Pirate World and the Devil Fruit Fusion Plan

Pirate World.

"The plan Red Queen designed for me is a bit too difficult, isn’t it?" Yota scratched his head, his eyes closed as he studied the various diagrams projected by the chip.

"But if I succeed, I’ll be able to awaken two Devil Fruits at once, and that kind of ability would be absolutely perfect for me."

Yota opened his eyes and sighed. "No helping it. I’ll have to study it slowly."

The plan Yota spoke of was nothing else—it was the method Red Queen had personally devised for him to awaken Devil Fruits.

Many people believed Devil Fruit awakening came from battle. That was both right and wrong.

At the very least, Red Queen had awakened the Book-Book Fruit without any battle at all. She had done so with ease.

The reason was that Red Queen had used the Book-Book Fruit’s abilities beyond a certain limit.

In other words, Devil Fruit development was, at its core, constant application. Once an ability was pushed to its limit and crossed some invisible boundary, it would naturally awaken.

Yota had fused the powers of the Dark-Dark Fruit and the Munch-Munch Fruit into one. In a sense, that was equivalent to merging the limits of the two fruits. As a result, a Devil Fruit that might have awakened by surpassing ten now had to surpass twenty before it could awaken.

The awakening method Red Queen had laid out for Yota was a task as difficult as turning the so-called Genjutsu Space from illusion into reality. As long as he completed it, awakening would be guaranteed.

"The Devil Fruit Fusion Plan… I never thought she could come up with a plan like this. Should I say that, as expected of an artificial intelligence, her imagination is even wilder than a human’s?"

That was right. What Red Queen had set for Yota was to use the Munch-Munch Fruit and Dark-Dark Fruit’s powers to compress and fuse the abilities of two Devil Fruits into one, creating a super Devil Fruit with dual abilities.

It sounded like utter fantasy. No matter how Yota thought about it, the idea seemed far too outlandish.

But he had to admit that Red Queen’s plan had completely won him over. After all, fusing Devil Fruits sounded incredibly promising.

Besides, wasn’t developing Devil Fruit abilities all about imagination? It sounded like the absurd logic of wishing for three more wishes from a genie lamp, but upon closer thought, it really was something the Munch-Munch Fruit’s modification and the Dark-Dark Fruit’s compression could accomplish.

Still, saying it was one thing. Actually putting it into practice was nowhere near so easy.

According to Red Queen’s plan, Devil Fruits of the same type were generally the easiest to fuse. Next came fruits that shared similarities with one another.

Yota happened to have a pair of Devil Fruits from the same type: the ordinary Bat Fruit and the Mythical Zoan-type Bat Fruit, Vampire Form.

Although the Vampire Fruit was a Mythical Zoan-type, since both belonged to the same category, the Vampire Fruit’s abilities even included most of the Bat Fruit’s powers. Thus, they were even easier to fuse than two ordinary Bat Fruits.

Yet even with this "easier" fusion, Yota had conducted over a hundred experiments without succeeding even once.

Fortunately, even if an experiment failed inside Dark Space, the powers of the two Devil Fruits could not escape. Otherwise, not even the Navy or the World Government could afford so many experiments. They would be driven into bankruptcy.

"Forget it. I’ll take a break for now…" Yota finally sighed. Although he had found a faint direction, the frustration of prolonged failure made him decide to go out and clear his head.

After leaving Dark Space, Yota returned to his pirate ship. Glancing back at the Whitebeard pirate flag above it, he rubbed his chin.

"Come to think of it, which division of the Whitebeard Pirates am I supposed to belong to? Ace’s Second Division or Satch’s Fourth Division?"

As he muttered to himself, he noticed Charlotte Pudding beside him, staring at him with a shocked expression.

"Captain, you still aren’t a squad commander in the Whitebeard Pirates? Are the Whitebeard Pirates blind or something?"

Yota rolled his eyes. "What nonsense are you talking about? I’m just not interested in that sort of thing."

Yota truly did not think becoming a squad commander was particularly meaningful. When he had first joined the Whitebeard Pirates, although he had not been especially strong, he had already possessed clear goals and a direction for becoming stronger.

Even then, he had been completely confident in his future. There was no way a mere squad commander position in the Whitebeard Pirates could restrict him.

So he had ignored the overt and covert suggestions from the Whitebeard Pirates that they wanted him to become a squad commander.

Whitebeard was also quite open-minded, so Yota ultimately never became a squad commander. That had also made things much more convenient when he left the Whitebeard Pirates to travel afar.

"Oh~" Charlotte Pudding nodded, then eagerly said to Yota, "Captain, I’ve learned the Paralysis Technique. Do you have any new genjutsu you can teach me?"

Yota glanced at Pudding and said, "Your Sharingan genjutsu is already more than enough. If an enemy can be defeated with genjutsu, you don’t need new genjutsu. And if you can’t defeat them with your current genjutsu, learning new genjutsu won’t be much use either. What you should be doing most right now is training your body!"

"No matter what, you’re Charlotte Linlin’s daughter. No matter how poor your physical talent is, it can’t be that bad. With a little training, you can at least gain combat strength on the level of a Navy Captain, so you won’t get knocked out before you can even use your genjutsu."

"But training is so tiring." Pudding spoke weakly. "Genjutsu is much easier to practice. It would be great if my body could train itself!"

Yota shot Pudding a sidelong glance. "You said that yourself. Don’t regret it!"

"Hmm?! What do you mean, I said that myself?" Pudding asked warily, her eyes fixed on Yota.

However, Yota merely smiled. He moved like lightning, and before Pudding could react, black mist filled her vision while the back of her head felt slightly cold.

In an instant, the black mist receded. Pudding looked strangely at Yang Tai, only to suddenly feel her body begin to move on its own.

"Eeeek!? What is going on?"

Pudding’s body was not performing any intense movements, but every muscle in her body began to tremble rapidly. This was the Rapid Training Method developed by the Electronic Chip.

Although this training method had the advantages of consuming stamina extremely quickly, comprehensively training the body, and minimizing hidden injuries to the greatest extent, it also had one flaw that was not really a flaw.