Pirates: I am Sukuna, killing people indiscriminately

"Lord Rody, this is the Animal-type Devil Fruit that you seized. Also, this is the fruit illustration sent by the World Government." After a moment, Mike came back with a small box in one hand and a book in the other.

"Really? There's also a fruit encyclopedia. It seems like they're quite sensible!" Rody took the small box containing the devil fruits, opened it and took out the devil fruits inside. He then took the mythical beast-type devil fruits from Nami, held one in each hand, and observed and felt them carefully.

"Does the illustrated book say what animals these two Devil Fruits belong to?"

"Lord Rody, the Animal-type Devil Fruit we confiscated is recorded in the illustration as the buffalo form of the Animal-type Bull-Bull Fruit. The other Mythical Beast-type Devil Fruit sent by the World Government is not recorded in the illustration, but the CP personnel who handed it over said it was an Animal-type Mythical Beast-type Dragon-type Devil Fruit." Mike replied.

"Oh, the Mythical Beast-type Dragon form?" Roddy remembered that there were only two Mythical Beast-type Devil Fruits related to dragons in One Piece. One was the Blue Dragon form of Kaido's Fish-Fish Fruit, and the other was an artificial Devil Fruit copied by Vegapunk based on the Blue Dragon form of Kaido's Fish-Fish Fruit, which was eaten by the damn Momonosuke.

Vegapunk himself said that the copied artificial devil fruit was a failure, but Roddy felt that this was just an excuse used by Vegapunk to deal with the World Government. In Roddy's opinion, this artificial devil fruit was not a complete failure. After Momonosuke ate the artificial devil fruit and was ripened by the ripe fruit, the transformed dragon had all the abilities such as Flame Cloud and Heat Extinguishing, except that the color was different from Kaido.

However, Roddy had long forgotten what the artificial devil fruit that Momonosuke ate looked like, and he didn't know whether it was the one created by Vegapunk or the World Government's own collection.

Looking closely at the two devil fruits in his hand, Rody suddenly had an idea. The animal-type devil fruits all have self-awareness, and having will means having emotions.

If he used cursed power, could he sense the consciousness in the animal-type devil fruit? Roddy did it right away. He closed his eyes, used cursed power with his hands to wrap the devil fruit, and slowly communicated with the consciousness in it.

"really!"

Just as Rody thought, cursed power can indeed communicate with the consciousness in the devil fruit. Rody easily felt an extremely simple consciousness from the buffalo form of the animal-type Bull-Bull Fruit in his right hand, just like a human child of four or five years old.

However, no consciousness could be sensed in the Devil Fruit in the form of a dragon of the Animal-type Mythical Beast type sent by the World Government.

Logically speaking, the Devil Fruit of the Animal-type Mythical Beast is more spiritual than the ordinary Animal-type Devil Fruit. If you use the power of the spell, you should be able to easily sense the consciousness of the Devil Fruit. How come you can't sense any emotions at all!

Therefore, Roddy deduced that the mythical beast-type devil fruit given to him by the World Government should be an artificial devil fruit copied by Vegapunk based on Kaido's Blue Dragon Fruit. This can explain why it looks so ordinary and no consciousness can be sensed inside the fruit.

The consciousness in the fruit is the key to whether the Devil Fruit can awaken. Artificial Devil Fruits do not have this consciousness. Without this consciousness, the mind of the ability user cannot match the fruit. Therefore, no matter how the ability user develops and trains, he cannot reach the awakened state.

Therefore, even though Momonosuke gained the same abilities as Kaido, such as Flame Cloud and Dragon Breath, after eating the artificial devil fruit, Garpunk said that the artificial devil fruit he created was a failure.

However, the lack of consciousness in this artificial devil fruit is not a bad thing for Rody. The awakening of the devil fruit requires the consciousness inside the fruit to match the body and mind of the ability user, but Rody can use his own cursed power to nourish the artificial devil fruit, allowing a consciousness to be born inside it that completely matches Rody's body and mind, and is 100% compatible with him.

"Those old guys dared to fool me with artificial devil fruits. I will kill them sooner or later!" Rody opened his eyes with an unhappy look on his face. Although this artificial mythical beast devil fruit might be more suitable for Rody than the unknown mythical beast fruit, Rody was still unhappy about being deceived by those old guys in the World Government.

"Artificial devil fruit?" Robin and Nami looked at the devil fruit in Rody's hand curiously.

"Yes, this mythical beast-type devil fruit was created by those old guys from the Five Elder Stars. They used Vegapunk to copy an artificial devil fruit based on Kaido's Blue Dragon Fruit to fool me." Rody showed the artificial devil fruit to Nami and Robin.

"Then, Lord Rody, should we ask the World Government to get a new Devil Fruit?"

"No, I have other uses for this artificial devil fruit." Roddy waved his hand to reject Mike's proposal.

"Then, Rody, is there any difference between this artificial devil fruit and the naturally formed devil fruit?" Nami looked at Rody curiously.

"This devil fruit artificially created by Vegapunk is actually pretty good. Except for the lack of the consciousness that is unique to naturally formed devil fruits, everything else is basically the same as a naturally formed devil fruit."

"Has this guy become rich? An ordinary devil fruit is worth at least 1 million berries. If he makes ten devil fruits a day, then in a year..." Nami's eyes were twinkling with stars.

"You really are..." Roddy shook his head helplessly.

"Lord Rody, Hot Wheels said that our ship has been built. Do you want to go and take a look?" Seeing that Rody had confirmed to keep the artificial devil fruit, Mike conveyed to Rody the news that Hot Wheels had already built the ship.

"Okay, let's go check it out together, haha...Hot Wheels is so confident, I hope he won't let us down."

Rody was also full of curiosity about the ship built by Hot Wheels and the technology of the world of mechanical beasts. Later, Rody sent ten TX Terminators to use the various precision machines they carried and Skynet technology to help Hot Wheels better complete the construction of the ship.

Rody swept the space storage ring on his hand across the two devil fruits on the table. The artificial devil fruit disappeared out of thin air and reappeared in Rody's space storage ring, but the animal-type buffalo fruit did not disappear and was still quietly placed on the table.

"I forgot that conscious things cannot be stored in the storage ring." Roddy then remembered that conscious things cannot be stored in the space ring, but Roddy didn't care. After all, this animal-type devil fruit was too useless, so he threw it back to Mike for safekeeping.

Roddy took Robin, Nami and others towards the port where Hot Wheels was building the ship.