Counting the time before he transmigrated, Xie Wen reckoned it had been a decade or so since he had cried this hard.
Things in the One Piece world defied reason even when they weren't Devil Fruits. Drinking the "medicinal liquor" hadn't brought up any sad memories for Xie Wen, yet he simply couldn't stop crying.
Nor was it just forced crying with tears running down his face. An actual sadness lingered in his heart. This mushroom was basically a sadness version of a Negative Hollow.
In some respects, this stuff was even more troublesome than Perona's Hollow-Hollow Fruit. Since it wasn't a Devil Fruit, even Haki couldn't resist its effects.
Its drawback was obvious, though. Unlike Perona's Negative Hollows, it didn't leave its victims completely incapable of resisting.
Even while Xie Wen had been crying his heart out, he had still been perfectly capable of catching the Little Furball Cats who had tricked him and spanking them. He simply hadn't done it.
After all, he played plenty of tricks on his cats himself. This was one way they showed their affection for each other. Once a prank had landed, they wouldn't dwell on it, but would instead hold out for their next chance to get even.
"Mm-hmm... So its effects really are the same type as a Laughshroom's. Looks like I guessed right. These mushrooms belong to a series, meow."
(=ΦωΦ=)
Ai Haibara Meow nodded as she rapidly jotted down Xie Wen's experiences after "taking the medicine" in her experiment notebook.
Fun and games aside, this little schemer took her actual work very seriously.
As for the Sapphire Star, who had just been tricked...
Naturally, he cooperated with Ai Haibara Meow's research as a conscientious drug tester.
"Now that you mention it... they really are pretty similar. Eating a Laughshroom