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No. 27182
Theory: It's devil fruit regeneration. We know that devil fruits respawn when their users die. What if instead of just randomly appearing somewhere else, or a tree sprouting from the users body, or whatever, the nearest fruit of the devil fruit's "type" turns into the new version of that fruit?
So, let's say Kaku dies. The banana closest to him when he died would become the new ushi ushi no mi, model giraffe. So, what would happen if the latest sara sara no mi, model axolotl was an apple? Smiley exploded right before the transformation, and the way Caesar talked implied that it counted as a death. Then, the nearest apple would transform into the axolotl fruit. It would explain why Caesar randomly decided to drive a sled full of apples up there: they were meant to "catch" the axolotl fruit. It also explains how Shinokuni could be used (and sold, with some slyness) multiple times: all you would have to do is have the fallout from the explosion "eat" the axolotl fruit again and bam, there's Smiley again, ready to explode.
This also neatly explains the partially complete illustrated devil fruit encyclopedia. If any type of fruit could hold any type of power, it would be impossible to document fruits that way. However, let's go back to the Kaku example. Suppose you put Kaku in a room full of different types of fruits, and then kill him. One of the yellow bananas near him gets spirals and turns red. You have someone eat that banana and see if they can transform into a giraffe. Repeat as many times as you feel like sciencing. Eventually, you'd be able to say with reasonable certainty that the ushi ushi no mi, model giraffe looks like a red banana. This way you wouldn't have to rely on eyewitness accounts, and you wouldn't have to travel around trying to find new devil fruits. All you would have to do is catch DF users
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