Bat-Bat Fruit, Mythical Zoan, Vampire Form

"Eh? There was actually a Devil Fruit here!"

When Oak held the fruit in his hand, Kaido was the first of the three who had jumped down to crowd over and look, but Oak shoved him away at once.

"Get lost!"

After pushing Kaido away, Oak guarded the Devil Fruit against his chest with great vigilance, watching him as if he were a thief.

"Stingy!"

Kaido shouted as though he had suffered some enormous humiliation.

"It's just a Devil Fruit. It's not like I've never seen one before. Do you think the great Kaido would steal yours?

"You distrust me this much? You've truly broken my heart. If you won't let me see it today, I'm cutting ties with you!"

As he spoke, Kaido moved in again.

"Cut the crap!"

"Don't think I don't know what you're plotting. You took at least seven, eight, nine, ten sneaky looks at my Devil Fruit just now!"

Oak roared and kicked Kaido dozens of meters away. If he had initially been instinctively wary because he knew how Kaido obtained the Azure Dragon Fruit in the original story, he could now be certain that this bastard was up to no good. That thick-browed, big-eyed bastard was rotten to the core!

He had actually been found out?

Kaido climbed up from the ground, his expression stiffening as he listened to Oak's roar.

He really had been tempted. Though he did not know what ability the Devil Fruit contained, Oak definitely did. Otherwise, Oak would not have made a special trip here to find it. And judging by Oak's urgency and how much he valued it from the very beginning, this fruit was definitely no ordinary power. He would not lose out no matter what.

The first time he approached, he had still been hesitating. By the time he came close a second time, having figured all this out, he had already made up his mind to seize it. He had planned to swallow it in one bite while Oak was not paying attention and make it a done deal, but he had not expected Oak to notice.

Kaido did not feel embarrassed at being exposed. He only felt annoyed.

He should not have looked at it those extra few times. Otherwise, the Devil Fruit would already be in his mouth by now. Unwilling to give up, he looked up to see whether he still had a chance, but Oak seemed to have seen right through him. To avoid dragging things out, Oak swallowed the Devil Fruit in his hand whole right in front of him.

"You want to take advantage of me? Dream on!"

As Oak swallowed it, he glared viciously at Kaido.

"Pah, it tastes awful!"

A moment later, after swallowing the entire Devil Fruit, he kept spitting in disgust.

No wonder even Luffy thought it tasted terrible. The flavor was as unbearable as fermented shit!

That was how Oak described the taste of Devil Fruits in his heart as Rocks and Newgate walked over.

"You came here this time just to find this Devil Fruit?"

Rocks asked curiously.

"Of course!"

Oak nodded.

"You knew in advance what ability it had?"

Rocks asked again.

"Bat-Bat Fruit, Mythical Zoan, Vampire Form!"

Oak directly gave the name of the Devil Fruit he had eaten.

This was precisely the ability of Count Patrick Redfield from the original story.

"A Mythical Zoan, even rarer than a Logia!!"

Rocks and Newgate were both greatly surprised upon hearing this. Mythical Zoan Devil Fruits were a rather unique kind among Zoans. The creatures they transformed their users into did not exist in reality, existing only in legends. They were even rarer than Logias, publicly acknowledged as the strongest of the three major types. In addition to greatly enhancing the user's physical abilities like all Zoans, they usually possessed certain special supernatural powers, and some could even manipulate natural elements.

Moreover, Mythical Zoans generally boosted the user's physical abilities far more than ordinary Zoans and Ancient Zoans. They could be said to be the most well-rounded Devil Fruit abilities.

He had guessed right. What Oak had his eye on really was something good!

Kaido, meanwhile, stomped his feet in frustration, devastated over missing out on such a precious treasure. He should not have hesitated when he first approached. He had wasted the opportunity for nothing!

Next time, the next time he got an opportunity like this, he would definitely seize it properly.

He silently swore to himself.

"Show us your ability!"

Rocks circled Oak several times without discovering any changes in him, so he curiously asked Oak to show everyone his ability.

Oak did not refuse. He also happened to want to test his new power, so he closed his eyes and connected with the inside of his body.

With his eyes closed, he could feel his heart beating. Not one heart, but three.

Since birth, his heart had been different from everyone else's. Ordinary people had one heart, while he had three. More precisely, one large heart had been divided into three sections of different colors. They were connected to each other yet clearly distinct, each occupying one section and forming a triangle.

"Thump, thump, thump~"

As his heart beat, an invisible energy flowed from one of those sections, spreading through his limbs, his entire body, and every cell within him.

This was the power of the Mythical Zoan Vampire Fruit he had just eaten.

"Flap~"

A pair of fleshy wings radiating an eerie crimson glow spread open behind him. At the same time, his light blue short hair and pupils turned scarlet, while his originally fair skin became as pale as a corpse.

This was Oak's hybrid form!

"Whoosh~"

He fluttered his wings and shot straight up from where he stood, appearing in the sky a hundred meters above. Then he plunged down like a meteor.

It all happened in an instant. He had already made a round trip from a hundred meters in the air, and to the naked eye, it seemed as though he had never left.

"My physique has been enhanced!"

Not only that, Oak clenched his fists and discovered that both his strength and physique had increased tremendously after eating the Devil Fruit. It was a power he had never felt before, and he desperately wanted to unleash it.

"Beast form!"

He transformed, becoming a complete vampire. His body swelled in an instant until he was nearly as large as Kaido, and the fangs in his mouth became sharper and longer.

"Hehehe~"

Looking at Kaido, he threw a punch.

"Little bro, come test my new strength!"

The first thing Oak thought of was using Kaido as a punching bag.

"Bring it on! Who's afraid of you!"

Watching the massive fist wrapped in a fierce gale come at him, Kaido swung his spiked club and charged forward head-on.

Then, the very next moment...

With a whoosh, his entire body flew away like a kite with its string cut.

"That increase is a bit ridiculous!"

Rocks stroked his chin as he watched the scene, while Newgate nodded in agreement.

They both knew that Zoans, especially Mythical Zoans, enhanced all aspects of their users' physical abilities, but they had not expected the boost to be so outrageous.

Before eating the fruit, Oak had been stronger than Kaido, but only by a limited margin. Whether in strength, physique, or endurance, he had only been slightly superior to Kaido.

But now...

Looking at Kaido, who had been sent flying by a single punch, setting aside everything else, Oak at least now held an absolute advantage over Kaido in terms of strength.