Leaving Alabasta

"Finally out of Alabasta." Yota stretched lazily. "All that rain was making me want to puke."

"I thought you seemed quite happy, my lord. Besides, didn’t you sign an agreement with that King?" Violet said with a smile.

Yota curled his lips slightly. "Couldn’t be helped. Those people were practically ready to kneel and worship me as a god. I couldn’t just leave them hanging, could I?"

After the banquet, in order to improve Alabasta’s environment, Yota borrowed the power of the Azure Dragon Fruit and combined it with Chakra Ninjutsu. Over the course of a day and a night, he traveled across the entirety of Alabasta and brought down a heavy rain.

After that, Cobra started looking at him differently. Vivi had nearly run over to offer herself to him, completely ignoring the fact that he was a Great Pirate worth one billion.

After staying several more days and being forced to make it rain for them, Yota finally had enough. He tossed Vivi a Devil Fruit fused from the Spike-Spike Fruit and Shove-Shove Fruit, telling her to change the environment and save her homeland through dancing! (The Shove-Shove Fruit required dancing to use.)

As for those criminals from Baroque Works, Yota threw them all out as well. Without their Devil Fruit powers, even Old Sand, the strongest among them, was nothing special in terms of combat ability. Alabasta’s guards captured them with ease.

Moreover, the reason he had left Alabasta so quickly was that Yota had a premonition that his final battle with the World Government was not far off.

Before then, he had to further increase his strength. Although he felt that he could crush Imu if they fought now, the Rabbit Country people’s innate fear of insufficient firepower still drove him to make every possible preparation beforehand.

"The Devil Fruits that are both compatible with me and easy to obtain are basically already in my hands. What remains… is the Venom-Venom Fruit in Impel Down."

Impel Down was absolutely the gathering place for Devil Fruits in the entire Pirate World. In the original story, there did not seem to be many Devil Fruit users inside, but that was really only because many of them were mere extras who had no need to display their Devil Fruit abilities.

Thinking about it, the original purpose of Impel Down was to imprison Devil Fruit users. How could there possibly be few Devil Fruit users in there?

However, Yota’s personality was different from Luffy’s. He would not rush into Impel Down with no preparations at all and then release everyone inside.

Given the Pirate World’s current state, saying that no one in Impel Down had been wrongly imprisoned would definitely be nonsense. But the number of those wrongly imprisoned would certainly not exceed one-tenth.

In fact, most of those innocent people had probably already been taken to Level 5.5 by the Revolutionary Army. The prisoners still serving their sentences could all be called scum without exaggeration.

The behavior of those prisoners rescued in the manga made that clear as well. Not one of them had shouted that they were innocent. Instead, every last one of them looked like a stereotypical idiotic pirate.

He took out a new type of fused Devil Fruit, combining the Clear-Clear Fruit and Imitation Fruit. With this thing, infiltrating Impel Down Prison would be effortless for Yota. When the time came, he could naturally harvest a large number of Devil Fruits.

"Also, it’s about time to push forward the artificial Devil Fruit plan in the Naruto World. Maybe I can get the Chakra Fruit to mature earlier. That would greatly strengthen me as well."

Although Yota felt that he could already take down the World Government directly, he still sought every possible way to increase his strength in pursuit of absolute certainty, ensuring that nothing went wrong.

One Piece was different from Naruto. He did not know the final plot. The Imu he had dealt with last time had even been an artificially created Devil Fruit user. Who knew what else might be hidden behind the scenes?

Under such circumstances, Yota could only raise his strength to the greatest level achievable under his current conditions before going to make trouble.

"Forget it. I’ll first go check on the artificial Devil Fruit situation. This concerns whether the Chakra Fruit in the Naruto World can mature early!"

Using Flying Thunder God, he returned to Drum Kingdom. The researchers under the Golden Lion, whom Yota had controlled, had already arrived at Punk Hazard. Yota then used Flying Thunder God to bring Chopper to Punk Hazard, having Caesar, Queen, and the other researchers begin artificial Devil Fruit research on the Human-Human Fruit.

With chips implanted in their brains, both Caesar and Queen had their freedom restricted by Yota, but their research abilities had improved dramatically.

Those Brain Chips contained a great deal of advanced knowledge from Academy City and the Biohazard world, as well as methods for creating advanced supercomputers like the Tree Diagram. Thus, over the past few months, the two men’s research had progressed by leaps and bounds. At the very least, they had reduced the failure rate of artificial Devil Fruits to an extremely low level.

"Producing ordinary Human-Human Fruits… that really is a strange idea." After hearing Yota’s request, Queen grinned. "Wouldn’t that make them completely meaningless, other than preventing people from swimming?"

"They should still be able to enhance one’s physique somewhat," Caesar cut in. "Even animal Devil Fruits from creatures like rabbits and pheasants, whose physical constitution is weaker than humans’, can strengthen the user’s body after being eaten."

"Although the Human-Human Fruit can’t transform a human, it should still retain its basic physique-enhancing effects."

"Besides, this way we won’t have to worry about all sorts of abnormal mutations. The structures are identical, after all, and the success rate will increase greatly as well. There’s nothing more suited to the human body than the Human-Human Fruit."

Caesar had studied artificial Devil Fruits for many years, so his skill surpassed Queen’s. He immediately identified numerous advantages to this choice.

Yota nodded. "That’s right. Chopper’s Human-Human Fruit is an ordinary type. In a while, I’ll find you a Mythical Zoan Human-Human Fruit as well. By then, I hope you can speed up Devil Fruit production."

Both subordinates nodded. Yota then took out several Flying Thunder God Den Den Mushi. "Help me get these Den Den Mushi to Dressrosa, Wano Country, the Whitebeard Pirates, and the Big Mom Pirates. Then I’ll be able to travel back and forth across the Grand Line easily."

Yota had learned the simplified Flying Thunder God Technique just as he arrived at the Red Line, so he had not yet left any Flying Thunder God Technique coordinates in the New World. This time, he could have his subordinates make up for that.

In addition, the Donquixote Family in Dressrosa had collected two ordinary Snake-Snake Fruits: the Water Snake Fruit and the Rattlesnake Fruit. He fused them into the Eight-Headed Serpent Fruit, which counted as an unexpected bonus.