even had a guaranteed baseline, what he feared now was that the fruit was not what he imagined at all, but merely an ordinary fruit with a strange appearance.

But if it truly was a Devil Fruit, then with Dawn's worldview, experience, and imagination from his previous life, even if his bold idea failed or something unexpected happened—such as gaining only one fruit's power—he was confident he could develop a powerful ability!

There were no strongest fruits, only strongest people!

The most obvious examples should have been several Logia fruit users.

The strong ones were as powerful as Admirals, while the weak ones were weak beyond belief.

And later on, Shiryu of the Rain had Blackbeard seize Absalom's ability and transfer it to him, which showed his confidence in developing fruit powers.

Even taking ten thousand steps back, with his current strength and circumstances, the chances of reaching Sky Island were practically zero!

Rather than grasp at that fifty million, he might as well seize the "one hundred million in Schrödinger's box" in his hand first!

With that thought, Dawn, afraid that he would hesitate again, held his breath, picked up the special two-colored fruit, and took a huge bite.

He had heard that Devil Fruits tasted terrible, but fearing there might be consequences if he did not finish it, Dawn had already steeled himself to eat the entire thing.

But unexpectedly, the Devil Fruit that he had thought would taste awful had flesh with a springy, jelly-like texture.

The moment he bit down, rich fruit juice burst from the flesh and instantly exploded across his entire mouth.

Aside from its rich sweetness and fragrance, the only sensation it gave was freshness.

"Holy shit, I wasted half the day hesitating over this? This is fucking delicious!"

Dawn had expected an incredibly disgusting taste and had even resolved himself to finish the mutated fruit completely.

But it was actually this delicious. Dawn could not help wondering whether he had merely eaten a fruit that looked similar to a Devil Fruit.

As Dawn chewed, the flavor of the fruit began to bloom, as though he were eating fruits of countless different flavors. When he savored it carefully, he could detect many familiar tastes.

The refreshing juice in particular made him feel incomparably comfortable, like chugging a bottle of ice-cold Sprite on a scorching summer day.

After carefully savoring such deliciousness, Dawn slowly enjoyed the final bite. He felt that even if it was not a Devil Fruit, it had been worth it, because it was simply too delicious!

But then a sensation struck him, freezing Dawn where he stood.

This was...