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"Use this"? How am I supposed to use this piece of trash...?

[groangroangroan whiiine. the kid looks displeased, as do 90% of the people who first arrive here. he taps the red light with a gloved finger, continues to glare into its camera.]

... Right. So there's obviously peopl—

[he breaks off mid-sentence, eyebrows furrowing. turning, the camera swivels with him to catch sight of a department store and then his apparent cause for alarm*. but mental berating aside for not noticing the thing before it's literally within meters of him, yukio smiles. glances at the camera and tucks it into a coat pocket. enjoy the view of darkness for a while. calmly:]

Invaders must die.

[nope. she continues to move strangely, her crying more audible, it's as if it's she that's yet to notice him.]

What the hell.. I said, 'invaders must die'!

[a thud. the scraping of claws against broken cement, yukio taking a few faltering steps backward.]

INVADERS MUST D—

[WHAM. the recording ends.]

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You'd think with as much power as they apparently have, they'd be able to.

I suspect they likely have less power than we truly think they do.

[...] I see.

What are you, by the way? You kinda look like a freaky NPC. Like there's a bunch of normal boring guys, then suddenly an anomaly.

For no reason too.

I'm Brooke, and I'm a bard! Yohohoho! Brooke the bard, at your service!

... Did you just call me an NPC?

Yeah.

Bards are NPC-like characters too. It's okay though, usually they don't look like a skeleton...

That's... weird.

[...]

They're fantasy games, so yeah. So you look this way because you're a bard, or you just happen to be a bard and looks this way.

Oh I just happen to look this way and am a bard. I was a bard before I looked like this... then as you might have guessed, I died.

How are you not a typical corpse...?

Cursed fruit.

A transformation item?

Sounds like it'd be pretty damn rare, then.

Well I wouldn't sure if I'd call it EXACTLY a transformation item... more like a random power giving item. In my case it gave me the power to come back from the dead... although a little late, to the point where I was nothing but bones when I did.

You are correct about them being pretty damn rare though.

Sounds interesting.

Are there any others from your world here?

Devil fruits? No, can't say that there are. Although there are a few people here who have consumed one. Like Marco and Smoker.

Marco and Smoker. Got'cha.

Smoker turns into Smoke. Marco turns into a bird. So in their cases, their devil fruits were more transformation based...

Oh I almost forgot. There's also Whitebeard... he can create Earthquakes with his devil fruit.

For an item that's rare, there sure are a lot of you here.

This place has a habit of drawing out the rarer people from across many different dimensions.

Huh.

Guess I can attest to that, yeah.

I think there are only a few hundred people in my world that have eaten devil fruits, out of the billions of people that exist. So it is still a rare thing... it's just that those people tend to be of some importance in my world. As such I suspect they'd be more likely to show up here than let's say... a bagel maker.

So they take the most important, and make them like everyone else by taking that away.

It still seems pointless to me.

Maybe it's supposed to be a lesson in humility?

Stupid...

Well I didn't say it was a very intelligent idea... just a possible one.

It is. Just, whole lessons in humility are kinda irritating.

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