My Name is Momonosuke!!

Among the refuse below C Building, the little dragon finally tells Luffy what to call him: Momonosuke. Irritated by all the drooling, the boy snaps that he is no snack and would far rather do the eating himself. His belly growls after a ten-day fast, though he waves it off, claiming a true warrior endures such things. Once Luffy introduces himself and announces his goal of becoming the next Pirate King, the dragon is caught off guard, since he had always imagined pirates as enormous brutes rather than someone like Luffy.

According to Momonosuke, he reached the island by slipping aboard a boat, and the other sick children there were good to him, sharing their sweets. He kept his name from Caesar Clown, eventually slipped away, found a fruit, and ate it, only to twist into a dragon in front of soldiers who afterward called it one of Vegapunk's botched synthetic fruits. He also passes on a chilling overheard truth: Caesar expects the experiments to kill every captive child within five years. When Luffy tells him to pull himself together, a phantom Doflamingo appears, and the panicked dragon grabs the clouds and soars upward with Luffy along for the ride. In parallel, Usopp, Brook, and Kin'emon break away at Robin's bidding to track down seastone restraints, Smoker presses his advantage over Vergo with another Haki-loaded hit, and Sanji kicks G-5 troops out of the spreading poison's path.

It comes to light here that the fruit powering Monet is the Yuki Yuki no Mi, a Logia type granting her command over snow and the ability to become it, which marks the franchise's earliest canon woman with a Logia ability. Within the Biscuits Room her storm buries Nami and Chopper, and she drives a saber through Robin's shoulder when Robin tries to shield Mocha; Zoro responds by claiming Monet for himself and ordering the others ahead to subdue the maddened children. The fruit Momonosuke swallowed counts as the first artificial Devil Fruit seen in the story, and the spectral cover figures recall those born of Perona's power.