Pricing Devil Fruits (Must Read!)

Since the book began, quite a few readers have commented that pricing Devil Fruits at a million was far too cheap and made it easy for some faction to buy them all up. Let me explain this once and for all:

First, Devil Fruits are priced anywhere from a few million to tens of millions, hundreds of millions, billions, or even tens and hundreds of billions. Just because I sold the first Fruit for a million doesn't mean every Devil Fruit costs a million.

I also clearly wrote in the book that the Dark-Dark Fruit cost ten billion. It's just that the Fruits sold early on were ordinary ones, and the expensive ones hadn't appeared yet. Things need to progress gradually.

Of course, some people might think that even those trash Fruits were too cheap at a million. That is indeed true.

But this book is an ensemble story. It's about the changes Devil Fruits bring to the entire Marvel world, so the price floor can't be too high. Otherwise, they'd become exclusive supplies for the wealthy and powerful, and that would be boring.

Besides, how many Marvel characters everyone knows are Tony Stark?

Deadpool, Spider-Man, Punisher, War Machine, Happy, Jane Foster, Captain America, Black Widow, and even Doctor Strange from the elite class—wouldn't a million-level Fruit be the absolute limit of what these people could afford?

So the upper limit can be very high, but the lower limit absolutely can't be high. Otherwise, the familiar characters won't be able to afford them, while the only ones who can will be wealthy characters I made up. Then this book would truly be ruined.

Second, everyone is worried about groups like the Federal Reserve or S.H.I.E.L.D. buying up all the Fruits. I've considered that as well. Any purchasing system involving bulk-order manipulation is prohibited, so there's no need to worry. That kind of problem doesn't exist.

Let me explain what bulk-order manipulation means. It doesn't refer to the kind used by online shops; I just couldn't think of a better term to describe it.

For example, if a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent discovered a Devil Fruit and decided to buy it on his own initiative, there would be nothing wrong with that. It would count as a normal transaction.

But if Nick Fury wanted to create a few more super-soldiers for S.H.I.E.L.D. and gave agents money to buy them, that would be bulk-order manipulation.

This is only a simple example. In short, any method used by an individual or organization with the goal of obtaining a large number of Devil Fruits would count as bulk-order manipulation.

And this old flop also plans to adopt the readers' suggestion. After the system upgrades, it will no longer use U.S. dollars for settlement and will instead use gold.

These are probably everyone's main complaints. If I think of anything else, I'll add it later. If you have any ideas, feel free to leave a comment. Everyone is welcome to discuss it.