Fruit Shop in the Marvel Universe

73rd Street, New York.

"Devil Fruit? What a strange name."

"I wonder what they're selling."

"Let's go in and take a look!"

Hearing that voice, Rosha's spirits immediately lifted.

He instinctively straightened up, trying to present his best side to the customer who was about to arrive.

Following the silver-bell-like voice, a fashionable blonde with an incredible figure walked into Rosha's little shop.

"Welcome."

With an enthusiastic smile, Rosha took the initiative to step forward and greet the customer.

"I didn't expect the shop clerk to be such a handsome young man." The blonde was bold and outgoing, throwing Rosha a flirtatious wink the moment they met.

"Thank you for the compliment, beautiful miss. Your beauty brings even more color to this little shop." Rosha had seen this kind of situation plenty of times. As steady as ever, he smiled lightly at her.

At the same time, he bounced her wink right back at her.

The blonde happily accepted it, and only then did her gaze become drawn to the colorful fruits displayed in the glass case.

"Handsome, what are these fruits?"

The blonde examined the fruits with a surprised look. After a moment of stunned silence, she realized, "These are Devil Fruits?"

"That's right. These are Devil Fruits. Though the name is a little frightening, they're incredibly magical fruits."

Rosha began introducing them to the blonde.

The blonde raised an eyebrow. "Magical? You mean they taste really good?"

As she said that, her face filled with suspicion. Could these colorful things really be eaten?

There were even black ones.

That was ridiculous!

They looked scary enough, never mind eating them.

"No, I mean that once you eat these Devil Fruits, you can gain extraordinary abilities... I know it sounds unbelievable, but I swear to God that everything I'm saying is true!"

Rosha spoke to the blonde with absolute conviction, the sincerity on his face more genuine than gold itself.

"Wow, so these are fruits enchanted by demons?"

The blonde could not help laughing mockingly as she looked at Rosha as though he were an idiot.

The young man was quite handsome, but there seemed to be something wrong with his head. Otherwise, why would he treat other people like fools?

Eat one and gain magical abilities? Why not just say eating one would let you fly into the sky?

"The origins of Devil Fruits are a mystery, but... it wouldn't be wrong to understand them that way. So, beautiful miss, may I introduce the fruits we have here?"

Rosha automatically ignored the disdain in the blonde's eyes and shamelessly made his suggestion.

Since she had nothing better to do, the blonde did not refuse. "Of course!"

She really wanted to see whether Rosha could talk his way out of this.

"Please take a look, miss. This fruit is called the Smooth-Smooth Fruit. Eating it will make a person's skin exceptionally smooth."

"This is the Kilo-Kilo Fruit. After eating it, you'll gain the ability to control your own gravity. You could even float up while holding an umbrella."

"As for this fruit..."

"Shop owner, do you think I'm an idiot?"

"Miss, I didn't mean that. I know you may think what I'm saying sounds absurd, but... all our fruits have samples available for tasting. Try one, and you'll know."

That was right. Rosha's Devil Fruits came with special tasting samples that could grant the eater the corresponding ability for five minutes.

"Am I crazy?"

The blonde left those words behind and walked away without looking back, her merciless voice drifting from afar.

"Ah, just as expected."

Watching the girl's retreating figure, Rosha could not help showing a bitter smile.

Over the past month, he had experienced similar situations far too many times.

The moment many people saw that those colorful, bizarrely shaped fruits were meant to be eaten, they fled in fright.

Although Rosha had samples available for tasting, many people did not dare casually stuff such strange things into their mouths.

Even when a few people occasionally did try them, they were defeated by the Devil Fruits' shit-like taste after taking a bite. They spat them out immediately instead of swallowing, so they never gained the corresponding abilities.

In other words, Rosha had to talk them into it first before they would try a sample. Trying to persuade them with a sample first was useless.

But what normal person would believe such nonsense as gaining superpowers by eating a fruit?

Even in a world that had Captain America!

And there was another very important point: Devil Fruits were initially purchased with money, but after a certain period, they would switch to being paid for with gold.

By then, having money would not be enough to buy them!

You would have to exchange your money for gold first before coming here, creating another barrier out of thin air.

"At this rate, who knows when I'll finish the novice mission?" Thinking of this, Rosha began to feel a little uneasy.

That very morning.

Every major media outlet had been heavily reporting on the Jericho Missile newly launched by Stark Industries. That's right, this "missile of death" had already been born.

Would the day Tony Stark was kidnapped by the Ten Rings, transformed himself, and became Iron Man be far away?

By then, the age of superheroes in the Marvel Universe would officially begin, and Earth would be invaded in all sorts of ways by aliens, mechanical armies, dimensional demon gods, interdimensional robots, and more.

As an ordinary person, there would be no choice but to become cannon fodder!

He might not even know how he died.

So Rosha's only hope was the system's novice mission.

That's right. Rosha was not actually from this world, but a transmigrator from Azure Star.

Come to think of it, his previous life had actually been fairly good.

After graduating from college, he had not struggled through the "toughest job-hunting season in history" like his other classmates, competing with millions of people in the brutal workplace.

As soon as Rosha graduated, he returned home and inherited the eyeglasses shop his father had left behind.

He could not make a fortune from it, but he was definitely better off than most office workers.

Half a year after graduation, he had also smoothly found a girlfriend who was excellent in every respect. They had even planned to get engaged at the end of the year.

Everything seemed to be moving in a good direction, but who would have thought that while celebrating Qixi Festival with her, Rosha would get food poisoning and kick the bucket?

When he opened his eyes again, Rosha had been reborn in the Marvel Universe and bound to a system called the Devil Fruit Supplier.

As long as he successfully sold Devil Fruits and reached certain sales targets, he would receive the corresponding rewards.

The novice mission issued to Rosha by the system was to successfully sell one Devil Fruit!

It sounded simple, but Rosha had spent an entire month without managing to sell a single one.

This was harder than he had imagined.

Then again, no normal person would ever buy a Devil Fruit. Only someone with a screw loose might do so.

Rosha could not help mocking himself.