"Hey, did you hear? Did you hear? The school beauty from Fengming High—Di Ruqing—yesterday, on her eighteenth birthday, successfully obtained a Devil Fruit ability from the Demon Realm! And it's rumored to be one of the extremely rare Logia types!"
"Wha—seriously?! A Logia-type Devil Fruit ability? That's one of the Three Great Fruit Types, the rarest and hardest to obtain! If I remember correctly, throughout history, every Logia user who didn't die young has grown into at least a Seventh-Tier Sovereign!"
"They say she got the Magma-Magma Fruit!"
"What the hell—Magma Fruit?! She really is a goddess! Her grades are perfect, and didn't she just awaken Armament Haki a few weeks ago?"
"Can't compare. Word is, she's already been pre-admitted to Imperial Capital University."
"Ugh, life is so unfair… people like us can only dream."
Tongcheng No.1 High School.
A group of third-year students sat chattering during their break, gossiping loudly.
"Forget about Di Ruqing—have you heard about Li Zhiwei from Class 2? Apparently, he also got a Devil Fruit ability from the Demon Realm! I think it's a Superhuman-type fruit!"
"What!? No way! Even Li Zhiwei got one? But isn't entering the Demon Realm only possible for those with strong enough mental power? During last year's national test, didn't Li Zhiwei score the lowest mental power in the whole school?"
"Well, his family's rich! Remember that ancient ruin near our city a few months ago? Inside it, they found a mystical fruit that slightly boosts mental power. His father spent tens of millions buying out every single one produced for months!"
"Damn—filthy rich!"
"So, what kind of Superhuman Fruit did he get?"
"Seems like… the Slowness Fruit?"
"…"
The classroom buzzed with chatter, nearly every student joining in.
Except for one—Zhao Xuan, who sat quietly in the corner near the broom and trash bin.
He was completely dumbfounded.
Utterly.
"What the hell are they even talking about?"
Devil Fruits? Haki?
Was everyone insane?
The final exams were in just half a month, and instead of studying, they were talking about fantasy powers like this?
If the homeroom teacher walked in right now, half the class would be getting yelled at!
If Zhao Xuan didn't know for sure that he was sitting in a modern, well-lit classroom, he might've actually thought he had been transported into the One Piece world.
"Don't tell me I'm still dreaming?"
He muttered, then pinched his arm—hard.
"Ah—!"
The sharp pain jolted through him.
"Nope. Definitely not dreaming… Then what the hell is going on? I don't remember any of the girls in class being into One Piece. How did they all turn into superfans while I blinked?"
Still confused, Zhao Xuan's eyes drifted toward the chalkboard.
Then—he froze.
Because written on the board, in white chalk, was today's class schedule.
And what he saw nearly broke his brain.
Normally, a high school schedule should've looked like this:
Morning: Chinese, Math, English, Physics
Afternoon: Math, Chemistry, Self-Study, English
But what he saw was—
Morning: Moon Step Class, Tempest Kick Class, Finger Gun Class, Self-Study
Afternoon: Iron Body Class, Iron Body Class, Meditation, Paper Art Class
"…What the actual hell?"
Before he could even process it—
A sudden, searing pain stabbed through his skull.
"Argh—!"
But just as quickly as it came, it vanished.
And in its place—
a flood of foreign memories poured into his mind.
Then it clicked.
"Holy crap… I really did transmigrate!"
His expression turned complicated.
This was still Blue Star—but not his Blue Star.
He had transmigrated into a modern urban version of the One Piece world!
Here, there were Devil Fruit users, people who could awaken Haki, and even professionals known as Swordmasters.
However, unlike in One Piece—
people here didn't gain their powers by eating a fruit.
When a person turned eighteen, if their mental strength was strong enough, they could enter a mysterious dimension known as the Demon Realm.
In that place stood the Tree of Demons, bearing countless glowing fruits—the Devil Fruits.
Each person could choose one fruit, and upon doing so, they would gain its corresponding ability.
But it wasn't a real fruit they consumed—
only the power itself.
Meaning:
Multiple people could have the same type of ability in this world.
However—there was a catch.
If one could master their Devil Fruit ability to the absolute limit, they would be recognized by the Demon Realm itself and gain the true Devil Fruit power.
From that moment onward, anyone else with the same fruit type would be completely powerless against them.
Yet, since the Demon Realm's arrival…
No one—not a single person—had ever reached that level of mastery.
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