The Godzilla Fruit

North Blue,

Off the coast of a burning island.

An enormous three-masted sailing ship slowly headed toward the deserted open sea.

The circular, smiling skull painted on its black sails

Was none other than the emblem of the Donquixote Family, renowned throughout the North Blue, and even across the Grand Line and the entire world!

This three-masted ship

Was one of the vessels belonging to Doflamingo's North Blue branch.

And it was no ordinary ship,

But a slave ship!

It was used specifically to transport those sold into slavery,

Delivering them to human trafficking sites around the world.

Among them, any slaves with some special quality would be sent to the largest human trafficking site-the Sabaody Archipelago!

There,

Was the world's central slave market, with every kind of slave anyone could want: giants, the Longarm Tribe, the Fish-Man Race, Merfolk...

Every kind was available.

However, the slaves aboard this slave ship

Were merely slaves gathered from a fallen nation.

If one had to pick someone a little more special among these slaves, it would probably be the prince of that fallen nation.

-Arthur D. Dragonier.

He should have been the heir to a kingdom in the North Blue.

But,

Because his father had angered the World Government,

The World Government had ordered his country's destruction,

And the entire kingdom had become a sea of flames overnight.

Before an irresistible, overwhelming force,

The king had been killed, the nation's wealth plundered, and the people left homeless, some fleeing, others killed...

That vast kingdom

Had been reduced to a single sentence that might only appear in the World Government's classified files.

Because even the kingdom's history

Would likewise be erased by the World Government!

The World Government would leave no record of its destruction of a nation.

No one knew that a country had been erased overnight by the World Government.

Of course,

Those who knew the news

Would not speak out and oppose the World Government either.

At that moment, in a cell inside the ship's hold.

Inside the dim cage,

More than a dozen people sat against the surrounding walls.

The candlelight in the corridor outside the cell swayed with the ship's movement.

It cast flickering light across the faces of those inside.

The black soot stains on each of their faces were faintly visible, as though symbolizing the fear inside each of them...

The cage floor had originally been covered in straw.

It had been intended to keep the cage dry,

But because no one ever came to clean it or replace it regularly,

The straw on the floor had become a mixture of countless liquids.

A pungent, foul odor filled the entire cell.

"Ah..."

In a dark corner beyond the candlelight's reach.

The prince of the fallen nation woke up, immediately smelled the stench in the air, and grimaced. "What is that smell-?"

Arthur had just been about to speak,

When a flood of memories flashed through his mind like a movie.

In a mere instant.

Arthur understood his current situation.

"I transmigrated!"

"And I even transmigrated into the world of One Piece, becoming the prince of a fallen nation in the North Blue, about to be sold as a slave..."

Arthur immediately felt a surge of Holy shit!

One moment, he had just left the theater after watching a Godzilla movie and saved a little girl about to be hit by a truck on his way home, and then he had transmigrated...

Arthur could not help thinking about it.

Good thing I didn't transmigrate into Godzilla's world.

After all,

Compared with the world of One Piece, in Godzilla's world, only Godzilla and those enormous monsters possessed supernatural power.

If an ordinary person went to Godzilla's world,

There was no telling when Godzilla and those monsters might come ashore and wreak havoc on a city,

And you, sitting at home,

Might drop dead before even realizing anything had happened.

As for the world of One Piece,

Although it also had supernatural powers,

And utterly evil beings like pirates,

As long as an ordinary person kept a sufficiently low profile and hid far enough away, they still had a chance of living a happy, fulfilling life.

Of course, that applied to ordinary people...

"But I'm about to lose even my status as an ordinary person..."

Sitting in the dark corner, Arthur's expression inevitably grew grave.

Once this ship reached its destination,

He would be unable to escape his fate of becoming a slave!

Arthur had already tested them after waking up. The shackles on his wrists and ankles were impossible to break free of with an ordinary person's body like his.

Under his current circumstances.

He had absolutely no possibility of escaping.

He could only passively accept the fate awaiting him.

At that thought,

Arthur's expression grew even uglier.

He had never imagined

That after finally getting a chance to transmigrate,

He would end up as a slave about to be sold...

"Wait!"

"Transmigration, transmigration..."

Thinking of the key word "transmigration," Arthur could not help murmuring.

"Since I've transmigrated, where's my system?" With a thought, he tried calling in his mind for the system every transmigrator was supposed to have.

"Ding!"

"User detected to be fully awake."

"Dimensional Infinite Evolution System successfully bound!"

"With this system, the user can evolve infinitely simply by completing missions!"

"Starter gift pack issued. Please claim it as soon as possible!"

Without warning.

A cold electronic voice suddenly rang out in Arthur's mind.

The system had appeared!

After hearing those words, Arthur's expression immediately relaxed.

That damn author really hadn't lied to me!

Then,

With a thought,

Arthur directly checked the rewards in the starter gift pack:

[Mythical Zoan · Overlord Fruit · Godzilla Form, Armament Haki (beginner), Observation Haki (beginner)]

Next,

Arthur felt two powers suddenly emerge within his body. One was Observation Haki, which allowed him to instantly see clearly inside the dim cell.

The other

Was Armament Haki, which could make his body as hard as steel.

Of course,

Both forms of Haki were at their most basic level, but even that basic level transformed Arthur's strength beyond that of an ordinary person!

Finally.

Arthur looked at the Godzilla fruit now cradled in both hands.

Fortunately, he had been leaning in a dark corner all along, and no one noticed that a Devil Fruit had appeared in his hands.

Although he was certain

That there was absolutely no Godzilla fruit in this world of One Piece!

Arthur knew this was probably the system's doing.

So he did not hesitate at all and devoured the entire Godzilla fruit in large bites.

"...It tastes awful!"

The instant he swallowed it,

Arthur's features involuntarily twisted together.

However, once he recovered,

He immediately felt tremendous power continuously surging from within his body!

Like a dragon's heart,

It was pounding and surging!

At that moment,

Arthur's body was instantly brimming with incomparable power!

Of all Devil Fruits, Zoan Devil Fruits provided the most powerful enhancement to bodily functions, not to mention that

The Godzilla fruit rewarded by the system

Was also a Mythical Zoan Fruit, the rarest kind of Zoan.

And these Mythical Zoan Fruits had only appeared a handful of times even in the original One Piece story, their rarity surpassing even Logia Devil Fruits!

Merely eating the Godzilla fruit

Had already brought great changes to Arthur's body!

Originally,

After everything he had experienced during his nation's fall, his stamina had long since been exhausted, and he could not muster the slightest strength. That was why he had passed out earlier.

But after eating the Godzilla fruit.

Arthur's stamina recovered completely.

And perfect muscles promptly appeared on his body.

They were not exaggeratedly bulging, however.

Instead,

His muscular physique was as perfectly proportioned as a sculpture.

It was full of strength and flowing lines.

"I've become so strong..." Arthur could not help murmuring in wonder. With his current strength, he should be able to handle his present situation easily.

Just then!

A voice suddenly rang out outside the cell.

One of Doflamingo's subordinates

Entered the hold containing the cells, leading a ferocious beast taller than a person.

"Hurry up, all of you! Get on your feet and come to the front so I can take a look!" the man swore, banging an iron rod against the cell bars.

To make sure the slave count was correct,

He needed to inspect the cells at regular intervals.

After all, they were in the slave business, and every slave represented a sum of Beli. Naturally, they did not want to see their "Beli" die.

Soon, the slaves imprisoned in the various cells moved forward.

They stood before the iron bars, waiting to be inspected.

Yet at that moment.

Arthur stood up as well.

He slowly walked to the iron bars and waited for the man to reach his cell.

Before long, the man had arrived in front of Arthur's cell.

Just as he was counting heads,

the man saw the contempt in Arthur's eyes. His expression immediately darkened, and he slammed his iron rod against the bars in front of Arthur.

"You damned slave! How dare you look at me like that!"

The man glared at Arthur and cursed.

The ferocious beast he held on a leash beside him also let out a roar at Arthur!

"Roar! Roar! Roar!!!"

The beast's roar, brimming with fury,

instantly swept through the entire hold.

Naturally, Arthur, who was closest, was the first to bear the brunt of the roar.

The people imprisoned in the other cells immediately looked terrified.

Likewise,

the others in Arthur's cell began trembling all over, fear filling their hearts. They looked at their country's prince, wanting to stop Arthur...

A white-haired old man trembled as he tried to grab Arthur,

to pull him back.

Yet Arthur, his expression unchanged, reached out and declined the kind gesture.

He knew,

most of the people on this slave ship were refugees from his father's former country. In other words, they should all have been his future subjects.

But because of the World Government's atrocities,

they had lost their country and their own homes.

They had thus been reduced to their current plight, about to be sold into slavery.

Even though Arthur had transmigrated here.

Still,

after he had finished looking through the original owner's memories.

Anger welled up in his heart all the same!

"I will put an end to all of this," Arthur silently vowed.

The next second.

Arthur looked again at the man beyond the iron bars in front of him.

Arthur's eyes had actually transformed into Godzilla's beastly eyes!

That pair of eyes,

suddenly radiated an aura from the primordial past!

Ancient, mighty, magnificent!

As though they contained endless mysteries and power!

The man outside the iron bars was so frightened that he hastily stumbled backward, only stopping when his back slammed into the cell opposite. His face was filled with utter terror!

He had never imagined,

that a person's eyes could be so terrifying!

Merely looking at him had frightened him into this state.

"Y-you... what kind of monster are you!!!" With his back against the iron bars, the man instinctively cried out in panic, completely stripped of his earlier arrogance.

At that moment, even the ferocious beast he held on a leash.

Was cowed by Arthur's gaze!

"Whimper..."

Indistinct whimpers came from its throat as its whole body instinctively curled up, trembling visibly...

Arthur had no desire to answer the man's question.

His gaze turned to the ferocious beast beside the man.

"Now, kill your master..."

Arthur spoke each word in a low voice, his eyes fixed firmly on the beast's. Through its eyes, he could see the fear in its heart at that moment.