The woman in front of Luffy glared at him, barely holding back her anger.
"Who else could Alvida be but me? Where are you even looking? Do you see another me here?"
Luffy looked helpless.
The Alvida he remembered bore no resemblance to the woman before him.
He was utterly baffled. How had she changed so much, so fast?
"If I remember right, you used to be ridiculously fat. There was barely a patch of your body that wasn't battered."
"Are you serious? How could you go from that size to being this slim?"
Alvida slowly ran a hand through her hair, smiling broadly.
"Heh. I've always been confident, and confident people change."
"I don't mind letting you in on the secret. I ate a Devil Fruit, and that's how I ended up like this."
"It's called the Smooth-Smooth Fruit."
Alvida seemed to relish his shock.
The more she talked, the smugger she sounded.
As soon as she finished, she showed off her figure.
Cold sweat broke out on Luffy's forehead.
He had never heard of a fruit by that name before.
His first thought was that it sounded like trouble.
Luffy needed a moment to take it in.
That was a lot to process.
"What does the fruit do?"
Alvida smiled with complete confidence.
"Any attack slides right off my skin."
"And it can't hurt my skin at all."
"Too bad my beauty hasn't changed much."
"In other words, the biggest difference is that my freckles are gone."
"After getting a fresh start, I was looking for a target, just like you, so I joined forces with them."
Naruto looked curiously at Kaguya Ōtsutsuki, who stood behind Luffy.
Always happy to stir things up, Naruto glanced back and forth between her and Luffy.
"Kaguya... normally, this is the kind