Slave of Love
"Let me formally introduce myself. My name is Bethany, and I'm a member of the Seven Deadly Sins."
Bethany smiled slightly, her blood-red eyes gazing at the object in the other person's hand. After confirming that it was a Devil Fruit, her smile grew even brighter.
"I'm glad you kept your promise. If you calculate the time, there are still some days until the agreed date. My Lord will be very pleased that you were able to deliver ahead of schedule."
Bullet didn't waste any words and simply tossed the Devil Fruit to the other party.
"I've already given you the item."
"Okay, got it. Thanks for your hard work. Next time, it'll be three months again."
Bethany nodded in satisfaction and was about to activate the teleportation to leave.
Bullet frowned and said, "Wait a minute."
"Something wrong? No haggling here. Oh, and don't worry, the timeline is from the day you escaped, not the date of this transaction. That means you have three months and..."
"That's not it." Bullet scoffed. "I want to ask about some information. With your organization's capabilities, you couldn't possibly be unaware of the rumors circulating these past few days, could you?"
"What news?"
"Regarding the One Piece, the One Piece of the Pirate King!" Bullet said with a serious expression, "I'm not interested in the treasure. I just want to ask you, is Roger still alive? If so, where is he now?"
"Hmm, well..."
Bethany's lips curled slightly as she pondered how to reply.
Roger is certainly dead, but such an answer doesn't align with the interests of the Seven Deadly Sins, so she doesn't mind telling a little lie.
"We don't know either. All we can tell you is that Whitebeard did indeed live a second life; he drank a secret treasure called the [Wine of Immortality!]!"
After saying that, Bethany teleported away.
A burst of golden light flashed, then subsided into stillness.
Bullet narrowed his eyes. "The Wine of Immortality... is this the One Piece left behind by Roger?"
Whitebeard obtained the One Piece, regained his youth, and gained immortality.
Roger had no reason not to drink...
If it could restore an old man to youth, curing Roger's terminal illness would be a piece of cake, right?
"That bastard Roger... he lied to me!"
The base of the Seven Deadly Sins.
The royal palace, the back garden.
Dimon lay on a wicker chair basking in the sun, while Uta stood beside him, fanning him like a little maid.
"My benefactor, would you like some orange juice?"
"There's no need to try to please me. If you want to leave, I won't stop you."
Dimon rolled his eyes at her; this girl's thoughts were completely written on her face.
Uta puffed out his cheeks, "I don't know how to sail."
"If you don't know how, then learn."
Heartless, despicable, and completely unyielding!
At that moment, golden light appeared on the floor beside them, outlining a pentagram teleportation array.
Bethany knelt down on one knee and handed the Devil Fruit to Dimon:
"Master, this is the Devil Fruit that Bullet entrusted to me; I've brought it back."
"Thanks a lot."
Dimon gestured with his eyes, Uta had no choice but to stop fanning himself and hand him the fruit.
After examining it in his palm for a moment, Dimon quickly recognized the name of the fruit.
Paramecia - Lust-Lust Fruit.
In the Devil Fruit Encyclopedia he had seen, this fruit was no ordinary one; the compiler described it as "the dream of countless men."
It also has another name: Paramecia - Desire-Desire Fruit.
Chapter 254 Slave of Love
Animation!
Golden light emanated from Dimon's palm, enveloping the Lust-Lust Fruits in his hand.
Uta was seeing this for the first time, and her eyes widened in amazement.
The palm-sized fruit detached from the palm and fell to the ground, as if taking root and sprouting, with pinkish-purple vines growing from its lower part.
The vine splits in two at the end, resembling two human legs, and then two slender branches extend from the upper part of the vine, like human hands.
"Oh~ what is this?"
Uta blinked hard, and on the eerie pinkish-purple vines, she saw ever-changing human figures.
The Devil Fruit at the top of the vine seemed to have the most handsome face in the world, though the features were indistinct.
Uta rubbed his eyes, refusing to believe it, and when he looked again, the face was gone, and all he could see was a Devil Fruit.
Dimon shared similar feelings.
He saw beauties of different styles, each face possessing a breathtaking beauty that perfectly matched his aesthetic sense.
But when he tried to see the facial features more clearly, the illusion disappeared.
"Master~"
The flower vine bowed gracefully, its voice half-male and half-female, similar to that of the angel Belial.
"Take back your abilities for a moment... Is this just an illusion you've created?"
"No, this is a reflection of desire within the human heart."
No wonder she's so beautiful... Dimon thought to himself, realizing that she was a stunning beauty he had imagined deep down, not an illusion created by the Lust-Lust Fruit.
"Let me give you a name first, hmm, let me think..."
After pondering for a moment, and considering the other party's abilities, Dimon quickly came up with a good name.
"Keshira."
"Yes, Master, I will be called Keshira from now on."
Keshira's voice was very unique, and when it reached Uta's ears, it made her fantasize.
Uta's face was flushed, and her breathing was a little rapid. She sat on the ground in a duck-like position, her eyes glazed over.
Dimon glanced at her and asked, "What did you do to her?"
"This human has been staring at me the whole time, and I have no idea what she saw or what she was thinking."
Keshira spread out two vines, expressing helplessness:
"Master, this human went into heat without permission! I didn't do anything!"
Dimon: "..."
As expected of the Lust-Lust Fruit, as a creature that can go into heat anytime of the year, it's practically a special attack on humans.
"Tell me what your abilities are... Never mind, you'll just stay with me and I'll test you personally."
"Yes, Master!"
Keshira transformed into a ray of black light and disappeared into Dimon's chest.
In that instant, Dimon became Devil Fruit User the Lust-Lust Fruit, a man of desire.
With the disappearance of Keshira, Uta, who had been caught up in desire, suddenly came to her senses.
"Ugh—!"
Uta cried out in surprise, her face turning bright red as she saw Dimon staring at her.
"No explanation needed, it's just a normal human physiological reaction."
"No!"
Uta covered her face, almost bursting with embarrassment and anger; she was so embarrassed she could dig a three-bedroom apartment out of the ground with her toes.
Dimon ignored her, instead closing his eyes and silently feeling the power he had gained.
The power of the Lust-Lust Fruit is not complicated; its core ability can be summarized in one sentence:
Seeing it is like witnessing a thousand changes, stirring one of the most primal desires deep within the human heart: the desire to reproduce.
It can be said that anyone who eats this fruit, whether male or female, can become a heartthrob and the object of admiration for countless members of the opposite sex.
One look and you'll fall in love.
Forced love at first sight!
Of course, as a Devil Fruit ability, it can be resisted by powerful Haki, so its effectiveness against skilled opponents will be greatly reduced.
Compared to Sigma, this fruit is more in line with the label of 'Lust'... Dimon thought to himself, should he change the title?
But then he thought again that the Lust-Lust Fruit's combat ability was inferior to that of Pink Dragon Sigma, and it didn't live up to the name of Lust, so he gave up on it.
However, it's not exactly weak.
The Lust-Lust Fruit has many derivative abilities, one of which is the ability to forcibly control the mind of others, called "Slave of Love," which can make the target obedient to the user.
It looks a bit like Hobby-Hobby Fruit.
The Hobby-Hobby Fruit can turn others into toys, and the toys cannot disobey the user's commands.
The difference is that the former is "from the heart," at least the person being controlled believes that they are "willing."
The latter, however, is fully aware that they are being manipulated, but are powerless to resist.
Moreover, the control exerted by the Lust-Lust Fruit is almost permanent.
The reason I say "almost" is because [the Slave of Love] has an indelible weakness.
Once the person being controlled falls in love with someone else, the control immediately disappears.
Dimon slowly opened his eyes and suddenly realized something.
"I wonder if the control exerted by the Lust-Lust Fruit can counteract Imu's control over his Contract?"
Leaving aside the other members of the Holy Knights, Gunko was clearly controlled, and her memories were even altered.
Gunko, whose real name is "Julie", has a rather special background.
Her mother was named Candle, the Queen of the Kingdom of Esperia, but her biological father was not the King, but a Celestial Dragons named Manmayer.
Gunko was born with the bloodline of the Manmayer Family and Awakening the "Eyes of Two Extremes".
The specific abilities of these heterochromatic eyes were not revealed before Dimon's transmigration, but they must have been something quite important and crucial.
Imu was drawn to Gunko's Eyes of Two Extremes, which is why he altered her memories and made her a member of the Holy Knights.
"If we can break free from Imu's control, we might be able to learn some secrets about Imu from Gunko..."
Dimon stroked his chin, deep in thought.
Gunko's situation reminded him of the twenty kings who created the world.
The Manmayer Family has special eyes; what about the other families?
He knew the Donquixote Family best; Doflamingo didn't seem to have any special powers... he was incredibly weak.
Including the Nefertari Family.
"Vivi's existence also seems crucial; perhaps her ancestor, Queen Lily, left her something valuable in Elbaf."
Thinking of this, Dimon immediately asked:
"How are Ain, Samael, and Big Eyes doing?"
[I don't know, Master. Their last contact was before entering the Holy Land. After that, to avoid their exposure, I didn't use my clone to follow them.]