In the clouds, the "Flying Speedboat" shuttled up and down. Peach Rabbit smiled and sat on the bow of the ship with his legs crossed, his outstretched slender index finger shaking up and down, letting the three people and the dog scream in unison.
"Ahhhh-slow down, slow down, Gion-san!"
Bellmere, who had just dismissed the amusement rides, was now holding on to the railing tightly, almost bursting into tears: "So this is what you meant by excitement? I was wrong!"
"Heart, my heart can't bear it, ah——!"
Shia and Dingchun were also frightened.
Especially Dingchun, who didn’t even follow us into the amusement park, so he just lay down on the deck and slept in while guarding the ship.
As a result, when I woke up in a daze, I was surprised to find that I was high up in the clouds. I was so frightened that I suspected that the dog was born.
Of course, Nuo Xia was just pretending.
He yelled at the top of his lungs, enjoying the feeling of weightlessness that went up and down, and the adrenaline stimulation of his body. When he said "ah", he would bump his tongue up and down from time to time to make a trilling sound of "la la la".
Taotu looked over and seemed to have noticed this. A cunning look appeared in her beautiful eyes, and she suddenly snorted, snapped, and snapped her fingers.
"Wait, are you trying to..."
Bellemeier noticed this scene, his eyes widened, showing a look of despair, "Don't-do-this, Gion-san!!!"
Unfortunately it's too late.
Whoosh!
The speedboat, which had been released from the weightless state, suddenly fell straight down from the cloud of 10,000 meters!
The surrounding scenery changed drastically, the wind roared in the ears, the faces of three people and one dog were shaking wildly in the wind, and the tone instantly doubled from before.
"ah----!"
Five hundred meters, three hundred meters, one hundred meters... The sea below was getting closer and closer. Bellemeier's heart was beating so hard that he almost hugged the railing like a koala. Finally, he heard the crisp snap of his fingers again.
Snap!
The feeling of falling suddenly disappeared, and the speedboat suddenly entered a suspended state when it was the last few meters away from the sea surface, and then circled and slowly landed on the top of the waves like a space fleet sailing into a base.
The three people and the dog all breathed a sigh of relief.
"That's too much, Gion-san!"
Bellemeier wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, raised his head and shook his fist angrily, "At least we are relieved of gravity. We keep bumping against the ship's plank. It really hurts!"
"Ah, I can't do this."
Peach Rabbit floated down from mid-air, and was picked up by Nuo Xia from the hip and placed beside the railing. She smoothed the messy hair beside her ears and said with a smile:
"Except for the esper itself, the Piao Piao Fruit can only control inanimate objects it touches. It cannot make other living objects levitate, let alone people, even just a puppy."
"Eh? Really?" Bellmere and Shia both expressed doubts.
"Woof!"
The five-meter-tall, three-ton Dingchun wagged its tail aggrievedly.
"Get out of here, you are not a little puppy."
Nuo Xia kicked it angrily, turned his head, and held his chin thoughtfully:
"It's true. I fought with Golden Lion for three days and three nights. During this time, there was a lot of direct physical contact. I didn't see him being able to do it."
Although the Golden Lion at that time was already old and his strength was no longer at its peak, the level of development of his fruitful abilities was still there.
Not only does the ability have an extremely wide range of influence, it can float an entire island group all year round, and it can even control the sea, clouds, mountains, and snow through the air without direct contact...
This is undoubtedly the state of fruit awakening.
But even so, the golden lion cannot control even the smallest life form. It can be seen that this is the iron law of Piao Piao Fruit itself, and its limitations cannot be broken by external forces.
Fujitora's gravity fruit seems to be the same.
"Is this so..."
Bellemere looked at the peach rabbit floating casually a centimeter or two on the deck, and was filled with envy.
Are you Doraemon? You are so playful that you don’t even want to touch the ground with your feet? Nuo Xia quietly twisted Peach Rabbit’s snow-white and tender thigh from behind, causing the latter to look at her with shame and reproach.
…
Late at night, the bright moon is in the sky, and the silvery glow is falling.
On the deck under the moonlight, a mandarin duck hotpot was placed, with spicy and tomato bases boiling at the same time. Nuo Xia and Dingchun were sweating profusely and enjoying themselves.
On the side of the hot pot, someone also carved the Haidilao logo in a playful way.
The women, on the other hand, are much more restrained. From time to time, they are enjoying the sea breeze, admiring the moon, talking and laughing, and are calm and warm. Their style of painting is very different from the men and dogs across the table.
The refrigerator on the ship is stocked with a lot of fresh ingredients, and there are plenty of various seasonings. At least in the first few days after leaving Marineland, there is no need to chew dry food.
"Where to next stop?"
Peach Rabbit took a sip of watermelon juice and unfolded the sea map, "City of the Queen of Spring, Santa Bobola? Or the Clockwork Island? These two places are on different routes, but they are not far from us and can be reached within a week at most.
"
The city of the Queen of Spring, Santa Pobra, Noxha is very impressive.
It seems that the CP-9 gang, after being defeated in the Justice Island incident and Luffy's death duel, were framed by Spandam and were wanted by the World Government;
He escaped all the way here and made a living as a street performer to save money for Rob Lucci's medical treatment.
I had never heard of the Clockwork Island, but the chart they brought out was the internal version of the Navy Headquarters.
Not only is the drawing detailed and clear, but the customs and customs of each island country in the first half of the Great Route are also roughly introduced in the remarks column.
Follow what is said in the remarks column.
In this "Clockwork Island", all creatures on it, whether they are humans, cats, dogs or birds, have a clockwork on their backs that has been spinning slowly since they were born.
When the clockwork stops rotating, it means that its life has come to an end.
Born this way? A magical creation of nature?
Or for some other reason... The women each had their own guesses and argued endlessly with each other, but they were all obviously more interested in Clockwork Island.
"Then let's go to Clockwork Island first."
It doesn't matter to Nuo Xia anyway, just let the wives be happy.
He stuffed the last of the shabu-shabu belly into his mouth, stood up contentedly while holding his belly, and burped happily.
"I told you to just eat tomato pot. If you don't listen, you obviously can't eat spicy food."
Bellmere rolled her eyes at him and threw a pack of tissues over, "My eyes are all red and my head is sweating profusely. Here, take them and wipe them. It's really annoying..."
"Need not."
Nuo Xia threw the tissue back, pulled off his shirt and threw it on the ground. He stretched out and said, "It's so hot that I feel dry. Let's go swim a few laps and just treat it as a snack after dinner!"
He turned over at the railing, like a fish entering the sea, the ripples spread out, and the waves splashed like broken silver.
The sea water under the moonlight was extremely cold and clear. Nuo Xia only swam a few laps, and the heat caused by the hot temperature and the hot pot had disappeared without a trace.
When I swung my legs back to the front of the deck, I looked up and saw that the three women were all leaning on the railing, holding their chins in one hand, looking at me with resentment and envy...
"Ha! Three landlubbers."
Nuo Xia couldn't help laughing, shaking her arms and laughing, "Hey, there is a swimming pool on the boat. Come on down and join us. Even if you can't swim, it's summer, just think of it as a bubble bath~"
"It's so embarrassing."
"I don't want it."
"It will make you die of discomfort."
They all expressed their disapproval in unison.
Seemingly trying to force someone into a difficult situation, Nuo Xia snorted, thought for a moment, and then looked at Taotu, "Maybe you can give it a try, Brigadier."
"Huh? What do you mean?"
"Piao Piao fruit!"
Nuo Xia smiled and opened his arms, roughly drawing a human-shaped outline on the sea:
"You can control the air now, right? If you attach a small layer of air next to you like a swimsuit, and isolate the sea water, wouldn't you be able to swim in the sea?"
This idea came to him in a flash of inspiration and was inspired by Vanderdeken IX.
This perverted fishman who will harass White Star for a long time in the future lost his swimming ability that the fishmen are proud of because he ate the Target Fruit.
However, after applying a swimming coating on the surface of the body, it can still swim freely near the Fish-Man Island, which is 10,000 meters under the sea.
"Ah, can that still be called swimming?"
Taotu curled her lips, held up her delicate chin, and pondered slightly, "But this development direction sounds very interesting, and I can indeed try it."
Little Rabbit always acts vigorously and resolutely, and will try whenever he is told.
First, close your eyes and concentrate, then little by little, peel off and compress the surrounding air along the contours of the body, and finally attach it perfectly...
When she opened her eyes again, nothing had changed around her, but Nuo Xia looked at the eager eyes and knew that she was ready.
"Jump!" Nuo Xia clapped her hands and encouraged, "Anyway, I'm beside you and can rescue you at any time. Brigadier, come on, jump~!"
"Just jump into the water, don't get excited like a child."
Taotu rolled her eyes at him, leaned forward, let her center of gravity lose balance, and fell towards the sea.
There was a splash, and water splashed everywhere. Nuo Xia's eyes suddenly brightened when he saw Peach Rabbit swimming out of the sea. His whole body was still dry and there was no trace of water.
"It's a success the first time, you deserve it..."
He was about to applaud when he saw that the little rabbit's little rabbit was suddenly wet, and then quickly spread along the surface of his shirt towards the surroundings...
"..." The palms that had just been brought together were immediately put back together.
"...Leaked."
Taotu was a little annoyed, and tapped his forehead with his fingertips, "I'm still too new to my abilities. I couldn't fit the air perfectly, and seawater flowed in..."
"Try again?"
"Um."
Peach Rabbit nodded, sighed, swam to the edge of the boat, grabbed the rope and returned to the deck in a few steps.
Just when he was about to close his eyes and try again, he suddenly saw Nuo Xia below, looking at him in astonishment.
"What's wrong?" She didn't know why.
"The air swimsuit just now is considered useless, right?" Nuo Xia opened his mouth, "Commodore, you were completely soaked in the sea water just now, and you swam so far by yourself as if nothing happened..."
"!"
Peach Rabbit suddenly turned his head and looked at the sea, and then he was suddenly startled.
From the time when I had "water leakage" to now, I have been soaked in seawater for so long, not to mention that I am so weak that I can't swim at all, and I haven't even felt the slightest discomfort.
What is going on?
All common sense was instantly overturned. Taotu frowned and stared at the sea, full of doubts.
"Could it be that..."
Nuo Xia suddenly realized something, his face changed slightly, and he immediately walked to the deck in one step and strode into the cabin.
After a while, when he came out again, he suddenly had a pair of sea tower stone handcuffs in his hand.
"..."
Siya looked at the familiar handcuffs, seeming to recall some of the past events, her eyes wandering, and her cheeks felt slightly hot.
This caused Bellemeier to look at her strangely.
"Hands out, Brigadier."
Nuo Xia clicked, clasped Bai Jinghao's wrist stretched out by the little rabbit, and said seriously: "Try your ability again."
"Um."
Taotu nodded slightly, then slightly bent his imprisoned right hand and snapped his fingers.
The next moment, the leftover soup on the table began to sway slightly. Nuo Xia came to the railing and looked at the sea getting further and further away from his feet, while the bright moon in the sky was getting closer...
After only floating for about a hundred meters, the speedboat stopped in mid-air.
There was no need to try again. The atmosphere on the deck was quiet. Nuo Xia and the three women looked at me and I looked at you, and they all understood what the scene in front of them meant.
——The curse of the Devil Fruit was completely eliminated after being stripped and reborn by Noxia's hands...
Get rid of the bad and keep the good, the fruit has the ability to have no side effects.
If spread.
It is conceivable that this thing that subverts common sense will shock many people and shock the world.
After half a minute.
Taotu just came back to his senses, stared at his wet right hand, looked up at Nuo Xia, and suddenly couldn't help laughing.
"What's wrong..." Nuo Xia's head was full of black lines, "What's so funny?"
"This is a fluttering fruit without a curse."
Taotu used the key to unlock the sea-floor stone handcuffs, smiled and said:
"You also said that when you first got it, you were hesitant about eating it, but you gave up because you were worried about the side effects. Now that you've given it to me, are your intestines almost turning green?"
"regret?"
Nuo Xia blinked innocently, "No, if my wife can become stronger after eating it, wouldn't she be more happy than if I eat it?"
"Tell the truth, idiot."
Taotu flicked his forehead with her fingers and said with a smile:
"You said last time that you can use this skill once every three months. Now there is enough time. Why don't you strip me of my ability and wait until the devil fruit hatches in three months, then you can eat it yourself?
?”
She spoke seriously and sincerely. Nuo Xia looked at the little rabbit's pink eyes, waved her hands indifferently, and laughed:
"I really have no regrets, Brigadier. I didn't stick to my face. Well, well, well, there are many fruits that I like in this world. The Piaopiao Fruit is at best one of the more ideal ones."
He also spoke the truth from his heart.
Compared to superhuman abilities, Nuo Xia has always preferred natural abilities.
Is it because in childhood, the comic book "The Natural Invincible" left such a deep impression on you?
Or... is the elementalization that can be freely dodged, combined with the monster-like body more terrifying and difficult to deal with? And, the large-scale destruction technique that can be easily thrown out by the natural type is very exciting?
They all seem to be the reasons, but they are not the main point.
"The most handsome person must be matched with the most handsome fruit..."
Nuo Xia came to the sea chart, smiled with his neat white teeth, "Actually, in the natural department, I like the Shining Fruit the best, but I can't steal the old leader's things, that would be so embarrassing..."
You see, even an old man with a look like Sir Huang, once the golden light on his toes lights up and he says something like "Have you ever been kicked at the speed of light?", that wretched face will become handsome inexplicably.
"But there are other options, the Burning Fruit, the Snow Fruit...but in my mind they are all inferior. Since the Devil Fruit is no longer cursed, what I want the most is this..."
He stretched out his right hand, and with a bang, it hit the map location of Gaya Island, and said with a smile: