Luluka Island, within a dense forest.
Inside a crude wooden cabin, Sephiroth stood before a wooden table, dressed in a white lab coat with twin blades strapped at his waist. He held a test tube filled with crimson liquid in his left hand and a dropper containing dark green liquid in his right.
As he gently squeezed the rubber bulb of the dropper and let the dark green liquid fall into the test tube, the crimson liquid immediately went "Bang!", releasing a large cloud of gas. Tiny bubbles also began to form within the crimson liquid.
It looked just like a carbonated drink!
Sephiroth stared at the test tube of crimson liquid in his hand, his expression conflicted as he muttered:
"This new drug made using Brook's blood has already undergone toxicity testing. It's non-toxic and perfectly safe to consume...
But after the Bat Clone drank the new Awakening Drug, it directly collapsed!
Could it be because I tried to permanently erase the will within the Vampire Fruit, causing the Bat Clone to collapse after losing the medium that sustained it?"
Since this Awakening Drug had been specially made for awakening the Vampire Fruit...
There was no point in finding anyone else to test it on. In the end, the only possible clinical test subject was himself!
"Eh, whatever! With my physical constitution, even if I drank ordinary poison, at most I'd just get diarrhea!
I refuse to believe a mere improved drug can do anything to me!
It can't be that after drinking it, I'll just drop dead without even having the chance to split into bats and rebuild my body, right?"
Sephiroth let out a soft sigh, raised the test tube in his left hand, tipped back his head, and downed the crimson liquid in one gulp.
"Hmm!?