Eneru pointed at Rosen: "I want to challenge you."
Rosen's mouth twitched, while Robin and Nami looked at Eneru in surprise.
"Are you serious?" Rosen looked at Eneru with a teasing gaze.
"Anyway, it'll be your turn sooner or later. What difference does it make who I fight first?"
Rosen rubbed his White hair, took a few steps forward: "Since you insist so strongly, then I'm not unwilling to accept your challenge."
Eneru's eyes lit up. As long as he captured Rosen, he could threaten them to let him go.
The others weren't worried about Rosen at all.
After all, Rosen had never suffered a loss when sparring with them.
Just as Eneru was about to raise his hand, his body froze.
Rosen had split off a Shadow Clone, which circled behind him.
Immortal Guides the Way! Immortal Guides the Way…
"Ah ah ah ah…"
Eneru wanted to cry but had no tears. He was completely unable to break free from Rosen's control.
"Do you surrender?"
"Surrender… I surrender."
Eneru couldn't move at all at this point, so he could only keep surrendering.
Rosen looked at Eneru. Eneru had already lost his Battle Intent.
And after being attacked by a series of Immortal Guides the Way, he was almost paralyzed, having lost his meaning as the Straw Hat Crew's training stone.
In this battle, only Sanji was somewhat significant. Although he lost, he actually learned his weaknesses in this fight. If he encountered such large-scale destructive skills again, he would at least not be as helpless as he was this time.
As for Luffy and Zoro, they had no significance.
One was completely countered by Eneru, while the other was naturally a counter to Eneru, so there was no practical meaning.
Rosen suddenly grabbed Eneru's head.
Crack—
Eneru's neck twisted 360 degrees, his eyes glazed over, and his body fell to the ground.
It was at this moment that Rosen saw a phantom detaching from Eneru's body at an extremely fast speed. This phantom's speed was incredibly fast, almost a hundred times the speed of sound.
Rosen grabbed this phantom, and at the same time, he felt it dissipating at a very rapid pace.
At this rate of dissipation, it would completely vanish in just three seconds.
This should be the Goro Goro no Mi's Devil Fruit soul.
Rosen took out a fruit, and the Devil Fruit soul immediately left Rosen's palm and merged into the fruit.
Immediately after, the apple in his hand began to change shape, transforming into a fruit resembling a pineapple, with a golden-yellow skin and spiraling patterns.
Rosen now understood the principle of Devil Fruit Legacy.
After a Devil Fruit user dies, the Devil Fruit soul takes away most of the user's power.
However, this power will dissipate in a very short time. If the Devil Fruit soul fails to find a suitable host within that short period, it will dissipate permanently.
If it can find a host in a very short time, then the next user can inherit a large portion of the previous user's power.
Nami's eyes lit up as she looked at the Goro Goro no Mi in Rosen's hand.
Rosen looked at Nami and tossed the Goro Goro no Mi to her.
Nami eagerly took a bite, and the next moment, her expression became extremely contorted.
"It tastes awful…" Although Nami had expected it, she still felt extreme pain after eating it.
However, she still forced herself to swallow one bite, but she couldn't eat any more after that.
Buzz buzz buzz—
Just then, electric arcs began to flicker around Nami.
"Is this the Goro Goro no Mi?" Nami felt the power within her in surprise.
Rosen treated Zoro and Sanji.
"I plan to leave the crew for a while," Rosen said.
"Huh?" Everyone looked at Rosen in surprise, not understanding why he intended to leave the crew.
"Old Man, are you planning to leave the Straw Hat Crew?"
"Of course not. I just have some personal matters to attend to, so I plan to leave for two or three months. Or are you planning to replace me, your Vice-Captain, while I'm away?" Rosen stared at Luffy with a dangerous gaze.
"Ah… No, no… You will always be our Vice-Captain, always our Old Man."
Luffy felt that if he dared to admit it, he would definitely be tormented by Rosen in the Tsukuyomi Space for a hundred years.
"That's good then." Rosen looked at everyone: "Next time before I see you, you'd better be able to impress me."
"Old Man, next time we meet, I will definitely surprise you." Luffy said, clenching his fist.
Rosen then looked at Chopper: "Raccoon, don't forget to cultivation Immortal Arts every day."
"Old Man, I won't fall behind… You damn Old Man, I'm a reindeer!"
Rosen then looked at Nami: "My requirement for you is Devil Fruit Awakening."
"What is Devil Fruit Awakening?"
"Go look up the information yourself." Rosen then looked at Robin: "What you lack now is physical training."
"Grandpa, next time you see me, I will have activated at least the third stage of Susanoo."
"Robin, what is the third stage of Susanoo?"
Rosen instructed Usopp: "If you can't achieve Color of Arms flow before I return, then I won't let you and Kaya be together in the future."
"So, if I do it, will you allow me and Kaya to be together?"
"We'll see then."
Rosen then looked at Zoro and Sanji: "You two, don't fall behind either, you rookies."
"You damn Old Man, are you looking for death?"
"You're the rookie! I'll kill you! Do you believe I'll kill you!?"
Rosen waved his hand: "I'm leaving."
Rosen directly ascended into the air and left. When everyone saw Rosen depart, their hearts all felt empty.
…
Rosen's departure from the crew was a spur-of-the-moment decision, purely because he had learned the true nature of Devil Fruits.
So he planned to collect Devil Fruits.
The place with the highest concentration of Devil Fruit users in this World is Impel Down.
Due to the characteristics of Devil Fruits, most Devil Fruit user pirates are not executed immediately after being captured. After all, if a Devil Fruit user is killed, the Devil Fruit will reappear in the Grand Line before long.
So, rather than doing that, it's better to capture these Devil Fruit users, neither killing them nor giving them freedom.
Over time, Impel Down became a Devil Fruit concentration camp.
There are at least eight hundred, if not a thousand, Devil Fruit users imprisoned in Impel Down.
Rosen returned to the Grand Line, but felt completely lost.
He forgot that he didn't seem to know the direction of Impel Down.
Rosen decided to find a nearby island to see if he could find out the exact location of Impel Down.
But on the vast ocean, let alone the specific Impel Down, even a small inhabited island was hard to find.
Finally, on the third day, Rosen found a small island.
There were people on this small island, but they were refugees.
They were not natives of this island but a group of shipwrecked refugees.
There were dozens of these refugees, and Rosen couldn't save them all.
"Please, even if you can't take us all, please save my two children." A woman, emaciated from hunger, knelt on the ground. They had seen Rosen descend from the sky and were now in despair.
They knew Rosen couldn't save all of them, but they still hoped he could save the children.
Rosen pursed his lips and said, "I cannot give you more help, but trust me, in a few days, the person who can truly save you will appear. The food I leave you is enough for you to wait for that person to appear."
"Cough cough…" Just then, Rosen heard an unfamiliar voice from behind him: "You seem very certain that I will appear here, Old Man."
Rosen turned his head and looked at the tall Marine in front of him.
Admiral, Aokiji Kuzan.
Kuzan adhered to a lazy justice; he would never stand if he could sit, and never sit if he could lie down.
Kuzan looked at Rosen, then scratched behind his butt, pulling out a wanted poster.
"White-Haired Ghost, bounty of 300 million Berries. What an impressive big shot."
A smile appeared on Rosen's face, a mix of surprise and unexpectedness.
"What? Are you planning to capture me?"
"Actually, I don't really want to fight." Kuzan looked helpless: "So, could you please surrender? It would be better for both of us?"
"Of course, no problem."
"I knew it, it seems we still have to fight… Wait… What did you just say?"
"I intend to surrender." Rosen said.
"Why?" Kuzan looked at Rosen in surprise.
"Because you are the Marine's strongest fighting force, Admiral Aokiji. How could a mere small fry with a 300 million Berries bounty seek death? So I will surrender."
"That reason isn't enough. Any pirate over 100 million Berries on this Grand Line wouldn't surrender."
"I'm the exception. Come on, take me."
Kuzan narrowed his eyes at Rosen, then suddenly pointed at Rosen: "Ice Age."
In an instant, Rosen and the surrounding ground were completely frozen.
Crack crack—
Just then, the ice encasing Rosen automatically cracked.
"As expected, you don't intend to surrender." Kuzan had an 'I knew it' expression.
"This is my body's instinctive reaction." Rosen looked helplessly at Kuzan, shaking off the ice chips: "It's not because I'm resisting, and being frozen is uncomfortable. Can't you just quietly capture me? You have no consideration for Old Man."
"A 300 million Berries pirate, if I can't seal you, how can I guarantee you won't ambush me?"
"I'm an Old Man, how could I seek death? I just want to find a place to retire."
The more Rosen said this, the less Kuzan believed him.
"How about this, do you have Sea Stone?" Rosen held out both hands.
"Are you a Devil Fruit user?"
Rosen raised his palm, lightning flickering in his hand: "I am a Goro Goro no Mi user."
Kuzan became even more suspicious of Rosen's motives for doing this.
Goro Goro no Mi!! This is an incredibly powerful Logia-type Devil Fruit user.
It's absolutely impossible for him to surrender easily.
Such a thing seems impossible no matter how you think about it.
"I say, you horse-faced fellow, can't you be more straightforward? I've already made my stance clear, can you stop being so wishy-washy?"
"My face is so handsome, and you call me horse-faced?" Kuzan glared at Rosen in annoyance.
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