From Now On, My Name Is "Dark Hound"

Anyone who had read One Piece would definitely mistake it for the Flame-Flame Fruit at first glance, but unfortunately... it was not.

There was no One Piece manga on Marvel Earth either, so no one knew what this thing was.

It looked like a pineapple overall rather than a perfect sphere.

The patterns on it did not resemble flames or clouds either. Instead... they looked like acid, mud, and so on... carrying a flowing sort of feel.

Of course, its color was not orange-red either, but dark red, like churning magma.

That was right, it was the Magma-Magma Fruit.

Among Devil Fruits, it was a high-grade fruit in the very first tier. Of course... among Logias, it was likewise one of the very best.

Such an awesome Devil Fruit was only considered mid-tier among inheritance abilities, and even low mid-tier at that. One could imagine just how incredible the other mid-tier, or even high-tier, abilities had to be.

It was even harder to imagine just how overwhelmingly powerful the Dragon God's highest-level inheritance had to be.

Huh?

Actually, it was not that the Magma-Magma Fruit was weaker than other, better inheritance abilities. The issue was simply the degree of perfection in Kino's "replicas." Put it this way: if the real Magma-Magma Fruit were brought here, it would definitely rank among the high-tier inheritances, at least at an average level among them. But when Kino made Devil Fruit "replicas," there was a high chance that [defective products] would appear.

A defective product did not mean it had side effects. It meant that it inherited too low a percentage of the original fruit's power.

Most defective products were low-tier inheritances.

The Magma-Magma Fruit was not a failure, but neither was it perfect, so it had been classified as low mid-tier.

Kino had