Chapter 300: Parasite-Parasite Fruit
Yes.
Right now, the third prompt on the Fruit Encyclopedia was the source of Uma's words just now.
[Special Paramecia, Parasite-Parasite Fruit]
[Fruit Effect — Can turn one's own soul into a 'seed' and parasitize it within a living body]
[Effects at each level]
[LV3: This fruit is a Special Paramecia Devil Fruit. Before using the ability, the user must abandon their own body and life, turning their soul into a parasitic seed and transferring it into another creature's body.]
[After entering another creature's body, it will gradually take over dominant control of the host's body, and the host's vitality will be massively consumed.]
[When the ability user's soul strength is far greater than the host's, they can suppress the other party's soul.]
[When the ability user's soul strength is equal to or weaker than the host's, the two souls will fuse. Unless the host voluntarily accepts the parasitism, it will become difficult to succeed.]
[When the parasitized creature dies, the ability user will also truly die along with it.]
[LV4: Advanced fruit development. Can perform repeated parasitism. Each parasitism requires an interval of one month, and each instance will damage a portion of the ability user's soul.]
[LV5: Fruit Awakening · Perfect Parasitism]
[Fruit Awakening. After the parasitic seed completes parasitism, it can perfectly acquire the host's memories, fruit abilities, Haki, and all combat skills.]
[Unique · Eternal Parasitism]
[Unique effect, can only be used once.]
[After use, one can forcibly complete parasitism on a certain living body, but will permanently lose the parasitic ability thereafter.]
Looking at the final line of information on the Fruit Encyclopedia before him, Roy's heart was genuinely surprised.
After the conversation with Whitebeard, he had thought a great deal about Teach's whereabouts — he had even considered that perhaps he would meet this son of Rocks someday.
But he had never imagined he would actually meet Teach in Elbaf, in this manner.
"Parasite-Parasite Fruit..."
Clearly, this fruit — one Roy had never heard of — was the choice Blackbeard made after giving up the Dark-Dark Fruit.
And its effects could only be described as extremely sinister.
Parasitizing other people's bodies, gradually fusing with the host's soul and seizing dominant control.
"So that's what happened with that 'Assoria' in Dressrosa..."
It all clicked into place. No wonder the situation with the Assoria attacked by Teach in Dressrosa had been so unusual — looking at it now, Teach must have already been in a parasitized state when he landed on the island.
It's just that...
"When Marco arrived in Dressrosa, Teach was afraid of being discovered, so he switched his parasitic target?"
Roy had almost pieced together the truth of what happened back then.
But right now, he merely looked at the 'Loki' before him — or rather, Teach, who had occupied Loki's body.
"Teach?" ×3
As Uma's words fell, the three Giants were naturally stunned in unison.
Teach — this was the first time they had heard this name.
Their first reaction was to suspect Uma had called out the wrong name.
But...
"Zehahahaha!"
The next moment, they heard Teach let out a laugh.
Just as Uma said, it was a laugh completely different from Loki's.
"Oho, as expected of 'The Zodiac' — can you tell me how you saw through it? I thought I was performing pretty well."
He chuckled mischievously.
"Under the light of the stars, everything about you is laid bare."
Uma merely regarded Teach calmly. "Moreover, you haven't answered my question yet."
"Answer?"
Hearing this, Teach's smile grew even more wicked.
He scratched his ear. "What did you ask again? Something about being base or whatever..."
"That kind of thing... is irrelevant, isn't it?"
He laughed hideously. "What's important is — I am inheriting my father's ambition to ascend to the throne of the King of the World."
"As for the methods used in the process — Zehahaha, as long as the goal can be achieved, then it is 'correct'."
"For example, this guy called Loki — clearly a 'monster' born of fate, yet weakly hiding here guarding a woman who isn't even his blood relative, and even calling her 'Mother'... what a joke?"
"Such waste is not allowed on this sea!"
The instant his words reached that point—
"Spear of Elbaf: Ikoku!" ×2
"Spear of Elbaf: Hakoku!"
The three Giants who had come with Uma decisively took action.
Dorry and Brogy did not hesitate, swinging their giant axe and giant sword respectively, combining their strikes into their strongest attack from Little Garden — Ikoku.
Even now, looking at the power of the roaring shockwave and the spirit wrapped around it — just as they had said, they had improved again during this time.
And beside them, Saul also unhesitatingly chose to strike.
His strength was indeed inferior to Dorry and Brogy's — but as a former Marine Vice Admiral, he clearly possessed considerable power of his own. Using the Spear of Elbaf was no problem.
The reason they chose to act at this moment was simple.
"You bastard... you're not Prince Loki at all!"
From the moment Teach spoke that sentence, they could be certain the other party was absolutely not Loki — Loki would never say such things about Ida.
And combined with his words and Uma's attitude, it was enough to confirm that the other party was an enemy who had occupied Loki's body through unknown means.
Even...
"You are that intruder!"
"You are the source of the earthquakes!"
They understood now as well — no wonder the source of the earthquakes had remained a mystery for so long.
Because the guardian of the Underworld, Loki, had already become the intruder himself.
"Ah, this is truly... I was originally in a good mood today and didn't plan to kill you guys directly."
Seeing the three incoming attackers, Teach merely sneered.
"Since you can't wait anymore, then..."
As his words fell—
Zzt!
Black-red Conqueror's Haki surged forth without warning.
It surged, making the ancient castle tremble in a split second.
And Teach, having occupied Loki's body, swung the giant hammer in his hand, his figure launching forward with a boom.
As established — due to the ancient Giant atavistic bloodline, Loki possessed a massive physique considered astonishing even among Giants.
But that massive physique erupted with unbelievable speed at this moment.
Sslash!
Pitch-black dragon scales emerged across his body, his dragon claw gripping Lightning, and then he swung it down with explosive force.
"Primordial World!"
Amidst his low roar, frost circulated.
The massive Utgard Castle, already standing and trembling amidst ice and snow, had its dome shatter in an instant.
Even from a distance, the colossal Jotun Snow Mountain — born at the same time as Elbaf itself — seemed to sway and shake madly.
Heavy snow turned into avalanches and cascaded down, and even the massive World Tree, Treasure Tree Adam, seemed to tremble.
Whether it was Dorry and Brogy's Ikoku or Saul's Hakoku — all were shattered without a sound by Teach's single hammer strike.
Their eyes widened, not even having time to react before their bodies were simultaneously frozen by the frost.
(End of Chapter)
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