Chapter 8: Devil Fruits

Sleeping liquid is a kind of fruit called the dream fruit that is juiced. It is not a drug, it is very volatile, and the smell of volatilization is not unpleasant, but it is very good for sleep and does not harm the body.

Sleeping liquid is a common item in the home of O'Hara scholars, because it is harmless to the body, as long as a small part of it is placed in the bedroom to volatilize, you can sleep peacefully. Wake up refreshed, and it's another day of full study.

Carlando quickly bought everything in the market except for the drug, but he couldn't find the drug for a long time.

He could only ask the owner of the pharmacy on the side and make up a reason, saying that he was prone to insomnia and would wake up at the slightest movement. Is there anything that can help you sleep and not be woken up easily. As a result, a sleeping solution was obtained.

There doesn't seem to be such a thing as a night suit in the One Piece world, and Carrando can only make a pure black tight suit and cut the appropriate headgear by himself.

After investigation, the family really has a servant similar to the guard, that is, the grocery man, and it seems to be combative. There are also two living maids, an old housekeeper.

Thinking of the old butler, Carandor breathed a sigh of relief. This family has a devil fruit, it may not be simple, he is afraid that this old housekeeper is not normal.

For example, he is a strong man who was seriously injured, and was rescued by his master, who was a scholar, and left his master to repay his kindness, and he was proficient in seeing and hearing domineering! Then Carando's cool.

Everything was normal, Carlando made his way up the stairs to the hall on the first floor, took out the glimmering stone, and made another round of observations.

Repeating the operation of the closed room on the first floor, Calando waited quietly for more than ten minutes, feeling that the people in this room should have entered a deep dream, and they would not wake up suddenly unless it exploded suddenly.

Sensing the increase in progress points, Carlando began his search for the Devil Fruit.

……

"! Where exactly is it hidden? ”

The study, dining room, kitchen, hall, lounge, utility room, bathroom on the first and second floors, the maid's room, the maid's room, the housekeeper's room, the children's room, the master's room.

Carlando searched it all, the Devil Fruit was not small, except for the safe that might have been the owner's property, he didn't find any large locked boxes.

I knocked on the walls and floors, but I didn't find anything unusual. The architectural layout of the house was roughly analyzed, and there was no room for anything like a dark room to build.

"Is it really in the safe? Then why didn't he eat it? Don't you know? I don't know if it's still with property? This is unlikely. Are you a collector or are you looking for a good buyer? ”

Carlando's face was very ugly, which meant that he needed to learn how to open the lock, because the safe was not ordinarily large, and he couldn't take it with him. And after this time, the family is likely to be on guard, and it will not be easy to do it again when the time comes.

The progress bar has long since stopped, and the overall progress has increased from 63% three days ago to 85% now.

"Don't be discouraged! It's already 85%, maybe it's enough to read three books in the library. Devil Fruit can take his time, since he didn't eat it, there is a chance to ......"

Callando struggled to control his emotions and prepared to return the way he came. The door of the hall on the first floor was locked, and the windows on the first floor were also locked, and he couldn't restore the lock when he walked through the main entrance.

"This servant is really dedicated, can't you leave an open window on the first floor? Tire me out again! ”

Compared to the caution when he came, he only needs to pay attention to the fact that no one is watching on the road outside or in other houses, and he can do whatever he wants to "go downstairs".

Re-stepping on solid ground, Carlando breathed a sigh of relief that he could run as much as he wanted, even if he was found now. It's a pity that the Devil Fruit was not found.

Taking out the Shimmer Stone, he was going to destroy the footprints when he came, trying to keep the family from noticing that he had been there.

Following the footsteps of the time he came, Calando carefully smoothed his footprints and looked around vigilantly from time to time.

Staring at the earth for a long time, he suddenly had a feeling that he had neglected something.

"Is there any place you haven't searched? Earth? Ground floor? Basement? Cellar! ”

Although the world of One Piece is a fantasy of the Japanese, the background of this world tends to be European and American, and even the lingua franca is not Japanese but English. Europeans and Americans, on the other hand, like to build cellars outside their homes to store wine and food.

Thinking of this, Carlando rose a little hope and began to look for the location of the cellar.

The cellar was found, and it was not locked, but the door was tightly chained, but he did not find the Devil Fruit.

"There's only one cellar out there, and there's nothing left of it. It looks like it's in the safe. ”

Carlando sighed in resignation, but he didn't give up and began to erase the traces and prepare for the next plan.

The courtyard was silent, except for the sound of Carlando dealing with footprints. There was already a glimmer of light in the sky, the sun was about to rise, and he was about to speed up.

In the bright light, Carlando looked around from time to time, it was impossible to be careless, and he was sure to eat this fruit.

As the finishing touches were over, Carlando looked up at the entire cottage area, nothing special. Beautifully presented villa, cellar where I went before, two towering trees in the backyard, and nothing else.

Wait a minute! Tree?

Carlando turned his attention to the canopy of the two large trees, and some fruit could be faintly seen.

"Fruit trees?"

Thinking of a possibility, Carlando ran quickly to the two fruit trees. After observing under the tree for a while, he found a strange fruit.

Familiar curved lines, pale cyan peel.

"That's what it is...... Devil Fruits? Can you also regenerate into a tree? I thought I could only be reborn from fruits that had been picked or ripened and dropped. ”

Because the pictures he saw were taken off, Carlando had forgotten about this possibility. Quickly picking the Devil Fruit, he returned the way he came, excited in his heart.

It was almost dawn, and there was no need to erase the new traces, and the family thought at most that someone had come to steal the fruit to eat.

……

Back at home, Carlando closed all the doors and windows and carefully examined the Devil Fruit in his hand. The fruit is not smooth, with swirling dense scales, and the overall color is pale blue.

"At first glance, it's not a serious fruit, normal people don't know about devil fruits, who will eat them? Not afraid of being toxic? ”

To be honest, the appearance of the Devil Fruit is really not flattering, and if you don't know it, only a stupid, bold and hungry person like Luffy would eat it.

"I've heard that it's extremely unpalatable......

Kalando looked at the Devil Fruit and swallowed his saliva, feeling a little panicked. As soon as the heart is horizontal, the eyes are closed, and the hand is stretched out and sent directly to the mouth.

Gulping the fruit into his mouth, his hands tightly covering his mouth, Carlando's mouth began to chew and swallow.

"Woo ......"

Forcing himself to swallow the flesh, Carlando's eyes even shed tears of happiness.

"Sure enough, it's more unpalatable than Xiang, and you don't need to compare it at all to draw this conclusion."

Callando gasped for breath, his expression was complicated, and with the tears on his face, it was as if he had suffered an indescribable tragedy.

"Let's see what I'm capable of......"