Pumpkin tempura! [his voice lilts in wonder] I've never heard of that, but it sounds interesting. I wonder how you keep the pumpkin from going soft...? And what, exactly, is a devil fruit? Is it related to dragonfruit?

[he's never met anyone with powers before, not like this. Margaret had her connection to the log, sure, and there was the Giant, and Mike, but ... that was all something entirely different]