"So it still didn't work..."
A few days later, Xie Wen clicked his tongue regretfully as he looked at the two Cat-Made Devil Fruits before him, both ring-patterned apples that differed only slightly in color, and the Hunter's Notes, which had recorded them in the Devil Fruit Encyclopedia without awarding him any fragments.
Granted, the Cat-Made Devil Fruit previously copied from the Giraffe-Giraffe Fruit hadn't yielded any fragments either, but that had only been an ordinary Zoan Devil Fruit. The Mythical Zoan Sakura Dragon Fruit Kaido Meow had eaten had properly awarded him a fragment.
Of the two fruits before him, one was naturally a copy of the Zoan Snake-Snake Fruit, Mythical Zoan, Yamata no Orochi Form, while the other was an Okuchi no Makami Fruit subspecies copied using Yamato's Lineage Factor.
Yet these two copies of Mythical Zoan Fruits, on which Xie Wen had pinned such high hopes, hadn't earned him a single Summon Ticket Fragment...
This lousy book was as stingy as ever!
"Are these the Artificial Devil Fruits you mentioned before? They look completely different from the one I ate."
Yamato looked curiously at the two ring-patterned apples and said thoughtfully, "Say, what would happen if I ate another artificial Okuchi no Makami Fruit?"
"Huh?"
Yamato's sudden idea caught Xie Wen off guard.
That's right! You couldn't eat two Devil Fruits. The mystical explanation was that the "devil consciousnesses" dwelling within the fruits would fight each other, while the scientific explanation was a conflict between genes, or rather, Lineage Factors.
But these copies most likely didn't contain any "devil consciousness," because Ai Haibara Meow believed the main reason human-made-or cat-made-Zoan Devil Fruits couldn't grant life to inanimate objects was probably the absence of this so-called "devil consciousness."
*As for conflicting Lineage Factors, there was even less reason