Transparent Fruit

"Kumashi!" Perona lay helplessly in the cell, wearing Seastone handcuffs and crying over the zombie teddy bear. The zombie teddy bear obediently held Perona, not daring to offer the Marines the slightest resistance. Miming had beaten Perona's butt until it was swollen, and then more than a hundred Marines had spanked her as well, leaving her only able to lie face-down for the time being. She had no idea why the spanking from that person hurt so much. Under normal circumstances, it should have stopped hurting long ago.

Absalom was thrown into the cell opposite hers.

Soon, Miming arrived with an apple in hand. He glanced at Perona, then entered Absalom's cell.

No one knew what happened inside the cell. Before long, Absalom began thrashing about. But with one miserable howl from Absalom, every sound abruptly ceased.

Miming opened the iron maiden stone coffin made of Seastone. Seeing the apple beside Absalom's corpse, which had been pierced into a honeycomb, had turned into the "Transparent Fruit," he gave a satisfied snort and stored the Transparent Fruit in a special small box. This method of extracting Devil Fruits, which he had learned from Dr. Vegapunk, was worthless once revealed, yet it was one of the World Government's most important secrets in recent years.

When the cell door opened, Perona saw the iron maiden coffin inside, soaked in a river of blood, along with the horrifying state of Absalom's corpse.

"Waaah—!" Perona was so frightened that she desperately burrowed beneath Kumashi's arm.

"You're next." Miming spoke with chilling indifference as he entered her cell.

"No—!" Perona cried, tears and snot streaming down her face. "I'm just a little girl! You can't bear to kill me! No—! Help—! I've never done anything bad, never killed anyone! I'm not wanted, you're a Marine, you