Chapter 195: The Dark-Dark Fruit
"BOOM—!!!"
Ace lunged forward, overturning the table violently!
Tea cups shattered, porcelain shards flying everywhere. The fruit bowl tumbled and smashed against the wall. Scalding hot tea splashed all over the floor, mixing with the juice of the fruit pulp, emitting a scorched scent!
But it was too late—
Roy closed his eyes, chewing on the bizarre fruit flesh, as if swallowing the weight of darkness itself.
He slowly opened his eyes.
Deep in his pupils, a vortex-like, pitch-black glimmer rotated slowly. It wasn't a color, but absolute nothingness—like a bottomless depth that light could never reach.
His aura plummeted abruptly. In an instant, his face turned paler than the dust on the wall, cold sweat dripping like rain.
"Guh... cough, cough cough!!!"
Roy suddenly bent over, clutching his chest in pain. His voice was hoarse, his breathing erratic. Stumbling like a drunkard, his foot slipped, and he crashed heavily to the floor with a "BANG"!
"BIG BRO ROY!!!"
Ace's face went deathly pale instantly. His heart felt hammered, and flames exploded uncontrollably from his body!
"Oi! D-Don't scare me!! What's wrong?!!"
Flames roared up from behind him, rolling heat waves turning a corner of the sofa into charcoal. The temperature in the lounge skyrocketed, and even the decorative paintings on the wall fell with a SMACK!
The alarm crystal flashed frantically beep-beep-beep, only to be forcibly suppressed back into silence by Roy's ability seal.
Propelled by the impact of his flames, Ace shot over like an arrow, scooping Roy up into his arms, babbling incoherently from panic:
"Medic!! I'll go get a medic right now!! No, wait, I'll go find Sakazuki first... or Enel... no, he only knows how to zap lightning!!"
"Wake up!!!" Ace was going crazy!
Roy leaned "weakly" in his arms, but the corner of his mouth quirked up imperceptibly.
Ace was sweating profusely, flames sputtering wildly. "Hold on! I'm going to find Sakazuki right now!!!"
Just as he was panicking to the point of madness, preparing to rush out of the barrier—
"Pfft."
An exceptionally lighthearted sound interrupted everything.
Roy suddenly opened his eyes, grinning, and reached out to pinch Ace's cheek. "Just teasing you~"
Ace: "...???"
"..."
The air solidified for a full second.
"BOOM!!!!"
The next second, flames exploded directly around Ace. Raging fire soared like a reverse tsunami, the surrounding temperature spiking to over a hundred degrees instantly!
"Y-Y-You... YOU ACTUALLY TRICKED ME??!!"
His hair stood on end, veins popping on his forehead. "Your face just now was three times scarier than a dead person's!!!"
"DO YOU KNOW MY HEART SKIPPED A BEAT JUST NOW, YOU BASTARD!!!"
He jumped up, looking completely deranged. "DON'T JOKE ABOUT THAT KIND OF THING!!!!"
Roy laughed heartily, lying on the sofa shaking with laughter, tears forming in the corners of his eyes.
"Your face just now really looked like you were about to cry! Hahahahaha!!!"
He laughed while patting Ace's shoulder. "As expected of a good little brother. Big Bro is very relieved."
"RELIEVED MY ASS!!!"
Flames shot from the top of Ace's head, his bangs turning into upright flames. He grabbed Roy's collar, roaring:
"I want to punch you from this warship to the bottom of the sea right now!!!"
"Hehe—" Roy put on a "scared" expression, but his eyes were full of mischief. "Can you bear to? Just now you kept shouting 'Bro—Brother, don't die'."
"YOU—!!!"
Ace lunged, and the two wrestled on the lounge floor!
"Stop laughing! I'm gonna smash that mouth of yours!!"
"Hey, watch it! You burned my eyebrows, you bastard!!"
"You still feel pain, you lunatic!!"
"AAAHHH! My fruit bowl! You stepped on my apple!!!"
Flames, fruit pulp, tea stains, and broken porcelain flew everywhere around them. The sofa was kicked over, curtains caught fire, and there were even a few fist imprints on the wall!
The lounge was reduced to a battlefield, a tragic sight to behold.
After a long while, Ace finally caught his breath, the flames slowly extinguishing.
Leaning against the wall, panting heavily, he muttered with a twitching mouth:
"Where did you get this neurosis from... were you trying to scare me to death so you could inherit my Flame-Flame Fruit?"
Roy sat on the floor, dusting off his singed sleeves, shrugging righteously. "Wasn't that just to test your reaction... you showed great brotherly love."
Ace rolled his eyes, ignoring him.
After a moment of silence, the atmosphere finally relaxed.
Ace pondered for a moment with his head down, then couldn't help but ask, "By the way, Big Bro Roy... did you really eat two Devil Fruits?"
"Didn't you watch me eat it with your own eyes?" Roy countered unhurriedly, picking up an intact teacup and pouring some water.
Ace's eyes widened, full of confusion.
"But... people who eat two fruits explode and die! Isn't that an iron rule?"
Roy looked up at him. Amidst the curling steam of the tea, his eyes became deep and dark.
"Yeah, 'ordinary people' would definitely die eating two fruits."
"But I am not an ordinary person."
He opened his palm. A dark airflow like an abyss seeped from his palm, rotating slowly like a spiral black hole, swallowing the surrounding light. The broken porcelain shards on the coffee table even rattled click-clack, seemingly attracted to it.
Ace's scalp tingled watching it. His breathing tightened, Adam's apple bobbing as he asked, "Real or fake? What kind of structure is inside your body..."
Roy smiled, his tone carrying a hint of cunning and mystery. "Want to hear the truth?"
Ace nodded like pounding garlic.
"I'll tell you the day you can eat two fruits."
Ace: "..."
He rolled his eyes speechlessly, then murmured softly, "But since it's you... I guess it's not that surprising."
Suddenly changing the subject, he narrowed his eyes and asked, "So... can you use the Dark-Dark Fruit now? Is it really as godly as you said?"
Roy smirked. "Want to try?"
Ace paused, just about to say "don't joke," when the next second—
"SWISH!"
Roy's figure flashed, vanishing instantly!
"Wha—"
"BAM!!!"
A black shadow appeared directly in front of Ace with incredible speed!
Before he could react to the blur, a palm swirling with darkness pressed heavily onto his forehead!
"Guh...?!!"
Ace tried to turn into flames and elementally retreat instantly, but his body felt bound in darkness, unable to move!
"Flame-Flame Fruit... won't activate?!!"
He was shocked beyond belief. He tried to use Armament Haki to burst out an impact—
However, that palm seemed to suppress even his will.
Roy's explosive Haki, Taijutsu, and precise spatial control in that instant were at a crushing level!
Ace struggled with all his might, throwing elbows, blasting Haki... Roy's palm remained unmoved.
"Useless," Roy said faintly.
"This is... 'Darkness'."
Seconds later, Roy released his hand gently, his figure flashing again as he returned to sit on the sofa.
Ace gasped for air like a drowning man, hair messy, cold sweat streaming down his forehead, sparks still sputtering from his clothes.
He looked at Roy, voice trembling. "Big Bro Roy... this fruit combined with your spatial ability, Haki, and Taijutsu... this is simply..."
"TOO TERRIFYING!!!"
He was genuinely scared. In that instant just now, he felt that if he weren't his brother but an enemy, he would have been dead in a flash.
Roy gently opened his palm. The vortex of darkness rotated slowly in his hand, as if eternally devouring everything—silent, deep, like a coffin leading to the abyss.
The Dark-Dark Fruit... is indeed a monster-like ability.
But, it is not flawless.
Darkness attracts everything—not just light and fire, but lightning, blades, bullets, fist winds, and even shockwaves of Haki. None can escape.
This sounds nearly invincible.
But precisely because of this, it is destined to have a fatal characteristic:
A user of the Dark-Dark Fruit cannot become immune to attacks by elementalizing like other Logia users.
On the contrary, once elementalized, the body actively attracts attacks, making all damage—hit the main body precisely.
A black hole does not distinguish between good and evil; it greedily swallows harm as well. This is the price of "Darkness."
The more you absorb, the heavier you bear. And the pain brought by it is amplified multiple times.
The Dark-Dark Fruit does not lessen your pain; instead, it makes you feel a "real pain" that is clearer and more intense than ordinary people experience.
This is the root of why it is called the "Most Evil Logia."
However—
I am not an ordinary Dark-Dark Fruit user.
With the enhancement of a Giant's constitution, my body has long been tempered to the limit. My flesh is tough as steel, recovery speed far exceeding common sense.
With teleportation ability as a supplement, as long as I don't wish to be hit, no one can touch me.
As for that so-called "weakness"—needing to touch the enemy with a palm to nullify their ability?
Roy looked down, flicking his finger. The dark vortex in his palm surfaced quietly again, swimming slowly like a snake, cold and silent.
To me—
That is merely a small rule changing "combat" into "end game upon face contact."
He chuckled lightly, but his tone was low as thunder, his eyes devoid of any jest:
"If I catch them off guard..."
"Insta-killing an Admiral-level combatant doesn't seem impossible to achieve..."
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