The following days were peaceful.
Genichi had basically finished dealing with the things in his hands and just needed to wait for them to develop naturally.
Because he had discovered something very interesting.
Recently, through reading various books from the World Government, plus Vegapunk's research, Makima discovered something very shocking.
That is the source of Devil Fruits, the most important power system in the One Piece world!
When Genichi traveled here, One Piece was only up to the end of the Kaido fight. He didn't know much about what happened after that, but he'd been in the One Piece world for so many years now. Maybe he knew more than Oda did.
After all, Oda, as a manga artist, couldn't really create a whole world. He could decide the general direction of the world, the characters that appear, and their power levels, but he couldn't know every little detail of the world.
There were definitely a lot more people that hadn't appeared than those who had!
Even if the people who did appear were important, the things that didn't appear on screen might contain even more knowledge.
Through analyzing Devil Fruits, Genichi recently discovered something very interesting.
That is, the so-called Devil Fruits are actually a combination of human wishes. To put it simply, it's like his ability to collect emotions.
Genichi can collect the emotions that people have about him, while Devil Fruits are miracles created by people being overly attached to a certain wish. For example, the slaves' desire for freedom created the 'Mythical Zoan: Nika Fruit'.
In a way, it's also a bit like Makima, a devil born from human fear. Makima is a devil that embodies humans' fear of control, and the principle behind Devil Fruits is also similar. This can also explain why the Magma Fruit is much stronger than the Flare-Flare Fruit in this world.
Because in the eyes of the ancients, the power of a volcanic eruption was much greater than fire. People saw volcanic eruptions happening in many places in the One Piece world, so their fear of volcanoes, or their desire to control the power of volcanoes, formed the Magma Fruit.
As for saying that magma's limit is only a thousand degrees, but fire can be tens or hundreds of millions of degrees...
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In short, in the One Piece world, people's wishes, beliefs, emotions, and other spiritual things combine to form Devil Fruits. But this power is too unnatural, so it is rejected by the mother of nature, the sea. That's why seawater is a Devil Fruit user's weakness.
And Genichi thought even more than the people in the One Piece world, because after he discovered this phenomenon, he connected it to his own ability.
Actually, even now, Genichi still doesn't know what his ability is. But he is sure that it is not a Devil Fruit, because he can go into the sea. But because the essence between the two is very similar, it made Genichi make a comparison.
In Devil Fruit powers, there is a stage called 'Awakening'. After Awakening, people gain even stronger power, and even new abilities. And the condition for this ability is 'your body and mind catching up to the power'.
Then...
What happens if your body and mind don't catch up to the power?
You can guess from the question Kaido asked Luffy during their fight. At that time, Kaido specifically asked Luffy, 'Who are you now?'...
In other words, besides being able to awaken by your body and mind catching up to the power, there is also a more terrifying way to awaken, which is for the power to control your body and mind, and let the wish inside the Devil Fruit replace you!
Think about it carefully. Devil Fruits are collections of wishes, essentially a power that concentrates people's desires. When people eat a Devil Fruit, it's like they're eating the wishes of countless people. So, while their wishes form power, won't they also have an impact on you?
Of course, they will!
Thinking of this, Genichi couldn't help but think of a novel he had read before, where there were abilities called Magic Potions. Taking Magic Potions could create extraordinary abilities.
But if you used the power recklessly without digesting it, you would be controlled by the spiritual imprint contained in the Magic Potion, and eventually lose control or even be taken over.
And only after digesting the Magic Potion, and completely digesting it, can you safely use the power, and also be stronger than an Extraordinary who hasn't digested it.
Comparing the two, roughly like this—
Take a Magic Potion —— Eat a Devil Fruit
Digest the Magic Potion —— Your body and mind chase after the power
Completely digest the Magic Potion —— Your body and mind catch up to the power, thus Awakening
Hmm, so what about Genichi?
The essence of Genichi's ability is the same as the things mentioned above. He also absorbed the vast wishes of humanity!
Wouldn't these wishes in turn control him?
Genichi thought carefully, and he realized that many changes had indeed been happening to him since he entered this world. The change was that he was becoming more and more detached. He used to think that this was a change brought about by gaining more and more powerful power, but now it seems that it might not be just that.
And no matter what, even if there's only this possibility, Genichi needs a good amount of time to think about it.
In the past, he relied too much on the ability of emotion points to improve. All the abilities he has obtained so far basically come from the 'one percent power' brought by drawing character cards, or the improvements brought by the props transformed from emotion points.
After knowing these things, Genichi felt that it was necessary to do some self-strengthening.
It sounds a bit funny, after all, the ability is your own ability, and the strength of the ability is of course also your own strength, so what Genichi is talking about is not a power-level improvement, but a spiritual improvement.
Just like what Devil Fruit users do, he also has to make his body and mind catch up to his overly strong ability, even if the danger he is guessing about doesn't exist at all.
So before he completes this state, he doesn't plan to draw any more cards for the time being. Just let them grow slowly for now. Anyway, the character cards he has on hand right now are completely enough.
So that's the real reason why the sea is now 'calm and peaceful!'
Temporarily not drawing cards doesn't mean that he won't use the power he currently has to take action.
While Genichi was exercising his body and mind, time passed quickly.
And within this passing time, something happened.
That is, Zephyr's family was killed…
While Zephyr was out on a mission, Zephyr's family was killed by a pirate he had once captured but didn't kill…
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