"Black Dragon Form has multiple Devil Fruit powers. You still don't believe it, Kaido?"
Shane rocked back and forth with laughter.
"Nonsense! I saw Kuma's ability. It looked a lot like what you used before. You both have similar Paw-Paw pads on your palms!"
Kaido was no fool. Olvia aboard the ship had noticed too, but it was none of her business.
"Besides, unless Steel Hound dies, no one can take his Devil Fruit power!"
"You certainly didn't sound like you were joking back then!"
"When we were in the West Blue, just before reaching Ohara, you disappeared for a while too."
Kaido looked at Shane, his eyes reflecting the sea of stars and the figure before him.
The night in the Sorbet Kingdom was beautiful enough.
In truth.
If there were no Celestial Dragons, if the Marines upheld justice everywhere in the world, and there were no pirates turning their blades on the weak.
Every place in this world ought to be this beautiful.
"Do you have a mutant physique like Captain Rocks?"
Kaido should have thought of it long ago, but humans could only eat one Devil Fruit. That was an ironclad rule.
Only Rocks had been different, but he was the only one in hundreds of years!
"No!"
"Then how can you have the Paw-Paw Fruit's power? There's only one of each Devil Fruit!"
Kaido found that nothing made sense.
A second identical Devil Fruit?
A mutant physique, just like that?
"See? You can't explain it."
Shane shrugged.
"This world is strange, like how Devil Fruits have superior and inferior forms."
"My Devil Fruit is a superior form of both Azure Dragon Form and the Paw-Paw Fruit. That's reasonable, isn't it?"
"Aren't Mythical Zoans the pinnacle of Zoan Devil Fruits of the same kind?"
"You idiot!"
"Think