"Momo! 100-fold enlargement! Giant's hand!"
Byrnndi World stepped through the air with Geppo, his eyes sinking completely into darkness.
Before this.
His enlargement ability had had no effect on himself, only on objects.
Other Paramecia Devil Fruit Awakenings affected their surroundings, but the More-More Fruit instead affected its user.
One of his hands grew to a hundred times its original size.
Yet its speed did not diminish. Instead, he attacked Shane at a hundredfold speed.
"Hahahahaha!"
"I'm so powerful now. I feel like I can see your future, see your miserable death!"
"My speed has broken its limits, and my body has broken through to enlargement!"
"There's absolutely no one in this world stronger than me!"
Black mist rose from Byrnndi World's entire body, indistinguishable now as Haki or demonic will.
Witnessing this firsthand, Shane thought of Shanks's daughter.
Devil Fruits and demonic will could be separated through some means.
To awaken a fruit, one inevitably had to overcome or merge with the demonic will.
The former would let the user rule the fruit and become a truly awakened ability user.
The latter had only two possible outcomes: either their personality changed, making them more like a devil walking among humans, or they lost consciousness entirely and let the devil replace them.
Among the awakened fruit users Shane had encountered so far.
Waldo was the third powerful fighter in this state.
The first had been Rocks, who had willingly sacrificed himself to darkness to gain greater power.
The second had also been at God Valley: those forcibly awakened fruit users on the beach who had lost their sense of self before the escape.
"Are you afraid? I think I can hear your heartbeat! Hahahahaha!"
Waldo let out laughter that did not belong to him.
Shane remembered that before being consumed