One Piece: Three Fruits, Starting with the Dark-Dark Fruit

Banke Restricted Area, Inst.

Vegapunk was carefully holding a test tube filled with red liquid and shaking it gently.

Not far from him was a glass container filled with solution, in which a large purple apple was soaked.

If you look closely, you can see a circular pattern slowly emerging on the surface of the apple.

The bottom of the glass container is connected to an instrument, on which dense data is constantly jumping.

Vegapunk looked a little nervous. After hesitating for a moment, his gaze gradually became firm and he walked towards the glass container.

At this moment, a dark vortex suddenly appeared in front of Vegapunk, which scared the concentrating Vegapunk so much that his hand trembled and the test tube fell to the ground, and the red liquid inside splashed everywhere.

Vegapunk's eyes suddenly widened, his heart stopped, and he almost passed out.

The dark vortex condensed into the figure of Jiger. He looked at Vegapunk, who seemed to have lost his soul, with doubt. When the latter saw Jiger, his anger was instantly extinguished, and he said with tears in his eyes,

"Jigshen, next time you come, could you please tell me in advance? If you keep showing up like this, I'll have a heart attack sooner or later!"

Jiger raised his eyebrows and asked in a bad tone,

"Why? Are you planning to do some secret experiment again?"

Vegapunk shuddered, then realized that what he had just said was disrespectful, and hurriedly said,

"No, no! Saint Jig, you can go ask Bear and Borsalino. If I have any experiments, I can't hide them from them!"

"So where are the two of them now?"

"...traveling."

Jiger rolled his eyes, thinking that Kuma was going to become the second in command of Kizaru's slacking team.

But Vegapunk really didn't do any secret research. He glanced at the red liquid on the ground and sighed.

"Gig Saint, please believe me, I am just conducting research on artificial devil fruits. You are also aware of this research. The blood spilled on the ground just now is a very precious experimental material."

"Whose blood?"

"Kaido, last time he was captured by the navy, I extracted his blood. That guy's body was too strong. I tried hard but only extracted a little. The previous experiments all failed. The remaining blood was only enough to support one experiment, but it was already wasted..."

Jiger thought for a moment and said,

"Kaido is often captured, so we can extract some blood next time."

Vegapunk shook his head and pointed at the glass container.

"It's too late. Every time Kaido is captured, he becomes stronger than before. It is getting more and more difficult to extract his blood. In addition, I used all the rare materials for this experiment. It will take nearly 20 years to collect them all again!"

Giger's mind moved. The original book did describe that it took Vegapunk twenty years of hard work to succeed. In other words, it was very likely that even if he was not there this time, Vegapunk would have wasted the experimental materials for other reasons.

But can't it also be understood that, if nothing unexpected happens, the artificial Azure Dragon Fruit will be born this time?

Speaking of which, this fruit was finally eaten by Momonosuke. When Vegapunk saw the funny-looking "Pink Dragon" after Momonosuke transformed, he once thought that what he had developed was a failure.

If it weren't for the existence of King Luffy, Jiger really thinks that Momonosuke is the protagonist of this anime, and this artificial Blue Dragon Fruit is prepared for him.

Vegapunk judged whether the fruit was successful or not based on the form that Momonosuke showed after eating it. When he saw that the dragon after Momonosuke's transformation was pink instead of blue, he directly determined that the fruit was a failure.

All I can say is that Vegapunk deserves to be called the world's number one scientist. His rigorous attitude towards science has reached the point of being nitpicking. It is not an exaggeration to say that he is a patient with obsessive-compulsive disorder.

But in Jiger's opinion, this artificial Blue Dragon Fruit could not be more successful. It is obviously too arbitrary to judge whether it is successful or not just by the color after the transformation.

Referring to Momonosuke's performance after being "ripened" to the age of twenty, it can be seen that the power that this artificial Blue Dragon Fruit can exert is almost the same as the original one.

Compared to the artificial Blue Dragon Fruit created by Vegapunk, the ones that Caesar made later were simply garbage. Not to mention the side effects after failure, even if they succeeded in becoming a person with special abilities, they would still lack special abilities.

For example, they can only possess a certain racial talent of this animal, and some cannot even obtain the bonus of physical fitness from the animal-type devil fruit. (Refer to the giant horned sheep ability user under Kaido)

What's funny is that Vegapunk concluded that his research on artificial demons had completely failed, and then he stopped working on animal-type artificial devil fruits and focused on working on parahuman-type green blood.

Of course, compared with the first generation green blood in Ziger, the second generation stable green blood developed by Vegapunk later can indeed be regarded as a great success.

After all, the only person in this world who can adapt to the first generation of green blood and even accommodate a double dose is probably Jiger.

Jiger looked down at the bloodstains that were gradually drying on the ground, nodded, and said lightly,

"Oh I got it."

After saying that, Jiger stretched out his finger and hooked it lightly.

The blood immediately turned into several threads that rose from the ground and condensed into a blood ball the size of a ping-pong ball on Jiger's fingertips.

Jiger waved the blood ball in front of the stunned Vegapunk and said,

"Okay, now where do you put it?"

Vegapunk came to his senses and was overjoyed. He pointed at an instrument and said,

“Just put it there!”

Jiger snapped his fingers and the blood cell accurately entered the opening above the instrument.

The solution in the glass container next to it began to boil, and soon the purple apple turned red. At the same time, the ring pattern on it became clearer and clearer until it turned into alternating gold and orange.

Vegapunk stared at the apples in the container, rubbing his hands nervously, and even Zigg watched with interest.

Under the gaze of the two, the red apple, no, it should be said that the devil fruit, gradually cooled down, and finally the color of the skin turned into blood red with a golden and orange ring pattern on it.

When Jiger saw the final image of the fruit, he was slightly stunned, because in the anime, the fruit in Momonosuke's memory seemed to be dark purple in color. Did he remember it wrong or did the experiment fail?