Chapter 64: The Ingenious Use of the Human-Human Fruit: Commoner Form! (1/10, Please Subscribe!)
Marine Headquarters, Marineford.
Inside the Detainment Unit's barracks.
**[Swallow-Swallow Fruit]**
**[Devil Fruit Ability** – Can swallow anything into an internal space within the belly and digest it, transforming it into a part of the body or synthesizing new things.]
**[Effects at Each Level]**
**[Level 1**: Obtain weak Devil Fruit effects, strengthening arm strength and digestion ability.]
**[Level 2**: Obtain partial Devil Fruit effects, able to digest most things and acquire some of their characteristics after digestion. Requires consuming 300 million Beli for permanent unlock.]
**[Level 3**: Obtain all Devil Fruit effects, able to swallow and digest anything that does not possess Devil Fruit lineage factors, allowing the body to obtain all its characteristics and control them perfectly. Can establish a 'Swallow Factory' within the body, synthesizing multiple things into new things after a period of time. Requires consuming 4 billion Beli for permanent unlock.]
**[Level 4**: Deep development of the Devil Fruit, able to swallow non-physical elemental substances like 'clouds and fog', 'wind', and 'slashes'. However, after swallowing, one can only use the substance and cannot obtain its Logia Transformation characteristics. Requires consuming 10 billion Beli for permanent unlock.]
**[Note**: Living and non-living things can be merged, allowing the living thing to acquire characteristics. However, only one non-living characteristic can be possessed at a time.]
**[Level 5**: Devil Fruit Awakening · Swallow Domain. Forms a domain around the body that swallows everything, acquiring the characteristics of all things within its range. Can swallow things possessing lineage factors, but the acquired ability's Level will be weakened by one Level. Requires consuming 20 billion Beli for permanent unlock.]
**[Analysis Progress**: 0%]
"That's satisfying."
Loy sat by the bed, feeling a rush of satisfaction, as if he'd chugged three ice-cold colas.
That's right.
The Swallow-Swallow Fruit — the Devil Fruit belonging to Wapol.
At the same time, it was also one of the most potent Devil Fruits in the world, in Loy's understanding.
The mechanism of devouring everything and assimilating it for one's own use, even capable of merging living and non-living things, and even devouring non-physical substances like elemental attacks and slashes – it was extremely powerful in every aspect. Its only weakness, perhaps, was that it encountered a novice owner.
In fact, according to the original work, this Devil Fruit should have been one of the abilities Blackbeard chose for himself. However, because Wapol fled from Drum Kingdom at that time, Blackbeard was unable to acquire it.
This point can also be inferred from its price and ability — its enhancement price surpassed the Slice-Slice Fruit, making it the highest among all the Devil Fruits Loy currently possessed.
As for its ability, after its Awakening, this Devil Fruit can even obtain the abilities of other Ability Users by swallowing them. Although it's a weakened version, its unique nature is unparalleled in the entire pirate world!
Of course, this ability held little significance for Loy — after all, he already possessed the 'Devil Fruit Encyclopedia'.
But the key is...
"With the Swallow-Swallow Fruit, the requirements for refining Proto-Alloy are now sufficient."
Yes — this Devil Fruit, in Loy's understanding, was the key that could replace the 'Mother Seed' to complete the refining of Proto-Alloy.
"Next, I just need to gather enough materials and find a suitable buyer."
Loy murmured in his heart — he already had a preliminary plan for both the materials required for the alloy and a potential buyer.
But for Loy, the excitement didn't stop there.
What truly surprised him during this trip to Drum Island was...
**[Human-Human Fruit]**
**[Devil Fruit Ability** – After consumption, can transform into a 'human'.]
This Devil Fruit, eaten by Chopper, was what truly surprised him.
In fact, this Devil Fruit itself was, of course, naturally useless — its effect was simply to turn into a human, which was almost of no benefit to humans.
So before Loy transmigrated, this Devil Fruit was always jokingly dubbed by enthusiasts as the 'Human-Human Fruit: Commoner Form'.
Its price was also very cheap. Loy took a closer look, and even when strengthened to the Level 5 Awakening stage, this Devil Fruit only required 100 million Beli.
**[Level 5**: Devil Fruit Awakening · Human Form Limit. Obtains the 'transformation' unique to Devil Fruits, gaining the ultimate strength and brainpower of ordinary humans, and can maintain human form under any circumstances.]
And this was the most crucial point.
From a pure combat perspective, this Devil Fruit was clearly uniquely useless. Perhaps the only meaningful enhancement for Loy would be the boost to his mental faculties.
But...
"Can maintain human form under any circumstances."
This characteristic after Devil Fruit Awakening, however, gave Loy a bold idea.
"How about... try it out?"
Loy murmured in a low voice, and then he attempted to activate an ability he had always been hesitant to use.
"Great Buddha Form — Transform!"
His body began to swell.
His flesh began to glow, with an unprecedented golden radiance beginning to emanate from it.
He could feel the surging power within his body at this moment.
Yes, although he had almost exclusively used the Great Buddha Fruit's shockwave ability until now.
But don't forget, the Great Buddha Fruit is a genuine 'Mythical Zoan-type' Devil Fruit.
Its enhancement to physical prowess would not be inferior to the Ancient Zoan-type Dragon-Dragon Fruit; in fact, it would be even stronger.
"Buzz!"
Just as Loy was about to transform into a colossal golden Buddha —
**[Human-Human Fruit has been strengthened: Level 1 → Level 5.]**
**[Devil Fruit equipped: Strongman Fruit Level 3 → Human-Human Fruit Level 5.]**
With a single thought from Loy, the Devil Fruit switch was completed in an instant.
It was at this instant that his body suddenly paused.
The golden Buddha light ceased its flow, and Loy's body also stopped swelling, quickly reverting to its original appearance like a deflated balloon.
But —
"As expected..."
Feeling the power surging within his body at that moment, Loy's voice grew even more excited.
"My current strength and physical prowess are still that of the Great Buddha Fruit's 'beast transformation,' essentially the 'Golden Bodied Great Buddha' state."
"But thanks to the Human-Human Fruit's Awakening effect, my body still maintains a normal human form!"
After confirming this point, he then tried the effects of Ancient Zoan-type Devil Fruits and Logia Type Devil Fruits.
He ultimately reached a conclusion.
When equipping the 'Human-Human Fruit Level 5,' he could use Zoan-type beast transformation and human-beast transformation while maintaining human form, and also receive comprehensive Logia Type Devil Fruit ability enhancements.
In other words — even if his hand was heated to a state nearly resembling actual magma, structurally, it would still appear 'human'.
Of course, abilities that inherently require deviating from the human body structure, such as the wings of a Pteranodon and the 'Logia Transformation' of Logia Type Devil Fruits, he still couldn't use in human form.
Even so, this was enough to excite Loy.
Because the unique features granted by this Devil Fruit meant he could now use his abilities with even greater abandon!
"Excellent, excellent! I'll go find Teacher Zephyr and train my fists!"
But just as he opened the door, eager to find Zephyr and test his brand-new state —
"Boss!" *2
He saw Hans and Far below, waving at him.
At that moment, both of their expressions were quite excited: "Boss, we were just about to call you... We have good news!"
"Good news?"
Loy looked at the two with some doubt, then heard their report: "It's Huaben — that fellow previously owed us those two Devil Fruits, and they've already been delivered to Oris Port!"
As soon as those words were spoken, Loy raised an eyebrow.
"Oh?"
As previously mentioned, the two billion Beli Huaben used to ransom her life had already been allocated to Loy by Marine Headquarters after his return voyage.
Loy gave a portion of it to the brothers of the Detainment Unit, especially the two injured individuals from before. The remaining portion was naturally kept entirely by him — after all, his previous enhancements of the Great Buddha Fruit and the Door-Door Fruit had indeed severely depleted his savings.
And now, Huaben had actually so readily sent over the two Devil Fruits she had promised.
Loy was naturally very surprised by this.
"Let's go, let's check the port!"
(Author's Note: The Swallow-Swallow Fruit's ability to consume Ability Users and gain their powers is content from the movie version.)
(Author's Note: Although that movie version of the ice island itself has many contradictions with the original work, it is an official movie version after all, so let's consider it as part of the setting.)
(end of chapter)