New Strategy

"Hello, boss."

"What kind of fruit are these Devil Fruits, exactly?"

"Huh!? You can eat these things? You've got to be kidding!"

After Deadpool left, several more customers came to Rosha's shop.

As usual, every one of them took Rosha for a lunatic.

In the past, Rosha really had no good way to explain things to them. Even offering them a taste would not have done much good.

They would have thought he was trying to poison them!

But now, things were different.

There was no need to go through so much trouble.

Because Rosha had an idea and came up with a solution.

"Miss, I'm not joking."

Rosha looked at the youthful, pretty girl before him, who looked like a college student, and gave her a mysterious smile.

"Watch closely. Don't blink."

As he spoke, Rosha slowly raised his right hand and held out a finger.

"What are you doing? This is so weird."

The girl was completely baffled by Rosha's actions and had no idea what he was doing.

But the very next moment, golden light suddenly flickered from Rosha's finger!

"Oh! That's incredible! Your finger is glowing! How did you do that!"

"Is this a magic trick? Are you a magician, boss? This is absolutely astounding!"

The girl immediately covered her mouth and cried out, as if she had witnessed something unbelievable.

"This isn't magic, miss. You can inspect my hand and see whether I'm hiding any props."

"Magic is sleight of hand, visual deception achieved through special props. But that's not what this is."

Rosha "extinguished" the light on his finger and held his hand out before the girl.

The girl grabbed Rosha's hand and examined it over and over, but she truly found nothing unusual.

Her previous scornful attitude toward Rosha gradually began to change.

"Boss, is this the superpower you said the Devil Fruit gave you?" the girl asked Rosha, her eyes shining.

"Of course. This is the ability I gained after eating the Flash-Flash Fruit." Rosha smiled at her.

"Really?"

"You've already seen it, haven't you?"

Naturally, the girl did not believe Rosha so easily, but her guard gradually lowered. She was no longer as resistant and skeptical as before, and that was a good thing.

She even took the initiative to ask about the other Devil Fruits!

Compared to before, this was already enormous progress.

But when she heard that a Devil Fruit cost hundreds of thousands, or even over a million dollars, she was scared off immediately.

"Boss, this is practically robbery!"

"I've never heard anything so outrageous!"

After leaving behind that merciless accusation, the girl stormed off indignantly.

Though he had not made a sale, Rosha was actually in quite a good mood.

If the girl had not been short on cash, and had instead been someone with money to spare, Rosha was quite confident he could have sold another Devil Fruit.

"Not bad!"

"Very good!"

By proactively demonstrating his miraculous ability to draw customers' attention, he had turned them from passive recipients of information into people actively driven by curiosity. The facts proved that this method was quite effective.

This was how he would do things from now on!

Still, it seemed he would need to study marketing more in the future.

At the very least, he needed the discernment to tell whether a customer had money and could afford to buy anything.

Rosha was not a trained monkey, and the Flash-Flash Fruit was not a magic show.

There was no need for him to waste so much effort on people with no potential to buy.

"Should I make some short videos and upload them to YouTube?"

Rosha immediately began considering that question.

He believed videos based around the Flash-Flash Fruit would be quite interesting.

There was no guarantee they would go viral after being uploaded, but surely someone would see them, right?

They should bring him some traffic, at least.

But after pondering it for a while, Rosha dismissed the idea. After all, this was a world where S.H.I.E.L.D. existed.

And S.H.I.E.L.D. specialized in dealing with supernatural incidents. If they set their sights on him, that would be troublesome.

Of course, a few videos might not necessarily attract S.H.I.E.L.D.'s attention, but it was better safe than sorry. Rosha did not want to take that risk.

He was still too weak. He did not yet have the confidence to deal with S.H.I.E.L.D.

He should not be so high-profile.

Besides, the shop's foot traffic was actually decent. Around twenty to thirty customers came in naturally every day.

Rosha refused to believe he could not sell five Devil Fruits.

Everything should remain as it was for now.

Meanwhile.

At Deadpool's home.

"Wade, is that really you? No, no, no, you're not Wade. You can't possibly be Wade!"

Vanessa stared at the man whose skin was even better than hers, unable to believe her eyes no matter what.

Wade's moon-face could scare even children into tears. How could he possibly be this guy?

Though this guy did indeed look exactly like Wade had before!

"Honey, it's me! I know this sounds crazy, but I'm cured! My skin has been healed!"

"No, my skin is even better than before—better than anyone else's in the world!"

"You definitely won't believe this, but something utterly crazy happened to me."

Wade spoke to Vanessa in a rapid torrent, his face full of excitement.

But Vanessa still could not believe it.

Only after Deadpool revealed some extremely private things known only to the two of them did Vanessa accept the fact in utter shock.

The man before her really was Wade!

"Wade, oh my God, what happened? Why did your face suddenly heal?"

Vanessa's eyes widened. She felt as if her brain could not process it all. "This is impossible!"

Wade's face had still been covered in craters that morning, yet it was healed by the afternoon?

"Honey, I used to think so too, but what can I say? Today was my lucky day!"

"I happened across a shop on 73rd Street that sold Devil Fruits, so I went in to take a look..."

Deadpool told Vanessa everything that had happened that day.

"Devil Fruits? Wade, there are really fruits this miraculous in the world?"

Vanessa clicked her tongue in wonder, marveling repeatedly.

If she had not seen Wade's face completely transformed in a single afternoon, she would never have believed it.

But no matter what, this was a good thing.

Vanessa did not mind Wade's moon-face, but if he could become handsome again, that was naturally even better.

Vanessa immediately suggested that such wonderful news called for a celebration outside.

Knock, knock, knock!

But at that moment, someone knocked on the door outside.

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