Chapter 6: Getting A Devil Fruit and Training Start!

Devil Fruit Roulette was seen on the TV screen in big text with lots of animations and flashing lights and symbols. Ace then happened to notice the slight difference with this roulette wheel. The only color on the roulette wheel was black. Looking closer at the wheel he could see that the standard numbers on a roulette wheel had been replaced with pictures of different oddly shaped fruit. He began to stare at each pictured fruit until Eve's voice gained his attention

"Welcome to Devil Fruit Roulette Ace! The rules are fairly simple, I'll spin the wheel and then drop this ball"

Eve began showing off a roulette ball between her fingers which for some reason had a picture of Ace's head wrapped around it.

"Whichever devil fruit the ball lands on will be yours. Only one fruit can join you on your journey. ARE. YOU. READY?!?!?!"

Ace decided to ignore how weirdly Eve was into playing this role and just nodded his head. Eve smiled and with a wave of her hand the roulette wheel began spinning rapidly, Eve then dropped the ball onto the wheel. Ace began to get more and more nervous as the ball was bouncing around less and less as the wheel began slowing down.

'What type of devil fruit will I get? Even after the hours I previously spent thinking about this on Earth, I still have no idea what my dream devil fruit would be. God, please don't be a trash fruit like the Calm-Calm fruit I beg you.'

Ace then closed his eyes and started to pray after thinking about his chances of getting an awful devil fruit. Eventually, the ball stopped bouncing and began spinning around the outer edge of the wheel, and not long after that, a CLANK sound was heard as the ball landed in an unknown spot. Ace slowly opened his eyes scared that if he opened them too quickly, he would see something disappointing.

When Ace opened his eyes, he saw a pear-shaped fruit now on the table that looked like…...well it looked exactly like a lightbulb. The bottom half of the fruit was a bright yellow that hurt his eyes if he looked at it too long. The upper part of the fruit near the steam was silver and looked similar to a screw. The stem of the fruit was straight with a yellow and black star at the end of the stem. Ace had no idea what this devil fruit was as he never saw anything like it in the show. He even wondered at one point that his luck was so bad he got an actual lightbulb instead. It wasn't until he heard Eve's announcement that he figured out the fruit causing his jaw to hit the floor.

"Congratulations on winning the Pika Pika no Mi also known as the Glint-Glint Fruit!!"

When Eve finished her congratulations confetti somehow appeared from nowhere, occasionally landing on Ace's head. Ace didn't even notice this as he was too shocked at his luck. Although this fruit didn't make many appearances in the anime, Ace had always thought this fruit was insanely strong.

The Glint-Glint Fruit was a Logia-type fruit allowing the user to become a 'Light Human'. The owner of this fruit was none other than Borsalino also known as Admiral Kizaru. The fruit was shown to have massive power as a single kick from Kizaru shot a light beam that destroyed a massive pillar in Saboady Archipelago along with its surroundings. Most people would be satisfied with the massive power alone, amazingly the fruit also allowed the user to move and react at the speed of light making Kizaru the fastest man in One Piece.

Thinking about the potential he could have with this fruit; Ace could no longer contain his excitement and hurriedly grabbed the fruit and started to eat it. In his excitement, he forgot about a major issue with the fruit and as soon as he bit into it, he immediately regretted it. Every part of his body was telling him not to swallow the fruit in his mouth, but he toughened up and with watery eyes, he managed to get it down. He then made a mental reminder to never eat anything as bad as this devil fruit again. Almost if on cue, Eve noticed him putting the devil fruit back on the table and said

"You do know that to gain the full effects of the fruit you have to eat the whole thing?"

Ace went from shocked to looking at Eve with pleading eyes. When he saw she wasn't going to help him he looked back at the devil fruit with a single tear running down his cheek.

After begrudgingly finishing the whole fruit, Ace's head was resting against the table with lifeless eyes and what seemed to be his soul trying to escape through his open mouth. Eve couldn't help but sigh at what she saw and snapped her fingers again bringing them back to the grassy hill. Eve then smiled at Ace before saying

"Ace, I wish you well on your journey. I have completed my tasks and shall return to my creator. Good luck."

Ace watched as Eve suddenly disappeared from his view before he could reply leaving him alone again on the hill. Ace noticed the sun had barely moved from its previous spot and concluded that barely any time had passed since he got the update.

[Welcome back young master]

Ace heard the familiar voice of his system from the start of his journey and gave a small grin while saying

[Nice to have you back system. So, any suggestions on where to go from here?]

[If I were in your position I would begin to get assimilated with your newfound devil fruit powers. Before we leave, I would like to remind you that the magic bag you were given as a gift is beside you so please do remember it. In it, you will find necessities such as food, water, and materials needed to build a camping site that should last a little over a year.]

Ace thanked the system for reminding him while also cursing his crappy memory. The magic bag was a small brown leather pouch with AWD monogrammed in black cursive. He was sure the ball of light was telling the truth, so he he didn't doubt their words and tied the pouch to his shorts

Ace then started to walk down the hill to find a good spot to train. Although Ace didn't think anything important from just walking down the hill, these first steps symbolized the start of the journey for the man who would forever change Obisos.