The Paper Fruit Among the Pirates

the third day,

"How is it? Nami."

In the training ground of the palace, Nami holds "The Ultimate Art of Thieves" in her hand and concentrates on it. And in the clearing before her:

A small yellow sand tornado floats around—

Twisting, twisting~~ twisting, twisting~~

It's hard to say whether it hurt or not, but it looks very happy.

"Well, I found a little feeling."

As Nami spoke, the 'miniature sandstorm' in front of her collapsed. Nami pouted in disappointment.

"In two days, I can only find out such a small sand cyclone. It seems that my understanding of 'weather' is still not enough~~"

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Crocodile: Please turn on the microphone and communicate.

Undoubtedly, the fourth and fifth pages of "The Thief's Ultimate Art" spread out in Nami's hands are filled with yellow sand all over the sky. Vicissitudes.

In Roman's opinion, the "Sand Shasha Pages" sponsored by Mr. Crocodile is the most suitable for navigators like Nami. ——At least it is more reliable than the huge weather stick swinging forward, and if it goes well, then Nami's strength will have a huge leap forward!

Of course, knocking over the animal dinosaur fruit ability with a stick... Hehehe...

"Why not develop capabilities like 'arc-shaped sand dunes'?"

You must know that the most powerful dish in Crocodile is the 'Crescent Dune', which can turn a group of people into mummies with one move! As long as you are not a domineering master or a special physique, you will basically die if you touch it.

"no,"

Nami shook her head, "As you said, the same fruit will develop different abilities for different people."

"The essence of this book is to 'steal' the fruit ability of the other party by saving their blood. The upper limit cannot exceed the skills developed by the original owner. At the same time, there is a 'fitness' with the user—that is, me."

"Well," Roman touched his chin, "That is to say, even with this book, you can only use Crocodile's various desert storm abilities, and you can't play wither and desert swords... ··A little weak..."

"That's pretty awesome, okay?"

Nami is unable to complain, as long as she gives herself time, it is not impossible to develop a large sandstorm. Although it might seem exhausting to deal with masters, but cleaning up miscellaneous soldiers... just like my previous self, I come here to deliver food.

"Okay, then you go on."

After Roman wakes up, launching this book consumes Roman's physical strength. But Nami's current level of development can be squandered at will. As for what to say later——

"By the way, you should also pay attention to the development of 'Tun Tun Fruit'."

The experience of Nami and the others escaping from Crocodile's cage reminded Roman that the swallowed fruit itself has the characteristic of devouring creatures and transforming them into physical strength. After learning "life return", it will be given back to "The Ultimate Art of Thieves" Upgrade' a bit. Let the book stand completely on its own, with its own energy storage system.

In that case, the book can devour the Neptune itself to replenish its physical strength. It wouldn't be embarrassing that Roman would be 'disconnected' from the beating, and Nami would lose combat effectiveness at the same time.

"Roman,"

Just as Roman was seriously thinking about how to strengthen Nami's combat power, the girl beside her brushed her orange hair and looked to the other side as if nothing had happened.

"This Crocodile incident, I am very angry."

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"Have you ever thought that if you die at the hands of a sand crocodile, I...we will all be very sad. The rest of the time will be spent in memories and pain, such a future—"

"Sorry, it was my fault."

Facing Roman's apology, Nami turned around and held his hand, her brown pupils were reflected in Roman's eyes.

"Promise me, if you want to die, let me die first!"

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"I don't want to live in a world without Roman...Even if it's my selfishness, this pain will be borne by you."

The breeze is gentle, like flowers before the moon.

"I reject!"

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"As the saying goes: Don't expect to be born in the same year, the same month, and the same day, but to be born in the same year and the same month!"

"Of course good brothers must join hands to cross the Santu River and cross the gate of hell together!"

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The oath is sonorous, like a Taoyuan knot!

"Ahhh~~"

Rubbing her orange bangs, Nami, who had no atmosphere, let go of Roman weakly.

"I am very sure that you are Roman Benro! What you eat is not paper fruit, but steel fruit."

watt? ? ?

"Who else can I be if I'm not Roman? Mr.2 Von Klein—"

Roman frowned, lost in thought.

"Not to mention the steel fruit... Let me recall, the owner seems to be an ugly and strong man..."

Hopeless.

Just when Nami was covering her forehead speechlessly, an excited Weiwei shouted from the corridor.

"Luffy woke up!"

—————

"what?"

"I was in a coma for three days?!"

"Then I lost 15 meals—"

When Roman and Nami came to the ward, they saw Luffy sitting cross-legged on the bed with a look of 'I'm so sorry'.

"Why are you turning your head so fast at this time?"

Nami complained that she couldn't.

"And it's still based on five meals a day?"

Usopp makes another cut.

"Okay, okay, since the captain is fine, it's better."

Although I don't know why Nami seems to be angry again, but it feels like it should be her fault. So Roman decided to liven up the atmosphere——

"Why don't we take stock of the upgrade of combat power after this battle?"

——

The air is suddenly quiet...

"Oh? Interesting."

Except for Sauron, who became energetic as soon as he heard 'combat power', everyone else looked like they lacked interest. Fortunately at this time:

"I heard the captain is awake,"

A middle-aged woman with blond curly hair walked in.

"Wait a minute, dinner will be served right away."

As she spoke, she signaled the servant behind her to push a cart of fruit to the hospital bed, "Before eating, eat some fruit—"

hiccup~~

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Everyone turned their heads suddenly, and the goal was the naked cart! And Luffy who patted his belly...

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"Are you here to perform magic tricks?" X5

Is this the legendary 'rubber-swallow'?

love love love...

"Well, I think we should talk about the issue of combat effectiveness..." After defeating Crocodile, there is Sky Island, after Sky Island is Judicial Island, and then Moonlight Moria, followed by Chambord and Top ·····

If you don't work hard at this time, do you rely on cheating during wartime?

"Hahaha,"

Facing Nami who was smiling with her hips on her hips, everyone was full of question marks.

"Sorry sorry, I just feel—"

"Luffy, who never gets enough to eat, and Roman, who suffers from the fear of lack of fighting power... You are more familiar with this as expected."

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"But when it comes to combat power,"

Sitting on the bed and moving his arms a few times, Lu Feiyue was eager to try.

"I feel like I'm several times stronger than before!"

·····It is not impossible, but it should be no problem if it is twice as strong. After beating Crocodile, Luffy's spirit and energy have improved a lot. In terms of bounty, it is at least around 80 million!

"Then can you still throw the last punch against the crocodile?"

Facing Roman's question, Luffy rubbed his chin earnestly and 'thought hard'.

"I seem to be able to, but I don't seem to be able to..."

OK, that is, there is absolutely no play in normal times.

It seems that it is still unrealistic to expect Luffy to acquire 'armed color domineering', then——

"What about you, Sauron? Can you stably cut iron?"

"no problem,"

Zoro, who changed into a black samurai uniform, nodded.

"But——if you want to reproduce the state of 'hearing' everything when fighting Mr.1, maybe..."

"understood,"

That state waits for you to get used to it two years later, don’t think about it now.

It seems that the 60 million bounty that the government will give to Sauron is actually quite objective. Sauron, who has learned to cut iron and has his own momentum, is almost in this rank. As for Luffy's 100 million bounty, it's obviously a 'bounty'!

Because of this broken bounty, it also attracted Blackbeard to chase and kill Luffy. ——This is also the reason why Ace never retreats, but now~~

With Roman here, it's a big deal to learn from Walpo and dive into the sea! Could it be that Blackbeard can still play with a black hole and suck seawater?

What's more, even if he loses, Roman still has a 'killer weapon'.

Luffy's identity background——

As long as he shakes it out, Blackbeard will 100% have no desire to attack Luffy. After all, his purpose of catching hundreds of millions of big pirates is in exchange for the status of "Shichibukai", and catching Karp's grandson to go to the navy to negotiate...

I'm afraid he won't be called grandpa by Garp on the spot!

White beard:······

In fact, if it weren't for Ace's "good father" Pirate King Roger who cheated his wife and son. With Garp Sengoku's friendship, as long as Ace nods, it will immediately become the drama of "the young naval hero who undercovered the pirate returns triumphantly", and immediately starts as a general...

and,

According to Roman's estimate, Blackbeard should be at his weakest now.

Blackbeard used to be a strong physicist, otherwise he wouldn't be able to 'save a hand' on the red-haired face. But after getting the dark fruit, he was so focused on developing the fruit that he even gave priority to using the fruit ability against the enemy, which made his attacks have obvious loopholes!

First escaped by Ace, and then punched by Luffy in the city of advancement...

Although this would not be an opportunity for the Straw Hats to defeat the opponent, there should be no problem in escaping. ——So strictly speaking, Blackbeard is not a big threat to the Straw Hats at all.

but:

The explosive growth of Luffy and Sauron made Roman feel deep pressure! If you don't use the fruit ability, the current Roman is no longer the opponent of Luffy and Sauron. And even with the fruit ability—

On the premise of not using shameless 'elementalization', I'm afraid it's hard to say who will win and who will win...

This is the advantage of having a well-known teacher to lay a good foundation. As long as you can break through in a desperate situation, your combat effectiveness will immediately soar.

It seems that I have to work hard!